Karl Hardach

Karl Hardach, 2005

"Mariatheresia" rose bush in honor of Karl and Bärbel Hardach in Vienna's Volksgarten

Karl Hardach (born December 1, 1936 in Cologne - † November 4, 2016 ) was an economic historian of German descent with US citizenship.

Life

Coming from a respected entrepreneurial family, Karl Hardach graduated from the business school in Osnabrück in 1956 . He then studied economics and political science with elective subjects in economic history and social history in Göttingen and Münster and graduated with a degree in economics “summa cum laude” in 1961. During his studies, he was involved in the original fraternity . Hardach became an assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt under Professor Jacob van Klaveren and also worked at the Institute for Economics at the TU Berlin . He wrote his dissertation in 1966 with the title "magna cum laude" Dr. rer. pole. on the importance of economic factors in the reintroduction of the iron and grain tariffs in Germany in 1879 .

From 1968 to 1971 Hardach was Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley , Department of History and Economics, from 1971 to 1976 Associate Professor of European Economic History at Rutgers University , and 1976/77 Director of the Rutgers Junior Year at the University of Konstanz . From 1977 to 1995 he was a full professor for economic history at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . He also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna at the Institute of Economics in the academic year 1988/1989 and in the summer semester 1994, and also at the University of Graz in the summer semester 1992. From 1989 onwards, Hardach was visiting professor for seven semesters in economic history in the USA at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He was Senior Associate Membership at the University of Oxford St. Antony's College and Associate in the University Seminar on Economic History at Columbia University .

His areas of work were European industrialization , German foreign trade policy and German-English economic relations in the 19th century, global economic policy, comparison of historical economic systems , the use of visual aids to impart knowledge of economic history and the development of an economic history slide library. Lectures on the history of the world economy , population history and the history of technology , prehistory and early history , ancient economic history and developments in demography .

Since his retirement, Hardach has dealt with the philosophy of antiquity , his specialty being Epicureanism . He also made numerous long trips. In 2012, after more than two years of editorial work, he published a two-volume work entitled International Studies on the History of Economy and Society , in which he offered 63 authors from twelve countries including the USA and Japan the opportunity to deal with the topic broadly in German and English.

Hardach died unexpectedly on November 4, 2016 in Berlin, four weeks before his 80th birthday. A commemorative publication initiated by Anton Reiter , for which 12 authors mainly from the field of economic history made scientific contributions, was published in 2016 in Memoriam Karl W. Hardach .

In honor of the couple Bärbel and Karl Hardach, who at the time made their home in the 1.8 million city of Vienna , a five-year sponsorship for one of the much sought-after rose bushes of the "Mariatheresia" variety in the first row in the publicly accessible Vienna Volksgarten , where they both like and often stayed, taken over by academic friends of the University of Vienna in April 2018.

Publications

• The importance of economic factors in the reintroduction of the iron and grain tariffs in Germany in 1879. Dissertation, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1967.
• Economic history of Germany in the 20th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976, 3rd edition 1993. ISBN 3-525-33380-3 .
• The Political Economy of Germany in the 20th Century. University of California Press, Berkeley 1980. ISBN 0-520-04023-6 .
• (together with Müller, GP, Barth, G. et al): California. Bucher, Munich-Lucerne 1982. ISBN 3-7658-0624-2 .
• (together with Bauser, H., Collie, V. et al.): Traces of Life. Traces of life. In memoriam Walter Kirchner. edition bodini, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-929390-84-1 .
• (Editor): Economic History Studies. Festival ceremony for Othmar Pickl. Lang, Frankfurt 2007. ISBN 3-631-56543-7 .
• (Editor): International Studies on the History of Economy and Society , 2 volumes. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2012. ISBN 3-631-61880-8 . With a contribution by Reinhold Zilch : The unloved crowns. The rejection of the gold coins of the German-Austrian Mint Association from 1857 by German trade. Part 2, pp. 1325–1340 (= Festschrift Lothar Baar).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/give/annualreports/annual_report_07_08.pdf
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://hicks.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/history/start.php?type=person&excelid=320
5. ↑ http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/college_record_2008.pdf
6. ↑ Baltzarek, F., Reiter, A. et al .: Karl W. Hardach on his 70th birthday, Vienna 2006
7. ↑ http://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/ Stefan Karner (ed.) With the assistance of Walter M. Iber: in Memoriam Karl W. Hardach, Graz (Leykam) 2016, ISBN 978-3-7011-0371-3