Eduard Willeke

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Eduard Heinrich Wilhelm Willeke (born March 16, 1899 in Münster , † August 25, 1974 in Wiesloch ) was a German social and economic scientist.

The merchant's son graduated after high school from 1919 to 1923 to study economics, law and philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg, Munster and Berlin, which he in 1923 with promotion to Dr. rer. pole. completed. He then worked as a research assistant at the Westfälische Landesbank and from 1924 as managing director of the Westphalian Administrative Academy, which was affiliated with the University of Münster. From 1925 to 1933 he was an assistant at the seminar for job placement and career guidance at the University of Münster.

Willeke completed his habilitation with the sociologist Johann Plenge and in 1933 received a teaching position for social sciences at the University of Münster . After substituting professorships in Giessen and Strasbourg, he became professor of economics and director of the political science seminar at the Reichsuniversität there in 1943. He worked for the "Research Service, Reich Working Groups of Agriculture", which coordinated agricultural research throughout the Reich.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, Willeke became professor of economics at the Mannheim School of Economics in 1953 after working at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund , teaching at the Technical University of Stuttgart and a visiting professorship in Tübingen .

Fonts (selection)

  • German syndicalism , dissertation, Münster 1923.
  • The German proof of work , Berlin 1926
  • About space-bound human labor. A qualitative theory of the labor market , Fischer, Jena 1937.
  • Social structure and spatial planning . In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2nd year (1938), issue 12, pp. 492–497.
  • Labor deployment in the war , Fischer, Jena 1942.
  • The national and socio-economic questions of the rural people. In: Agricultural Policy-Betriebslehre: current problems, 1943 ( Research Service . Special Issue. 18), pp. 43–57.
  • Spatial research from an economic perspective . In: ARL (Ed.): Raumforschung. 25 years of spatial research in Germany. Bremen 1960, pp. 19–36.
  • Economic policy as an object of scientific consideration. A fundamental statement on the determinability of economic policy goals , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958 (new edition 1963).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd edition. Volume 10: Thies - Zymalkowski. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25040-8 , p. 647
  2. ↑ Information from Carsten Klingemann : Sociology and Politics. Social science expert knowledge in the Third Reich and in the early West German post-war period . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 3-531-15064-2 , p. 39.
  3. ^ Carsten Klingemann: Empirical Sociology in the Third Reich and in the Post-War Period. A statement on Erwin K. Scheuch , ZUMA-Nachrichten 46, vol. 24, May 2000, pp. 171–180, here p. 172.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 677
  5. ^ Karl Gabriel (ed.): Church - State - Economy on the way into the 21st century. 50 Years of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences , Lit, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6162-7 , p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Willeke, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willeke, Eduard Heinrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social and economic scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1974
Place of death Wiesloch