Fritz Morstein Marx

Fritz Morstein Marx (born February 23, 1900 in Hamburg , † October 9, 1969 in Baden-Baden ) was a German-American political and administrative scientist.

Morstein Marx studied law after a short military service in the First World War . In 1922 he received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg and then entered the administrative service of the Free and Hanseatic City. In 1930/31 he was on a research grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in the USA and emigrated there in 1933 after the transfer of power to the National Socialists . He worked in academic teaching and also in administration. From 1942 to 1960 he was a member of the US President's Bureau of the Budget . He was also a research professor at Princeton University . From 1960 to 1962 he was Dean of Hunter College in New York City .

In 1962 Morstein Marx returned to Germany and became professor of comparative administrative science and public law at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . During this time he pursued, among other things, the foundation of administrative ethics for the German-speaking area.

Morstein Marx retired in 1968 , but continued teaching until his death.

German-language fonts (selection)

• Introduction to the bureaucracy. A comparative study of civil service , Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1959
• American administration. Main points of view and problems , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1963
• Official ethics and administrative ethics. An introductory sketch. in: Verwaltungsarchiv 54 (1963), pp. 323-344.
• The administrative man's dilemma , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1965.

literature

• Klaus König:  Morstein Marx, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 159 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Margit Seckelmann , The Birth of Administrative Science from the Spirit of Democracy: Fritz Morstein Marx (1900-1969) , in: Carsten Kremer (Ed.), The Administrative Law Science of the Early Federal Republic 1949-1977. In the show.
• Margit Seckelmann, 'With fire for public administration': Fritz Morstein Marx - The early years (1900-1933) , in: The public administration 66 (2013), pp. 401-415.
• Margit Seckelmann, 'With rare objectivity': Fritz Morstein Marx - The Middle Years (1934-1961) , in: The Public Administration 67 (2014), pp. 1029-1048.
• Margit Seckelmann, 'With understanding for the administrator': Fritz Morstein Marx - The late years (1962-1969) , in: Public Administration 2015 (in press).

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Morstein Marx in the catalog of the German National Library