Karl Thalheim

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Karl Christian Thalheim (born May 26, 1900 in Reval ; † June 1, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German economist .

Life

Thalheim studied history, German literature and economics at the University of Leipzig from 1919 . In 1925 he received his doctorate on "The German Emigration Problem in the Post-War Period" in political science. From 1920 to 1928 Thalheim was employed at the Institute for Foreign Studies, Border and German Abroad and at the Central German Emigration Advisory Center in Leipzig, which is connected to the institute . In 1928 he qualified as a professor at the Leipzig Graduate School of Economics. First he worked as a private lecturer at the university before he became a lecturer in economic sociology and social policy at the University of Leipzig in 1931. A year later he became an extraordinary associate professor at the university in 1940 as a regular professor. After he was head of the world economy institute of the university from 1938, he got a position as full professor of economics in 1942.

Thalheim was a National Socialist , joined the SA in 1933 , the NSV and the NS Teachers 'Association in 1934, the NS Lecturers ' Association in 1936 , the NSDAP in 1937 and the NS Old Men Association in 1939 . On November 11, 1933, he was one of the callers for a commitment by professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state .

In 1941 his essay The natural and social foundations of the economy appeared with a chapter "Population" in which Thalheim wrote:

The National Socialist state also knows, however, that an increase in the population only makes sense if it is supported by families who are inherently healthy. Only this is therefore promoted, while the increase in the hereditary diseases and the anti- social is inhibited by hard but necessary means for the future of the people.

In the same essay he wrote: " The purification of German cultural life from corrosive influences, which emanated especially from Judaism , was an absolute prerequisite for such an inner renewal ".

Thalheim also worked in the context of the newly institutionalized spatial research . Between 1936 and 1939 alone, he received around 13,000 Reichsmarks in funding from the Reich Working Group for Spatial Research for various research projects. From 1936 Thalheim acted as head of the university study group for spatial research at the Leipzig Graduate School.

For politics, the Nazi party so designated "evacuations" Thalheim announced at a presentation of the German global economic Society in Berlin on 28 November 1941. The future belongs hikes in the hands of the state - a strictly guided, according to the aspects of the nationalist oriented overall interest Hike!

From 1942 Thalheim was on the scientific advisory board of the Society for European Economic Planning and Greater Economy .

In 1949 he was hired by the Berlin Central Bank as deputy head of the economic department, and a year later he took the same position at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From 1951 he was active again as a full professor, he built up the Eastern European Institute at the Berlin Free University . After the Second World War and until his death, Thalheim was one of the most important players in economically oriented GDR research . Until 1955 he headed the Berlin branch of the Bad Godesberg Institute for Spatial Research .

In 1966 Thalheim told Rolf Seeliger about his writings from the Nazi era : “I never believed in the terrible ... nonsense that is in these sentences. I have never been an anti-Semite ”. From 1961 to 1969 he was a member of the board of directors of the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies . In 1968 he retired. From 1975 to 1987 he was head of the Berlin Research Center for pan-German economic and social issues.

Fonts (selection)

  • The post-war German emigration problem . Rohland and Berthold, Crimmitschau 1926.
  • Social criticism and social reform by Abbe, Rathenau and Ford . Hobbing, Berlin 1929.
  • Borderland Germany. With special consideration of his economic and social life . De Gruyter, Berlin 1931.
  • (as co-editor): The German East. Its history, its nature and its task . Propylaea Publishing House, Berlin 1936.
  • Basic features of the Soviet economic system s. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1962.
  • The economy of the Soviet zone in crisis and restructuring . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964.
  • Contributions to economic policy and economic order. Collected essays and lectures; on the occasion of his 65th birthday . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964.
  • (as co-editor): Economic reforms in Eastern Europe . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1968.
  • The economic development of the two countries in Germany. Facts and figures . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1978, ISBN 3-8100-0274-7 (3rd edition 1988).
  • The economic policy of the GDR in the shadow of Moscow . Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, Hanover 1979.

Festschrift

  • Wolfgang Förster (Ed.): Contributions to the theory and practice of economic systems. Festival ceremony for Karl C. Thalheim on his 70th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1970.

literature

  • Rolf Seeliger: Brown University. German university teachers yesterday and today , Volume 4, 1966, pp. 27–38.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Christian Thalheim - Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria . Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ Timetable for the history of the Leipzig Graduate School of Management: http://www.hhl.de/fileadmin/HHL-Info/Downloads/Downloads/zeittafel.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hhl.de  
  3. ^ Rolf Seeliger: Brown University. German university professors yesterday and today , Volume 4, 1966, p. 33.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 620. Th. Signed as a member of the commercial college.
  5. ↑ Quoted from Götz Aly , Susanne Heim : Vordenker der Vernichtung. Auschwitz and the German plans for a new European order. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-455-08366-8 . P. 120 f.
  6. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich . Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 620.
  7. ^ Carsten Klingemann: Sociology in the Third Reich . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4298-6 , p. 302 .
  8. ↑ Printed in the news bulletin of the Reich Office for Emigration 24 (1942) Issues 10, 11 and 12 quoted from Heim / Aly p. 120.
  9. ↑ Jens Hüttmann: GDR history and its researchers. Actors and economic trends in West German GDR research , Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 81, ISBN 3-938690-83-6 .
  10. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich . Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 621.
personal data
SURNAME Thalheim, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thalheim, Karl Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1993
Place of death Berlin