Ferdinand Alois Westphalen

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Ferdinand Alois Westphalen (born February 7, 1899 in Przemyśl , Austria-Hungary , † June 11, 1989 in Vienna ) was an Austrian economist .

Life

Ferdinand Alois Graf von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg was born as the son of Ottokar Graf von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg and his wife Josephine (née Countess von und zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg ). Ferdinand Alois was born as the third of five siblings (Marie (* 1895), Friedrich (* 1897), Ferdinand (* 1899), Theobald (* 1901) and Joseph (* 1902)). With the Nobility Repeal Act of 1919, its noble name components became obsolete.

He grew up in his father's seat at Kulm Castle in Bohemia . From 1917 to 1918 he did military service in the Austro-Hungarian army. After the end of World War I, a study of law followed at the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague, where in 1921 the CV connection Saxo-Sydney Prague joined. This was followed by a doctorate in 1922. (jur.). Ferdinand Alois Westphalen studied economics in Munich and Vienna, and received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. was 1925.

In 1932 he received his habilitation in the field of economics at the University of Vienna . In 1937 he was appointed university professor for economics at the University of Vienna and in 1938 as university professor for economics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences . Westphalen was dismissed for political reasons in March 1938 and reactivated as a university professor at the end of the war. From 1945 to 1969 he was university professor for economics at the University of Vienna and from 1960 to 1969 first director of the Institute for Law and Social Science at the University of Vienna. In 1969 he retired.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.w/w515988.htm Westphalen, Ferdinand Alois (accessed on October 4, 2010)
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personal data
SURNAME Westphalen, Ferdinand Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westphalen, Ferdinand Alois von (until 1919); Westphalen zu Fürstenberg, Ferdinand Alois Graf von (full name before 1919)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Przemyśl
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1989
Place of death Vienna