Friedrich von Gottl-Ottlilienfeld

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Friedrich Gottl , from 1909 Friedrich Gottl von Ottlilienfeld , better known as Friedrich von Gottl-Ottlilienfeld (born November 13, 1868 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † October 19, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German political scientist and economist .

Life

Friedrich Gottl was born the son of an Austro-Hungarian general. He studied from 1887 to 1893 at the TH Brno, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and at the universities of Berlin, Vienna and Heidelberg. Since 1891 v. Gottl-Ottlilienfeld member of the Corps Borussia Berlin . In Heidelberg he was in 1897 in which economists Karl Knies and the historian Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer Dr. phil. PhD. In December 1900 he completed his habilitation in political science at the University of Heidelberg , where he subsequently taught as a private lecturer. In 1902 he became ao. Professor of political science at the Technical University in Brno , where he became a full professor in 1904. From 1908 to 1919 he worked at the Technical University of Munich , where he founded a "Technical and Economic Institute" in 1909 and also worked as a scientific advisor to the Bavarian State Ministry on industrial issues. In 1919 he was appointed to the chair of theoretical economics at the newly founded University of Hamburg, and in 1924 he went to Kiel in the same capacity . From 1926 until his retirement in 1936 he was a member of the teaching staff of the University of Berlin , where he also lectured as an honorary professor at the Technical University (Berlin-Charlottenburg) and was the managing director of the political science seminar.

In the interwar period, Gottl-Ottlilienfeld participated in the Paris Conferences to establish an “International Bibliography of Economics” as a representative of Germany and as a reporter to the League of Nations. Since 1925 he was the German member of the sub-commission for universities in the League of Nations commission for intellectual cooperation. Gottl-Ottlilienfeld was also the co-founder and head of the international Davos university courses , which were intended to promote understanding between leading academics from formerly hostile states.

During the Nazi era he was a member of the Academy for German Law founded by Hans Frank . In 1934 he published the treatise The Purification of Economic Thinking as a German Task . In May 1937 Gottl-Ottlilienfeld became a member of the NSDAP. From the founding in October 1940 to 1945 he was director of the "Research Institute for German Economics" in Mariatrost-Fölling (Haus Sonneck, Franziskusheim) in Graz, which dealt in particular with the social economy of the Southeast European region. In 1942 he was "viewed with reservations" by the Rosenberg Office and was considered an "old school scholar who represents the autonomous national economy that does not take into account the interests of the national community".

He is considered one of the most influential theorists of the rationalization movement in Germany in the 1920s and played a decisive role in coining the term “rationalization”. Karl Friedrich von Siemens called him the “old master of the theory of rationalization”.

Gottl-Ottlilienfeld created fundamental, internationally recognized works on the relationship between business and technology, as well as technical social economy. In his social-scientific thinking he developed a "structure theory".

His father and his Austrian relatives were raised to the Austrian nobility with the addition of "Edler von Ottlilienfeld" by decree of March 29 with a diploma of May 3, 1907 in Vienna . He himself was only enrolled as a full professor for political science at the Technical University of Munich in the Kingdom of Bavaria on January 15, 1909 in the aristocratic class - with the extension of his name "Gottl von Ottlilienfeld" . He was able to ignore the Austrian Nobility Repeal Act of 1919 in the German Empire.

"Fordism"

Gottl-Ottlilienfeld is known as an ardent admirer of Henry Ford . He was the first to speak of a Fordism as a description of the production methods and operating policy of the American automobile manufacturer. He revered him as the “grand master of technical reason”. For him, Fordism is clearly distinguished from Taylorism , since Fordism is actually able to solve the social question. He warned of the operational drawbacks and human dangers of the Taylor system. Fordism was described by Gottl-Ottlilienfeld as "white socialism", "leader socialism" or "private property without capitalism". Ford shared the distinction between a producing capital and an interest capital. The greatest merit of Ford is to expand production through the regular reinvestment of a large part of its profit and thus to promote the prosperity of the entire society. Together with the engineer Paul Rieppel and Carl Hollweg , he said that Fordism was the possibility of overcoming capitalism in two ways and of preventing a Bolshevik revolution.

The findings and experiences of Gottl-Ottlilienfeld were mainly received in Japan, where a special school was developed for this branch of research.

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  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 3 , 89
  2. ↑ a b 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, p. 193.
  3. ↑ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 193, source BA NS 18/307.
  4. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, page 211, Volume 67 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1978 and Gotha, Freiherrliches Taschenbuch 1941 (Ottlilienfeld)
personal data
SURNAME Gottl-Ottlilienfeld, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottl von Ottlilienfeld, Friedrich; Gottl, Friedrich (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and economist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1958
Place of death Frankfurt am Main