Georg Brodnitz

Georg Brodnitz (born November 18, 1876 in Berlin , † December 4, 1941 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto ) was a German economist .

The son of a factory owner in Poznan studied law and political science at the universities of Paris , Oxford , Berlin and Halle after attending the Royal Wilhelm High School in Berlin . In 1900 he was promoted to Dr. iur at the University of Leipzig and in 1901 Dr. phil. PhD at the University of Halle . In 1902 he completed his habilitation with the work of Bismarck's economics with Johannes Conrad . A work in which he tried to draw conclusions from Bismarck's writings and speeches about his attitude to economic theory in general and to trade, colonial, financial and social policy in particular. In 1909 he was awarded the title of professor. A year later he was made an associate professor without a post. Brodnitz was a member of the National Liberal Party from 1910 to 1918 . In 1917/18 he did military service as an economic expert in the Reichsmarineamt . He became known for his English economic history in 1918. However, there was no appointment to a chair. In 1927 he was given a scheduled extraordinate in Halle. As the successor to Karl Bücher , he published the journal for all political science from 1924 to 1934 . In 1933 he was driven out of office because of his Jewish descent under the Professional Civil Service Act . On October 18, 1941, he was deported from Berlin to the Litzmannstadt ghetto and murdered there.

Brodnitz published numerous essays and monographs on economic history and became known as the editor of the still important, worldwide first multi-volume "Handbook of Economic History", which dealt with economic history in different epochs and countries. In his economic history studies, the main focus of his work was English economic history and its comparison with developments in Germany.

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Monographs

• Comparative studies on business statistics and types of business in the English textile industry. Fights, hall 1902.
• Bismarck's national economic views (= collection of national economic and statistical treatises of the political science seminar in Halle ad Saale. Vol. 31). Fischer, Jena 1902.

Editorships

• Handbook of Economic History. Fischer, Jena 1918-.

literature

• Gerhard J. Mauch: Brodnitz, Georg. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 85f.
• Henrik Eberle : The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 367.
• Friedemann Stengel (Ed.): Excluded. In memory of the professors at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg who were dismissed from 1933–1945. Universitäts-Verlag Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-86977-080-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Brodnitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Georg Brodnitz in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis