Julius Pierstorff

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Julius Pierstorff

Johannes Georg Julius Pierstorff (born March 9, 1851 in Lübeck , † January 16, 1926 in Jena ) was a German economist and made Jena the most renowned university in this field .

Life

origin

Julius was the son of button maker August Christian Friedrich Pierstorff, later a button maker and trimmers , and his wife Catharina Maria, a née Evers.

The future captain Theodor Pierstorff was his older brother.

career

After visiting the Katharineum , Pierstorff left it at Easter 1870 with the school leaving certificate and studied at Leipzig University and later in Munich . Until 1871 his studies in Leipzig were interrupted by the Franco-German War , in which he fought as a one-year volunteer in the Leipzig Infantry Regiment No. 107 . When the royal Saxon lieutenant of the Landwehr was decommissioned, he was awarded the war commemorative coin 1870/71 , the Prussian centenary medal and the Royal Saxon Landwehr Service Award 2nd class.

Pierstorff completed his habilitation in 1875 at the Georgia-Augusta in Göttingen with "The Teaching of Entrepreneurial Profits in France" . He settled there in 1877 as a lecturer of political economy down, but followed in 1878 a call to the University in Jena .

In Jena, Perstorff was to become one of the most prominent personalities both at the university and in the economic field over the next 45 years. Although he was appointed to the university in Jena as the successor to the eminent Bruno Hildebrand , he found it hard to find a purely political economist there.

While he was even more extraordinary in the summer semester of 1879, Pierstorff became a full professor of political science on June 15, 1883 . In the autumn of 1879 he was still co-director, in the winter semester of 1883 he became director of the state science semester, in the winter semester of 1891 and in the summer semester of 1903 he was rector of the Alma Mater . In 1923 he retired .

Despite the modest means, it was thanks to Pierstorff that the economics classes in Jena developed more and more. In the early 1920s, four professors, a private lecturer and three practical men worked in the political science seminar where he was initially the only one to represent the economic sciences . The main focus of his work was in academic teaching and in seminar exercises in conservation. The result of this seminar work was put down in a series of volumes of the "treatises" of his seminar. Among them were some excellent monographs . The effects of his teaching went very far. In this way his students got into excellent positions in economic practice, even beyond the German borders.

Pierstorff also strove to create his own faculty for economics as the culmination of his life's work. The Pierstorff Foundation should serve to support this project.

A committee was formed from among his student groups, which addressed his former students and business practitioners or business associations and the Thuringian professions with the aim of creating the basis of a "Pierstorff Foundation". In the appeals, which were signed by a large number of economists, statesmen, scholars and well-known representatives of industry, trade and commerce, the great merits of the Secret Council were recognized by the appointed side. It said that the effects that Pierstorff had had reached far beyond the borders of Germany. Especially in Thuringia's economic life, the fruits of his life's work are evident everywhere. On his 70th birthday , Pierstorff's students worked everywhere in Thuringia's industry , trade , insurance trade and agriculture as syndici and managing director , as economic adviser and socio-political department head , since Pierstorff put the training of young economists on the broadest possible basis.

The foresight with which he created the first professorship for social policy and one of the first for private economics in Germany brought Jena's economics faculty to world fame. He was also a recognized authority on educational issues. The establishment and further development of the seminar was created by him with great expertise. The international literature and the phenomena of the foreign economy were always followed by him, which gave him an outstanding knowledge of the economic life processes. The development of the extensive library was his untiring concern.

In addition to the actual university teaching, Pierstorff had achieved great things in the university administration, especially in the Senate, but also as rector of the university. The Staatswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft zu Jena was his child, and he was its first chairman. The consumer cooperative in Jena was at the instigation of their property on the market. He was the bearer of a great tradition and one of the leaders in the rise of Jena.

Pierstorff was appointed Privy Councilor of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . As this he received the bronze medal for the 50th anniversary of the reign of Duke Ernst von Sachsen-Altenburg and was knight first class of the House Order of the White Falcon and the Saxon-Ernestine House Order .

He had a personal friendship with Ernst Abbe . His obituary dedicated to him is considered one of Abbe's most valuable literary accolades.

family

Pierstorff married Sophie in 1879, a born v. Baumüller. She was the daughter of the royal Bavarian artillery lieutenant v. Baumüller. The marriage resulted in two children - Heinz (born August 19, 1888 in Jena) and Gertrud (born December 25, 1885 in Jena).

He later married Florentine Blondio.

Works

  • The doctrine of entrepreneurial profit in France. Berlin 1874
  • The doctrine of entrepreneurial profit. Dogma historical and critical. Berlin 1875
  • Women's movement and women's issue. Göttingen 1879, Jena 1900
  • Memorandum on the need to reform the salaries of professors at the University of Jena. 1897, The Carl Zeiss Foundation, an attempt to train industrial labor law. Leipzig 1897
  • Women's work and women's issue. Jena 1900
  • German spirits policy and the alcohol cartel. Jena 1902
  • Ernst Abbe as a social politician. Munich 1905, The modern middle class. Leipzig 1911
  • The special direct municipal taxes in Prussia. Jena 1913 (Q. Degner: Wer ist's? 1912; GBV; Ernst Piltz: Lecturer album of the University of Jena, 1858 to 1908. Neuenhahn, Jena, 1908
  • German Order Almanac. (OA) Berlin, 1908/09, column 1142)
  • The Carl-Zeiß-Stiftung, Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-16755-5 .

literature

  • The obituary published in the Jenaische Zeitung was published under the title Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. Julius Pierstoff zu Jena †. reprinted in excerpts in the father's city sheets .
  • Go Council Prof. Dr. Julius Pierstorff. ; In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1920/21, no. 15, edition of April 10, 1921, pp. 57–58.
  • Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. Julius Pierstoff †. In: Lübeckische advertisements , 2nd sheet, No. 14, 15th year, edition from January 18, 1926.

Web links

Commons : Julius Pierstorff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1867 the 11th and 12th Battalions of the 3rd Infantry Brigade "Prince Georg" formed the Infantry Regiment No. 107, also the 107th Volunteer Regiment. Three companies each of the Saxon regiments 104, 106, 107 and 108 were combined on April 1, 1881 to form the new 10th Infantry Regiment No. 134 and stationed in Leipzig.
  2. Foresight means recognizing future developments and requirements at an early stage and assessing them correctly.
  3. ^ Jenaische Zeitung
  4. ^ Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. Julius Pierstoff zu Jena †. ; In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1925/26, No. 9, edition of January 31, 1926, p. 33.