Curt Eisfeld

Curt Eisfeld (born February 23, 1886 in Nordhausen , † October 27, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a German business economist and professor at the University of Hamburg .

Life

In 1911 Eisfeld passed the examination as a qualified commercial teacher at the Berlin School of Commerce . He received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen . From 1915 he was assistant at the Handelshochschule Berlin, 1920/21 consultant in the Reich Ministry of Food , from 1922 extraordinary professor in Tübingen, from 1925 as full professor . He was also a lecturer at the TH Stuttgart from 1923 to 1927 . In 1927 he was appointed to Hamburg as the only full professor of business administration.

Eisfeld was considered a specialist in banking and savings banks. In 1927, the German Savings Banks and Giro Association established the “Training Institute for Communal Savings Banks and Credit Systems” in Berlin for the next generation of managers. Eisfeld became the scientific director of the institute. In addition to Eisfeld, recognized scientists such as Melchior Palyi, Willi Prion and Konrad Mellerovicz taught. Eisfeld remained head of the teaching institute until 1943, when it had to close due to the war. By then, over three hundred managers had successfully completed their studies. Eisfeld was later called the "founder of the savings bank business". He and his students led u. a. the savings bank company comparison .

The emergency ordinance of September 19, 1931 and the 1st implementing ordinance for it of December 15, 1931 created the auditor . He should be well educated and experienced enough to guarantee the required quality of the compulsory examination of degrees . The admission as an auditor could only be granted after a technical examination. Eisfeld's help was sought in forming the examination boards. In addition to his seminar for business administration, he was also approved a seminar for auditing as a center for auditing questions at Hamburg University in 1931. He became a member of the examination and admissions committee at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, which was responsible for Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and the state of Braunschweig.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the Hamburg Faculty of Law and Political Science elected Eisfeld as dean. He had previously stated that he did not intend to become a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. He remained dean until 1938. In autumn 1933 he became a member of the National Socialist Legal Guardian Association, in 1938 of the National Socialist Altherrenbunds and in 1942 of the Reichskolonialbund , at an unknown time also of the National Socialist People's Welfare and the Reichs Luftschutzbund . Despite the pressure, he never became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party .

In 1947 Eisfeld was appointed chairman of the audit committee for auditors at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. In 1948 he was made an honorary member of the Institute of Auditors. For decades he remained the auditor of the association auditors of the savings banks. Until 1963 he was chairman of the audit committee for association auditors.

Further honors and awards

• Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne in 1956
• Honorary membership of the Association of University Professors in Business Administration 1956
• Silver Johann Friedrich Schär plaque from the German Society for Business Administration in 1963

estate

Curt Eisfeld and his wife Elisabeth bequeathed their property to the University of Hamburg as a non-incorporated foundation . The Curt Eisfeld estate library comprises around 3500 volumes and is located in the university's “House of Business Administration”.

literature

• Curt Eisfeld: From fifty years: memories of a business economist 1902 - 1951 , Göttingen 1973
• Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: An Institutional and Personal History Study , Gabler 2009, p. 678f.
• Hartmut Schmidt, Henrik Sattler, Lutz Raettig: Curt Eisfeld and his library , Bankhistorisches Archiv 40, 2014 / 1–2, pp. 103–115.
• Helmut Macron, Heinrich Strecker, ed .: 200 years of economics and political science at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, life and work of the professors, Stuttgart 2004, pp. 463–469.

Web links

• Literature by and about Curt Eisfeld in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Under "Curt Carl Gustav Eisfeld" you can find a lot of details about the background, the schools and the variety of employment relationships in Eisfeld between 1905 and 1922 at Macron and Strecker. Helmut Macron, Heinrich Strecker, Hrsg .: 200 years of economics and political science at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Life and Work of Professors , Stuttgart 2004, p. 463 f.
2. ↑ Thorsten Wehber: Continuity in Change, in: SparkassenZeitung, Volume 81, No. 48, November 30, 2018, p. 12.
3. ↑ Hartmut Schmidt, Henrik Sattler, Lutz Raettig: Curt Eisfeld und seine Bibliothek, Bankhistorisches Archiv 40, 2014/1 - 2, p. 110. Curt Eisfeld, From Fifty Years: Memories of a Business Economist 1902-1951, Göttingen 1973, points out cautiously his Würzburg lecture in 1930. He dealt with the comparison of companies at savings banks (p. 114 f.).
4. ^ Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland eV, ed., 1932 - 2007, 75 Years of Public Accountants at IDW, Rückblicke, Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 15-17.
5. ^ Marie-Elisabeth Hilger, Das Sozialökonömische Seminar, in: Hochschulalltag im "Third Reich", The Hamburg University 1933-1945, Eds. Eckart Krause / Ludwig Huber / Holger Fischer. Berlin and Hamburg 1991, p. 968.
6. ^ Curt Eisfeld: From Fifty Years: Memories of a Business Economist 1901-1951 , Göttingen 1973, pp. 123-129.
7. ^ Curt Eisfeld: From Fifty Years: Memories of a Business Economist 1902-1951 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973, ISBN 3-525-13140-2 , pp. 131-133 .
8. ↑ Humboldt University, University Archives, files from the Berlin Business School, No. 612, pages 36-37. It is a personnel questionnaire that Eisfeld completed on August 28, 1947 in advance of a planned move to Berlin. For supporting and deviating sources, see Hartmut Schmidt, Henrik Sattler, Lutz Raettig: Curt Eisfeld und seine Bibliothek, Bankhistorisches Archiv 40, 2014/1 - 2, pp. 114 f., Footnotes 59 - 64.
9. ↑ Arnold Sywottek, Continuity in a New Beginning: About the Beginnings of the “University of Hamburg”, in: Hochschulalltag im “Third Reich”, The Hamburg University 1933 - 1945, ed. Eckart Krause / Ludwig Huber / Holger Fischer. Berlin and Hamburg 1991, p. 1390. Federal Archives, File R 4901/2389, sheet 130, copy of the letter from the NSDAP Gauleitung Hamburg to the Reichsstatthalter in Saxony from March 14, 1944, which says, "Eisfeld is not a National Socialist", "His intercourse extends to people who do not have a positive view of National Socialism" and "I cannot recommend his intended appointment."
10. ^ Certificate of appointment dated March 15, 1948. In a circular from the institute, it says in the section on membership statistics and WP directory: "WP Professor Dr. Schmalenbach, Cologne and Professor Dr. Eisfeld, Hamburg are listed as honorary members." Institute of Auditors, Circular No. 11 of June 2, 1951, p. 1.
11. ↑ Professor Dr. Curt Eisfeld 80 years , in: Deutsche Sparkassen-Zeitung of February 18, 1966.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Hamburg State Archive, inventory 361-6, signature IV 1181, p. 13 from October 25, 1963. Eisfeld was Professor Schär's assistant at the Berlin School of Management from 1916 to 1919 (signature IV 1181, p. 17 from March 4 1927).
13. ↑ https://www.bwl.uni-hamburg.de/mb/service/curt-eisfeld-nachlassbibliothek.html
14. ↑ https://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/bibliotheken/hamburger-bibliotheksfuehrer/details-zur-bibliothek/bib-id/1260366746.html