August Skalweit

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August Karl Friedrich Skalweit (born August 21, 1879 in Hanover ; † March 12, 1960 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) was a German economist and university professor.

Life

Skalweit studied at the University of Tuebingen economics . In 1900 he was reciprocated in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . As an inactive , he switched to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After receiving his doctorate in 1905, he worked from 1906 to 1913 at the Acta Borussica of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin . After his habilitation , he taught political science from 1910 as a private lecturer at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , from 1913 at the Justus-Liebig-Universität zu Gießen and in Bonn -Poppelsdorf. From 1916 to 1919 he was a consultant in the War Food Office and in the Reich Ministry of Economics . In 1923 he was given a full professorship for economics at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . When Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor in January 1933, Skalweit was Rector of Kiel University. There were violent journalistic attacks on the scientist as early as the beginning of February. He was accused of sponsoring communist students. The Kiel student body was behind the events. On March 5, 1933, Skalweit resigned from his rectorate.

Eight months later, Skalweit was “transferred” to the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he was appointed director of the Department of Economic History . His colleagues there criticized his political stance and blamed him for the fact that the faculty was “still working extremely hard in old waters”. Skalweit's position at Frankfurt University seemed to be in danger; because his name appeared in 1936 on the List of Displaced German Scholars of the Emergency Association of German Scientists Abroad .

In 1941, Skalweit joined the NSDAP , albeit under pressure from outside, as he explained after the war. 65 years old, he asked for his retirement in February 1945; in July he was released from his duties. Since professors emeritus who belonged to the NSDAP did not receive any pensions after the Second World War , Skalweit tried to reverse his retirement . Although declared "politically impeccable" by the US military authorities, he was unable to return to his chair.

August Skalweit was married to the oldest daughter Erna (1886–1972) of the sculptor Ernst Herter . The couple had two sons and a daughter. One of the sons is the historian Stephan Skalweit .

He is buried in the forest cemetery in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .

See also

literature

  • Ralph Uhlig (Hrsg.): Expelled scientists from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) after 1933. On the history of the CAU under National Socialism. A documentation. Edited by Uta Cornelia Schmatzler and Matthias Wieber. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1991, ISBN 3-631-44232-7 , ( Kieler work pieces series A: Contributions to Schleswig-Holstein and Scandinavian history 2).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 127/258.
  2. ↑ a b Konrad Herter: Encounters with people and animals . Duncker, Berlin 1979. ISBN 3-428-04549-1
  3. ↑ Hans Georg Gundel, Peter Moraw, Volker Press: Giessener Gelehre in the first half of the 20th century, Volume 2, 1982, ISBN 978-3-7708-0724-6 , p. 893, online .
personal data
SURNAME Skalweit, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skalweit, August Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1960
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe