Hans Brasch (business scientist)

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Hans David Brasch (born March 26, 1892 in Berlin , † November 3, 1950 in Melbourne ) was a German business scientist , mechanical engineer and poet.

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Brasch was born in Berlin in 1892 as the son of the Jewish judge Fritz Brasch and his wife Amélie Emanuel. He attended the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in Charlottenburg and then studied mechanical engineering at the technical universities in Munich and Berlin-Charlottenburg . He also worked in industry. In Berlin in 1910 he met Ernst Morwitz , who belonged to the George circle and who introduced Brasch to the famous poet Stefan George in 1911 . In the following years he met George more often and spent a few weeks with him in March 1914 in Munich and Camogli (Italy). Between 1911 and 1914 he also traveled to the USA and France . After the war, however, the relationship with George could no longer continue on the same level: "The four years had put something between us that could no longer be defeated, the sacred proximity of Munich and Italy never returned".

In 1914 Brasch volunteered for military service in the First World War . He first fought on the Western Front and then came to Udine as a translator . After the surrender in 1918, Brasch completed his studies as a graduate engineer . In 1920 he moved to Dresden , where he received his doctorate in 1921 and was an assistant at the Technical University from 1921 to 1924 . In 1924 he became a private lecturer for economic manufacturing there. In 1925 he moved to Hamburg for a position in industry . In 1929 he was appointed as a non-official extraordinary professor for economic manufacturing at the TH Berlin, so that from then on he held lectures in Berlin parallel to his work in Hamburg.

In 1933, after the handover of power to the National Socialists , he first emigrated to England because of his Jewish origins. In 1934 he went to Alexandria , Egypt , where he worked as a technical consultant and gave lectures at Cairo University . In 1939 he finally emigrated from there to Australia , where he settled in Melbourne. There he gave lectures at the University of Melbourne . In Australia he was in contact with former members of the George Circle, especially Kurt Singer and Karl Wolfskehl , who had ended up on the same continent. Brasch died in a traffic accident in Melbourne in 1950.

His scientific specialty was industrial business administration and engineering. In this area he wrote several, mostly smaller monographs and numerous articles in specialist journals. From 1929 until his dismissal in 1934 he was chief editor of the specialist journal Annalen der Betriebswirtschaft . Brasch also wrote poems throughout his life, which were published in several volumes of poetry after the war, some of which were also entered in the Castrum Peregrini . Some essays on cultural history were collected posthumously in the volume Bewahrte Heimat .

Works

  • Calculation basics for metal goods factories. Weight and cutting stick. For round and square sheet metal plates, sheet metal strips, wire and rod material in brass, copper, iron, aluminum, nickel silver, lead and zinc . M. Krayn Verlag, Berlin 1924.
  • The drawing of irregularly shaped hollow bodies . VDI Verlag, Berlin 1925.
  • The processing devices for metal cutting. A system of fixtures . J. Springer, Berlin 1926 (= selected works from the chair for business administration in Dresden, volume 2).
  • Business organization and accounting . Verlag Georg Stilke, Berlin 1928 (= business science books, volume 6).
  • 12 poems . Edited from the estate by Walter Jablonski. Dr. Blaschker, Berlin 1954.
  • with Kurt Singer: Antithule. German poems from Australia . Helmut Küpper formerly Georg Bondi, Düsseldorf / Munich 1969.
  • Preserved home. The Lipari Islands, Greek vase pictures, memories of George, From a spiritual foundation, Holderlin's teaching, German dream, poems . Edited from the estate by Georg Peter Landmann . Helmut Küpper formerly Georg Bondi, Düsseldorf / Munich 1970, ISBN 3-7835-0050-8 (with essays, memories and poems).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Hans Brasch, Brasch's Notes on George's Thoughts on the First World War. In: Robert Boehringer , My picture by Stefan George. Textband , 2nd edition, Munich / Düsseldorf 1968, pp. 257f., Here p. 257. On Brasch's connection to George cf. also Thomas Karlauf , Stefan George. The discovery of charisma , Pantheon, Munich 2008, p. 381. There is also a biographical overview.
  2. ↑ See short biography at AustLit.
  3. ↑ Singer's relationship with Brasch is described by him after his death, in: Robert Boehringer, Mein Bild von Stefan George. Text volume , 2nd edition, Munich / Düsseldorf 1968, pp. 258f.
  4. ↑ The correspondence with Karl Wolfskehl from this time can be found in: Karl Wolfskehl, "You are alone, withdrawn, avoided ...". Correspondence from New Zealand 1938–1948 , edited by Cornelia Blasberg, Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1988, No. 190–198, pp. 414–431.
personal data
SURNAME Brasch, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brasch, Hans David (full name); Brasch, Hans D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business scientist, engineer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1950
Place of death Melbourne