Erwin Hasselmann

Erwin Hasselmann (born January 23, 1903 in Hadmersleben, Saxony , † November 2, 1994 in Hamburg ) was a German economist , cooperative member and publicist. He was a board member of the Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives from 1948 to 1964.

Life and professional development

Hasselmann is the son of the teacher Ferdinand Hasselmann (1873–1947) and his wife Anna, b. Schwarz (1873-1947). After graduating from high school at Schulpforta , he studied economics and sociology a . a. with Hermann Heller , Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch in Leipzig , Freiburg and Marburg . In 1926 he completed his studies with a degree in economics, in 1927 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the consumer cooperative movement . In 1926 he became chairman of the socialist student group in Marburg and in 1927 a member of the SPD . From 1928 he was managing director of the regional association of police officers in Hamburg and at the same time a member of the central association of employees .

On April 7, 1934 he emigrated to Welwyn Garden City in Great Britain . Until 1936 he was a freelance journalist and translator. From 1937 to 1948 he was editor and documentary for the International Cooperative Federation in London , employee of several cooperative newspapers, a. a. in Great Britain, Scandinavia , Switzerland , Austria and CSR . From 1945 to 1948 he was a permanent contributor to the Manchester Evening News.

In September 1948 he returned to Germany and became a member of the SPD again. In the same year he was appointed to the board of the Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives in Hamburg, of which he was a member until his retirement in 1964. As their representative he was from 1948 to 1966 a member of the central board of the International Cooperative Alliance in London ( International Co-operative Alliance ). Hasselmann was the chief editor of the consumer cooperative round-up "The consumer" and head of the publishing company of German consumer cooperatives.

His son is Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann (born 1931 in Hamburg) a German climate researcher , meteorologist and oceanologist .

Publications

• History of the German Consumer Cooperatives , Frankfurt a. M. 1971
• The latest development in the German consumer cooperative movement (1924 and 1925) . Dissertation, Hadmersleben 1927
• and bore fruit a hundredfold . A century of consumer cooperative self-help in Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1964.
• The international cooperative movement 1947–1949 , Hamburg 1951
• In the flow of time: 60 years of the Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives , Hamburg 1963
• In the beginning there was the idea of ​​Robert Owen Sturm und Drang of the social conscience in the early days of capitalism , Hamburg 1958
• Committed to the consumer: 75 years of the Göppingen consumer cooperative 1889–1964 , Hamburg 1964
• Yearbook of the Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives , Hamburg 1951
• Cooperative family GF-1952,1957,1956,1955,1954,1958,1959,1960 , magazine in Hamburg
• with Philip Snowden : The faith of a democrat , Hamburg 1930, translation
• The cooperative self-help of consumers , Hamburg 1958
• The International Association of Cooperatives and the Cooperative Movement from 1949 to 1951 , Hamburg 1951
• With united forces. From cooperative work around the world , Hamburg 1952
• The Rochdaler principles through the ages Publications of the Deutsche Genossenschaftskasse, Central Bank of the Cooperatives, Volume 4, Frankfurt / Main 1968

Individual evidence

1. ^ Memorial book of the SPD Hamburg
2. ↑ Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile, 1933–1945: a biographical cartography, Münster, Hamburg 1991, p. 126.
3. ↑ Ed .: Werner Röder and Herbert Strauss: Biographical Handbook of German Emigration after 1933, Munich 1980, p. 274.