Erich Schneider (economist)

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Erich Schneider at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Institute for the World Economy (1964)

Erich Schneider (born December 14, 1900 in Siegen , † December 5, 1970 in Kiel ) was an important German economic theorist . He was a full professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , president of the institute for world economy and chairman of the association for social politics . Not least with his textbooks, Schneider had a great influence on the development of German economics. For his services he received a. a. the Federal Cross of Merit and several honorary doctorates.

Life

Schneider was born in 1900 as the son of a rector in Siegen, Westphalia . After graduating from high school in 1918, he studied mathematics, physics and economics in Gießen , Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen at the secondary school in his hometown and a brief assignment during the First World War.In 1922, Andreas Voigt wrote his dissertation The Calculus of Obligations, applied to those with several types of money , in particular the money arbitrage for Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

In 1925 he passed the state examination for higher education in Münster . After his legal clerkship in Dortmund , he became an assessor in Tecklenburg in 1927 . As a result, he was in 1929 teacher in Koblenz and from 1930 to 1936 in Dortmund. From the 1920s he attended Joseph Schumpeter's financial studies seminars at the University of Bonn . His habilitation (writing: Pure theory of monopoly economic forms ) took place in 1932 with Schumpeter at the law and political science faculty. As a result of Schneider's publications, he became one of the most important market form theorists of the late Weimar Republic and the Third Reich . Together with the economists Hans Peter and Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg , he founded the archive for mathematical economic and social research , which was discontinued in the 1940s .

Immediately before the four-year entry ban came into effect, Schneider was able to join the NSDAP in May 1933 (No. 3.282.695). After a private lectureship in Bonn, he received a professorship for managerial economics at the University of Aarhus before the start of the war and with it the occupation of Denmark . The Danish university was "hiding" the fact that Schneider had been appointed full professor in the Reichsdienst and committed to the Nazi regime in parallel with the cooperation of the Reich Education Ministry and the Reich Ministry of Finance. In 1942, the Reich Ministry of Education, the Foreign Office and the Reich Ministry of Economics intended Schneider's appointment to the University of Heidelberg . He should be rewarded for his commitment to the interests of the regime in Denmark. This failed because of the opposition of the Heidelberg Ordinaries against this "internal interference", although the ministries threatened to withdraw funds for the Heidelberg "Institute for Large-Scale Economics".

In August 1944 he received a call to the University of Kiel . The professor, the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education and the University of Kiel reached an agreement before the end of the war. Postponed again in 1945, he finally took up his full professorship in political economics from 1946 to 1969 . In 1954 Schneider’s license to teach was extended to include business administration . His academic students included Gottfried Bombach , Hans-Joachim Jarchow , Hajo Riese , Harald Scherf , Günther Schleiminger , Uwe Westphal and Winfried Vogt . Schneider was director of the Kiel seminar for theoretical economies. From 1959 to 1960 he was rector of the University of Kiel. On April 1, 1961, he also succeeded Fritz Baade as head of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW). He also published the magazine Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv .

From 1953 to 1962 he was also chairman of the theoretical committee in the Verein für Socialpolitik and from 1963 to 1966 chairman of this economic association.

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Schneider had considerable influence on the academic discipline of his subject in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the author of numerous economic books (also translated into other languages), including several standard works on national accounts as well as on micro- and macroeconomics . His introductory textbook (1947) has been compared in part to Marshall's Principles and Samuelson's Economics .

In his scientific work he used formal, mathematical models and supported himself theoretically a. a. to Léon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto . Schneider campaigned for the discussion of Keynesianism in the FRG . He deliberately distinguished himself from the ordoliberalism around Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke , as well as from the historical school of economics . He also advocated an intellectual convergence of business and economics.

Awards and memberships

He has received numerous awards such as honorary doctorates from the Free University of Berlin (1957), the Stockholm University of Commerce (1959), the Sorbonne Paris (1960), the Helsinki University of Commerce (1961), the Catholic University of Leuven (1963), the University of Rennes (1966) and the University of Madrid (posthumously 1970). In 1965 he was the winner of the Friedrich List Medal in gold from the Federal Association of German Economists and Business Economists . In 1968 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . He was a member of several scientific academies, societies and institutes u. a. the Royal Economic Society , the Econometric Society , the Staatswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft zu Berlin, the Royal Humanistic and Scientific Society of Lund, the Finnish Academy of Sciences , the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, the Istituto lombardo di scienze e lettere, the International Statistical Institute . the International Institute of Public Finance and the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth .

Erich Schneider Foundation for Economics

In 1986 the Erich Schneider Foundation for Economics was established. It has endowment assets of 256,000 euros and supports research seminars and the Erich Schneider memorial reading . It also awards the Erich Schneider Prize for scientific work every year .

Fonts (selection)

  • Introduction to economic theory. 4 volumes. (1947-72) Tübingen.
  • Profitability calculation . Tübingen 1951.
  • Industrial accounting. Basics and basic questions . Tübingen 1954.
  • Economics and business administration . Tubingen 1964.
  • Joseph A. Schumpeter: Life and work of a great social economist. Tubingen 1970.
  • Money, income and employment . 1962 (reissued in 2003)
  • Pricing and equilibrium . 1962 (reissued in 2003)

literature

Web links

Commons : Erich Schneider  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Harald Hagemann :  Schneider, Erich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 286 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Kilian Schultes: The Faculty of State and Economics . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin , Eike Wolgast (eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism , Heidelberg 2006, p. 600.
  3. ↑ Regional personal encyclopedia on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Erich Schneider .
  4. ^ Kilian Schultes: The Faculty of State and Economics . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin , Eike Wolgast (eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism , Heidelberg 2006, p. 600.
  5. ^ Kilian Schultes: The Faculty of State and Economics . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin , Eike Wolgast (eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism , Heidelberg 2006, p. 600.
  6. ^ Kilian Schultes: The Faculty of State and Economics . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin , Eike Wolgast (eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism , Heidelberg 2006, pp. 601f.
  7. ↑ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism. A study of institutional and personal history . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8349-1410-1 , pp. 193, 823 ff .; Schneider, Erich . In: Regional personal dictionary on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein , personal article Erich Schneider [1] .
  8. ↑ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism. A study of institutional and personal history . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8349-1410-1 , p. 826.
  9. ↑ Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Joachim Jarchow . Website of the University of Göttingen, accessed on November 30, 2015.
  10. ^ Hans-Joachim Stadermann, Otto Steiger : Hajo Riese as a money theorist and the tasks of money research . In the S. (Ed.): The status and the near future of money research. Festschrift for Hajo Riese on his 60th birthday (= Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften . H. 424). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-428-07534-X , p. 1.
  11. ↑ Economics professor emer. Dr. Harald Scherf died ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. . Press release of the University of Hamburg, December 16, 2008, accessed on November 30, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de
  12. ↑ Uwe Westphal: Theoretical and empirical studies on the demand for money and the supply of money (= Kiel studies . 110). Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1970, p. 2.
  13. ↑ Alexander Nützenadel : Hour of the Economists. Science, politics and expert culture in the Federal Republic, 1949–1974 (= Critical Studies in History . Vol. 166). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-35149-6 , p. 75.
  14. ↑ a b Wolf Schäfer : Great researcher from the fjord: Erich Schneider . Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
  15. ↑ Erich Schneider Foundation for Economics ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2016 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. , Stifterverband, accessed on April 10, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stiftungen.stifterverband.info
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic theorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1970
Place of death Kiel