Friedrich Muckle

Friedrich Muckle (born January 8, 1883 in Zuzenhausen ; died November 22, 1942 ) was a German economist .

Life

Friedrich Muckle attended the elementary school in Zuzenhausen and the Realgymnasium Karlsruhe, where he graduated from high school in 1901. He studied economics, finance, philosophy and sociology in Leipzig and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1906 with Karl Rathgen with the dissertation Saint-Simon and the economic theory of history: a contribution to a dogma history of historical materialism . Muckle taught from 1910 as a private lecturer in economics at the Mannheim University of Commerce . In 1917/18 Muckle was a soldier in the First World War. In 1918 he was after the November Revolution adviser to the Bavarian prime minister Kurt Eisner and Messenger Bavaria the Reich. In 1919 he became a consultant in the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs and Chairman of the Central Council of Intellectual Workers. In 1920 he went back to Binau as a freelance writer . From 1926 to 1933 he was again a lecturer at the Mannheim Commercial College.

From 1930 Muckle was a member of the völkischen Kampfbund for German culture and in 1931 became a member of the presidium of the "Badische Akademie".

After 1933 he worked at the Mannheim Adult Education Center. In 1937 he emigrated to Switzerland, where he lived in Binningen and from 1938 in Basel. He was married to Emmy Schmidt (born April 17, 1887).

Muckle was the mentor of Robert Scheuer (1893–1984; see also "Drachenhaus Trier"). In 1921 he dedicated one of his works to "his friend Robert Scheuer". He translated New Christianity from French by Henri de Saint-Simon and added an introductory treatise: "The Origins of Christian Social Ideas".

Fonts (selection)

• The history of socialist ideas in the 19th century . 2 volumes. Leipzig: Teubner, 1909
• The great socialists . 2 volumes. Leipzig: Teubner, 1919/20
• The cultural ideal of socialism . Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1919
• Friedrich Nietzsche and the collapse of culture . Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1921
• The spirit of Jewish culture and the West . Vienna: Rikola, 1923
• Gustav Wyneken . Lauenberg ad Elbe: A. Saal, 1924
• The salvation of the West through the spirit of Goethe's time . Leipzig: Hirschfeld, 1932

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Muckle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Muckle, Friedrich Wilhelm , at leo-bw
• Bavarian State Chancellery: Stations of German Federalism. The plenipotentiaries of Bavaria at the Reich and the Federation since 1870

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Archives Basel-Stadt Signature: PD-REG 3a 31712 ( [1] )
2. ↑ In: Hauptwerke des Sozialismus und der Sozialpolitik, New Series, 1st issue (The entire series XI. Issue). Leipzig, Hirschfeld, 1911.