Gerhard Kessler (economist)

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Gerhard Kessler (born August 24, 1883 in Groß Wilmsdorf , Mohrungen district , East Prussia ; † August 14, 1963 in Kassel ) was a German economist and social scientist.

Life

During his studies, Kessler became a member of the Association of German Students in Leipzig . He received his doctorate in 1905 and in 1912 he was an associate professor for social studies and economics at the University of Jena . After the First World War , in which he participated as a soldier, he became a full professor of economics in Jena in 1919 . In 1927 he was appointed to a full professorship at the University of Leipzig . During this time he made a name for himself as a sharp critic of National Socialism. In 1932, in a newspaper article, he described Hitler as a "phrase thresher and pied piper". After the Nazi "takeover" of power , Kessler was dismissed for political reasons. In the same year he emigrated to Turkey, where he became professor of economics at Istanbul University . In Turkey he tried to promote the social sciences, sociologically orienting himself towards Ferdinand Tönnies . Kessler wrote a social lesson in the Turkish language.

In 1943 he founded the small group "Deutscher Freiheitsbund" together with the Social Democrat Ernst Reuter and others .

After the Second World War, Kessler first went to Göttingen University as a visiting professor in 1950 and then moved back to Germany in 1951. Until 1958 he taught at the University of Göttingen as an honorary professor .

The work in Turkey was not recognized by the German authorities for his pension entitlements. Kessler died in a retirement home in Kassel.

Awards

Fonts

  • The German employers' associations. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907.
  • The night work of young workers in glassworks, rolling and hammer mills. around 1910.
  • The rebuilding of German economic life. Fischer, Jena 1920.
  • The student in the new German society. Bernard & Graefe, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1929.
  • Genealogy and economic history. Leipzig 1932.
  • Fight and build! Meiner, Leipzig 1933.
  • The family names of the Jews in Germany. Leipzig 1935. ( Communications from the Central Office for German Personal and Family History , 53rd issue)
  • Içtimaiyata başlangiç. Istanbul 1938.
  • Cooperation. Istanbul 1940.
  • Sosyal siyaset. Istanbul 1950.

literature

  • Cem Dalaman: Turkey in its modernization phase as a refuge for German exiles. Dissertation. FU Berlin 1998, pp. 175–203 ( online , PDF file; 558 kB).
  • Ronald Lambrecht: Political dismissals in the Nazi era. Forty-four biographical sketches by professors at the University of Leipzig (= contributions to the history of Leipzig university and science. Series B, Volume 11). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-374-02397-5 , pp. 112–114.
  • Ronald Lambrecht / Ulf Morgenstern : The life path of the Leipzig economist Gerhard Kessler (1883-1963). Practical social policy and political engagement in Germany and Turkish exile. In: New Archive for Saxon History 81 (2010), pp. 147–179.
  • Gerhard Lüpkes:  Kessler, Gerhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 549 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Reiner Möckelmann : Ankara waiting room. Ernst Reuter - exile and return to Berlin. BWV 2013, pp. 141–151, ISBN 978-3-8305-3143-2 .
  • Orhan Tuna: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kessler's personality and works. Sermet Matbaasi, Istanbul 1964.
  • Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile 1933-1945. A biographical cartography (= sociology 20, = contributions to the history of sociology 1). Dissertation, University of Münster 1989. Lit, Münster et al. 1991, ISBN 3-88660-737-2 , pp. 32–34.
  • Matthes Buhbe: Kessler, Gerhard. 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 , p. 321f.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 616

Others

  • Refuge on the Bosphorus. Documentary by Nedim Hazar and Pavel Schnabel, 2001. First broadcast on 3sat October 28, 2001 with contemporary witness Addi Scholz, daughter of G. Kessler, although she only lived briefly in Turkey and therefore with her father; and with Cornelius Bischoff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 109.
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Wilmsdorf , Mohrungen district, East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1963
Place of death kassel