Karl Wasserrab

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Professor Karl Wasserrab, 1906

Karl Wasserrab (born January 17, 1851 in Opava , Austrian Silesia, † July 25, 1916 in Munich ) was a German economist , social reformer and representative of Catholic social doctrine .

Live and act

Karl Wasserrab was the son of the Catholic couple Franz and Karoline Wasserrab. The father worked as a domain administrator for Count Stadion and died in 1855.

From 1868 Wasserrab began studying law and political science at the University of Vienna , where he was one of the students of the famous Professor Lorenz von Stein . After completing his studies, he received his doctorate in law at the University of Göttingen in 1879 and in social sciences at the Munich University of Applied Sciences in 1888 . There he completed his habilitation in economics in 1889. From 1893 to 1899 Karl Wasserrab taught as an honorary professor at the newly re-established Swiss University of Freiburg im Üchtland , and from 1899 back in Munich. In Freiburg he worked closely with his college colleague, the Bavarian Dominican Albert Maria Weiss (1844–1925).

One of Karl Wasserrab's best-known students is the social reformer and workers pastor Ludwig Nieder (1880–1922), who is also known as the “ Kolping of the 20th century” . The poet and traveler Alfons Paquet (1881–1944) also attended his lectures in Munich.

Wasserrab was an honorary member of the Catholic student association KSSt.V. Alemannia Munich in the KV .

Wasserrab published many, sometimes very critical books and writings on German social policy and economics in the Hohenzollern Empire.

Works

(Selection)

  • "The economic crises and the development of the crisis of 1873" , 1888
  • "Prices and Crises: Economic Issues from Our Days" , 1889 ( complete scan of the book )
  • "Social politics in the German Reich: its development so far and its continuation under Kaiser Wilhelm II." , 1889
  • "Political economy according to its position, method and its more recent development" , 1894
  • "Social Science and Social Question: An Investigation of the Term Social and Its Main Applications" , 1900
  • "Social question, social politics and carity" , 1903
  • “Sociological Economics after Academic Lectures” , (posthumously) 1917

literature

  • Wilhelm Zils: "Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies" , Munich, 1913, pages 382–383 ( excerpt )
  • Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus: "Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie" , Volume 10, 1999, Page 344, ISBN 3598231865 ( excerpt )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literature source on the family origins of Karl Wasserrab
  2. ^ Karl Josef Rivinius:  WEISS, Albert Maria. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 647-652.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  3. ↑ Source on Alfons Paquet as a pupil of Wasserrab
  4. ^ Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 2nd part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 3). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1993, ISBN 3-923621-98-1 , p. 99.
personal data
SURNAME Wasserrab, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Water raven, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and social reformer
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1916
Place of death Munich