Kurt Braunreuther
Kurt Braunreuther (born July 28, 1913 in Leipzig , † July 19, 1975 in Berlin ) was a German sociologist , economist and university professor in the GDR .
Life
Braunreuther, the son of a painter , began training as a typesetter at the Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig in 1929 after attending grammar school . In 1932 he joined the KPD and became a shunter for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Leipzig. Until 1939 he worked in various professions and was temporarily unemployed.
1939 Brown Reuther railway workers in occupied Poland and came at the end of the Second World War in American captivity , from which he was released 1946th After his release, Braunreuther joined the SED and worked as a railroad worker at the Leipzig-Engelsdorf marshalling yard .
After Braunreuther had passed the special matriculation examination at a preparatory college, he studied economics at the Humboldt University (HU) Berlin from 1947 to 1951 and then became an assistant at the Institute for Political Economy of the economics faculty there. In 1955, he was "the importance of physiocratic movement in Germany in the second half of the 18th century over" with a thesis doctorate . In 1956 he became a lecturer and in 1959 with the work "The History of the political science subject at the Humboldt University of Berlin in the first half century of its existence," habilitation . In 1960 he became a professor with a teaching position and deputy, later acting director of the Institute for Political Economy at the HU Berlin.
In 1963 Braunreuther became head of the sociology working group at the Institute for Economics of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) and from 1969 head of a working group for "History and Criticism of Bourgeois Sociology" at the Institute for Philosophy of the DAW. In 1964 he became a full professor for "History of Economic Doctrine and Marxist Sociology" at the HU Berlin.
Since 1964 Braunreuther was a full member of the DAW and the Scientific Council for Sociology of the GDR. He also became chairman of the district executive committee of the science union at the DAW. In 1971 Braunreuther was appointed honorary professor for the history of sociology at the HU Berlin.
plant
In the 1950s, Braunreuther played a key role in the development of the "History of Political Economy" subject in the GDR. In the early 1960s he made a decisive contribution to establishing sociology as a research and teaching discipline in the GDR . His work dealt primarily with economic policy aspects of the history of sociology.
Fonts (selection)
- Kurt Braunreuther: Questions of Marxist Sociology (Part II). Economics and History in German Bourgeois Sociology . Berlin 1964.
- Kurt Braunreuther: Studies on the history of political economy and sociology . Ed .: Hermann Lehmann. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978.
literature
- Braunreuther, Kurt . In: Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg. Historiography Working Group (Ed.): Historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmerls Verlag, Bonn, Hanover, Hamburg, Munich 1965, p. 19.
- Ulrich Jahnke, Jan Wielgohs: Braunreuther, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Braunreuther, Kurt - Archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- Kurt Braunreuther - Humboldt University Berlin
- Literature by and about Kurt Braunreuther in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Braunreuther in the archive of the Academy of Sciences Berlin Brandenburg
- ↑ publish Berlin 1954
- ↑ publish Berlin 1959
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braunreuther, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1975 |
| Place of death | Berlin |