Hermann Schumacher (political economist)

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Hermann Schumacher (born March 6, 1868 in Bremen , † October 3, 1952 in Göttingen ) was a German political scientist and university professor.

Origin and education

Hermann Schumacher was the son of the lawyer, historian and syndic of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce Hermann Albert Schumacher (1839–1890) and the brother of the architect and town planner Fritz Schumacher . His great-grandfather Isak Hermann Albrecht Schumacher was the last mayor of Bremen for life. Hermann Schumacher grew up in North and South America as his father worked in Colombia, New York and Peru. In 1886 the family returned to Bremen. After attending the final classes of the old grammar school , he studied law and political science in Munich, Freiburg, Vienna and Berlin. Schumacher received his doctorate summa cum laude in Jena in 1891 and his legal clerkship began in the same year. In 1893 he went on his first major study trip to the United States, the result of which was the excellent work "The Grain Trade in the United States of America" ​​(1895). In the years 1897–1898 he traveled to East Asia as a member of the Commission of Commercial Experts and on his return received an extraordinary professorship for political economy in Kiel (1899–1901).

Career as a university lecturer

In 1901 he was appointed as the first director of studies at the Städtische Handelshochschule Köln , but very soon, in 1904, he was appointed to a full professorship for political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , which he held until 1917. In 1906/1907 he took the Kaiser Wilhelm Professorship at Columbia University in New York. His career ended at the capital 's university , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, until 1935. This apparently made him one of the last imperial privy councilors. There he retired at the age of 67. One of his students in Bonn and Berlin was Walter Eucken .

Aftermath

Around 18,000 volumes from his private library, grouped under the Schum reference group, are on deposit in the holdings of the Oldenburg State Library .

family

Epitaph

Schumacher was married to Edith, nee Zitelmann (* 1884). She was a daughter of Ernst Zitelmann . One of his daughters, Elisabeth, a bookseller, had been married to Werner Heisenberg since 1936 and had seven children with him, a second, Edith, a sculptor, married Erich Kuby in 1938 , with whom she had five children. His son Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1911-1977), a 1930 Rhodes scholarship holder at New College (Oxford) with John Maynard Keynes and later at Columbia University , New York, emigrated to Great Britain in 1937, was interned there in 1939 and was after the war between 1950 and 1970 Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board. Erich Kuby described the story of his family in 1996 in the novel Lauter Patrioten . Schumacher spent his old age with his daughter and son-in-law in Göttingen. Nevertheless, he is buried in Berlin, his last place of work, in the Dahlem cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Schumacher , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 16/1948 of April 5, 1948, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  2. ↑ so named in the Munzinger vita of the journalist Peter Härlin , who studied with him in 1934
  3. ↑ Schumacher at Stanford WH Auden - 'Family Ghosts'

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SURNAME Schumacher, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1952
Place of death Goettingen