Marcel Fratzscher (born January 25, 1971) is a German economist and professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Since February 2013 he has been president of the Berlin-based economic research institute DIW Berlin.[1] He was previously head of International Policy Analysis at the European Central Bank. He also teaches International Finance in the Ph.D. programme in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Since 2018, Fratzscher has been a member of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, convened by UN Under-Secretary-General Liu Zhenmin.[5]
Criticism
His book on inequality (Verteilungskampf: Warum Deutschland immer ungleicher wird) was based on an OECD study which claimed that inequality reduces economic growth. The study was questioned by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research.[6]
In an attempt to explain an above-average proportion of perpetrators with migrant backgrounds in violent crime in Germany in 2025, Fratzscher blamed the lack of support by the German state for these people.[7] When Fratzscher's findings were compared to the works of forensic psychiatrist Frank Urbaniok, who found that migrants from Vietnam, despite beeing equally affected by poverty, had a significantly lower crime rate than migrants of arabic decent, journalist Hugo Müller-Vogg concluded that with Fratzscher, you never know if his theories just came from political wishful thinking or are something he actually thinks is a scientifically sound theses.[8]
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