Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg

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Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg , nee Käthe Mengelberg, (born May 23, 1894 in Krefeld , † April 22, 1968 in New York ) was a German-American economist and sociologist .

Life

Kaethe Mengelberg, daughter of lawyer and councilor Heinrich Mengelberg and sister of Rudolf Mengelberg , studied philosophy, history, economics and sociology at the University of Munich (at Lujo Brentano ) and at the University of Heidelberg , where in 1918 at Samuel Paul Altmann to Dr. phil. received his doctorate . In 1919 she was employed as a research assistant at the Mannheim Commercial College . She qualified as a professor in 1923, but only received a Venia legendi for commercial colleges and taught as a private lecturer at the Mannheim Commercial College and honorary professor at the Vocational Education Institute in Frankfurt a. Main .

In 1934 she was dismissed from civil service as a social democrat and former wife (divorced in 1931) of a “ half-Jew ”. From 1936 to 1939 she worked as a librarian at the Bergische Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Wuppertal . In 1939 Bauer-Mengelberg emigrated to the USA via Amsterdam, where she first worked as an assistant at Iowa State College in Ames. She later became a professor of sociology at the New Jersey College for Women at Rutgers University and finally from 1946 to 1964 at the small Swedish Lutheran Upsala College in East Orange , New Jersey . She did not return to Germany.

Publications (selection)

  • The financial policy of the social democratic party in its connection with the socialist state idea. Bensheimer, Mannheim 1919.
  • The tax policy of the social democratic party as a result of state ideologies. Bensheimer, Mannheim 1919.
  • Basics of a comprehensive concept of work. Habilitation thesis. Mannheim 1922.
  • Stand and class. In: Kölner Vierteljahrshefte for sociology . Volume 3, 1924, pp. 275–287.
  • The citizen. In: Kölner Vierteljahrshefte for sociology. Volume 8, 1930, pp. 190–200.
  • Agricultural policy in theory, history and current problems. Teubner, Leipzig 1931.
  • The farmer. In: Kölner Vierteljahrshefte for sociology. Volume 11, 1933, pp. 154–168.

literature

  • Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile, 1933-1945. A biographical cartography . Hamburg 1991, p. 42 ( Google Books ).
  • Claus-Dieter Krohn : Bauer-Mengelberg, Käthe. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 32-34.
  • Claus-Dieter Krohn: Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg . In: Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand, Evelyn L. Forget (Eds.): A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists . Elgar, Cheltenham 2000, ISBN 978-1-85278-964-0
  • Claudia Honegger : Jewish women in early German-speaking sociology . In: Mechtild M. Jansen, Ingeborg Nordmann (Ed.): Readings and breaks. Jewish women in culture, politics and science . Hessian State Center for Political Education, Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 178–195, here p. 186 ( claudiahonegger.ch PDF).
  • Bauer-Mengelberg, Käthe . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 1 : Aachen – Braniss . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2005, ISBN 3-11-094657-2 , p. 414 .
  • Dorothee Dickenberger: Final report 2007 of the Equal Opportunities Officer of the University of Mannheim. Mannheim 2007, pp. 28-29 ( madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de PDF).

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personal data
SURNAME Bauer-Mengelberg, Käthe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1968
Place of death new York