Arnold Lindwurm

Karl Friedrich Arnold Lindwurm , later in the USA Charles Arnold Frederick Lindorme (born August 6, 1833 in Bevern , † January 12, 1911 in Atlanta , other sources indicate 1893), was a German business educator , journalist and publicist .

Life

Karl Friedrich Arnold Lindwurm was born on August 6, 1833 in Bevern . His parents were Rudolf Gottlob Karl Lindwurm (1795–1876) and Philippine Lindwurm (née Beyrodt). At the age of 14 he began a commercial apprenticeship with Karl Focke Ww. & Son in Bremen . After a three-year apprenticeship, he left the company, but worked for two more years as a clerk in another Bremen trading company . He then traveled around the world and worked as an interpreter on merchant ships and was at times employed in trading houses in France, Spain, England, Italy and the Netherlands, mostly as a correspondent.

In the summer semester of 1861, Lindwurm was enrolled in the philosophical faculty of the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . A year later he changed faculties and enrolled in law school. On April 28, 1863 dragon was at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with a thesis entitled The money economically not circulating, but a stand-Capital doctorate . In the same year he also submitted a habilitation thesis in the subject of political and commercial economics on the concept of value . However, he was denied his habilitation with reference to formal and content-related deficiencies in the submitted work. Arnold dragon was convinced that the purely practical training of merchants in companies is not sufficient. In the context of his unsuccessful habilitation, he therefore suggested founding a commercial college at the University of Jena. However, this project failed due to resistance from the university .

In the summer semester of 1865, Lindwurm began studying medicine in Munich , which he soon broke off. It was there that he met his future wife Maria Brand (1847–1883). The marriage took place on September 23, 1866 in his hometown Bewern. In the same year he worked as an editor at the Bremer Weser-Zeitung and the following year secretary at the local Chamber of Commerce. In 1866, Lindwurm published the fundamentals of state and private economics . Alongside the works of Arwed Emminghaus and Jean Gustave Courcelle-Seneuil, the book is now regarded as a pioneer in modern business administration . Between 1868 and 1870 he was employed as a teacher for commercial and political science in a private higher commercial school in Hildesheim . As part of this activity, Lindwurm once again tried unsuccessfully to set up an academic business school.

In 1870 Arnold Lindwurm moved to Bonn and founded the exchange economy academy . Here too, the idea was to offer private higher education for future merchants. The curriculum included subjects such as an overview of economics , commercial management , practical application of commercial management, accounting , arithmetic, commercial correspondence, languages, commercial history, geography , political economics, statistics , interpretation of the German commercial code and the German exchange order, international law , experimental physics , inorganic experimental chemistry and chemistry Technology . This attempt at a higher commercial school also failed and Lindwurm left Bonn again in 1873. He then worked as a traveling teacher for the Society for the Spread of Popular Education GVVB . Gustav von Mevissen took up his vision of a higher educational institution for business people and, after Lindwurm's death, realized it with the establishment of commercial colleges in Germany between 1898 and 1920.

After a few more years in the German Empire , during which he worked in different places as an editor and teacher, he left Germany with his family and moved to the USA in 1880 . Arnold Lindwurm died there in 1911.

Fonts

Lindwurm was the author of numerous writings, books and articles, u. a. :

• Training to become a commercial class. Thoughts of a businessman . Bremen 1861,
• Money - economically not a circulating, but a standing capital in year books for economics and statistics, ed. Bruno Hildebrand, 1st year, Jena 1863
• Commercial school education in Bremer Handelsblatt, No. 613, born in 1863
• The theory of value , Jena 1865
• Basics of political and private economics , Braunschweig 1866 digitized
• Guide to commercial knowledge , Bremen 1866
• On the faculty question , in: Deutsche Vierteljahrs-Schrift, vol. 29, Stuttgart 1866,
• The commercial management and the development of world trade , Stuttgart 1869 digitized
• Practical philosophy. A proof that philosophy, instead of doctrine of faith, must be the basis of our social life , Braunschweig 1874 digitized
• Seven Chapters of Economics in Lectures , 1874
• Demands of agriculture to reform the tax and customs legislation in the German Reich; a new justification of the free trade policy , Berlin 1875
• The right of property and the idea of ​​humanity in the state. A criticism and solution of the social question , Leipzig 1878 digitized
• About love of sex in a social-ethical relationship. A contribution to population theory , Leipzig 1879 digitized

Literature and Sources

• Klaus Friedrich Pott, Arnold Lindwurm or The Commercial Education Question in the Sixties of the 19th Century, Publication of the Interest Group History of the Handelshochschule Leipzig eV No. 8, Leipzig 1993
• Gunther Herbert Zander, Founding of the commercial colleges in the German Empire (1898–1919), inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne, 2004 Link
• H. Hugo Kremer; Tade Tramm; Karl Wilbers, Commercial Education? Exploring a neglected dimension of meaning, texts on business education and personnel development (10), Berlin 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eduard Gaugler, Richard Köhler: Developments in business administration: 100 years of specialist discipline - at the same time a publishing history . Schäffer-Poeschel, 2002, ISBN 978-3-7992-6102-9 ( google.de [accessed June 11, 2020]).
2. ^ Fritz Klein-Blenker, Michael Reiss: History of business administration in a concise dictionary of business administration . Ed .: Waldemar Wittmann. tape 5 . Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1993.
3. ^ Dieter Schneider: History and methods of economics . Walter de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-78688-0 ( google.de [accessed June 11, 2020]).
4. ↑ Susanne Barth: Wandering teacher, speaker, lecturer: Mobile teachers and their lectures in popular education in the 19th century . Springer-Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-658-29894-4 ( google.de [accessed June 11, 2020]).
5. ^ Rudolf Federmann: Business administration, corporate policy and corporate taxation: Gerhard Mann on his 65th birthday . Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 1993, ISBN 978-3-503-03469-7 ( google.de [accessed on June 11, 2020]).
6. ^ IG history of the Leipzig Graduate School of Management. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .