Andreas Predöhl

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Andreas Predöhl

Andreas Predöhl (born October 26, 1893 in Hamburg ; † July 18, 1974 in Münster ) was a German economist and university professor .

Life

Andreas Predöhl was the son of the former mayor of Hamburg Max Predöhl and his wife Clara. He attended the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg. From 1912 to 1914 he studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . At the beginning of the First World War , he initially served as Lieutenant d. R in the Hussar Regiment "King Wilhelm I." (1st Rheinisches) No. 7 . In 1915 he switched from the cavalry to the air force . As a pilot in long-range reconnaissance on the Western Front , he received high awards. After the war he continued to study law and economics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1918 he joined the Corps Palatia Bonn . This was followed by his doctorate (1921, with Bernhard Harms ) and his habilitation (1924) in Kiel. From 1921 to 1923 he was a member of the SPD. Between 1921 and 1930 he was an assistant at the Institute for World Economy and Shipping at Kiel University. Between 1925 and 1928 Predöhl was on leave as a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation and went on study trips to England, the USA and Canada.

In 1930, at the age of 37, Predöhl received a full professorship at the Königsberg commercial college and made a research trip through the Soviet Union. Two years later, in 1932, he was called back to Kiel and received a chair there. When the Institute for World Economy came into conflict with the National Socialist government after 1933 due to its open-minded, Anglophile and liberal attitude and Bernhard Harms had to give up his position as director, Predöhl succeeded his teacher as head of the Institute for World Economy in 1934. Before that, Jens Jessen , who was loyal to the regime (at that time), was briefly active in this role. In 1937 Predöhl joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . After he was Vice-Rector in 1935, he was appointed Rector of Kiel University in 1942 and remained so until 1945. In addition, as head of the economics department, he took part in the war effort of the humanities . In 1944 he belonged to the top management of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association .

After the end of the Second World War, Predöhl initially remained professor for economic political science and director of the Institute for World Economy in Kiel. On December 1, 1945 he was dismissed by the Rector Creutzfeld on the instructions of the British military authorities. At the university, however, a position was kept open for him and so he was able to work again as a professor from December 1947. In 1953 he moved to the Westphalian Wilhelms University , as director of the Institute for Transport Science. For the academic year 1961/62 he was elected rector of the WWU. He sat on the main committee of the German Research Foundation and on the scientific advisory board of the Federal Minister of Transport . In addition, since 1952 he was one of the editors of the concise dictionary for social science . He was also co-editor of the book series Grundriß der Sozialwissenschaft and the magazine Jahrbuch für Sozialwissenschaft . After his retirement he was appointed first director of the German Overseas Institute in Hamburg in 1965 . He held this position until 1969.

Predöhl was married to Emma Predöhl (1867-1960) since 1922. The marriage remained childless.

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In 1925, Andreas Predöhl described the substitution principle in general equilibrium theory . In doing so, he laid the theoretical basis for replacing one location factor with another. For example, labor can be outweighed by capital or land. This idea was taken up by Walter Isard in 1956 and linked to Alfred Weber's location theories. Together with constitutional lawyer Ernst Rudolf Huber and his colleague Hermann Bente, Predöhl published between 1934 and 1944 the traditional journal for all political science as well as the series Fundamentals of Law and Economics . In a National Socialist, high-ranking basic work on the “New Europe” from 1941, he argues that smaller countries should lean towards the economic needs of “core countries” (e.g. Germany) of a “greater area”. The German power in production and consumption has a “stabilizing effect”, the smaller countries can then keep up better. The often "artificially" created countries in Southeast Europe (called "state structures") would organize themselves under German leadership in a " living space " manner . This reorganization will allow the peoples to develop within the framework of an “overall order”. Such a future European Economic Community would primarily serve the "ability to fight", that is, war.

As early as the 1920s, Predöhl turned to research into transport policy. In 1930 he published a work on navigation on the Rhine ; After the war, this led to what was then the standard work on transport policy.

Honors

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  • The Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt - expert opinion of the Rhine Commission on the situation of the Rhine shipping and the workers employed in it . Berlin 1930.
  • State space and economic space . In: Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 39 (1934), pp. 1–12.
  • From the old to the new world economy . In: Wirtschaftsdienst 25 (1940), pp. 1046-1050.
  • The practical tasks of German economics and the Institute for World Economy at the University of Kiel . In: Deutschlands Erneuerung 24 (1940), pp. 31–38.
  • Greater area, self-sufficiency and global economy . In: The new Europe. Contributions to the national economic order and large-scale economy , ed. from the Society for European Economic Planning and Greater Space Economy , Dresden 1941, pp. 158–166.
  • The problem of economic living space . Bulgarian-German academics meeting from October 8-14, 1941 in Leipzig. In: Yearbook of the Foreign Office of the German Lecturers 1941, no. 1, pp. 111–116.
  • Speech on the occasion of the takeover of the rectorate on January 30, 1942. In: Kieler Blätter. Publication of the Scientific Academy of the Nazi Lecturer Association of Christian Albrechts University , Neumünster 1942, 1, pp. 1–12.
  • Economics as Political Science . In: Frontsoldatenbriefe der Law and Political Science Faculty , Issue 9, December 1943. Can be viewed in: German Central Library for Economics, call number: YY 3116.
  • Foreign trade. World economy, trade policy and monetary policy . Vandenhoec & Ruprecht 1949 (2nd edition 1971).
  • Transport policy . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1958 (2nd edition 1964).
  • The End of the Great Depression - An Introduction to the Problems of the World Economy . Reinbek near Hamburg 1962.
  • Problems and phases of the Kennedy Round , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1966.
  • Gustav Cassel, Joseph Schumpeter, Bernhard Harms. Three trend-setting economists , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1972, ISBN 3-525-13137-2 .

See also

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Harald Juergensen:  Predöhl, Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 682 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 14/671.
  3. ↑ Michael Grüttner: Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 134.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 471.
  5. ^ Note from D + C ( Memento from July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Bundesarchiv Berlin, R 4901/25239, Bl. 2846.
predecessor Office successor
Wilhelm Rudolph Rector of the University of Münster
1959–1960 		Bernhard Kötting
personal data
SURNAME Predöhl, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1974
Place of death Hamburg