Felix Pinner, former financial editor of the “Berlin Tageblatt,” and one of Germany’s leading writers on economics before the advent of Hitler, committed suicide with his wife yesterday in the gas-filled kitchen of their apartment here. Dr. Pinner was 62 years old, and his wife, the former Gertrude Gruenspan, was 56.
The Pinners, according to notes they left, took their lives because they had liquidated most of their assets. The couple had a son, Stephen H. Pinner, a private in the Army in the State of Washington, and a foster son, Guenther Drucker, a private in California. Dr. Pinner had been in America about three years. He came to this country in 1937. While here he wrote several books on economics. None has been published yet.
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