Karl Rodbertus

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Karl Rodbertus

Johann Karl Rodbertus (born August 12, 1805 in Greifswald , † December 6, 1875 in Jagetzow ) was a German economist. He is considered the founder of state socialism .

Life

Karl Rodbertus came from a family from the Duchy of Schleswig , whose family line begins with Petrus Rodbertus (around 1545-1609), pastor of Boren . His father, Johann Christoph Rodbertus, was a professor of law at the University of Greifswald , assessor and legal advisor at the Faculty of Law and royal Swedish judicial councilor. His mother Ernestine Friederike Eleonore Schlettwein (1784–1849) was the daughter of the physiocratic economist Johann August Schlettwein (1731–1802). The mother inherited the Beseritz estate near Friedland in Mecklenburg-Strelitz . In 1808 the father gave up his professorship and moved with the family to the estate.

After attending grammar school in Friedland (Mecklenburg) , Rodbertus studied law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen from 1823 . In 1824 he was a co-founder of the Teutonia Göttingen fraternity. In 1825 he moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He then went to the Prussian civil service as a lawyer. From 1830 he traveled to Western Europe for two years. After returning to Germany, he studied economics . In 1835 he acquired the Jagetzow estate near Völschow . Agriculture enabled him to have a largely independent existence as a private scholar . In 1839 he completed his work "The demands of the working classes". He developed an underconsumption theory and advocated intervention in wage structuring.

In 1848 he took part in the second United State Parliament as a knightly representative for the district of Usedom-Wollin in the provincial parliament of the province of Pomerania . After the March Revolution of 1848 he was Minister of Culture and Education for about a week , but then resigned from his office. In 1849 Rodbertus was expelled from Berlin as a “stranger”. For years he was then under police supervision on his estate Jagetzow. From here he published other writings.

Rodbertus questioned capitalism but supported interventionism rather than revolutionary programs . Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dealt critically with his works. Even Rosa Luxembourg and August Bebel engaged intensively in his writings. For Franz Oppenheimer it became theoretically very significant.

Karl Rodbertus was married to Minette, b. von Prittwitz (1803–1879). His sister Johanna Mathilde (1804–1886) was married to Franz Heinrich Erich II von Lepel auf Wieck bei Gützkow .

Honors

Karl Rodbertus' grave site in Jagetzow

Works

  • Thilo Ramm (ed.): Collected works and letters. Compiled on the basis of earlier editions and with an introduction and bibliography , 6 vols., Osnabrück 1971/72. ISBN 3-535-01253-8 and ISBN 3-7648-2780-7
  • Carl Rodbertus-Jagetzow: German state and socialism. Series: German writings, 4th selection & preface Horst Wagenführ . Protte, Potsdam 1935.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Rodbertus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 87-89.
  2. ^ Karl Marx: Mr. Rodbertus. Digression. New theory of the basic rent . In: Marx-Engels works . Vol. 26.2, pp. 7-88 and 107 and pp. 120-157.
  3. ^ Friedrich Engels: Foreword . In: Marx-Engels works. Vol. 24, pp. 13-26.
  4. ^ Heinz Motel: Famous personalities and their connection to Göttingen. Göttingen 1997, p. 64.
personal data
SURNAME Rodbertus, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodbertus, Johann Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, founder of state socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1875
Place of death Jagetzow