Hermann Levy

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the musician see Hermann Levi .

Hermann Levy (born May 22, 1881 in Berlin ; died January 16, 1949 in London ) was a German economist of the 20th century. He also wrote novels under the pseudonym Hermann Lint . From 1910 to 1933 he held chairs for economics before emigrating to London in 1934 before the anti-Semitic persecution by the National Socialists .

Life

Hermann Levy was a son of the Berlin rentier and former businessman Martin Levy (1836-1911) from his marriage to Julie Levy (1844-1902) and grew up with his sister Julie (1871-1953) in his parents' house. In 1872 the father had acquired the "Villa Kabrun" in Rauchstrasse in Berlin-Tiergarten , named after the builder and previous owner . His family had Jewish roots but was assimilated ; Hermann was baptized as a Protestant. He received private tuition up to 8th grade, after which Hermann Levy attended the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin until his Abitur in 1899 . He studied economics and law at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in economics on a topic of English economic history in 1902.

After several years in England and the USA , he completed his habilitation in 1905 at the University of Halle with a monograph on the American steel industry. From 1907 to 1910 Levy was a lecturer at the Mannheim Commercial College before he was appointed associate professor at the University of Heidelberg in 1910. During World War I , he worked in military economic administration and published a number of nationalist pamphlets recommending unlimited submarine warfare to blockade Britain , a strategy that ultimately led to the US entering the war.

In 1921 Levy was appointed professor of economics at the TH Charlottenburg . He also published light fiction under the pseudonym Hermann Lint . In 1925 he and his sister Julie, now married to Prof. Arnold Reissert and based in Marburg, sold the property with the "Villa Kabrun" inherited from their parents to the chemist and industrialist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy . In 1938 this was expropriated and the Yugoslav legation was established on the property . In 1933, Hermann Levy was dismissed from service because of his Jewish descent on the basis of the law to restore the civil service and emigrated to England, where he died in exile three and a half years after the end of the Second World War .

Levy was married to the actress Margarete Schlegel , who followed him into exile.

Works

Economic works

• The world market in 1913 and today . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1926.
• The basics of the world economy . 1924.
• The English threat to the global economic future of the German Reich . Curtius, Berlin 1916. (3rd edition)
• The foundations of economic liberalism in the history of the English economy . 1911.
• Monopolies, cartels and trusts in their relationship to the organization of capitalist industry: illustrated by developments in Great Britain . Fischer, Jena 1909.
• The steel industry in the United States of America in its current sales and production figures . Julius Springer, Berlin 1905. (Habilitation thesis)

Fiction under the pseudonym Hermann Lint

• The oasis . Ullstein, Berlin 1932.
• The happiest woman in London . Merlin-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1930.
• The social person . Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1929
• Horizon of love . Ullstein, Berlin 1927.
• Bimmelfang . Ullstein, Berlin 1925.
• Cyril and Gafelis . Ullstein, Berlin 1924.
• The violence over Sophus Salander . Dr. Eysler & Co., Berlin 1924.

literature

• Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon , Volume 3, p. 163.
• Gerhard J. Mauch: Levy, Hermann Joachim. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 378-380.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Levy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Hermann Levy in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• Hermann Levy The Foundations of Economic Liberalism in the History of the English Economy (1912)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Land Register of the Potsdam Gate District , Volume 25, Sheet No. 729, First Section. In: District Court of Tempelhof-Kreuzberg, Berlin.
2. ^ The plight of the English farmers at the time of the high grain tariffs . Cotta, Stuttgart and Berlin 1902. Published in the series Munich economics studies. (Submitted as a dissertation to obtain a Dr. rer. Pol. At the University of Munich.)