Arthur Salt

Arthur Salz (born December 31, 1881 in Staab , Austria-Hungary ; died August 10, 1963 in Worthington , Ohio) was a German social and economic scientist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Pilsen , he began to study economics in Berlin in 1900, where he mainly heard from Georg Simmel . Salt later studied in Munich and Heidelberg, where he befriended Friedrich Gundolf and made contact with the circle around Stefan George . Salz stayed in contact with the poet until 1925. He also frequented Max Weber's house . In 1903, Salz did his doctorate under Lujo Brentano and then headed the family business in Staab. After further studies in Vienna and Prague, Salz completed his habilitation in 1909 with the thesis "Wallenstein als Merkantilist".

In 1912, Salz married Sophie Kantorowicz, known as Soscha, the sister of the historian Ernst Kantorowicz . The two daughters Rosa Beate and Judith and the son Heinrich Joseph emerged from the marriage.

During the First World War, Salz did military service in Austria-Hungary. He was posted to the Ottoman Empire to advise the Turkish commander Djemal Pasha on economic issues, an activity that took him to Constantinople and Damascus and aroused the interest of the devout Jew in Islam.

Returning to Germany, Salz got caught up in the turmoil surrounding the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic because he hid the KPD politician Eugen Leviné with him. He was arrested and, unlike Leviné, narrowly escaped the death sentence. However, Salz only acts out of personal sympathy; he was not a socialist and dealt critically with Marxism.

In 1923, Salz was appointed associate professor for economics at the University of Heidelberg . In the following years, however, he did not succeed in getting a chair at a German university. In 1933, Salz was dismissed for "racial reasons" and first emigrated to Great Britain, where he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge . In 1934 he moved to the USA and became a professor at Ohio State University , from where he never returned to Germany.

Fonts (selection)

• Contributions to the history and criticism of the wage fund theory , Stuttgart: Cotta, 1905.
• History of Bohemian Industry in Modern Times , Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1913. ( digitized version )
• For science against the educated among their despisers , Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1921.
• Power and Economic Law , Leipzig: BG Teubner, 1930.
• The essence of imperialism , Leipzig: Teubner, 1931.
• Wallenstein as a mercantilist. In: Communications of the Association for the History of Germans in Böhmen 47, 4 (1909), 433–461.

literature

• Wittebur, Klemens: The German Sociology in Exile. 1933-1945 , Münster; Hamburg: Lit., 1991 (dissertation from 1989), p. 71 f.
• Schönhärl, Korinna: Knowledge and Visions. Theory and Politics of Economists in the Stefan George Circle , Berlin 2009.
• Johannes Fried : Between "Secret Germany" and "Secret Academy of Work". The economist Arthur Salz. In: Barbara Schlieben u. a. (Ed.), Geschichtsbilder im George-Kreis: Ways to Science, Göttingen 2004, pp. 249-302.
• Reinhard Blomert : Salt, Arthur. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 599-603.
• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1015

Web links

• Literature by and about Arthur Salz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Arthur Salz Collection (Leo Baeck Institute) Arthur Salz Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute (New York, NY)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austrian sociologists in exile 1933 to 1945 ( Memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Strauss, Herbert A. and Röder, Werner: Arthur Salz. In this. (Ed.), International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol. 2, Munich 1983, p. 1015.