Felix Alexander
Felix James Alexander , pseudonyms : Dr. Johan Sailer and A. Wehrenburg , (born March 4, 1888 in Hamburg ; died June 23, 1973 in Eureka Springs , Carroll County (Arkansas) , USA ) was a German-American economist .
Life
He was the son of James Albrecht and his wife Ida born Israel. After attending the Realgymnasium and Oberrealschule in Hamburg, Felix Alexander studied philosophy and political science at the universities of Jena , Berlin and Tübingen . In Tübingen he received his doctorate in 1913 for Dr. sc. pol. The topic of his dissertation was The part-time theater companies in Germany . He then worked as an assistant at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce until 1914. After the outbreak of the First World War , he was called up for active military service, which he performed in the fleet supply in Hamburg, Cuxhaven and Wilhelmshaven . In 1919 he went back to the University of Jena and in the following year he became the department head for demobilization, war disabled and refugee welfare in Berlin. From 1924 he lived as a freelancer and went on lecture and study trips. On this basis he published in 1925 the work As a political economist around the globe .
During the Nazi era , he emigrated in the mid-1930s due to his Jewish descent and settled in New York . He died in 1973 in Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas.
Works (selection)
- The part-time theater companies in Germany , Altenburg (S.-A.), 1913.
- The artistic superiority of the theater clubs over the full-time theater companies. A wake-up call to the German folk actors! Berlin, 1920.
- Timpanists and schoolboys. A school dream in four dramatic images , 1924.
- Around the globe as a political economist , 1925.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 14.
- Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , Vol. 1, p. 116.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Starbatty, Heinrich Strecker: 400 semesters. Economics lectures at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen 1798−2013 , Stuttgart, 2014, p. 556.
- ^ Felix Alexander in the 1940 Census
- ↑ Photo of the tombstone
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alexander, Felix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alexander, Felix James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1973 |
| Place of death | Eureka Springs , Carroll County, Arkansas , USA |