Adolph Samter

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Adolph Samter (born March 2, 1824 in Königsberg i. Pr .; Died June 17, 1883 in Franzensbad ) was a Jewish banker and publisher in Königsberg.

Life

Samter attended the Kneiphöfische Gymnasium up to the Prima , which he left without a degree. After learning banking in Berlin from 1840 onwards, in 1843 he hired himself out in an overseas business in Hamburg. At that time he published the first contributions to national economic issues (iron inches, Zollverein). In 1845 he joined the banking house founded by his father in Königsberg as a clerk . In order to be more independent, he bought a printing company in 1846 and founded a publishing business; but he stayed in his father's banking business. In 1848 he published the liberal Neue Königsberger Zeitung . Johann Jacoby , Ludwig Walesrode , Rudolf von Gottschall , Albert Dulk and Ferdinand Gregorovius supported them. In 1849 - after the failure of the German Revolution in 1848/49  - the Neue Königsberger Zeitung had to stop its publication. He printed a splendid copy of the five books of Moses for Friedrich Wilhelm IV . He thanked him in 1852 with the gold medal of homage. Samter withdrew completely from political life and in 1856 also sold the printing and publishing business. He devoted himself entirely to the flourishing banking business, which he had taken over independently in 1854 and continued to run on his own after the death of his father (1856). He sat on the supervisory board of the Hartungschen Zeitung and on the board of directors of the Königsberg commercial association . Throughout his life he dealt with solving social questions as an autodidact . He wrote treatises for the Physico-Economic Society of Königsberg and the Wage (newspaper) . Seriously suffering from heart disease since 1880 and burdened by family accidents and (anti-Semitic) insults, he died in western Bohemia at the age of 59.

Strongly influenced by Ferdinand Lassalle , Karl Marx , Karl Rodbertus and Adolf Wagner , Samter can be seen as a moderate socialist.

Works

  • The reform of the monetary system . Julius Springer, Berlin 1869.
  • Socialist errors, social truths . 1877.
  • Social doctrine: About the satisfaction of needs in human society . Leipzig 1875.
  • Social and private property as the basis of social politics . Leipzig 1877.
  • The concept of property . Jena 1878.
  • Property in its social meaning . Jena 1879; Dedicated to Adolph Wagner

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Gregorovius (ostpreussen.net)
  2. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p. 270.
  3. ↑ On the basic views of value in the various value theories .
  4. ^ Statistical news about incomes in the Prussian state .
personal data
SURNAME Samter, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and publisher in Koenigsberg
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1883
Place of death Franzensbad