Adolf Held

Adolf Held (born May 10, 1844 in Würzburg , † August 25, 1880 in Lake Thun ) was a German economist .

Life

Held was the son of the well-known Würzburg constitutional lawyer Joseph Held (1815–1890). He studied law and political science at the universities in Munich and Würzburg . In 1865 he passed the state examination in law and obtained his doctorate in 1866 in Würzburg on the subject of “ Carey's Social Science and the Mercantile System” as a “doctor rerum politicarum”. Then he found a job in Ernst Engels seminar of the Prussian statistical bureau in Berlin and completed his habilitation in 1867 with a treatise "On the doctrine of the passing on of taxes" in Bonn for economics . In 1868 he became associate professor, and in 1872 professor of political science in Bonn . In April 1880 he was “ transferred ” to the University of Berlin as a full professor and at the same time appointed to the “ agricultural teaching institute ” as a “ teacher of economics ” with “ an annual salary of six thousand marks ”. He was a member of the Verein für Socialpolitik , its secretary since 1873, and belonged to the right wing of the so-called Kathedersozialismus . Held married Elise Uellenberg in 1869. Adolf Held was an "avid patriot" and "nationally minded". During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he served in the Red Cross . Held professed Old Catholicism . During a holiday in Switzerland, he drowned on August 25, 1880 while taking a boat trip on Lake Thun.

effect

With his work on Henry Charles Carey , Held first introduced the German public to the American vulgar economist , as Karl Marx called him, and his examination of David Ricardo's theory of rent . In a contemporary review, his dissertation was described as "a very promising debut".

His main interest was the labor conditions of the time. So he tried to make his positions clear with the Rhenish employers in the magazine "Concordia". He expressly confessed to being a socialist at the university . His personal influence e.g. B. in the "Verein für Socialpolitik" was stronger than the impact of his writings. Since he could only work as a professor for two years, his work is only limited to German economics.

Works

• Carey's Social Science and the Mercantile System . Würzburg 1866 online
• Adam Smith and Smith and Quetelet . Jena 1867 (also in: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics, 1867, pp. 249–279)
• The rural loan association in the Rhine Province and their relationship to the workers question . Jena 1869.
• Once again about the price of money. A contribution to the coin question . Jena 1871.
• The income tax . Financial studies on the reform of direct taxes in Germany . Marcus, Bonn 1872
• Lassalle and his successors. Lecture given at the Education Association in Bonn on March 9, 1873 . Beusser, Bonn 1873
• Two books on the social history of England . Leipzig 1873 (Reprint Auvermann, Glashütten i. Ts. 1975) ( Two books on the social history of England. Edited from the estate of Georg Friedrich Knapp . With the portrait of the author . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881)
• The German workers' press of the present . Leipzig 1873.
• Plan for lectures on economics . Written for the use of his audience. 2nd Edition. Bonn 1878
• The quintessence of catheter socialism by M. Block, Berlin 1878 . Bonn 1878.
• Socialism , Social Democracy and Social Politics . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877 (2nd edition 1878)

literature

• Carl August Schramm : Critique of Held's Social Reform Theory . Daubitz 1872
• A. Teichmann: Adolf Held. In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung . September 11th and 12th, 1880.
• Jürgen Bona Meyer: In memory of Adolf Held. Spoken in the Bonn educational association . Georgi, Bonn 1880.
• Erwin Nasse : Adolf Held and index of the writings that Adolf Held has published. In: The Liability Question. Expert opinions and reports. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 1-9.
• Hero, Adolf. In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, p. 348.
• Georg Friedrich Knapp: Adolf Held, b. May 10, 1844, d. Aug. 25, 1880. In: Lujo Brentano : The future of social policy. Anniversary meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik in Eisenach, September 20 and 21, 1922 with contributions on the 50th anniversary of L. Brentano's association (...) . Duncker & Humblot, Munich, Volume 163, 1923, pp. 23-37.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 67 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A. Teichmann:  Held, Joseph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 161-163.
2. ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 76 V a Sekt. 2 Tit. IV No. 47 Vol. 17, fol 22 r and manual on the Royal Prussian Court and State for the year 1880/81 , p. 203
3. ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 87 B No. 20075, fol 27 r
4. ↑ Cf. Collection of Sources for the History of German Social Policy 1867 to 1914 , Section I: From the Founding of the Reich to the Imperial Social Message (1867–1881) , Volume 8: Basic Issues of Social Policy in Public Discussion: Churches, Parties, Clubs and Associations , edited by Ralf Stremmel, Florian Tennstedt and Gisela Fleckenstein, Darmstadt 2006, pp. 145, 149, 248, 258, 260 f., 276, 296, 302 f., 307, 312 f., 327–339, 342, 354 f ., 358 f., 365, 370, 396, 405, 410, 412, 414-418, 420-422, 424, 430, 434, 445-447, 451, 454, 456-459, 469.
5. ↑ Cf. Der Große Brockhaus , 15th edition, 8th volume, Leipzig 1931, sv Held, Adolf.
6. ↑ Quarterly for Economics, Politics and Cultural History , Volume 4, p. 221.

Web links

• Adolph Wagner :  Hero, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 494-498.
• Gerhard Stavenhagen:  Hero, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 461 f. ( Digitized version ).