Franz Eulenburg

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Franz Eulenburg (born June 29, 1867 in Berlin ; † December 28, 1943 there ) was a German economist and social scientist .

Life

Eulenburg attended Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin, but had to leave school due to the family's economic problems and start a commercial apprenticeship in the clothing industry . Later, thanks to the support of his uncle, he was able to do his Abitur. He studied at the University of Berlin (first medicine, then history, economics and philosophy) and in 1892 as a student Gustav Schmoller with a thesis about guilds of Wroclaw from the 13th to 15th centuries doctorate . In the Schmoller seminar he made lifelong friendship with Werner Sombart and Alfred Grotjahn . Eulenburg was a member of the Academic-Literary Association Berlin and later became an honorary member of several student associations at the Berlin School of Commerce .

After completing his studies, he worked in trade as a businessman and as a scientific assistant at statistical offices in Berlin and Breslau. Eulenburg completed his habilitation in 1899 at the University of Leipzig under Karl Bücher and was taken on as associate professor there from 1905. With an essay ( Der akademische Nachwuchs ), in which he critically discussed the large number of post-doctoral qualifications without a professorship in 1908, he generated resistance from the academic establishment to his own appointment to a chair . As a result, a long time later, in 1917, he was offered a position at RWTH Aachen University , where Eulenburg was professor of economics with the main field of work “work on historical statistics; Studies on general science; Contributions to economic theory. ”Has been discontinued. After the end of the First World War , as a nationally thinking Jewish German, he had to flee Aachen and lost all of his possessions. In 1918 his wife died of the flu epidemic . He was later married to Gertrud Luthardt.

In 1919 he moved to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel before he was finally taken on as a professor at the commercial college in Berlin in 1926 . From 1933 he was forced out of teaching due to his Jewish origins, but was able to continue teaching until 1935 due to his many doctoral students. In 1943 he died as a result of torture in Gestapo custody, after being arrested after an operation. His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Significance for sociology

According to Eisermann , the scientific work of Eulenburg embraced the economy and society equally well, which is reminiscent of Vilfredo Pareto , Joseph Schumpeter and Max Weber . Eulenburg followed the maxim that sociology without economics is "blind", while economics without sociology is "empty".

Fonts (selection)

  • The "academic offspring" (1908).
  • Expert opinion on the question of socialization. Refunded the general assembly of the Verein für Socialpolitik in Regensburg on September 15 and 16, 1919 (1919 - with Leopold von Wiese ).
  • Price formation in the modern economy (1925).
  • Foreign Trade and Foreign Trade Policy (1929).
  • General Economic Policy (1938).
  • The secret of the organization (1952 - from the estate).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silke van Dyk , Alexandra Schauer: ... that official sociology has failed. On sociology under National Socialism, the history of its coming to terms and the role of the DGS. 2nd edition Wiesbaden 2015, p. 111.

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personal data
SURNAME Eulenburg, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1943
Place of death Berlin