Arthur Cohen (economist)

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Arthur Aron Cohen (born 22. January 1864 in Munich , died 10. June 1940 ibid ) was a German economist (economist), university teacher and technical writer .

Life

Cohen came from a widespread Jewish family with numerous members residing in Munich. The parents were the Munich businessman Ludwig Cohen (1823–1889) and Clara, née Pflaum (1831–1904), who had five other children: Anton (* 1855), Wilhelm (* 1857), Karl (* 1859), Frieda ( * 1866) and Theodor (* 1868). After attending Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium from 1874 to 1883, from which he graduated with the Abitur, Arthur Cohen studied law and economics (economics) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , among others with Ludwig Joseph Brentano , and received his doctorate in 1890. oec. publ. with a thesis on the economic importance of the installment business and initially completed a legal internship. From 1903 he taught as a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich . In 1906 he completed his habilitation in the subject of economic history with the writing The debt of rural property in Bavaria 1598 to 1745. Since then he has taught as a private lecturer with the title and rank of associate professor for economics and finance at the TH Munich until he was in July 1933 because of his "Non-Aryan origin" was released by the Bavarian Ministry of Education. Since he lived on teaching and listening fees , he was not entitled to retirement benefits. With the approval of the TH Munich, he was paid a grant for a few months. Later requests for support were rejected by the Ministry of Education, especially since the Gestapo suspected the "Jew Cohen" of exaggerating his financial need. In 1940 he died impoverished in Munich.

Cohen was co-founder and head of the "Association for Statistics of the Jews" in Munich as well as an employee at the Jewish Lexicon . When the war broke out in 1914 he was a co-signer of the declaration by the university professors of the German Reich , in which over 3000 German university professors, including those from the Technical University of Munich, defined the war as a "war of defense" and manifested their solidarity with the fighting troops.

In 1910 Arthur Cohen married Barbara Moser (* 1877), a non-Jewish woman from Munich. The son Willy (* 1914), initially a bookseller in Leipzig , was able to travel to Colombia and Montevideo ( Uruguay ) together with his mother in 1937 ; the daughter (* 1917) to Cincinnati , USA.

Fonts

  • The installment purchase with retention of title in economic relation. Inaugural dissertation. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891
  • Little law studies for Munich waitresses: Written by a lawyer [Arthur Cohen], published by the Munich Waitress Association. With an appendix containing: the Bavarian ministerial announcement of May 29, 1901 (job placement) and the Federal Council ordinance of January 29, 1902 (working hours). C. Beck, Munich 1902
  • The struggle for aristocratic goods in Bavaria after the Thirty Years' War and the first Bavarian amortization laws. In: Journal for the entire political science, vol. 59, issue 1. (1903): Mohr Siebeck; Tübingen 1903, pp. 1-52
  • The indebtedness of rural property in Bavaria from the creation of the mortgage to the beginning of the Enlightenment period (1598-1745). With an introduction to the development of the freedom to dispose of land among the living in the Middle Ages. Research on the history of agricultural credit. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906
  • Intellectual work and its retribution: on the theory and politics of intellectual work , expanded copy of a lecture given in the Social Science Association of the University of Munich. Rieger, Munich 1910
  • The municipal malt and beer surcharge in Bavaria. In: FinanzArchiv, 33rd year, no. 1 (1916), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1916, pp. 171–178
  • Bavarian monasteries in the Thirty Years' War: emergency a. Debt; in: Schmoller's yearbook for legislation, administration and economics in the German Empire, 42nd year, Duncker & Humblot, Munich, Leipzig 1916, pp. 9–33
  • The Jewish question, a social problem. In: Arthur Spiethoff (Ed.): Schmoller's yearbook for legislation, administration and economics in the German Empire, 42nd year, Duncker & Humblot, Munich, Leipzig 1918
  • Taxation and inflation. In: Writings of the Association for Social Policy, 168th Bd., 2nd part. Duncker & Humblot, Munich 1924
  • Chamber of Commerce and Industry Munich (Ed.): History of the Munich Chamber of Commerce since its foundation (1869-1914). Contribution to the economic history of the last decades (with Edmund Simon). Self-published, Munich 1926
  • Results of the survey by the Munich Committee for War Statistics of the Jews , in: Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung 1926; Issue 2, pp. 26-29
  • Munich Jews 1750-1861. A study of population and economic history. In: Journal for the History of the Jews in Germany, 2, 1930; Pp. 262-283
  • Construction and land under German loan law. In:. Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics, 3rd volume, vol. 82 (137), no. 1 (July 1932), Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Jena 1932, pp. 83-89
  • Credit and debt restrictions on farm property in Bavaria in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Year books for national economy and statistics, 3rd volume, vol. 85 (139), no. 5 (1933), Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Jena 1933, pp. 83-89
  • The 1933 census. In: Bayerisch Israelitische Gemeindezeitung X./23, December 1, 1934
  • 70th birthday (Siegfried Lichtenstaedter), in: "Der Israelit" (1935)
  • History of the Cohen families (with an appendix: Marx and Pflaum families); Manuscript (typescript), 26 pages .: City Archives Munich, Sign .: Familien 705

editor

  • Max Haushofer: The people and their state. Politics from the estate. Published by Arthur Cohen. With an introduction by Richard Count Du Moulin Eckart and the author's portrait. Reinhardt, Munich 1914

literature

  • Salomon Winninger: Biographical Lexicon of Famous Jews of All Times and Countries, Vols. 1 and 6, self-published, Czernowitz 1925, 1932
  • Erich Ekkehard (Ed.): Sigilla Veri. (Ph. Stauff s Semi-Kürschner) Lexicon of Jews, comrades and opponents of all times and zones, especially Germany, the teachings, customs, tricks and statistics of the Jews as well as their rogue language, false names, secret societies, etc. 1929
  • Hermann Degener (Ed.): Who is it ?, 10th edition, Leipzig 1935
  • City Archives Munich (ed.): Biographical memorial book of Munich Jews 1933 - 1945. Vol. 1 (A - L). Munich 2003. ISBN 3-00-012626-0 (photo)
  • Cohen, Arthur. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 142-144.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1882/83
  2. ↑ The Technical University of Munich during the Nazi era (online); P. 7
  3. ↑ Cohen, b. Moser, Barbara, Jew, b. October 1, 1877; in Munich; married to Arthur C., b. January 22, 1864 in Munich; 1937 emigration to Colombia , in: ByHStA, signature: StAM, Police Directorate Munich (Pol. Dir.) 11851
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohen, Arthur Aron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, university lecturer and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1940
Place of death Munich