Alfred Isaac
Alfred Isaac (born July 12, 1888 in Cologne ; died June 9, 1956 in Nuremberg ) was a German economist .
Life
Isaac came from an old Jewish family in Cologne. He completed his habilitation in 1926 at the University of Frankfurt am Main with Fritz Schmidt (business economist) . A year later he came to the Nuremberg University of Economics and Social Sciences as an associate professor and in 1928 he became a full professor as the second Jewish full professor of business administration in Germany. After a leave of absence in 1933, he had to leave the university on June 1, 1934 for racist reasons, although he was a soldier at the front. In 1937 he emigrated to Turkey with official approval from the German authorities, where he received the only professorship for business administration at Istanbul University . He also acted as a government advisor. In 1950 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Göttingen , from 1952 he worked again in Nuremberg until his death on June 9, 1956.
He was co-editor of the magazine for business administration . A street in the Herpersdorf district of Nuremberg is named after him.
Fonts
- The development of scientific business administration in Germany since 1898. Berlin: Industrieverl. Spaeth & Linde, 1923.
- The industrial company. Leipzig: Gloeckner, 1930.
- Business administration in Turkey. In: Journal for commercial research. Vol. 1, 1949, pp. 125-133.
- Practical Applications of Financial Mathematics. Essen: Girardet, 1954.
- Old and new tasks in business administration. In: Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis, Vol. 3, 1951, pp. 710-724.
literature
- Salomon Wininger: Great Jewish National Biography ; Cernãuţi: "Orient" [et al.], 1936.
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
- Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933 ; Munich: Saur, 1980–1983.
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
- German Biographical Encyclopedia. ; Munich [et al.]: Saur, 1995-1999
- Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism. A study of institutional and personal history , Gabler, Wiesbaden 2009
- Dieter Schneider : Isaac, Alfred. 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. 283f.
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 552
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SURNAME | Isaac, Alfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1888 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1956 |
Place of death | Nuremberg |