Hans Helmhart Auer from Herrenkirchen

Hans Helmhart Auer von Herrenkirchen (born February 18, 1877 in Geneva ; † October 12, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German economist and university professor .

Life

Auer graduated from high school in Dessau , where his father Amal Ferdinand was court marshal to the Duke of Anhalt. His mother Antonie Duval came from Geneva . Auer received an officer training and studied law and political science from 1905, first in Berlin and Kiel . In 1911 he was supported by the University of Freiburg for a doctor of political science doctorate . Research stays took him to England, Italy and Scandinavia. He worked in the statistical offices of the cities of Frankfurt / Main and Neukölln. In 1917 Auer took over the archive of the Association of Public Life Insurance Institutions . In January 1918 he was initially appointed as a part-time lecturer at the Fürst Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences in Detmold, and in February 1919 he was appointed professor of economics, statistics and social security there. In May 1920 he was elected Rector in Detmold and converted the academy into a university with a high profile in economics. In 1921 the first graduates with a degree in economics were passed. In 1923 the university was granted the right to award doctorates, but this met resistance from the universities. After the Detmold University of Applied Sciences closed, Auer went to Breslau in 1926 as head of the city's statistical office .

Contemporary witness of the revolution 1918/19

In the winter of 1918/19 Auer was in Berlin. In a letter to the Detmold University of Applied Sciences on December 26, 1918, he describes a little-known episode from the time of the Christmas fighting in December 1918 and the behavior of the Berlin Police President Eichhorn :

"The events in Berlin on December 24, 1918] are depressing; the newspaper reports are consistently very imprecise; I have received precise details from a former regimental comrade who is now the commander of one of the rifle regiments and is in the quarters here in Z. [Zehlendorf]. Since he had strict orders not to allow the crowd to be shot, he was taken prisoner with his staff and all of his people and then insulted in a non-reproducible manner by the mob (women with revolvers, street sweepers, etc.) while they were being led away and been assaulted; The same thing happened to his fellow prisoners. These scenes were continued in a particularly bad way in the police presidium and only the efforts of President Eichhorn succeeded in bringing the prisoners to safety on the back stairs. "

Works

• The finance of the city of Freiburg i. B. from 1648 to 1806, Karlsruhe 1910
• On the closure of the Detmold University, in: Deutsche Akademische Rundschau 1925, p. 1
• Active and passive ties between the city of Breslau and the German economy, Breslau 1928

literature

• Carsten Doerfert, The Fürst Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences. Attempt and failure of a university in Detmold (1916–1924), Bielefeld 2016, pp. 98 ff., 215 f.
• Genealogical Handbook of Noble Houses, Volume 129 of the complete series, Limburg 2002, p. 15.