Franz Xaver Weiss

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Franz Xaver Weiss (born April 18, 1885 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 19, 1956 in Orpington , Kent ) was an Austrian - Czechoslovak economist.

Life

Franz Xaver Weiss' father was a businessman and moved from Budapest to Vienna. Weiss attended elementary school and grammar school there and studied at the law and political science faculty of the University of Vienna with Eugen Böhm von Bawerk and Friedrich von Wieser . In 1909 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The modern tendency in the theory of monetary value . He did his legal preparatory service at the Vienna Regional Court and worked as an assistant at the University of Vienna. From 1913 he worked as a secretary for the Viennese merchants . Weiss served in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. In 1924/25 he published individual writings by Boehm-Bawerk and in 1926 acquired the venia legendi at the University of Vienna with his habilitation thesis Production Detours and Capital Interest . In 1926 he was offered a chair for economics at the German Technical University in Prague , where he followed Hans Mayer, who had been appointed to Graz .

Since he lost his Austrian citizenship, he applied for Czechoslovak citizenship. In 1930 he received the chair for political economy and finance at the German University in Prague . In 1933/34 he held the office of dean of the law and political science faculty of the university. Weiss advocated the appointment of Hans Kelsen , who lost the chair at Cologne University after the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933 . In Prague, the German national students tried to prevent this and called for a boycott of the lectures by Weiss. In autumn 1938 Weiss was forced by the Czechoslovak authorities to give up his teaching and examination work out of opportunism in the face of pressure from the anti-Semitic German Reich . In February 1939, shortly before Czechoslovakia was broken up , he was given six months paid leave, which he used for a research stay in Great Britain , after which he stayed with his family.

After the end of the war, he applied for the restitution of his property confiscated by the Germans, which the now again Czechoslovak authorities refused because of his German ethnicity.

No major works and no monograph are known of Weiss, he published around 30 essays and wrote some articles for the third edition of the Concise Dictionary of Political Sciences , he was editor of the Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Sozialpolitik from 1921 to 1925 and wrote the smaller papers of his revered Böhm-Bawerk. In the 1920s and 1930s Weiss published several articles on value theory, land rent and the problem of value. Weiss challenged Ludwig von Mises ' view that liberalism and subjectivist theory of value belonged together naturally.

Fonts (selection)

Beginning of the article monopoly. In: Concise Dictionary of Political Science . 1925
  • The modern trend in the doctrine of monetary value. In: Journal for Economics, Social Policy and Administration. Volume 19, Vienna / Leipzig 1910, pp. 502-560.
  • On the second edition of Carl Menger's principles (1924)
  • as Ed .: Collected writings by Eugen Boehm-Bawerk. Volume 1, 1924.
  • as Ed .: Collected writings by Eugen Boehm-Bawerk. Volume 2, 1925.
  • Recent Ricardo criticism. In: Journal for Economics, Social Policy and Administration. 1927.
  • The basic rent in the system of utility value theory. In: Economic Theory of the Present. Volume 3, 1928.
  • Speaker and discussion contribution to the oral debate on the theory of values ​​in the theoretical committee of the Verein für Sozialpolitik (1933)

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SURNAME Weiss, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Czechoslovak economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1956
Place of death Orpington , Kent