Ernst Kelter

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Ernst Heinrich Kelter (born December 11, 1900 in Gelsenkirchen ; † December 31, 1991 ) was a German economic geographer , economic historian , economist , local politician during the Nazi era and university professor .

Life

After attending secondary school in Homberg and the Notabitur 1919 graduated Kelter initially as a bank clerk and worked as a bank clerk. Kelter then studied economics and economic history in Bonn and Munich, graduating in 1931 with a degree in economics and a doctorate . He became a research assistant at the Institute for Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Bonn .

Kelter was a member of the NSDAP since 1925 . He later became a member of the SA . On May 11, 1933, he was appointed acting Lord Mayor of Duisburg as the successor to Karl Jarres and was officially introduced to his office on May 16. On June 14, 1934, he received the two soccer players Willy Busch from Duisburg 99 and Paul Zielinski from Union 02 Hamborn after taking 3rd place at the 1934 World Cup in Italy . As early as December 11, 1934, he was recalled as Lord Mayor, so that on January 1, 1935, Just Dillgardt became his successor.

Since January 1, 1935, Kelter was a lecturer at the University of Bonn and, after his habilitation in 1936, lecturer there. On October 1, 1937, Kelter accepted a position as professor of economic history and economic geography at the State Economics Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He was also a member of the university's administrative committee and other university bodies.

At the same time, as the successor to Jakob Strieder, he was also director of the seminar for economic history at the university. During his teaching activities he dealt in particular with the economic fundamentals of historical events such as the peasant wars and put his research focus on the late Middle Ages and the early modern period .

1938 Kelter also became a member of the university committee for the revocation of the doctorate.

In September 1939 he became a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Society for European Economic Planning and Greater Spatial Economics , which, as part of the expansion of the Nazi regime , expanded its sphere of influence to other European countries through a conception of the “reorganization of Europe” and the development of methods for education a European "large economic area" under German leadership.

After the end of the Second World War he was dismissed in 1945 and lost his chair to Friedrich Lütge in 1947 . As part of the denazification , he was classified in the so-called " Franklin D. Roosevelt Office Files 1933-1945" as a key figure of the Nazi regime.

He later returned to the Lower Rhine and dealt with local research and historical local historical figures such as Emil Wilhelm Krummacher .

Publications

  • The economic ethos of the medieval guildmaker. In: Schmoller's yearbook for legislation, administration and economics in the German Empire; 56.1932.4. 1932.
  • The official price regulation in the time of the medieval city economy. Fischer, Jena 1935.
  • The Jews in German Economic History. In: Treatises on legal and economic history: Festschrift. 1941, pp. 581-588.
  • The economic causes of the peasant war. In: Schmoller's yearbook for legislation, administration and economics. 65 (1941) 1941, pp. 641-682.
  • German economic life in the 14th and 15th centuries in the shadow of the plague epidemics. In: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics. 165, No. 2/3 1953, pp. 161-208.
  • Chronicle of the community of Rheinkamp. History of a community on the Lower Rhine. Brendow and Son, Duisburg 1960.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nils Havemann: Football under the swastika: the DFB between sport, politics and commerce , 2005, p. 296 f., ISBN 3593379066 ( preview in Google book search)
  2. ^ University of Munich: Civil status as of October 31, 1941 (PDF; 6.0 MB)
  3. ↑ Stefanie Harrecker: Degraded Doctors: The revocation of the doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , 2007, p. 70, ISBN 3831606919 ( preview in the Google book search)
  4. ^ "Franklin D. Roosevelt Office Files 1933-1945", p. 50
  5. ↑ Uwe Eckardt:  KRUMMENACHER, Emil Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 713-714.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kelter, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kelter, Ernst Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic geographer, economic historian, economist, local politician during the time of National Socialism and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1991