Josef Hellauer

Josef Hellauer (born June 1, 1871 in Vienna ; † December 3, 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Export Academy in Vienna . He is considered one of the pioneers for the independence of business administration as an independent science.

Life

Josef Hellauer received his business administration training at the Vienna Commercial Academy. Trade, especially world trade, which was particularly cultivated in Austria at the time, became his most important research area. After four years of banking practice, he became an assistant at the Vienna Commercial Academy in 1892 . There he passed the examination for the teaching post in secondary schools in 1894 and in the same year became a teacher at the commercial academy in Linz . It was there that he wrote his first major work on the price parities of the commodity trade and international speculation in 1897 . In the same year he did his doctorate at the University of Greifswald with a thesis on The Usury, an active credit crime (published in Linz a. D .: Mareis in 1898) and came as a teacher at the Brno Business Academy . His university career began in 1898 with his appointment as a full professor at the newly created Export Academy in Vienna (which later became the University of World Trade and is now the Vienna University of Economics and Business). At the same time Hellauer became a professor at the Consular Academy in Vienna (today's Diplomatic Academy). In 1912 he accepted a call to the Berlin School of Management and in 1921 another call to the University of Frankfurt am Main. In 1931 he received an honorary doctorate from the Berlin School of Commerce and from the University of World Trade in 1936 . In 1936 he retired . On June 1, 1956, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt am Main. Also in 1956 he received the Goethe plaque from the city of Frankfurt am Main .

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Hellauer was involved in building up the business administration subject from its earliest days. His work set the trend for the emerging subject. The business administration owes a lot of valuable work to him.

• An article that is often not taken into account in the literature is an attempt to break down commercial science as a university discipline , in which a distinction was made for the first time between business studies (for internal processes) and commercial studies (later traffic studies , for inter-company value movements) (In: Deutsche Wirtschaftszeitung . 11. Volume 9 and 10, 1906, and In: Journal for the entire commercial education system . 9th volume, No. 8, 1906).
• His greatest achievement is probably his work System der Welthandelslehre, first published in 1910 . It soon became the standard work of commercial traffic studies. Some chapters have already been published before ( The Organization of Export Trade , 1902; The Ident Transaction , 1903; The Payment Mediation of English Banks in Overseas Trade , 1903; Contracts in English-Overseas Import Trade , 1904; all published in: Yearbooks of the Export Academy in Vienna) , but the first systematic presentation of the commercial traffic theory is undeniably his achievement (Note: In addition, the summarizing works published at the time by Johann Friedrich Schär and Heinrich Nicklisch are significant).
• In 1912 there was another article about the area of Marseille , but this was followed by a longer pause in publication. This can perhaps be explained by the fact that a world trade archive was founded at the Berlin School of Business at this time.
• In 1918 he published a series of papers that emerged from a series of lectures: The Turkish Empire , 1918, China , 1921 and Argentina , 1921.
• From 1924 he intensified his publication work again. In addition to the movement of goods, general business administration now became the focus of his research interests. He devoted a number of articles to this area. Initiatives came from him to standardize the business terminology and to penetrate the economic sectors that were not considered at the time. These efforts resulted in the founding and management of the Institute for Cooperatives at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Finally, it should not go unmentioned that, in the discussion about the study reform, he advocated maintaining the general economic education of the businessman and also emphatically represented this point of view in the magazine of the Association of German Business Graduates.
• Until his retirement he also published:
  • Purchase contracts in trade and industry. 1927.
  • Introduction to business administration. 1928.
  • Commercial traffic studies. In: The commercial college. (and available as a special print), 1928–1930.
  • Communication and freight traffic. In: The commercial college. (and available as a special print), 1928–1930.
  • Calculation in trade and industry. 1931.
  • In the concise dictionary of business administration he writes the essays on price setting and its methods, traffic requirements , commodity futures trading and payment transactions in overseas trade
  • In the period from 1924 to 1931 he also wrote a number of scientific articles in relevant business journals.
• Transport insurance. Essen 1953.
• The term hundredweight. In: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaftslehre. 1952, p. 48.
• The "Corporation of Lloyd's" in London. In: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaftslehre. 1952, p. 243.
• Dumping. In: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaftslehre. 1955, p. 202.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Staff news . In:  Der Wiener Tag , December 15, 1936, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ Faculty 02 - Economics: Honorary doctorate. In: uni-frankfurt.de . Retrieved June 21, 2020.

literature

• o. V .: Prof. Dr. Hellauer 60 years . In: Die Betriebswirtschaft - magazine for commercial science and commercial practice . Volume 24, Issue 6, pp. 183-183.
• Biography in the magazine for business administration . 21st year 1951, pp. 383-384.
• Professor Hellauer 80 years old . In: ZfbF . 1951, p. 226.
• Communication - Josef Hellauer 85 years . In: ZfbF 1956, pp. 288-290.

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Hellauer in the catalog of the German National Library