Folkert Wilken

Folkert Wilken (born February 2, 1890 in Aachen , † September 7, 1981 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German economist and anthroposophist . Wilken was the most important academic exponent of social threefolding in post-war Germany . In addition to numerous works on social economy , Wilken wrote a comprehensive presentation of anthroposophical social science .

Biography and work

Folkert Wilken graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Bremen and began studying economics and law at the University of Freiburg in 1912 after completing a bank apprenticeship . In 1923 he was accepted into the Anthroposophical Society by Hans Wohlbold and Carl Unger .

Wilken received his doctorate in business administration in Munich . He completed his habilitation in economics in Freiburg in 1925 and was appointed associate professor in 1929.

In 1936 Wilken was appointed full professor at the TU Dresden . In 1939 his ordinariate was canceled by the National Socialists because of his membership in the Anthroposophical Society, which was banned in 1935, and he had to leave Dresden. So he returned to the University of Freiburg as a private lecturer . After the Second World War he was rehabilitated and worked there until his retirement .

Wilken was also involved in establishing anthroposophical work in Freiburg with Friedrich Husemann , Fritz Götte and Hans-Georg Schweppenhäuser . In his book On the Rebirth of the Anthroposophical Society , he took a critical stance on internal disputes. He also worked with the Swiss entrepreneur Ernest Bader , who implemented many of Wilkens' suggestions in his Scott Bader -Commonwealth company in England.

Works

• Principles of a personalistic value theory , Jena 1924
• Economic theory of agricultural price increases , Berlin 1925
• The economic cycle , Jena 1926
• The metamorphoses of the economy , Jena 1931
• Basic truths of an organic economy , Zurich 1934
• Spiritual historical development lines of German fate , Stuttgart 1948
• Self-organization of the economy , Freiburg 1949
• The disempowerment of capital , Freiburg 1959
• The Liberation of Labor , Freiburg 1965
• Reform of the tax system , Freiburg 1968
• On the rebirth of the Anthroposophical Society , Freiburg 1969
• Capital - its essence, its history and its work , Schaffhausen 1976
• Capital and Money , Schaffhausen 1981
• Capital and the future , Schaffhausen 1981

Web links

• Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls
• Brief entry from the Berlin Institute for Social Threefolding