Carl August Fischer (Economist)

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Carl August Fischer (born June 18, 1895 in Witten (Ruhr); † August 25, 1966 there ) was a German economist and professor of economic policy at the University of Hamburg and the Albertus University of Königsberg .

Life and work

Fischer received his doctorate in 1921 on the bankruptcy of Karl Diehl in Freiburg im Breisgau . He worked with the financial politician of the Center Party Paul Beusch on monetary issues. In 1928, after completing his habilitation with Götz Briefs, he became a private lecturer at the TH Berlin .

Fischer was a member of the DNVP from 1919 to 1921 , and in 1921 he joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund and the Consul organization . In 1932 he became a member of the NSDAP ; since 1933 he was also a member of the SA . In November 1933 he signed the declaration of professors at German universities and colleges about Adolf Hitler .

From 1933 to 1934 he was a regular associate professor at the University of Hamburg, benefiting from Eduard Heimann's dismissal . He was then from 1934 to 1937 full professor for law and political science at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1937 he was sentenced to 8 months in prison for his homosexuality , released from civil service and expelled from the NSDAP. After the Second World War , he became politically active in the FDP , for which he ran unsuccessfully in the 1961 federal election on the North Rhine-Westphalian state list.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the doctrine of national bankruptcy. Dissertation Karlsruhe 1921 ( archive.org , repr 2012 ISBN 5-87371-497-5 ).
  • The currency forwards in its relationship to the currency and the economy. Berlin 1928.
  • Thoughts on the question of self-sufficiency. 1933.
  • The economic order of the National Socialist state: trade and trade policy. In: The Administrative Academy: a manual for civil servants in the National Socialist state. Berlin 1936.

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 48.
  • Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber, Holger Fischer (eds.): Everyday university life in the Third Reich - The Hamburg University 1933-1945. Volume 2. Hamburg / Berlin 1991, p. 961 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 48.
  2. ^ Fischer, Carl August, Prof. Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 306 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

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personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Carl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1966
Place of death Witten