Eduard Rosenbaum

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Eduard Rosenbaum (born July 26, 1887 in Hamburg ; died May 22, 1979 in London ) was a German economist and library director .

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Eduard Rosenbaum grew up in Hamburg, where he graduated from high school. From 1906 he then studied economics and law at the University of Munich , the University of Berlin , Strasbourg and Kiel . There he was promoted to Dr. phil is doing his doctorate. In his doctoral thesis he treated, stimulated by Bernhard Harms , Ferdinand Lassalle . Rosenbaum then worked for an import and export company in Hamburg and from 1913 as an assistant at the Institute for World Economy in Kiel. He stayed there until November of the following year, when he moved to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. In 1919 he was appointed syndic and head of the Commerzbibliothek .

After the end of the First World War , Rosenbaum participated as an expert on the German delegation in the Versailles Peace Treaty . He then wrote the book The Treaty of Versailles. Content and effect, presented for everyone . The work, in which Rosenbaum criticized the outcome of the negotiations because of its economic consequences, appeared in multiple editions. From 1921 to 1927 Rosenbaum taught at the University of Hamburg . From 1928 to 1933 he was editor-in-chief of the Wirtschaftsdienst magazine , for which he had previously written many articles.

During the time of National Socialism , Rosenbaum was considered a "non-Aryan" because of his origins. For this reason he had to resign from the library in July 1933. He was retired with effect from April 1, 1934. A year later Rosenbaum left Germany with his wife and two children for England, where he was supported in particular by John Maynard Keynes . At the LSE in 1935 he received an initially unsafe position as a librarian. He worked here until his retirement in 1952. Ralf Dahrendorf later emphasized the importance of Rosenbaum for the university.

Rosenbaum, who was personally known to Albert Ballin , Max Warburg , Walther Rathenau , Ernst Robert Curtius and Martin Buber , maintained contacts with the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce all his life. After the end of the Second World War , he often returned to Hamburg to follow the development of his hometown and in particular the Commerzbibliothek. In 1948 the magazine Merian published a booklet on Hamburg. Rosenbaum provided a text that he had written in 1925. Under the heading “The face of the city”, the text served as the opening contribution.

Rosenbaum campaigned for the understanding between Germans and English all his life. In an obituary, Die Zeit called him a “sensitive scholar” whose commitment was not a matter of course in view of the deaths of two out of five siblings in concentration camps.

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SURNAME Rosenbaum, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and library director
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1979
Place of death London