Edgar Jaffé
Edgar Jaffé (born May 14, 1866 in Hamburg , † April 29, 1921 in Munich ) was a German economist , politician ( USPD ) and finance minister .
Life
Edgar Jaffé was of Jewish origin and was baptized as a child. His father was Isaac Joseph Jaffé (1806–1890) and his mother Charlotte Rosa Beer (1833–1888). From his father's first marriage to Pauline Goldschmidt (1819-1854), Edgar Jaffé had a half-brother Ludwig (1845-1923).
Together with his former professors Max Weber and Werner Sombart , he took over the editing of the archive for social sciences and social policy in 1904 . From 1910 Jaffé taught economics in Munich at the commercial college, which was headed by Moritz Julius Bonn . In 1916, Edgar Jaffé and the Bavarian Transport Minister Heinrich von Frauendorfer founded the European State and Business Newspaper , which was published by one of Jaffé's brothers in Berlin. From 1918 to 1919 Jaffé was Minister of Finance for the Free State of Bavaria under Kurt Eisner .
Jaffé's Munich house was considered a center of Schwabing bohemianism . From 1900 he was a frequent guest in Locarno and Ascona . In 1902 Edgar Jaffé and Else von Richthofen married . In the catalog on the occasion of the Heidelberg exhibition about Alfred Weber in 2003 it says:
- In 1907, Alfred Weber was offered a professorship at Heidelberg University. There he meets his (more famous) brother Max Weber. The two men are not only divided by scientific differences. They also love the same woman: Else Jaffé did her doctorate under Max Weber and married the businessman Edgar Jaffé. “Captured by the erotic liberation movement at the turn of the century,” writes the catalog, “she has several extramarital relationships.” These include the brothers Max and Alfred Weber, but also the psychiatrist Otto Gross . Alfred Weber wrote around 13,000 pages of letters to her. After the death of her husband, Else Jaffé moved to Heidelberg in 1925 into a splendid apartment in Bismarckstrasse (now Hotel Europa), in 1931 Weber and his partner rent two apartments next to each other at Bachstrasse 24 .
Between 1901 and 1903 the architect Ewald Becher built what is now known as the “ Villa Jaffé ” in Berlin's Wallotstraße , in which the von Jaffé family never lived.
Publications
- English banking . Duncker & Humblot , Leipzig 1904
- Basic questions of the English economy . Together with Rudolf Leonhard , Theodor Vogelstein u. Moritz Julius Bonn. Duncker & Humblot, Munich 1913
literature
- Hans Jaeger: Jaffé, Edgar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 290 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Franz Menges : Edgar Jaffé (1866–1921), national economist and finance minister in the Kurt Eisner cabinet. In: Manfred Treml , Wolf Weigand (ed.): History and culture of the Jews in Bavaria. Resumes. House of Bavarian History, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-9801342-8-8 , pp. 225–230 ( Publications on Bavarian History and Culture 18), pp. 225–230
Web links
- Literature by and about Edgar Jaffé in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ MJ Bonn: This is how you make history. Balance of a life . List, Munich 1953, p. 182.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ see page of the Wissenschaftskolleg about the Villa Jaffé
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaffe, Edgar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1921 |
| Place of death | Munich |