Bernhard Harms

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Bernhard Harms (born March 30, 1876 in Detern , East Frisia , † September 21, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German economist . He was the founder of the Institute for World Economy and professor of economics in Kiel. As a committed democrat, he was removed from office by the Nazis in 1933.

Life

After training as a bookbinder , Harms began studying political science at the University of Leipzig in 1897 . From 1900 to 1906 he studied economics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , where he also took on teaching positions .

With a doctoral thesis under Gustav von Schönberg , he received his doctorate in political science in 1901. Just two years later he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the Dutch chambers of labor. In 1906 he turned down a call from the Hohenheim Agricultural University and accepted a call from the University of Jena .

In 1908 Harms changed to the chair for political economy at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU). There he founded the Institute for the World Economy in 1911 and 1914 , which is internationally renowned to this day. In 1917/18 he was rector of the CAU. Harms also opened the institute to students and researchers from abroad and organized research and teaching activities that were “oriented towards international standards”. He was able to attract well-known researchers, such as Gerhard Colm , Hans Neisser and Adolph Lowe , to help set up the new business cycle department . From 1928 to 1933 Harms was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science .

After the election victory of the Nazi Party in the general election in March 1933 of "trying republic friendly " Harms first nor his Jewish colleagues, among others, from persecution by armed NSDAP and SA to protect men's at the university. A short time later he himself was illegally removed from the university and remained head of the IfW for a few weeks (until June 1933). Then he had to hand over the institute to the committed National Socialist and later resistance fighter Jens Jessen , appointed by the Nazi leadership . Jessen held office only briefly and had to leave the institute to Andreas Predöhl . Harms moved to Berlin in 1935. He remained de jure full professor in Kiel. Through his friend Johannes Popitz he received a private lectureship in Berlin. In the following years he made several study trips abroad.

Harms had been married since 1902 and had three children.

Bernhard Harms Prize and Bernhard Harms Medal

In his honor, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy has been awarding the Bernhard Harms Prize every two years since 1964 . The prize, endowed with € 25,000, is awarded to a person who "has distinguished himself through outstanding achievements in the field of global economic research or who has made an outstanding contribution to the promotion of global economic relations through his work in business practice".

Since 1980, the Institute for World Economy has also been awarding the Bernhard Harms Medal at irregular intervals to people who have made outstanding contributions to the institute and global economic research in the tradition of Bernhard Harms.

Works (selection)

  • On the history of the development of German bookbinding in the second half of the 19th century , Tübingen and Leipzig, 1902
  • The Dutch Chambers of Labor. Its origin, organization and effectiveness , Tübingen 1903
  • German chambers of labor. Investigations on the question of a legal representation of interests of entrepreneurs and workers in Germany , Tübingen 1904
  • Chambers of Labor and Chambers of Commerce. Legal representation of interests of entrepreneurs, employees and workers , Tübingen 1906
  • The maximum working day , Tübingen 1907
  • The coin and monetary policy of the city of Basel in the Middle Ages . Tübingen 1907 (= Journal for the Entire Political Science , Supplement 23)
  • Ferdinand Lassalle and its importance for German social democracy , Jena 1909
  • The city budget of Basel in the late Middle Ages: Sources and studies on Basel's financial history . Tübingen 1909–1913
  • Economics and world economy, attempt to establish a world economy , Jena 1912
  • Foreign trade in: Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger (editor): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. By Siegfried Körte, Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell, among others 3 volumes. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1914.
  • To reconnect and maintain Germany's global economic relations , Kiel 1915
  • Germany's share in world trade and world shipping , Stuttgart 1916
  • The future of the world economy, Kiel 1916
  • The Royal Institute for Maritime Transport and World Economy at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Kaiser Wilhelm Foundation , Kiel 1917
  • International legal safeguards for economic freedom of movement in times of peace , Jena 1918
  • Ferdinand Lassalle and his importance for German social democracy [copy from 1919], Jena 1919
  • Current tasks of German trade policy , Jena 1925
  • The future of German trade policy . Volume 1: Pre-War Period. Current situation. Problem. Protective tariffs and free trade. Agricultural tariffs, Jena 1925
  • From economic war to world economic conference , Jena 1927
  • Structural changes in the German economy, lectures held at the German Association for Further Education in Political Science . Berlin 1928
  • Universities, professors and students at the turn of the century; primarily from the standpoint of political science , Jena 1936

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical summary of Harms on the homepage of the University of Kiel
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On the history of the development of German bookbinding in the second half of the 19th century
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  4. ^ Hans-Georg Gläßer: "Christoph Bernhard Cornelius Harms ". Entry Harms in the online personal lexicon of the East Frisian landscape.
  5. ↑ Bernhard Harms Prize. (No longer available online.) Ifw-kiel.de, archived from the original on June 14, 2013 ; Retrieved June 13, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifw-kiel.de
  6. ^ Bernhard Harms Medal. (No longer available online.) Ifw-kiel.de , archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; Retrieved June 15, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifw-kiel.de
personal data
SURNAME Harms, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harms, Christian Bernard Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Detern , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1939
Place of death Berlin