Gerhard Mackenroth

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Gerhard Mackenroth (born October 14, 1903 in Halle (Saale) ; † March 17, 1955 in Fallingbostel ) was a German sociologist , population scientist and statistician .

Life

From 1922 to 1926, Gerhard Mackenroth studied law and political science, psychology and philosophy at the University of Leipzig , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the University of Halle , where he received his doctorate in 1926.

From 1927 to 1928 he was employed by the magistrate of the city of Halle , from 1928 to 1931 he was a Rockefeller Foundation scholar at the Universities of Stockholm, London and Cambridge. In 1932 he completed his habilitation in Halle on the theoretical foundations of pricing research and pricing policy .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP in 1933 and was registered under the number 2,361,665. On November 11, 1933, he was one of the people calling for the professors at German universities to acknowledge Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state . After working as a private lecturer in Halle and a deputy professor in Marburg, Mackenroth, who had also been a member of the SA since 1934, became an associate professor for theoretical economics, economic policy and statistics at the University of Kiel in November 1934 . In 1941 he was appointed to the University of Strasbourg , where he taught until the summer semester of 1943 as the managing director of the Institute of State Science. In the last two years of the war he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a reserve lieutenant .

After the war Mackenroth returned to Kiel and taught again at the university there. In 1948, after completing his denazification process, he became professor of sociology and social science. From 1951 he headed the sociological seminar he founded. From 1952 he was a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and became chairman of the Senate Commission for urgent socio-political issues . Since 1954 he also worked for the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and was a member of the advisory board for the reorganization of social benefits and the working committee for fundamental issues , but died the following year.

Karl Martin Bolte was one of his students .

His son is the CDU member of the Saxon state parliament and former Minister of Justice Geert Mackenroth .

Act

In Mackenroth's sociological seminar in Kiel, many of his contributions to current socio-political issues were made. a. also on social reform in the federal territory, based mainly on his statistical research.

This research gave rise to the Mackenroth thesis , which makes statements about pension systems.

Publications

  • A contribution to the problem of protectionism. A theoretical study of the effect of tariffs on prices, national product and national income, monetary value and exchange rates , dissertation University of Halle-Wittenberg 1926.
  • Theoretical foundations of pricing research and pricing policy . Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1933.
  • The economic integration of the British Empire , Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1935.
  • Meaning and expression in the social world of forms, Hain, Meisenheim 1952.
  • The interweaving of social benefits. Results of a sample , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1954.
  • Methodology of Statistics (Grundriß der Sozialwissenschaft; 24), 3rd edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963.
  • Population theory . Theory, Sociology and Statistics of the Population . Springer, Berlin 1953.

literature

  • Erik Boettcher (ed.): Development theory and development policy. Gerhard Mackenroth in memory of his friends and students , Mohr, Tübingen 1964.
  • Patrick Henßler: Racial paradigm and social hygiene in Gerhard Mackenroth's scientific work and lectures from 1933–1943 . In: Historical social research HSR 31 (2006), pp. 101–130
  • Patrick Henßler, Josef Schmid: Population science in the making. The intellectual foundations of German population sociology, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, [about Gerhard Mackenroth especially: pp. 157-218, 224-244], ISBN 978-3-531-14793-2
  • Hansjörg Gutberger: Population, Inequality, Selection. Perspectives of social science population research in Germany between 1930 and 1960 . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 104–120; Appendix, pp. 189-193.
  • Dirk Kaesler :  Mackenroth, Gerhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 620 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Josef Schmid (ed.): Population science. Gerhard Mackenroth's “Population Theory”. Thirty years after that . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-593-33461-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 385.
personal data
SURNAME Mackenroth, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, population scientist and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1955
Place of death Fallingbostel