Albert Schaeffle

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Albert Schaeffle
Grave in the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart
Albert Schaeffle

Albert Eberhard Friedrich Schäffle (born February 24, 1831 in Nürtingen , † December 25, 1903 in Stuttgart ) was a German economist, sociologist and publicist .

Life and work

After attending the Latin school in Nürtingen, Albert Schäffle was at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Schöntal from 1844 to 1848 after passing the state exam . From 1848 he studied theology at the Tübingen monastery , but was forcibly de-registered in 1849 after supporting the Baden uprising . After a short episode as a private teacher from 1849 to 1850 , he joined the editorial team of Schwäbischer Merkur in 1850 , to which he belonged until 1860. In 1855 he passed the higher administrative service examination. At the same time he continued his education, received his doctorate in 1856 at the political science faculty of the University of Tübingen and in 1860 became professor of economics in Tübingen. In 1868 Schäffle accepted a professorship for political science at the University of Vienna . He then withdrew to Stuttgart, where he mainly devoted himself to writing.

politics

From 1862 to 1865 he was a member of the Württemberg state parliament , and in 1868 he was elected to the German customs parliament in the Württemberg 3 constituency ( Ulm , Laupheim , Biberach ) . From February to October 1871 he was Austrian Minister of Trade and Agriculture and formed the Hohenwart-Schäffle cabinet with Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart . He later wrote about this activity: “In no other place has there ever been so many robberies united as down here.” In the years 1881/82 Schäffle played a key role in Bismarck's social legislation , in particular in the creation of workers' insurance.

bibliography

  • The Economic Theory of Exclusive Sales Ratios (1867)
  • Capitalism and Socialism (1870)
  • The social system of the human economy (1873; 2 volumes)
  • The Quintessence of Socialism (1874) Digitized on archive.org (PDF; 14 MB)
  • Structure and Life of the Social Body (1875–78; 4 volumes)
  • Encyclopedia of State Doctrine (1878)
  • Principles of Tax Policy (1880)
  • The Hopelessness of Social Democracy (1885)
  • Collected essays (1885–87; 2 volumes)
  • On cartels and cartel policy , in: Journal for the entire political science , 54 (1898), pp. 467-528.
  • From my life (1905)
  • Outline of Sociology (1906)

Between 1860 and 1903 Albert Schäffle was editor of the journal for the entire political science .

Honors

The cities of Nürtingen, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main each honored Albert Schäffle by naming a street. The Esslingen district named a vocational school after him (Albert-Schäffle-Schule Nürtingen).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Schärf: Compensation policy and press struggle in the Hohenwart era . Munich 1996, p. 83.
  2. ↑ cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February decrees of Wilhelm II (1881-1890) , Volume 2, Part 1: From the second accident insurance bill to the Accident Insurance Act of 6 July 1884 , edited by Florian Tennstedt and Heidi Winter, Stuttgart a. a. 1995, pp. 26-28, 30-34, 58-63, 71 f., 78, 89-93, 118, 124-136, 152 f., 158 f., 164 f., 176, 209, 246 f ., 277.
personal data
SURNAME Schaffle, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäffle, Albert Eberhard Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Nürtingen
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1903
Place of death Stuttgart