Paul Haensel

Paul Haensel was Russian and American financier, economist and scholar.

Early life

Paul Haensel was born in Moscow in 1878 in the family of merchant. In 1902 he graduated Moscow Practical Commercial Academy. He became a professor of Moscow University in financial law department and in 1918-1920 he worked as a dean of the law school.
In 1921-1928 he was a consultant for the Soviet finance ministry and a chief of financial department of the Institute of Economical Studies in Moscow.
In 1914 his son Vladimir was born who later became a chemical engineer. Paul Haensel had three sons.

Life in the West

Paul Haensel fled Russia in 1928 to become a visiting professor at the University of Graz in Austria and at the London School of Economics. He decided not to return to Soviet Russia.
From 1929 to 1943 he served as a professor of economics in Northwestern University in Chicago.
In 1943 he left his position in Northwestern University and moved to Mary Washington College of University of Virginia where he continued to teach until 1948.
In 1943 he spoke before the US Congressional committee on tax reform.

Publications

Taxation of craftsmen in Russia. Critical investigation. This is Paul Haensel's first publication.
History of the budget in England.
Inheritance tax in England. This is Paul Haensel's master's degree dissertation.
Bibliography of the financial sciences.
New trends in communal taxation in the west. This is Paul Haensel's Doctor dissertation.
Essays on the history of finances.
The Economic Policy of Soviet Russia.
The sales tax in Soviet Russia.
The public finance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Recent changes in the Soviet tax system.