Adolph von Wenckstern

Adolph von Wenckstern (born October 3, 1862 in Groß-Tippeln ( East Prussia ), today Rychliki municipality , † October 23, 1914 near Dixmuiden ) was a German economist.

Life

Wenckstern came from the East Prussian branch of the Mecklenburg noble family von Wenckstern . He attended high schools in Hohenstein and Münster , where he passed the Abitur. He joined the army and was an active officer from 1880 to 1885. For financial reasons he said goodbye and went to Deli on Sumatra as a tobacco planter . After almost five years he returned and studied economics and law at the universities of Munich and Berlin from 1890 to 1893. Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner (economist) were his teachers in economics . He received his doctorate in 1893 after writing a dissertation on Pierre Guilleaume Fréderic Le Play .

In the same year he went for three years as a professor of economics and finance at the Imperial Japanese University of Tokyo . He completed his habilitation with Marx in 1896 and was a private lecturer at the Berlin University from 1896 to 1907, at the same time Schmoller's assistant from 1897 to 1899, and from 1898 to 1905 a teacher at the Post and Telegraph School in Berlin.

In 1905 he became an associate professor of political science at the University of Greifswald . In October 1906 he was offered a full professorship at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . Since the opening of the Technical University of Wroclaw in 1910, he was professor of economics here too.

In addition to his professional publications, he emerged as a nationalist-minded author and speaker on issues of the day. Around 1900 he became involved in the naval issue and campaigned for the strengthening of German naval power in publications as well as on agitation trips. According to his colleague from Breslau, Adolf Weber , Wenckstern felt that he was essentially called to work as an apostle for what seemed to him to be a good thing in the interests of his people and his country, than to devise new theories as a scholar. As part of his mission, he also saw the novels he wrote.

Soon after the outbreak of World War I , von Wenckstern had himself reactivated as captain of the reserve. He was appointed company commander of 10th Company of Reserve Infantry Regiment 203, which consisted mainly of volunteers, including many students. During the First Battle of Flanders , he was seriously wounded on the night of October 22nd in an assault near Dixmuiden. He probably died the next day in an ambulance train on the way to Calais . His exact date of death and the place where he was buried remained unclear.

Works

• Le Play. Berlin: Preuss 1893 (diss.)
• Marx. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1896
• 1%: the creation and maintenance of a German battle fleet. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1899
• Employment contract legislation. Positive politics against the red trade unions. Berlin: Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht 1900
• 'My eye was drawn to the high seas'; Adam Smith, Karl Marx and the naval power of the Empire. 2nd edition, Berlin: H. Walther 1900
• Home politics through world politics: Speeches on the fleet submission 1900. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1900
• On floe and wave: Speeches in East and West Germany on the fleet submission in 1900. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1900
• Introduction to Economics. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1903
• Heiligenblut. Roman, Berlin 1909
• Imme. Roman, Berlin 1910
• Guide to the lectures on the history and method of economic and socialist theories. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1911

literature

• Adolf Weber : Nekrolog, in: Annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture 94 (1916), pp. 45–49
• Adolf Weber: Adolph von Wenckstern. In: Schmollers Jahrbuch 82 (1962), 2nd half volume, pp. 493–495.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On March 29, 1917, the Royal District Court in Breslau issued the death declaration of the full professor of political economics, Dr. phil. Adolph von Wenckstern. October 23, 1914 was set as the date of death. Weber (Lit.), p. 45
2. ^ Weber (lit.) p. 48