Alfred Manes

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Alfred Manes (born September 27, 1877 in Frankfurt am Main ; died March 30, 1963 in Chicago , Illinois ) was a German-American economist and an important pioneer in insurance science .

Life

Alfred Manes became a professor at the commercial college in 1906 and at the University of Berlin in 1925. As general secretary and later board member of the German Association for Insurance Science and as editor of the magazine for the entire insurance science, he played a key role in the expansion of the association and the professionalization of German insurance science . After the First World War, he accompanied the development of democracy in Germany and the post-war order as editor of the series "Die neue Welt" - in which Theodor Heuss published, among others.

After losing his professorship in the spring of 1935, Manes, persecuted as a Jew, left Germany. In October 1936 he accepted a professorship at the University of Indiana. He also taught at various South and Central American universities. During the Second World War, Manes analyzed the role of the German insurance industry for the American government. After the end of the war he demanded the smashing of the German "reinsurance cartel". He did not return to Germany. Three years after his death, the International Insurance Society inducted Manes into the Insurance Hall of Fame and remembered him as "a teacher, who changed an industry."

Fonts

  • Insurance , 3 vols., 1905 (several editions)
    • in addition, editor of the Insurance Lexicon , 1909–1913 (several editions) and 9 vol. Insurance Library , 1913–1931
  • Replacing postage stamps with franking machines - a postal reform proposal, published by Hansa-Bund für Gewerbe, Handel und Industrie, Berlin 1914.
  • National bankruptcies 1st edition 1918, 2nd edition 1919, 3rd edition 1922

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Individual evidence

  1. Heuss, Theodor, Die neue Demokratie, in: Die neue Welt. Collection of commonly understood writings. ed. v. Alfred Manes, Berlin 1920.
  2. Peter Mantel, Business Administration and National Socialism. A study of the history of institutions and people, Wiesbaden: 2009, pp. 377-380.
  3. Gerald D. Feldman, Die Allianz and die deutsche Versicherungswirtschaft, 1933–1945, Munich 2001, pp. 579–581, 675 (note 30).