Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences
The Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences is a former commercial college in Frankfurt am Main , which was officially opened on October 21, 1901. She offered studies in various branches of economics , law and languages. In 1914 the academy was merged into the foundation university in Frankfurt .
history
The decisive initiative for the establishment came from Wilhelm Merton and the Institute for the Common Good, founded around 1890 . As early as 1899, the institute presented the memorandum “The Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences”. She listed social grievances in education and named as a solution a connection between civil servants and the manufacturing class that was to be created at the academy. As a result of the negotiations between the institute and the city as well as other donors, a draft for the establishment of the city council was presented in January 1900. The final contract was presented on May 22, 1900.
The academy was financed by the Institute for Common Good, which raised 30,000 marks annually, and the city of Frankfurt, which also paid 30,000; the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and the Polytechnic Society each donated 5,000 marks annually. Other income was interest, bequests, membership fees and fees for lectures.
Georg Speyer , Wilhelm von Meister and Eugen Lucius made further funds available in the course of the following year in the amount of around 1.5 million marks. With this money, several chairs could be established in the first year of existence.
The Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences was founded in 1901 and was opened on October 21, 1901 in the presence of the Prussian Minister of Culture Konrad Studt and the Prussian Minister of Commerce Theodor Möller in the hall of Dr. Hoch's Conservatory opens. Franz Adickes gave the opening speech . Lectures began a day later on October 22nd.
High school graduates , businesspeople, industrialists and insurance officers with professional experience and teachers were eligible for admission . Foreigners could be admitted through the administration. Women could be admitted under the same conditions as men. The tuition fee was five marks per hour per week in the semester . In the first semester, 549 people attended the lectures.
Heinrich Morf became the first rector of the academy .
The libraries of Hannah Luise von Rothschild and the Polytechnic Society were open to lecturers and students. The academy itself had libraries on political and commercial sciences, which were taken over from the Institute for the Common Good, and new languages. The Language Library was run by the Dr. Ludwig Braunfels Foundation and the Georg and Franziska Speyer'schen Studienstiftung .
On its fifth anniversary in 1906, the academy moved into the building ( Jügelhaus ) that was newly constructed for the academy by the Jügel Foundation and the architect Ludwig Neher .
When the Foundation University in Frankfurt was founded in 1914, the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences was incorporated into it. Both the chairs and the building were taken over by the university.
organization
The administration of the academy was divided into three parts: the great council (senate), the administration committee and the faculty.
The Grand Council consisted of the Lord Mayor of Frankfurt and two members elected by the city council, three members of the city council , six members of the Institute for Common Welfare, two members of the Chamber of Commerce and one of the Polytechnic Society. The Grand Council had the authority to make changes to the statutes, to draw up the budget, to make property purchases and to decide on the organization of the faculty.
The management committee consisted of one faculty member, three from the city authorities and three from the Institute for the Common Good. The committee had to appoint teachers, draw up the curriculum and represent the academy externally.
Course offer
The first course catalog from the winter semester 1901/02 was divided into: 1. Economics , 2nd Versicherungswissenschaft 3. Administrative Studies and Administrative Law, State and international law , 4. commercial law and private law , 5. Commercial Sciences , 6. Foreign Languages, 7. technology and other Auxiliary sciences.
The languages taught were French , where an exchange with provincial cities in France was possible for students, Romance languages , English and Spanish . Lecturers from the Physikalischer Verein gave lectures in the natural sciences , other lectures were also organized by the Institute for the Common Good and other institutions and universities.
literature
- Gunther Herbert Zander: Founding of the commercial colleges in the German Empire 1898–1919. Dissertation, Cologne 2004, pp. 126–144.
- o. V .: The Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main. 4th edition, Gustav Fischer, Jena 1902. ( online as PDF at archive.org)
- Ludwig Heilbrunn: The foundation of the University of Frankfurt am Main. Joseph Baer & Co., Frankfurt am Main 1915, p. 19 ff. ( Online as PDF (13.9 MB) at archive.org)
Individual evidence
- ^ Beginning of lectures at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt, October 21, 1901. Contemporary history in Hesse. (As of October 21, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ Completion of the new Jügelhaus building in Frankfurt am Main, October 21, 1906. Contemporary history in Hesse. (As of October 21, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).