Karl Theisinger

Karl Theisinger (born May 22, 1901 in Nuremberg ; † December 19, 1949 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German economist and full professor of business administration at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and director of credit.

Life

After several years of practical work in various Franconian banks, Theisinger studied in his home town of Nuremberg and, after completing his commercial diploma, in Frankfurt. Theisinger received his diploma at the Nuremberg Commercial College in 1923 . In 1925 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main with a dissertation on securities.

During the Nazi era , Theisinger became a member of the SA and in 1937 a member of the NSDAP (# 4581925). After some practical work in banking , he qualified as a professor in business administration in 1933. In 1935 he was commissioned by Otto Christian Fischer , head of the Reichsgruppe Banken, to rebuild the entire banking training system in the German Reich . As “Head of Training for the Reichsgruppe Banken”, Karl Theisinger completely reorganized and standardized all banking training during and after the apprenticeship - often in sharp and dangerous contrast to the DAF . The banking vocational training system soon stood at the forefront of German vocational training as a model, also recognized from abroad.

Despite this stressful activity, Theisinger never cut ties with the university; because that was where his original and actual work area lay. He remained a university teacher in Frankfurt, was temporarily entrusted with a professorship in Nuremberg as administrator of an extraordinary position at the University of Economics and Social Sciences and finally lectured at the University of Berlin from 1937, where he was appointed associate professor a year later .

In the summer of 1940 he accepted a call to Frankfurt, which had become his second home, as professor of business administration (July 25, 1940). In the same year he founded the "Institute for Credit Systems" at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, which he was able to expand into the largest banking teaching and research institute within the Reich's borders with the active support of the Reichsgruppe Banken.

After the collapse of the National Socialist German Reich, Karl Theisinger was finally able to resume teaching at the University of Frankfurt in the winter semester of 1948/49 after years of hardship. His institute with a large library and valuable archive, however, was completely destroyed. With renewed vigor, at the beginning of 1949 he laid the foundation stone for a new “Institute for Credit Management”, which he was able to make viable again within a few months despite very limited funds. He won the collaboration of leading circles in the German credit system.

In 1948 he played an outstanding role in the founding of the “Journal for the Entire Credit System” and was co-editor. In order to thoroughly remedy the great lack of banking literature caused by the political upheavals, he drafted a plan for a three-volume compilation The Bank , which was to be a textbook and reference work at the same time. The first delivery of this work appeared on the day of his death, also with a comprehensive treatise on bank credit, Theisinger's last academic work.

He died on December 19, 1949 at his desk in his “Institute for the Credit System”, which was founded after the war. He left behind his wife and four children.

Works

• Securities as a means of raising capital for the company, Stuttgart 1928
• Collection of forms and contract engineering, Berlin / Vienna 1933
• The management of the company, Berlin 1942
• Die Bank, Vol. 1, Money and Bank Organization, Frankfurt 1949
• Die Bank, Vol. 2, The Banking Transactions, Frankfurt
• Die Bank, Vol. 3, Business Organization and Accounting, Frankfurt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: An Institutional and Personal History Study . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , p. 847