Leo Wegener

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Leo Wegener (born December 17, 1870 in Jeseritz , Nimptsch district , province of Silesia ; † July 11, 1936 in Kreuth , Upper Bavaria ) was a German economist , economic functionary and regional economist.

Life

Wegener was up to the age of 28 prevented by illness to receive a university education and then studied in Heidelberg economics at Max Weber , under which he acquired the academic doctoral degrees. He seems to have been a favorite student of Weber.

In 1903, Wegener succeeded Alfred Hugenberg , with whom he was friends, and became director of the provincial association of the German Raiffeisen cooperatives in Posen . In this role he worked until 1925. He played a leading role in the East Marks settlement policy. He was instrumental in the settlement of law-design, the so-called Kurlandverordnung involved on 17 June 1918 and was a founding member in 1919 in response to the November Revolution launched organization trade association for the promotion of spiritual reconstruction forces . Together with Max Weber and Otto Hoetzsch , after the end of the First World War, in connection with the peace treaty draft of the Allied and Associated Powers, he was appointed to the commission for the consultation of the military-political regulations, group Ostfragen ID Poland / West Prussia , which was appointed by the Prussian Ministry of the Interior should prepare an opinion on the territorial assignment claims.

In 1925, Wegener was forced to give up his position in Posen for health reasons. From July 1925 he was resident in his house in the village of Kreuth in Upper Bavaria , which Hugenberg financed for him. He was his close confidante and advised him on press issues.

Wegener was a member of the supervisory board of Ala, Werbung-Akt.-Ges. , Ufa, Universum-Film AG , Ostbank für Handel und Gewerbe AG and Ostdeutsche Privatbank AG.

Works

  • The economic struggle of the Germans and Poles for the province of Posen (dissertation, University of Heidelberg). Posen 1903 (321 pages).
  • Time issues in rural cooperatives , 1912 (31 pages).
  • My trip through Poland . Lecture given on November 19, 1915.
  • Why the Fatherland Party? , Lecture given in 1917, self-published (15 pages).
  • Politics, diplomat and war aims . Lecture given in 1917 (16 pages).
  • Hugenberg: A chat , 1930 (64 pages).
  • Hugenberg's work for agriculture , 1935 (26 pages).

literature

  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 2404.
  • Association of German Cooperatives in Poland (Ed.): From Leo Wegener's life work. Poznan 1938. (281 pages)
  • Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, Dr. Leo Wegener +, July 12, 1936 (obituary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in German biography
  2. ^ Community directory
  3. ^ Wilhelm Hennis: Max Weber and Thukydides . Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 12–13, footnote 22 ( restricted preview )
  4. ^ Marianne Weber and Max Weber-Schäfer: Max Weber: a picture of life . Mohr, Tübingen 1984, p. 563 ( restricted preview ).
  5. ^ Tzu-hsin Tu: The German Ostsiedlung as an ideology until the end of the First World War (dissertation, University of Kassel). Kassel 2009, p. 147 ( restricted preview ).
  6. ^ Max Weber: On the Reorganization of Germany - Writings and Speeches 1918-1920 . Mohr, Tübingen 1988, p. 26 ( restricted preview )
personal data
SURNAME Wegener, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and economic functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Jeseritz , Nimptsch District , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1936
Place of death Kreuth , Upper Bavaria