Heinrich Pesch

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Heinrich Pesch (born September 17, 1854 in Cologne , † April 1, 1926 in Valkenburg ) was a Catholic theologian , Jesuit , political economist and social philosopher . He is considered to be the founder of the solidarity principle of Catholic social teaching . Pesch was the teacher of Oswald von Nell-Breuning and Gustav Gundlach . With his five-volume “Textbook of Economics” he created the essential principles of the encyclical Pius XI, which appeared five years after his death . " Quadragesimo anno ".

Life

Heinrich Pesch was the son of the tailor Johann Theodor Pesch and Anna Maria Stüttgen. From 1872 he studied theology, philosophy and economics in Bonn. In 1876 he entered the Jesuit order and learned during a four-year stay in England, where he completed his theological studies, the developed capitalism and the social contradictions of the country. From 1892 to 1900 he was spiritual at the seminary in Mainz , where he wrote the book Liberalism, Socialism and Christian Weltanschauung . Through lectures by the publicist Rudolf Meyer , Pesch became acquainted with the teachings of Marx and Rodbertus . After studying economics again with Schmoller and Wagner in Berlin (1900–1902), Pesch lived in the writers' home of the German order province of the Jesuit order in Luxembourg and worked on his textbook on economics , which was published in 1905 . From 1910 until shortly before his death, Pesch worked as part of the Catholic city pastoral care in the Berlin-Marienfelde monastery .

The Heinrich Pesch House in Ludwigshafen

Heinrich Pesch as namesake

The Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Speyer , the Jesuit-run Heinrich-Pesch-Haus in Ludwigshafen, is named after him. It was founded in Mannheim in 1956 by Father Felix zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg SJ and has been located in Ludwigshafen am Rhein since 1973 . Originally it was primarily used for political adult education for employees. The Heinrich-Pesch-Siedlung will be built in Ludwigshafen from 2021.

The UNITAS association awards a prize named after Pesch for special merits in the design and implementation of Catholic social teaching.

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In his work, Pesch assumes that there is a mutual dependency and obligation relationship between the individual and society. For this basic idea he unfolds his “social work system”, in which people and the service of the common good are defined as the goal of the economy. Pesch advocates the private sector and free competition, which should, however, be subject to social justice and the common good as regulatory principles.

Fonts

  • Textbook of economics , 5 vols., Freiburg 1905–1923
  • Liberalism, Socialism, etc. christl. Concept of society , 2 volumes, Freiburg 1893–1900
  • The Social Capability of the Church , 2nd, presumably edition, Berlin 1899

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ LAV NRW R civil register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1854, vol. 06 .; [1]
  2. ^ Heinz Budde: Handbook of the Christian Social Movement , Paulus Verlag, 1967, p. 125; (Detail scan)
  3. ^ Website on the history of the Heinrich Pesch House with mention of Father zu Löwenstein
  4. ↑ "Master plan" for the Heinrich-Pesch-Siedlung accepted , accessed on June 5, 2020.
  5. ^ Heinrich Pesch in the Unitas Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Pesch, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic theologian, economist and social philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1926
Place of death Valkenburg aan de Geul