Arwed Emminghaus

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Arwed Emminghaus as a young man ...
... and as an older man as well as ...
... in 1903
Medal of the artist Adolf Lehnert on behalf of the Gothaer Versicherungsbank, on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Emminghaus in 1911
Grave site of the Emminghaus family in the main cemetery in Gotha

Arwed Emminghaus , actually Arwed Karl Bernhard Emminghaus (born August 22, 1831 in Niederroßla near Apolda , † February 8, 1916 in Gotha ), was a German economist and journalist .

Life

Arwed Emminghaus was the third of four children of the couple Justizrat Justus Christian Bernhard Emminghaus (1799–1875) and Amalie Selma, b. Sturm, born and attended elementary school in Bad Berka . Emminghaus received his training not only from school but also from private tutors. In Keilhau he attended the General German Educational Institute Froebel, which had been moved here by Friedrich Froebel , for four years . He was taught from secondary school in Weimar's Ernst-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and passed his Abitur there at Easter 1851 with top marks.

Emminghaus studied law and economics at the University of Jena from 1851 to 1854 , and was awarded a Dr. jur. did his doctorate and then passed the first legal and cameralistic state examination . During his studies he gained practical experience in agriculture. From 1855 he was employed in the Ministry of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in Weimar . On August 31, 1858 he resigned from the civil service, but retained the right to return.

On September 1, 1858, he joined a fire insurance company in Dresden as a bureau chief .

On November 19, 1858, he was appointed head of the Swiss representation in Bern with the task of developing and organizing the insurance business in Switzerland.

Work for Dresdner Feuerversicherung continued with its own office on September 1, 1859, but ended two years later, on September 30, 1861.

In autumn 1861 he took over the editing of the Bremer Handelsblatt in Bremen as the successor to Victor Böhmert . In this capacity he became the driving force behind the establishment of an organized sea rescue service in Germany. This culminated in the establishment of the Bremen Association for Rescue of Shipwrecked People in 1863 , from which the German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) emerged on May 29, 1865 , whose first secretary (secretary) and long-time advisor he was.

In the autumn of 1865 he handed over the editorial management of the Bremer Handelsblatt to August Lammers in order to take up an appointment at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe , where he taught from 1866 as a professor in the newly created chair of economics. For this purpose, the family moved to Karlsruhe in the spring of 1866. In the same year Emminghaus founded a building cooperative for teachers and civil servants in Karlsruhe with the aim of offering members a house and land purchase on favorable terms - the forerunner of today's housing cooperatives . Emminghaus kept his professorship until 1873. The book General Trades Studies he wrote at this time served him as the central textbook for his courses. Today, the book, together with the works of Arnold Lindwurm and Jean-Gustave Courcelle-Seneuil , is considered to be one of the most important early scientific works on the way to modern business administration .

In 1873 he moved to Gotha as the chairman of the Gotha Life Insurance Company . In this position Emminghaus took on numerous offices, was often a founding member of associations and was involved in many institutions.

In 1901, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Emminghaus set up his "Arwed Emminghaus Foundation" for charitable purposes.

He retired on July 1, 1903. His successor was Karl August Friedrich Samwer as general director . Emminghaus died on February 8, 1916 in Gotha, where the family's grave is in the main cemetery .

Private

The marriage with Karoline Luise Alberti († April 16, 1907) was concluded on May 10, 1859 in Hohenleuben near Gera , from which the following children emerged:

  • Gustav Ernst Bernhard Otto (born March 1, 1860 in Dresden , † July 2, 1910 in Alsbach / Hessen )
  • Agnes (born December 6, 1861 in Bremen , † July 8, 1863 ibid)
  • Elisabeth (born January 4, 1864 in Bremen, † June 19, 1955 in Gotha) ∞ Bernhard Wilhelm Justus Perthes
  • Margarethe (born June 18, 1866 in Karlsruhe , † December 13, 1946 in Dresden)
  • Karl Ernst Bernhard (born October 14, 1868 in Karlsruhe, † November 23, 1934 in Regensburg )
  • Walter Arwed Eduard (* July 2, 1870 in Karlsruhe, † November 13, 1954 in Hameln )
  • Karoline Amalie Sophie (born October 5, 1871 in Karlsruhe, † June 27, 1906 as married Venator in Oberschönfeld )
  • Karl Bernhard (born January 1, 1875 in Gotha, † February 26, 1947 in Friedrichroda)

Arwed's father, Bernhard Emminghaus , died in Weimar in December 1875 .

Honors

  • 1871 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen for "... excellent performance in the field of voluntary work during ..." (literal quote from the accompanying letter) (War 1870/71)
  • 1872 War memorial from Stahl on the non-combatant gang (for equal services, awarded by Kaiser Wilhelm I. )
  • In 1898, on his 25th anniversary with Gothaer Versicherung, Emminghaus was awarded the Commander's Cross 2nd class of the Ernestine House Order of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .
  • In 1903 the Commander's Cross First Class followed on his retirement.
  • In 1911, on his eightieth birthday, he was granted honorary citizenship in Gotha, and in the same year the city named Grabenstrasse after him.
  • In 1915 he received honorary membership in the DGzRS.
  • In 1965 a DGzRS rescue cruiser was named after him.
  • In 2015, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the sea rescue service, a street in the Kiel district of Düsternbrook was named after Emminghaus.

Fonts

Emminghaus was the author of numerous writings, books and articles, including a. :

  • The Swiss economy . Leipzig 1860/61, 2 vols. Volume 1 Digitized Volume 2 #MDZ Reader
  • Textbook of general agriculture, according to Friedrich Gottlob Schulze's system . together with his friend and brother-in-law, Count Armin zur Lippe-Weissenfeld, 1863; Friedrich Gottlob Schulze was a maternal uncle.
  • General trade theory . Berlin 1868. Digitized
  • Housekeeping time issues. The limits of domestic production restriction. Market and magazine sales. The servants need. The single-family house instead of the Mieths barracks . Berlin 1869. Digitized
  • Ed .: The poor system and poor legislation in European countries . Berlin 1870. MDZ Reader
  • The closed court estates in the Grand Duchy of Baden . Separ. Copy from d. Economics Quarterly Journal, 1870, Vol. III. Herbig, Berlin 1871. Digitized
  • Treatment of suicide in life insurance . Leipzig 1875. Digitized
  • History of the life insurance bank for Germany zu Gotha . Weimar 1877.
  • Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi, Life and Creations of a German Merchant . 1878.
  • Messages from the business and mortality statistics of the life insurance bank for Germany 1829–78 . 1880.
  • August Lammers , life picture of a German publicist and pioneer of the public benefit from the second half of the last century . Verlag VO Böhmert, Dresden 1908.

literature

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Web links

Commons : Arwed Emminghaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arwed Emminghaus's life story on gothaer.de , accessed on October 7, 2016
  2. ^ Fritz Klein-Blenkers, Michael Reiss: History of business administration in a concise dictionary of business administration . Ed .: Waldemar Wittmann. No. 5 . Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1993, p. 1417-1433 .
  3. ↑ 1911: Bank director Professor Dr. Arwed Emminghaus (1831-1916) on the Gotha website
  4. ↑ Press release on kiel.de , accessed on June 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Emminghaus, Arwed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emminghaus, Arwed Karl Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederroßla
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1916
Place of death Gotha