Arthur Feiler

Arthur Feiler

Arthur Feiler (born September 16, 1879 in Breslau , † July 11, 1942 in New York City ) was a German business journalist , Signum AF .

Life

After attending the humanistic grammar school in Breslau, Feiler completed a bank training. From 1903 he was active in the editorial association of the Frankfurter Zeitung , from 1903 to 1910 in the commercial section, then until 1931 in the political editorial office. From June 1920 he was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council as one of twelve persons to be appointed by the Reich government at its discretion, from January 1921 a member of the Socialization Commission and from November 1923 an assessor at the Reich Cartel Court . At the same time he worked as an employee of economic magazines. On January 22, 1923 , he received his doctorate in Heidelberg. phil. On February 10, 1928, he completed his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he taught until the end of the winter semester 1931/1932 as a private lecturer and then as an associate professor. From the summer semester of 1932 (until 1933) he taught at the Königsberg Commercial College . In the summer of 1933 he emigrated to the USA , where he worked as a lecturer at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research in New York. As a contributor to numerous American economic publications. Until 1934 he also worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung.

His younger brother Erich Feiler (1882–1940) was a professor of dentistry at the University of Frankfurt am Main, and from 1917 until he was forced to emigrate to England in 1934, he ran the Carolinum dental clinic there .

His wife Marie Feiler, b. Hoffmann (1883–1977) stayed in the USA until 1970, from where she made many trips to Germany in the post-war period, for example to Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Nussdorf am Ammersee and Bad Ems, where a nephew of her lived. In 1970 she moved to a retirement home in Königstein im Taunus , where she also died. She was a teacher and has also worked as such in the USA.

Publications (as author)

• The problems of the Bankenquete , Jena, G. Fischer, 1908, 44 pages.
• The end of the boom - review of the 1907 financial year , Frankfurt / Main: Neuer Frankfurter Verlag, 1908, 39 pages, special print from the Frankfurter Zeitung.
• The Problem of the German East , Frankfurt / Main, Frankfurter Societätsdruckerei, 1911, 70 pages, from the Frankfurter Zeitung from 16./20./23./27./30. July and 4th / 6th / 10th August 1911.
• The economic period 1907–1913 in Germany , Jena, G. Fischer, 1914. 204 pages.
• Trade policy during the war , discussions in Germany and Austria - Urgent economic issues, No. 2, Leipzig, Veit & Co., 1916. 71 pages, from Frankfurter Zeitung, May 1916.
• Neuland - A journey through Ober-Ost , Frankfurt / Main, Frankfurter Societätsdruckerei, 1917, 32 pages.
• Before the transition economy , Frankfurt / Main, 1918, 93 pages, from Frankfurter Zeitung, June / July 1918 and August 17, 1915.
• The state of social law - guiding principles for a democratic economic policy, pamphlet of the Frankfurter Zeitung On the German Revolution No. 1 , Frankfurt / Main, 1919, 27 pages, from Frankfurter Zeitung No. 325, 328, 329, 333 of 23/26. / November 27th and December 1st, 1918, 1st morning paper each time.
• The call for the councils , pamphlet of the Frankfurter Zeitung On the German Revolution No. 6 , Frankfurt / Main, 1919, 34 pages, from Frankfurter Zeitung No. 221, 228, 234 of 23/26. and March 28, 1919, 1. Morgenblatt and December 31, 1923.
• The danger of death of the continent , of Germany, Europe, the world and the currency. Frankfurt / Main, 1920, 31 pages, from Frankfurter Zeitung No. 78, 81, 88 of 30./31. January and February 3, 1920, each 1st morning paper.
• The economy of communism , Frankfurt / Main, 1920, 28 pages, from Frankfurter Zeitung No. 726, 729 from 1./2. October 1920, always 1st morning paper.
• East Prussia behind the corridor , Frankfurt / Main, 1922, 24 pages, from Frankfurter Zeitung No. 590, 593, 602, 606 of 25/26/27/29. August 1922, always 1st morning paper.
• German finances from the outbreak of war to the London dictation , dissertation, Heidelberg, 1923, 78 pages, typescript.
• The new Austria - facts and problems after the redevelopment campaign , Frankfurt / Main: Frankfurter Societätsdruckerei, 1924, 120 pages, from Frankfurter Zeitung No. 33, 40, 46, 52, 65, 75, 87, 97 of 13./16 ./18./20./25./29. January and 2nd / 6th February 1924.
• America-Europe - experiences of a trip , Frankfurt / Main, 1926, 338 pages. ( America Seen Through a German's Eyes , Translated by Margaret Leland Goldsmith, New York, New Republic Inc., 1928, 284 pages).
• The new world economy - The doctrine of Geneva , With the wording of the resolutions of the World Economic Conference in Geneva, Frankfurt / Main, Frankfurter Societätsdruckerei, 1927, 84 pages.
• Das Experiment des Bolshewism , Frankfurt / Main, 1929, 270 pages, (3rd edition, Frankfurt / Main, 1930, 278 pages, The Experiment of Bolshewism , Translated by HJ Stenning, London, Allen & Unwin, 1930, 256 pages , The Russian Experiment , Translated by HJ Stenning, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1930, 256 pages).
• The reparations problem, capital formation and tax system , articles in the publications of the Friedrich List Society: Berlin, Reimar Hobbing , 1929 and 1930.
• Capital economy in Soviet Russia. In: Capital and Capitalism. Lectures ..., ed. by B. Harms. Berlin, 1931, Vol. II, pages 481-490.

Publications (as co-author)

• History of the Frankfurter Zeitung 1856–1906. Edited by the Frankfurter Zeitung publishing house, Frankfurt / Main, 1906.
• Arthur Feiler and Max Ascoli: Fascism for Whom? , New York, Norton & Co., 1938, 341 pages, (Fascism: Who Benefits? London, Allen & Unwin, 1939, 341 pages).
• A Farewell to Security - Germany and the World 1919-1939. In: International Security. By Edvard Beneš , Arthur Feiler, Rushton Coulborn . Edited by WHC Laves. Chicago, 1939, 63 pages.
• Arthur Feiler and Jacob Marschak (Editor), Management in Russian Industry and Agriculture , By Gregory Bienstock, Salomon M. Schwarz and Aaron Yugow. London: Oxford University Press, 1944, 230 pages.

literature

• Arthur Feiler 1879–1942 A Tribute by His Friends on the First Anniversary of His Death July 11, 1943, 35 pages, private print, New York, 1943,
• Obituary. In: Die Gegenwart , 1st year, 1946, No. 2/3, page 36.
• 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 .
• Gary Mongiovi: Feiler, Arthur. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 148-150.
• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 169

Web links

• Literature by and about Arthur Feiler in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.thenation.com/authors/arthur-feiler ;
• http://www.digitalisiertedrucke.de/search?p=recid%3A59036&rm=wrd ;
• http://www.jstor.org/pss/40981978 ;

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Becker, Democracy of Social Law , The Political Attitude of the Frankfurter Zeitung, the Vossische Zeitung and the Berliner Tageblatt 1918–1924, Göttingen / Zurich / Frankfurt, 1971, ISBN 3-7881-1626-9
2. ↑ http://www.juedische-pflegegeschichte.de
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Conversation notes from Werner Becker with Marie Feiler in the 1970s; in the private archive of Dr. Werner Becker in Bad Godesberg
5. ^ Obituary in construction , New York, December 23, 1977
6. ↑ A part of the estate with a collection of articles that Arthur Feiler wrote for the Frankfurter Zeitung was donated by Marie Feiler to the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University in Berlin in the 1960s .