Hans Gehrig

Hans Gehrig (born August 22, 1882 in Homberg ; died March 28, 1968 in Halle (Saale) ; full name Hans Julius Parthenios Gehrig ) was a German economist .

Life

After Gehrig, the son of a school supervisor , had attended the Pforta State School since 1895, he received his Abitur in 1901 . He then began studying law and political science at the universities of Münster and Heidelberg , and he also studied history . At the first-mentioned university doctorate he in September 1904. Doctor of political science and economics. His dissertation The Department Store Tax in Prussia was awarded a prize. He then became a trainee lawyer at a regional court and, in 1905, finally assistant to the Magdeburg Chamber of Commerce .

In 1906 Gehrig worked as a research assistant at the Reichsarbeitsblatt, in 1907 and 1908 he worked at the Imperial Statistical Office in Berlin, where he was responsible for the first international trade union statistics.

Gehrig's habilitation for political science took place at the University of Halle in 1909 , after which he has been lecturing as a private lecturer since May 1st . Two years later he was given a teaching position for an introduction to political science and economics, and in the following year he was finally appointed professor of political science at the TH Hannover . This appointment took place on August 1, 1912, u. a. because he had published the sixth edition of Conrad's Finance .

On April 1, 1915, the TH Hannover hired Gehrig as a full professor of economics and statistics because of his work The Principle of Social Reform . During the First World War he was initially a volunteer nurse, which is why he could not start teaching until 1918. From September 1916 to April 1918 he was also a member of the Political Department of the General Government of Brussels.

After that, Gehrig worked as a full professor for economics and statistics at the TH Dresden with the establishment of a social and economic science institute. There he was installed in 1919 as chairman of the local university business cooperative. Two years later he also became head of the economic aid department of the German student body . One of his colleagues in the general department and friends was the Romanist Victor Klemperer . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . On 22 September 1934 he was under Section 6 of the Professional Civil Service Law emeritus because of its liberal attitude. He was a member of the DDP , and his left-wing liberal political attitude did not change even after the Nazis came to power. He settled down as a private scholar . It was not until July 1945 that the Saxon government reinstated him as a professor. He also joined the LDPD .

In 1947 Gehrig moved to the University of Halle as a full professor, later as a professor with a chair , and became director of the Department of Political Science. He retired in March 1951.

Works

• Justification of the principle of social reform (1914)
• German Political Science and Economic Policy (1919)
• Economics studies at the Dresden Technical University (1926)
• The Achievement of German Economics (1936)
• Friedrich List as a thinker and fighter (1945)

literature

• Gerald Hacke: Gehrig, Hans. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 258 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Karl-Heinz Schmidt: Gehrig, Hans. 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 , pp. 184f.

Web links

• Entry on Hans Gehrig in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis