Anton Felix Napp-Zinn

Anton Felix Napp-Zinn (born March 11, 1899 in Mainz ; † November 12, 1965 there ) was a German transport scientist.

Career

Anton Felix Napp-Zinn, who took part in the First World War as a lieutenant, studied political science and economics in Heidelberg , Frankfurt am Main and Cologne from 1919 . There he received his doctorate in 1921 and worked as an assistant at the Institute for Transport Science at Cologne University until 1923 . He then took on a position as transport officer for the German delegates at the Interallied Inland Shipping Commission in Cologne, which benefited his habilitation in Cologne in 1925 (with a paper on "Rhine shipping"). Napp-Zinn was then appointed head of the Institute for Transport Science and from then on taught as a private lecturer , and from 1930 as a non-civil servant associate professor at Cologne University.

From 1933 to 1935 Napp-Zinn was a member of the right-wing Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . His position on National Socialism appears ambivalent. Since its establishment in 1935, he was a member of the transport science research council at the Reich Ministry of Transport. With pro-National Socialist writings he had pushed for the conformity of the University of Cologne, was the accusation that in 1946 prevented his re-employment at the University of Cologne; In addition, he was only unable to join the NSDAP because of his wife . For this very reason, however, because of the "non-Aryan descent of the wife", Napp-Zinn was dismissed from civil service in 1938 after a lengthy process. However, his removal from the university did not prevent him from continuing to publish scientific articles during the Second World War. A job as archivist at Gutehoffnungshütte , a joint stock association for mining and smelting , secured his livelihood during this time .

After the collapse of the Nazi regime, Napp-Zinn continued his academic career. From 1946 he taught - now as a full professor - at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Mainz , where he served as dean in 1948/49. From 1956 until his retirement in 1965 he worked at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Napp-Zinn also exerted influence on the development of his discipline through his commitment to the " Zeitschrift für Verkehrswwissenschaft ", where he was editor (1925 - 1938) and one of the co-editors (1948 - 1965).

Works (selection)

Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer (1718–1787) and camera science at the University of Mainz . Diss. University of Cologne, 1921.

Navigation on the Rhine 1913–1925. Their economic development under the influence of World War and the aftermath of the war . Springer, Berlin 1925.

Basic concepts of traffic. In: Journal of Transport Science. Volume 18, No. 4, 1942/43, pp. 201-233. (Digitized version)

Transportation science. Subject and structure. In: Journal of Transport Science. Volume 20, No. 1, 1948/49, pp. 2-20. (Digitized version)

Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer and the camera sciences at the University of Mainz (= contributions to the history of the University of Mainz. 1). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1955.

Transport Science (= publications by the Research Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Mainz. 23). Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1968.

literature

Anette Schlimm: Traffic Regulations. Work on modernity. German and British traffic expertise in the 20th century (= Histoire. 26). Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-1828-0 .

Web links

Anton Felix Napp-Zinn. In: German biography.
Anton Felix Napp-Zinn. In: Gutenberg Biographics. Directory of professors at the University of Mainz from 1946 to 1973.

Individual evidence

^ Entry: Anton-Felix Napp-Zinn. In: Gutenberg Biographics. Directory of professors at the University of Mainz 1946-1973. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
^ Anton-Felix Napp-Zinn: Rhine shipping 1913-1925. Their economic development under the influence of World War and the aftermath of the war . Springer, Berlin 1925.
↑ Baum, Herbert; Kentner, Wolfgang: Scientific decision-making aids for transport policy and practice. 50 years of the Institute for Transport Science at the University of Cologne . In: Journal of Transport Science . tape 42 , no. 1/2 , 1971, p. 185–202, here p. 194 .
↑ Saskia van Dijk: Denazisierungsklüngel - the personnel policy of the University of Cologne in the post-war period . In: Jost Dülffer, Margit Szöllösi-Janze (ed.): Cast shadow on the "brown Cologne". The Nazi era and after . SH-Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89498-202-7 , p. 269–286, here p. 282 .
↑ Michael Hascher: Policy advice from experts. The example of German transport policy in the 19th and 20th centuries . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-593-37921-X , p. 139 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Napp-Zinn, Anton Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German transport scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mainz
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1965
Place of death	Mainz

[1] Entry: Anton-Felix Napp-Zinn. In: Gutenberg Biographics. Directory of professors at the University of Mainz 1946-1973. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .

[2] Anton-Felix Napp-Zinn: Rhine shipping 1913-1925. Their economic development under the influence of World War and the aftermath of the war . Springer, Berlin 1925.

[3] Baum, Herbert; Kentner, Wolfgang: Scientific decision-making aids for transport policy and practice. 50 years of the Institute for Transport Science at the University of Cologne . In: Journal of Transport Science . tape 42 , no. 1/2 , 1971, p. 185–202, here p. 194 .

[4] Saskia van Dijk: Denazisierungsklüngel - the personnel policy of the University of Cologne in the post-war period . In: Jost Dülffer, Margit Szöllösi-Janze (ed.): Cast shadow on the "brown Cologne". The Nazi era and after . SH-Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89498-202-7 , p. 269–286, here p. 282 .

[5] Michael Hascher: Policy advice from experts. The example of German transport policy in the 19th and 20th centuries . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-593-37921-X , p. 139 f .