Gisbert Rittig

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Gisbert Rittig (born March 3, 1904 in Falkenau , † June 20, 1984 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) was a German economist . He taught at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and is considered an important public economy theorist in the Federal Republic.

Life

Rittig had Bohemian Huguenot ancestors on his mother's side and himself came from the Sudetenland near Eger . He grew up in Prague and attended the local Evangelical German School and the Smichower Realgymnasium.

Rittig studied law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1924 to 1931 . In 1927 he graduated with a degree in economics . In 1930 he was at Otto von Zwiedineck-south Horst with a dissertation about the relationship of objective and subjective factors in the national economic price theory to Dr. rer. oec. PhD.

In 1933 he joined the SA . He was also a member of the Sudeten German Party and the Sudeten German Freikorps . From 1936 to 1940 he worked (from 1937 as an extraordinary assistant) to Ernst Schuster at the Institute for Economics and Statistics at the University of Heidelberg . There he completed his habilitation in 1937 - after having had his National Socialist convictions certified - with the work Die Zeit in der Wirtschaft. An investigation into time in economic theory .

From 1939 to 1940 he represented the professorship for political economics (Prof. Günter Schmölders ) at the University of Breslau . From June 1940, he served as a soldier and interpreter in the Wehrmacht . A call to the University of Poznan (1941) failed because of his young age due to the vote of the University Commission of the NSDAP . He was only able to fulfill his representation at the University of Göttingen half-heartedly because of the convocation practice. In 1943 he investigated price issues for the Reich Ministry of Food . In 1943/44 he represented Carl Brinkmann at the universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen. In 1944 he was appointed as an associate professor (successor to Siegfried Wendt ) at the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the University of Göttingen while serving on the Eastern Front .

In 1946 he was initially a lecturer at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. From 1951 to 1973 he was a full professor of economics and insurance . He was also the director of the Insurance Science Department and the Economics Department. From 1968 to 1973 he headed the central office for external seminar courses in Göttingen. He chaired the student union in Göttingen and was chairman of the Göttingen adult education center from 1948 to 1975 . In 1961 he was the founding chairman of the Faculty Conference for Economics and Social Sciences .

In the post-war period, Rittig followed up on the theory of the common economy. In 1953 he was a founding member and from 1973 to 1977 deputy chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Society for Public Economy and Community Economy.

He was a member of the Social Democratic Party as early as 1931 and was involved in drawing up the Godesberg program in the 1950s . In the 1961 federal elections , he ran for the SPD at number 35 on the Lower Saxony state list. From 1954 he was co-editor of the left-wing liberal magazine Neue Gesellschaft . He was also u. a. Editor of the German edition of the introductory work The Theory of Capitalist Development by the American Marxist economist Paul Sweezy .

Rittig last lived in Herrsching am Ammersee (Breitenbrunn).

Fonts (selection)

  • The social price . Fischer, Jena 1935.
  • Socialism today. To the self-reflection of socialism . Dietz, Hanover 1954.
  • ed. with Heinz-Dietrich Ortlieb : Common Economy in the Change of Society. Festschrift for Hans Ritschl on his 75th birthday . Allgemeine Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1972.
  • Common economy principle and pricing in public companies from an economic point of view (= Public Economy Series No. 25). European publishing house, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1977.

literature

  • Karl Oettle (ed.): Public goods and public companies. Contributions to the relevance of the theory of public goods for public enterprises. Dedicated to Gisbert Rittig on the occasion of his 80th birthday (= publication series of the Society for Public Economy and Community Economy . Issue 25). Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1984, ISBN 3-7890-0883-4 .
  • Kilian Schultes: The political and economic faculty of the University of Heidelberg 1934–1946 . Dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 2007. (in it: Time in the economy. An investigation into time in economic theory, Gisbert Rittig, July 1937 / p. 204 ff.) - z. T. published in Die Universität Heidelberg Im Nationalozialismus; Full text PDF from Heidelberg University Library .
  • Theo Thiemeyer : Gisbert Rittig in memory . In: Journal for Public and Public Service Enterprises 7 (1984) 4, pp. 547-550.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Kilian Schultes: The Faculty of State and Economics . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Seilin, Elke Wolgast (Hrsg.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism . Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-21442-7 , p. 597.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g See biography in the appendix: Günter Blümel, Wolfgang Natonek : “The noble endeavor to benefit the broad masses”. Contributions to the history of the Volkshochschule Göttingen . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86395-125-2 , p. 336.
  3. ^ Kilian Schultes: The Faculty of State and Economics . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Seilin, Elke Wolgast (Hrsg.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism . Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-21442-7 , p. 584.
  4. ^ Kilian Schultes: The Faculty of State and Economics . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Seilin, Elke Wolgast (Hrsg.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism . Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-21442-7 , p. 615.
  5. ^ Kilian Schultes: The Faculty of State and Economics . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Seilin, Elke Wolgast (Hrsg.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism . Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-21442-7 , p. 616.
  6. ^ A b c d e f Karl-Heinz Schmidt: "Politics is every structuring of social life". Main points and suggestions in Wilhelm Abel's contributions to economic and social policy . In: Markus A. Denzel (Ed.): Economy - Politics - History. Contributions to the commemorative colloquium on the occasion of Wilhelm Abel's 100th birthday on October 16, 2004 in Leipzig (= studies on the industrial and commercial history of the pre-industrial era . No. 24). Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08633-1 , p. 80.
  7. ^ A b c Kilian Schultes: The Faculty of State and Economics . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Seilin, Elke Wolgast (Hrsg.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism . Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-21442-7 , p. 574.
  8. ↑ Matthias Groß: The National Socialist "conversion" of the economic institutes . In: Heinrich Becker, Hans-Joachim Dahms, Cornelia Wegeler (eds.): The University of Göttingen under National Socialism . 2nd edition, Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-10853-2 , p. 175.
  9. ^ Theo Thiemeyer : On the theory of the common economy in economics . In: trade union monthly issues 3/1972, pp. 129–141.
  10. ^ Theo Thiemeyer : Gisbert Rittig for memory . In: Journal for Public and Public Service Enterprises 7 (1984) 4, pp. 547-550.
  11. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972 . Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, Berlin 2006, p. 1016.
personal data
SURNAME Rideable, Gisbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenau
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1984
Place of death Herrsching am Ammersee