Georg Scheller (business economist)

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Georg Scheller (born December 5, 1895 in Norden , East Friesland ; † June 4, 1955 in Frankfurt am Main ) was director of the Institute for Comparative Theoretical and Practical Business Administration and Chairman of the Examination Office for Economics at Saarland University from 1951 .

biography

His father Ernst Scheller was a high school professor and died when Georg was only nine years old. Georg Scheller attended the humanistic König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Höxter (Westphalia) and was reserve lieutenant in the First World War from 1914 to 1919, most recently in the Freikorps . After the war he studied economics in Munich , Göttingen and Frankfurt am Main . There he obtained his commercial diploma in 1921 and received his doctorate in September 1924. In the same year he became an assistant at the Institute for Economics, later he became a faculty assistant and then senior assistant with a teaching assignment for business administration. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Frankfurt .

In addition to his studies, he completed an apprenticeship as a banker and was then temporarily branch manager, auditor and foreign exchange and securities dealer. In February 1925 he married Käthe Steinhöfel.

In 1928 he completed his habilitation in Frankfurt with Fritz Schmidt (business economist) and in October 1928 he accepted an appointment at the Nuremberg Commercial College . In 1934 he became a full professor and in January 1941 rector. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . Since 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP and many other NS organizations. From December 1, 1933, he was a district administrator in the Nazi legal guardian association , and also head of the legal department in Franconia. His brother was the National Socialist Lord Mayor of Marburg , Ernst Scheller. Georg Scheller was dismissed in September 1945, although he was only able to perform his duties to a limited extent due to his service as a major with many front-line missions in World War II . He initially worked in construction, but soon began to work as an expert for government agencies again.

In April 1950 he took over the management of the commercial private school Dr. Steinhöfel in Frankfurt am Main and in October of the same year he was appointed to the faculty of the Frankfurt Academy for World Trade .

Works

literature

  • “Mitteilungen - Georg Scheller” in ZfhF , 1955, pp. 492–493
  • Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism. A study of institutional and personal history , Wiesbaden 2009

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 195.
  2. ↑ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism, 2009, p. 815
personal data
SURNAME Scheller, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH North , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1955
Place of death Frankfurt am Main