Arthur Blaustein

Arthur Blaustein (born September 4, 1878 in Stolp , Western Pomerania ; † April 30, 1942 in Baden-Baden ) was a German lawyer , economist and university professor .

Life

Blaustein studied law, economics and history at the universities of Berlin, Leipzig and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1902 . He then worked for the Berlin publishing house Hermann Hillger , for the elders of the Berlin merchant class and for the Association for Commercial Education in Braunschweig . From 1904 he worked for the Mannheim Chamber of Commerce, which appointed him in 1908 as its in-house counsel . Blaustein was a co-founder of the free student body , the Association of Southwest German Chambers of Commerce, the Southwest German Canal Association for the Rhine-Neckar-Danube and several industrial and trade associations. He became the managing director of the Baden Industry and Trade Conference and taught as a professor at the Mannheim University of Commerce . He wrote several essays on economic topics and published the handbook for the Baden National Assembly in 1918 . Together with Hermann Hillger, he published Hillger's Guide to the Reichstag election in 1907 and 1912 and Hillger's Guide to the 1919 election to the German National Assembly .

Blaustein was dismissed as a Jew in 1933. In July 1934 he moved to Baden-Baden with his wife Elisabeth . After the death of his Catholic wife on April 2, 1942, he committed suicide.

Works (selection)

• The emergence of the union workers' movement in the German saddlery , Tübingen; Leipzig: Mohr 1902.
• together with Hermann Hillger (ed.): Hillger's Guide to the Reichstag election , Berlin [u. a.]: Hillger 1907.
• The members of the Mannheim Chamber of Commerce 1728-1830-1907. In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter, Vol. 8, 1907, pp. 109–116.
• The student in the political development of Germany since the wars of freedom , Munich: Nationalverein 1909.
• Ed .: Guide for the elections to the Baden National Assembly , 2nd edition, Mannheim [u. a.]: Bensheimer, 1918.
• Southwest Germany's community of fate: Southwest Germany and Switzerland; Lectures and studies , Frankfurt a. M .: Hauser, 1924 (writings of the Frankfurt mess office; 14).
• Ed .: The liberated Mannheim: statement of accounts u. Future program , Mannheim: Haas, 1924
• Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg, a Palatinate community center . In: Kurpfälzer Jahrbuch, Vol. 1, 1925, pp. 194–196. (online [1] )
• The State of Europe and the European Customs Union , 1926.
• The industrial structure of Mannheim . In: Badische Heimat, Vol. 14, 1927, pp. 57-64.
• The Mannheim Chamber of Commerce and its predecessors 1728-1928 , Mannheim: Bensheimer 1928.
• Development conditions of the Mannheim industry . In: The Living City, Vol. 2, 1930, pp. 1–5
• Franco-German economic relations on the Upper Rhine . In: The living city, Vol. 3, 1931, pp. 90–93

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Volume 1, Saur, Munich 2005, p. 704.
• Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .
• 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 .
• Karl Otto Watzinger: History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945 with 52 biographies , 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1984, pp. 83–84. ISBN 3-17-009646-X

Web links

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