Julius Landmann

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Julius Landmann (born August 6, 1877 in Lemberg , Galicia , † November 8, 1931 in Kiel ) was an Austrian economist .

life and work

Julius Landmann was born as the son of the Jewish banker Emil Landmann and Bertha Kurzer. At the age of 17 he had to break off the high school in Lviv in order to contribute to the family support after the death of his father by employment at a bank, as a locksmith and stenographer. Landmann was an employee of the socialist party. In 1895 he went to Vienna, where he worked as a correspondent. In 1896 he began studying economics, philosophy, German language and literature as well as constitutional and administrative law in Bern. He later also studied in Zurich, Würzburg, Berlin, Basel, Göttingen and Kiel.

In 1900 he received his doctorate from August Oncken with the thesis "The system of discount policy". In 1901 he took up a job at the International Labor Office in Basel, which he held until 1906. His marriage to the philosopher Edith Landmann in 1903 resulted in the two sons Georg Peter Landmann and Michael Landmann as well as a daughter Eva who died young.

After the Swiss National Bank was founded, for which Landmann was committed, he worked there as secretary of the bank council and the bank committee as well as head of the statistical office and authorized signatory.

In 1910, Landmann was appointed to a newly founded chair for political economy with a special focus on trade at the University of Basel without habilitation. From 1914 to 1925 he worked as editor of the journal for Swiss statistics and economics and since 1912 co-editor of the articles on Swiss economics.

In addition, he wrote reports for political decision-makers, in particular for the Federal Economic Department and the Finance Department. In particular, however, he was sharply criticized for his bill for a stamp duty. He also advised Prince Karl von Liechtenstein on the introduction of the franc currency in his principality.

In 1927, Landmann was appointed to the Institute for the World Economy in Kiel, where he didn't really settle in. In 1931 he took his own life.

Julius Landmann had been in close contact with the poet Stefan George since 1913 , who exerted a growing influence on his economic work.

Fonts

  • The principles of discount policy, Bern 1900.
  • Foreign capital investments from the Bern State Treasury in the 18th century, Zurich 1903.
  • The central bank question in Switzerland. History and current status, in: Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft, Sozialpolitik und Verwaltung 12 (1903), pp. 1-70.
  • The labor protection legislation in Switzerland, Basel 1904.
  • The banks in Switzerland, in: Handwortbuch der Staatswissenschaften, Vol. 2, Jena 1909, pp. 500-509.
  • The war finances of the great powers, Basel 1915.
  • Expert opinion on the question of the introduction of the franc currency in Liechtenstein, Basel 1919.
  • Expert opinion on the question of the introduction of a stamp duty on coupons and interest credits under federal law with a draft law and justification, Bern 1919.
  • Draft of a trade law for the Principality of Liechtenstein, Vaduz 1923.
  • The Swiss economy. Economics, labor law, Swiss social security, Einsiedeln 1925.
  • Modern forms of organization of the public enterprise (writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 176), Munich 1931-32.
  • Lectures from the estate, Basel 1933.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Julius Landmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landmann, Michael: Memories of Stefan George. His friendship with Julius and Edith Landmann, in: Castrum Peregrini 141–142, 2nd edition, Munich 1980.
  2. ^ Salin, Edgar: Julius Landmann. Speech given at the memorial ceremony of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Basel on December 14, 1931, Tübingen 1933.
  3. ↑ Mangold, Fritz, Prof. Dr. Julius Landmann, in: Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft, Sozialpolitik und Verwaltung 75 (1939), pp. 446–468, p. 447.
personal data
SURNAME Farmer, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1931
Place of death Kiel