Kurt Wiedenfeld

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Kurt Wiedenfeld (born September 30, 1871 in Berlin , † December 26, 1955 in Friedrichsbrunn / Harz ) was a German economist and diplomat .

Wiedenfeld, son of a government and building officer of the Prussian railway administration, studied law and economics at the universities of Lausanne , Munich , Leipzig and Berlin . After receiving his Dr. jur. had received his doctorate, followed in 1900 in Berlin the doctorate to Dr. phil. In 1896 he became a Prussian court assessor. From 1898 he was the syndic of the Association of German Millers . From 1897 to 1903 he worked in the Railway Archive of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works. In 1902 he completed his habilitation in Berlin for economic political science. In 1903 he became a member of the Reich Statistical Office and in the same year professor of economic political science at the Academy in Poznan . In the latter function, he worked at the Cologne Commercial College from 1904 . In 1914 he accepted an appointment as full professor at the University of Halle .

In 1916 Wiedenfeld worked in the war raw materials department in Berlin. In 1918 he was employed in the Foreign Office as a lecturer in the field of responsibility and responsibility of a conductor in the trade policy department. In 1919 he was promoted to head of the foreign trade office. In 1920 he was appointed Ministerial Director. From 1921 to 1922 he was the provisional representative of the German Reich in Moscow . After Wiedenfeld was put up for discussion in 1922, he taught economics as a full professor at Leipzig University from 1923 to 1936 . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Siberian Railway in its Economic Significance , 1900 (34 pages).
  • The Northwest European World Ports - London, Liverpool, Hamburg, Bremen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Havre - in their Transport and Trade Significance , 1903 (376 pages).
  • The nature and value of the central product exchanges , 1903 (14 pages).
  • The personal in modern entrepreneurship , 1911. 2nd edition: 1921 (108 pages).
  • The meaning of German colonial possession, Bonn 1915 .
  • Siberia in culture and economy, Bonn 1916 .
  • Cartels and corporations. An opinion for the World Economic Conference in 1927 .

literature

  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 273 f.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition (Rudolf Vierhaus, ed.), Volume 10, Saur, Munich 2008, p. 604.

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