Friedrich Rauers

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Friedrich Rauers (born March 2, 1879 in Bremen , † March 12, 1954 in Tübingen ) was a German economic historian and archivist .

biography

Rauers came from a farming family in Bremen- Walle . He attended the Alte Gymnasium in Bremen and studied art and cultural history and architecture, then law and economics as well as history and geography, at the University of Heidelberg , the University of Tübingen , the University of Munich and the University of Göttingen . He researched the old trade routes in Europe. As a student in Tübingen, he joined the Igel University of Tübingen in the summer semester of 1900 .

From 1907 he lived in Bremen and initially worked as a freelance academic writer. He obtained his doctorate in 1913 in Heidelberg. phil. He worked as an employee at the statistical office in Bremen. The works History of Bremen Internal Trade and Bremen Trade History in the 19th Century were created during this time. In 1915 he worked as an assistant at a Hamburg research institute and as a lecturer at the Hamburg Colonial Institute. In 1916 he moved to the Institute for World Economy and Shipping in Kiel as a scientific department head and lecturer . In 1917 he received the title of professor. In 1920/21 he came to the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as senior archivist and also worked as a lecturer in economic history. He set up the Rathenau archive for the Reich Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, who was murdered in 1922 . In 1934 he was dismissed from his leading position in the Reich Archives by the National Socialists .

Rauers continued to research and wrote some works. He was also a collector of views and plans. During the Second World War he moved to Tübingen with his important collection . There he published a "Tübingen Almanach" in 1947, which also contains a few of his own texts and poems and many Tübingen motifs drawn by himself with a pen. He died in Tübingen, but was buried in the cemetery in Bremen-Walle.

Honors

The Friedrich-Rauers Street in Bremen-Mitte was named after him in 1965

Works

  • On the history of the old trade routes in Germany . J. Perthes, Gotha 1907.
  • History of internal trade in Bremen, Bremen: Leuwer 1913.
  • Bremen trade history in the 19th century , Bremen: Leuwer 1913 (dissertation).
  • Ship and axis sizes, times, costs and freight formation in inland traffic in Bremen in the 18th and 19th centuries , Bremen: Leuwer 1919.
  • The old Bremer Freimarkt , Bremen: Hauschild 1925.
  • From old-free peasant families . In: Odal. Monthly journal for blood and soil , Vol. 3, 1934, Issue 1, pp. 46–61, Part 2 in: Issue 2, pp. 108–131.
  • Hanselbuch . Grinding, puzzling, dumping, baptism and ceremony book. Right and custom of all honest merchants, drivers and seamen , Essen: Essen publishing house 1936.
  • Cultural history of the restaurant . Two volumes, Berlin: Metzner 1941–1942.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ online at the SuUB Bremen: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46:1-313
personal data
SURNAME Rauers, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1954
Place of death Tübingen