Adolf Kozlik

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Adolf Kozlik (born May 12, 1912 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died November 2, 1964 in Paris ) was an Austrian and American social democratic economist , sociologist , political scientist and legal scholar ; Professor of Economics .

Life

Adolf Kozlik grew up in Vienna, where he studied law , where he received his doctorate 1935th Kozlik was already during his school days as district chairman of the Association of Socialist Middle Schools , but also during and after his time as a student in various, illegal successor organizations of the then banned social democracy .

After the annexation of Austria in June 1938, Adolf Kozlik fled to Switzerland and from there initially to France. With the help of an academic network, the young scientist managed to get into exile in the USA in 1939 . He became part of a group of exiles who provided the US secret services with expertise on the economic situation in the German Reich . In 1943 he fled again, this time from the FBI , because he did not want to obey the order of the American army . He was supposed to find his new center of life in Mexico , where he joined an anti-fascist exile community. He had a deep friendship with Esteban Volkov , a grandson of Leon Trotsky .

He also published his works under the pseudonyms "John B. Norman", "Bruno Bauer" and "Reinhard Bell". In his unconventional work, his criticism of capitalism , his radical democracy perspective and his humorous analysis of the Austrian education system should be emphasized.

Kozlik returned to Austria after the Second World War , where he shared the fate of many Jewish and left-wing remigrants in the academic world: he was denied an academic career at a university. Among other things, he worked as director of the Vienna Urania , at the Chamber of Labor and as associate director of the newly founded Institute for Advanced Studies . Among other things, he lost the management of Urania because he appeared in a show with Heinz Conrads without a tie. He began his book on the situation of Austrian universities and colleges with the following words: “Science is the sum of the opinions that all university teachers share. Opinions that differ from this are prejudices. The teaching at the universities is pure because people with prejudices are kept away from the universities. "

Shortly before his death, he predicted the collapse of the gold-backed Bretton Woods monetary system, which did not actually take place until 1971. Adolf Kozlik wanted to leave Austria again and had accepted a post at a Canadian university in 1964. However, on his trip there, he unexpectedly died of a heart attack in Paris.

Publications

  • Waste Capitalism. The American economic miracle, European perspectives . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1966
  • People's Capitalism. Beyond the economic miracle, European perspectives . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1968
  • How does who become an academic? To the Austrian school and university system . Vienna, Frankfurt am Main, Zurich 1965

literature

  • Gottfried Fritzl : Adolf Kozlik. A socialist economist, emigrant and rebel. Life and work of an Austrian scientist and intellectual . Lang Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 2004
  • Kurt W. Rothschild : Kozlik, Adolf. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 334f.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 389

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph T. Simon: Eyewitness , ISBN 3-900336-01-6 , 1979, pp. 142-151
  2. ^ A b Klaus Taschwer : stronghold of anti-Semitism. The decline of the University of Vienna in the 20th century . Vienna: Czernin, 2015; P. 270.
  3. ↑ Christian Fleck : How new things don't come about The establishment of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna by ex-Austrians and the Ford Foundation . In: Austrian Journal of History . 11th year, no. 1 . Turia + Kant, 2000, ISSN  1016-765X , p. 129–178 , urn : nbn: de: 0168-ssoar-234866 (with Adolf Kozlik's résumé on p. 150).
  4. ^ The Reconstruction of Austria and the Displaced Intelligence ( Memento of November 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) from the Wiener Zeitung (accessed on October 30, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Kozlik, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norman, John B. (pen name); Bauer, Bruno (pseudonym); Bell, Reinhard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American economist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd, 1964
Place of death Paris