Erwin von Beckerath

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Erwin Emil von Beckerath (born July 31, 1889 in Krefeld ; † November 23, 1964 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German economist who taught political science and economics in Cologne , Bonn and Basel . He was the cousin of the economist Herbert von Beckerath .

Life

Beckerath attended grammar school in his hometown Krefeld and passed the Abitur there in 1908 . He then studied economics , history and philosophy in Freiburg i.Br. , Göttingen and Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1912 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University there. He then worked as a research assistant for economics at the University of Leipzig , did military service in 1915/16 and then worked as an assistant at the Bremen Chamber of Commerce . In 1918 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig, where he taught for two more years as a private lecturer in economics. In 1920 Beckerath joined the University of Rostock as an associate professor for political economy (and thus the youngest professor for political economy in Germany at that time) , and in 1922 as a full professor for political economics and dean for the law and political science faculty at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel and again two years later as professor of economics at the University of Cologne. Here he was also director of the German-Italian Cultural Institute (Petrarca House) from 1931 to 1939. In 1939 he finally moved to the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, where he retired in 1957. He then worked until 1964 as a lecturer in political economy at the University of Basel.

After Walter Eucken , Franz Böhm and Hans Großmann-Doerth, Beckerath is one of the representatives of ordo-liberalism . Beckerath was also a member of Class IV of the Academy for German Law , which was headed by Jens Jessen , and within this class he led the Economics Working Group , which the German Reich set as "not war-important" in March 1943. This working group found its unofficial continuation under the name " Arbeitsgemeinschaft Erwin von Beckerath ", which is also referred to in historiography as the "Third Freiburg Circle". Its members were more or less clearly close to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Confessing Church . From 1948 until his death in 1964 Beckerath was chairman of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Economics , which in certain respects also continued the tradition of the "Erwin von Beckerath working group"; In this function, Erwin von Beckerath helped determine the economic policy of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard as a "social market economy".

Awards

Works

  • The Prussian class tax and the history of its reform up to 1851 (= Staats- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen , 163). Diss., Leipzig 1912.
  • The seaport policy of the German railways and the supply of raw materials . Habil. Writing, Berlin 1918.
  • Nature and Becoming of the Fascist State . Berlin 1927; ND Darmstadt 1979.
  • Heinrich Dietzel as political economist and sociologist (= war lectures of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn am Rhein , H. 135). Bonn 1944.
  • Economic issues of the free world . Frankfurt a. M. 1957.
  • Ed. With Fritz W. Meyer , Alfred Müller-Armack : Economic issues of the free world [For the 60th birthday of Federal Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard]. Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1957.
  • with Franz Greiss: Economy, Society and Culture. Ceremony for Alfred Müller-Armack . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961.
  • Lynkeus. Figures and problems from business and politics . Mohr, Tübingen 1962.
  • together with Josef Heinz Müller: Introduction to economics . Verlag Neue Wirtschafts-Briefe, 6th edition, Herne 1970.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin von Beckerath. Retrieved August 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Beckerath, Erwin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckerath, Erwin E. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1964
Place of death bad Godesberg