Ignaz Jastrow

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Ignaz Jastrow

Ignaz Jastrow (born September 13, 1856 in Nakel an der Netze , † May 2, 1937 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German historian and social politician .

Life

Grave of the historian and social politician Ignaz Jastrow (1856–1937) in the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof in Stahnsdorf

Ignaz Jastrow studied history, law and political science at Breslau and Berlin and in 1878 at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen to the Dr. phil. PhD. From 1879 he worked as a teacher at various Berlin high schools. From 1881 he was editor and head of several specialist journals, u. a. of " social practice ". After his habilitation in history, he taught as a private lecturer at Berlin University.

Jastrow coined the term " social liberalism " in 1893 , became a member of the Verein für Socialpolitik and in 1897 founded the magazine "Der Arbeitsmarkt". In it, he was the first to publish the vacancies, job seekers and agencies reported to him by municipal and other non-profit job records (job placement agencies) and organized the first job record conference in Germany. In 1898 he was one of the co-founders of the Association of German Work Evidence (VDA).

In 1905 Jastrow was appointed associate professor for administrative sciences at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. From 1906 to 1914 he was a professor at the Handelshochschule Berlin and from 1906 to 1909 at the same time its founding rector. Because of his Jewish origins, Jastrow could not be appointed full professor for political science at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität until 1920 (until 1924). However, he did not finish teaching until 1935 after fifty years.

Ignaz Jastrow published over 200 books, essays and newspaper articles on the subjects of the labor market, unemployment , unemployment insurance and labor administration alone . His daughter, Elisabeth Jastrow , was an archaeologist , the daughter Beate Hahn , b. Jastrow, a gardener, social reformer, and book author.

Works (selection)

  • On the criminal status of slaves among Germans and Anglo-Saxons: § 1-7 , Warmbrunn 1878 (also: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 1878).
  • History of the German dream of unity and its fulfillment. 4th edition Berlin 1891.
  • Good and blood for the fatherland. Property sacrifices, tax issues, economic growth. Published by Georg Reimer, Berlin 1917.
  • Worker protection. 2nd edition Berlin 1919.
  • Trade policy. 5th edition Berlin 1923.
  • The problem of unemployment insurance in Germany. Berlin 1925.
  • World history in 1 volume. Berlin 1932.

collection

A collection of material is at the British Library of Political and Economic Science in London .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ignaz Jastrow  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. PA907 Jastrow; Ignaz (1896-1934); economic historian ( English ) British Library of Political and Economic Science. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Entry in the “Central Database of Legacies” of the Federal Archives.