Emil Munsterberg

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Emil Munsterberg

Emil Münsterberg (born July 13, 1855 in Danzig , Prussia ; died January 25, 1911 in Berlin ) was the most important poverty researcher in the German Empire .

Life

Emil Münsterberg was the son of the timber merchant Moritz Münsterberg (1825–1880) and Rosalie Bernhardy. Among his siblings were the timber merchant and MP Otto Münsterberg (1854-1915), the psychologist Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916) and the printer's owner Oskar Münsterberg (1865-1920).

Münsterberg studied law in Berlin , Göttingen , Leipzig and Zurich . In 1882 he became assessor in the Berlin poor directorate for questions of poor statistics . With Gustav von Schmoller he obtained his doctorate in 1886 on the subject of “The German Poor Laws” (1887).

Until 1890 he was a magistrate in Menden in Westphalia . In 1890 he became mayor in Iserlohn . The activity that he developed there in the field of the poor caused the Senate of Hamburg to commission him with the reorganization of the poor. This should after cholera - epidemic are completely redesigned from the 1893rd

In 1896 he moved to Berlin. There he first took up a scientific activity. In Berlin he founded the Central Office for Charity . He was elected to the unpaid city ​​council in Berlin in 1898. He was entrusted with the management of the urban poor. In 1901 he became a paid city councilor at the head of the Berlin poor directorate.

He reorganized this and endeavored to expand the nursing activity , to use women to care for the poor and to expand the health care provided by the poor administration. From 1892 to 1911 he performed the task of secretary and board member in the German Association for Poor Care and Charity . On January 13, 1911, he was elected chairman.

Münsterberg was not only the most important poverty scientist and practitioner in the German Empire, he also made numerous contacts abroad, in particular with British and American social reformers .

Emil Münsterberg died on the night of January 24th to 25th, 1911 in Berlin.

Works

  • The German poor legislation and the material for its reform . Leipzig 1887.
  • Central offices for poor relief and charity . Jena 1897.
  • The foreign poor system. Overview of recent efforts in the field of poor relief in the countries abroad that are most important to us . Leipzig 1901 and 1906.
  • The Elberfeld System . In: Writings of the German Association for Poor Care and Charity. Issue 63, Leipzig 1903.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moritz Miinsterberg in digiporta
  2. ↑ On his work in Hamburg, Berlin and in the “German Association for Poor Care and Charity” cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Development and Differentiation of Social Policy since the Beginning of the New Course (1890-1904) , Volume 7, Poor Care and Communal Welfare Policy , edited by Wilfried Rudloff, Darmstadt 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Munsterberg, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1911
Place of death Berlin