Hans Ritschl

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Hans Wilhelm Ritschl (born December 19, 1897 in Bonn , † November 13, 1993 in Oberried / Breisgau ) was a German economist .

After studying economics in Freiburg im Breisgau and Bonn, he received his doctorate in 1921 with a thesis on the early communism of the Munster Anabaptists . In 1925 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen . In 1928 he was appointed full professor of public finance in Basel , in 1942 in Strasbourg , and finally in 1946 in Hamburg , where he held the chair for theoretical economics, public finance and transport science until his retirement in 1967. He taught in Basel a. a. also financial sociology.

After 1945, Ritschl tried to be an active member of several committees of what he believed to be the neglected community economy and the cooperative system . In addition, he campaigned for a shift in long-distance freight transport to rail.

From 1950 to 1975 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance .

Ritschl was a main proponent of the theory of the dualistic economic order, which considers a coexistence of state-controlled public economy and private market economy to be necessary.

Fonts (selection)

  • Common economy and capitalist market economy To the knowledge of the dualistic economic order. Mohr, Tübingen 1931.
  • Friedrich List's life and teaching. Wunderlich, Tübingen 1947.
  • The basics of the economic order. Collected essays on the doctrine of the economic order. Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1954.
  • Public economy. In: Erwin von Beckerath et al. (Ed.): Concise dictionary of the social sciences. Volume 4, Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart / Tübingen / Göttingen 1965.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Bärbel von Borries-Pusback: No college for socialism: The founding of the academy for community economy in Hamburg 1945–1955 . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2002, p. 118, fn. 413 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. Ritschl, Hans. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Albrecht RitschlRitschl, Hans Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 650 f. ( Digitized version ). Retrieved March 15, 2015.