Klaus Wilhelm Rath

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Klaus Wilhelm Rath (born May 10, 1902 in Anklam ; † July 24, 1981 in Braunlage ) was a German National Socialist economist .

Life

Klaus Wilhelm Rath studied at the universities of Frankfurt / Main , Munich , Marburg and Berlin Economics . In Frankfurt am Main he received his doctorate in political science and economics in 1928 and then worked there as an assistant at the economics and social science faculty. In 1933 he completed his habilitation. On a substitute basis, he taught economic political science in 1934/1935 at the University of Greifswald and in 1935/1936 at the University of Göttingen . In Göttingen he taught from 1937 as an associate professor and from 1939 as a full professor for political economics and finance and operated the National Socialist orientation of the subject. He became director of the Insurance Economics Seminar. Klaus Wilhelm Rath was a member of the SA from 1933 to 1941 and of the NSDAP since 1933 . He belonged to the National Socialist German Lecturer Association (NSDoB) and the NS- Rechtsswahrerbund (NSRWB).

From 1952 to 1957 he was reused as a full professor in Göttingen . He was one of the few politically charged university lecturers whose faculties refused to take them back because he had listed himself as a "National Socialist terrorist" and his reinstatement was therefore viewed as damaging to his reputation. Together with the theologian Walter Birnbaum , he headed the Göttingen Association of non-officiating (ousted) university teachers. In 1957 he was given the status of a professor emeritus at the TH Hannover .

Fonts (selection)

  • Power and Economic Law. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1933.
  • Judaism in law / 2. Judaism and economics. 1936.
  • Imperialism and the national economic order. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1940.
  • Competitive system, form of organization and profitability in insurance. Meiner, Leipzig 1942.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anikó Szabó: Expulsion, return, reparation. Göttingen university professor in the shadow of National Socialism. (= Publications of the Working Group on the History of Lower Saxony. Volume 15), Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-381-5 , pp. 298–309. (Google Books)

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personal data
SURNAME Rath, Klaus Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rath, Klaus-Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Anklam
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1981
Place of death Braunlage