Fritz Pappenheim
Fritz Pappenheim (born May 18, 1902 in Cologne ; died July 31, 1964 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American sociologist and economist of German origin.
Life
Pappenheim received his doctorate in 1928 under Erwin von Beckerath at the University of Cologne . From 1930 he was deputy director of the adult education center in Frankfurt am Main . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he emigrated to Spain in 1933 , where he worked as a freelance writer in Barcelona , and stayed temporarily in Great Britain to report on the Spanish Civil War for newspapers . After the victory of Franco's troops in 1939, he fled across the Pyrenees to France , where he was interned. In 1941 he was able to emigrate to the USA. After three years of teaching without a permanent position in Cleveland , he taught from 1944 at Talladega College , a private college in Alabama . There he was appointed professor of economics in 1945. In 1952 he was fired in the wake of the events of the McCarthy era . From then on he lived as a freelance writer and speaker in Cambridge , Massachusetts . In 1959 Pappenheim published his The Alienation of Modern Man. An Interpretation based on Marx and Tönnies , which has been reprinted several times and also translated.
Pappenheim was married and was survived by his wife.
Fonts (selection)
- Outline of a social history of currency devaluations in France up to John Law. Investigations into the influence of the decline in the value of money on the sense of the state and social peace. Frankfurt am Main 1930 (also dissertation, University of Cologne, 1928).
- The alienation of modern man. An interpretation based on Marx and Tönnies. Monthly Review Press, New York / London 1968 (first 1959).
literature
- Claus-Dieter Krohn: Pappenheim, Fritz. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , p. 526 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Pappenheim in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fritz Pappenheim's estate in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile. 1933-1945. Lit., Münster / Hamburg 1991, p. 114 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pappenheim, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sociologist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1964 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts |