Hermann Ziller (journalist)

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Hermann Ziller (* 1825 in Steinach ( Saxony-Meiningen ), † April 19, 1892 in Vienna ) was a German journalist and a person in the Austrian cooperative system .

He was a journalist and editor as well as the founder of newspapers and magazines , dealt intensively with the cooperative system and initiated the establishment of the General Association of Self-Help Austrian Acquisitions and Economic Cooperatives (today the Austrian Cooperative Association ), as its first association attorney and leading personality from 1872 acted until his death in 1892.

Life and education

Hermann Ziller studied in Leipzig and obtained a doctorate in philosophy . Then he entered the mining civil service with residence in Wałbrzych (Waldenburg in Silesia). After a short stay in Austria in a private position, he devoted himself to journalism . His articles on the “coal question” and “paschal economy among some district captains in Bohemia” caused a sensation.

Journalistic activity

With the appearance of the protective tariff movement in Austria, he was entrusted with the economic part of the magazine "Vaterland". As a member of the liberal party, he advocated free trade and exercised his influence on the trade agreement with the Zollverein in May 1865.

From February 1866 he was involved in a leading position in the "Association for Economic Progress" and in 1868 suggested the foundation of the "Deutsche Zeitung".

Austrian cooperative system

In 1870 he turned to the public in pamphlets on the taxation of cooperatives. He gained his experience in the cooperative sector primarily as a speaker for the aforementioned association and as secretary of the Gumpendorfer Consumverein.

On August 4, 1872, he took over the role of association attorney for the general association of self-help Austrian trade and business cooperatives and remained in this role until his death. He headed the association based on the model of the German association and founded and edited the association body "Die Genossenschaft" (today "Cooperativ - Die Gewerbliche Genossenschaft"), which he founded in 1872. His comments on the Austrian cooperative law were an important aid for the advance payment and consumer associations of the time in the first period of the Austrian cooperative system.

Awards

  • In 2002, Hans Hofinger and Andrea Karner founded the Ziller-Schriften, the publisher of which is the Austrian Cooperative Association.

swell

  • Johann Brazda, Robert Schediwy , Tode Todev: Self-help or politicized economy - On the history of the Austrian cooperative association (Schulze Delitzsch) 1872 to 1997. Austrian cooperative association, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-9500461-3-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Brazda, Robert Schediwy, Tode Todev: Self-help or politicized economy - On the history of the Austrian cooperative association (Schulze Delitzsch) 1872 to 1997. Austrian cooperative association, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-9500461-3-5 , p. 357.
personal data
SURNAME Ziller, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and Austrian person in the cooperative system
DATE OF BIRTH 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinach (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1892
Place of death Vienna