Heinrich Sieveking

Heinrich Sieveking, around 1914

Heinrich Johann Sieveking (born August 20, 1871 in Hamburg ; † December 25, 1945 there ) was a German economist and historian .

Life

Heinrich Sieveking family graveyard Ohlsdorf cemetery

Heinrich Sieveking came from the traditional Hamburg Sieveking family . After attending the Matthias Claudius grammar school in Wandsbeck , he studied law and political science in Tübingen , Berlin , Munich and Leipzig . After a legal (1893 with Rudolph Sohm ) and a historical doctorate (1895 with Karl Lamprecht ) Sieveking was habilitated in Freiburg in 1897 and appointed as associate professor in Marburg in 1903 . In 1907 he became full professor of social economics at the University of Zurich . In 1922 he took over the chair of economics at the newly founded University of Hamburg , where he also served as rector in the 1928/29 academic year. However, his proposal to name the university after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing had no consequences. He presented extensive life pictures about his ancestors Karl Sieveking (1923 to 1928) and Georg Heinrich Sieveking (1913).

Politically the Freisinn related parties or the liberal, Sieveking be moved after 1933 increasingly back into the inner emigration. In 1936 he retired. In the last decade of his life, he mainly conducted studies on Hamburg history and family history.

He was married to Rosa, b. Benda (1880–1963), a daughter of Johannes Daniel Benda .

Fonts (selection)

• Principles of modern economic history from the 17th century to the present , Leipzig 1907
• Karl Sieveking 1787-1847. Life picture of a Hamburg diplomat from the age of romanticism , 3 vols. Hamburg 1923–1928.
• Georg Heinrich Sieveking. Life picture of a Hamburg merchant from the age of the French Revolution. Berlin 1913.

literature

• Heinrich Sieveking. Career of a Hamburg scholar. Memories 1871–1914. Edited by Gerhard Ahrens, Hamburg 1977.
• Gerhard Ahrens: Sieveking, Heinrich. In: Hamburgische Biografie , Vol. 3, ed. by Franklin Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke , Göttingen 2006, pp. 360–361, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Sieveking in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Heinrich Sieveking in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .