Rudolf Ernst Freund (1901-1955) was a professor of Agricultural Economics at North Carolina State University from 1946 to 1955. Freund was born in Psorzheim, Germany and received his Ph.D. from Heidelburg University. He left Germany in 1934 because of Hitler's rising regime and went to Sweden. He taught at the University of Virginia from 1939 to 1946 before joining the faculty at North Carolina State College.
From the guide to the Rudolf Ernst Freund Letter and Essay, 1945, (Special Collections Research Center)