German-American commodities economist who worked as a consultant with her husband, Julius Hirsch, and published several papers after his death. She also taught at the New School for Social Research.
In 1943 she graduated with a Master of Social Science. Together with her husband, she then worked as a management consultant and took over the management of the company after the latter was appointed Chief Consultant of the US price control authority, the Office of Price Administration, following the entry of the United States into World War II. In doing so, she advised the United States Department of Agriculture and Migros owner Gottlieb Duttweiler, to whom she suggested the concept of self-service shops.
In the primaries for the presidential election in the United States in 1948, she supported the then Governor of California Earl Warren on economic issues, who, however, came first in almost balanced primary results compared to the compromise candidate Thomas E. Dewey and was then nominated only as a vice-presidential candidate of the Republican Party has been.
From the 1950s she was also a lecturer at the New School for Social Research. After the death of her husband in 1961, she dissolved the consulting company and focused on her research and teaching activities. In 1989 she moved to Washington, D.C., where she died at the age of 103 on 7 January 2003.
Hirsch published many of her studies and articles in the 1940s and 1950s under the name of her husband, since women had a difficult time, especially in the raw material and agricultural economics.
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