Franz Gutmann (economist)
Franz Gutmann (born March 16, 1879 in Munich , † July 6, 1967 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) was a German-American economist .
Life
After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1898 , Gutmann studied law, economics and history at the University of Munich and the University of Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate in 1904 . He then attended political science lectures in Paris, Berlin and Heidelberg. After traveling abroad and working as a private assistant , he completed his habilitation in 1912 at the University of Tübingen . In the First World War he took part as an officer. He then taught in Tübingen as a non-civil servant associate professor . In 1921 he became a full professor at theUniversity of Jena , in 1929 he moved to the University of Breslau and in 1931 he became Professor of Insurance Science at the University of Göttingen .
Due to his Jewish descent, he was temporarily retired in 1935 and released in 1936. Gutmann emigrated to the USA in 1939 (he had previously examined the possibility of a job as a university professor on a trip), lost his German citizenship in 1941, and later became a US citizen. From 1939 until his retirement in 1949 Gutmann was Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He then continued to work as a lecturer in Milwaukee because he did not have sufficient income from his pension. Compensation payments from Germany were not made until 1956. Before that, his 65-year-old wife had to work in a department store. Gutmann never returned to Germany.
Fonts (selection)
- The social structure of Bavaria at the time of popular law. KJ Trübner, Strasbourg 1906, OCLC 18362593 ( dissertation University of Strasbourg 1906).
- The French monetary system in the war (1870–1878), Trübner, Strasbourg 1913, DNB 580053660 (= treatises from the political science seminar in Strasbourg iE issue 30, also habilitation thesis Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen , political science).
- Basic information on the reparation plan , G. Fischer, Jena 1921, DNB 580898067 (= World War II collection ).
- The council system , Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1922.
- Currency ideas and currency design in the present , G. Fischer, Jena 1928.
- Foreign loans and foreign debt , Junker & Dünnhaupt , Berlin 1930.
literature
- Anikó Szabó: eviction, return, reparation. Göttingen university professor in the shadow of National Socialism, with biographical documentation of the dismissed and persecuted university professors: University of Göttingen - TH Braunschweig - TH Hannover - University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, pp. 368–372, ISBN 978-3-89244-381-0 (= publications of the working group history of Lower Saxony (after 1945), volume 15, also dissertation at the University of Hanover 1998).
- Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile. 1933-1945 . Lit, Münster 1991, ISBN 978-3-88660-737-2 , p. 61.
- Hans-Michael Trautwein : Gutmann, Franz. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 215f.
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 440
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gutmann, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1967 |
| Place of death | Milwaukee , Wisconsin |