Ludwig Herpel

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Ludwig Herpel (born October 7, 1887 in Kelsterbach , † October 19, 1934 in Hamburg ) was a German economist .

Life

Herpel was the son of the teacher Peter Herpel. In his youth he attended the elementary school in Bickenbach (Bergstrasse) from Easter 1894 to Easter 1897 , then the Old Electoral High School in Bensheim until Easter 1906 . He then worked for a year at a private bank in Darmstadt , before enrolling at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1907 to study political science . In the winter semester 1908/109 he moved to the University of Heidelberg , where he completed his studies in the winter semester 1909/1910.

In 1910 Herpel presented a dissertation on the subject of the organization of the land loan in the Grand Duchy of Hesse at the Philosophical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , which was supervised by Eberhard Gothein . Shortly after its publication as a university thesis, the work was also published as a regular publication as part of the series "Contributions to Hessian Agricultural and Basic Relief Policy".

Around 1930 Herpel, who was living at Liliencronstrasse 18 in Hamburg at the time, was given the job title of a consulting economist. Herpel was a co-founder of the study society for money and credit . Together with Walter von Etzdorf , Herpel, whom Walter Görlitz characterizes as a young conservative economic reformer, developed an ambitious program called the rural community program to support the restructuring of the German economy, which in particular provided for extensive job creation programs against the background of the global economic crisis and the mass unemployment of the early 1930s . In July 1931, in Rendsburg, he created the first beginnings of this with the experiment of a communal credit creation ring in the form of a cooperative (the so-called compensation fund). The plan provided for the municipalities to initially provide unrestricted financial means for the purpose of municipal job creation , which should be implemented in the form of a kind of second currency in the form of deposit money circulating outside of the regular currency, in order to provide the initial impetus for a subsequent to give more and more dynamic job creation. The compensation fund movement that he initiated expanded rapidly in the German Reich. At the end of 1932 there were around 45 regional compensation offices in the German Reich (also known as working groups) that created local bank money (so-called "emergency money"). These decentralized money creation initiatives were combated by means of several laws and finally in 1934 the "Law against the Abuse of Cashless Payment Transactions" finally stopped. In Switzerland, Herpel's idea of ​​the compensation fund was adopted by the WIR Wirtschaftsring Cooperative, founded in December 1934 and which still exists today.

Herpel has been promoting his economic policy ideas in the journal Volk, Freiheit, Vaterland, which he published, since the 1920s . On October 31, 1931, Herpel and six other men founded the German Compensation Fund cooperative in Berlin, and he was elected its first chairman. In 1932 at the latest, he was also the Federal Leader (1st Chairman of the Federal Executive) of the Combat League for Tax Exemption and Property Management. V. Etzdorf has been the second chairman since May 22, 1932.

As a confidante of the President of the Landgemeindetag Günther Gereke , Herpel was one of its closest employees when he was appointed Reich Commissioner for Employment at the end of 1932 . In the event of Gereke's appointment as Reich Chancellor, Herpel was acted as Gereke's successor as Reich Commissioner for Employment at the end of 1932.

The economic program developed by Herpel and Etzdorf influenced, among others, the emergency program of Kurt von Schleicher and that of Gregor Strasser in 1932 submitted Nazi economic rehabilitation program and after 1933 actually measures taken to revive the German economy.

Fonts

  • The organization of the land loan in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Contributions to the Hessian agricultural and basic relief policy , Emil Roth, Gießen 1910.
  • Get rid of the profitability mania! The way to a pension-free economy through interest-free building money , Pflüger-Verlag, Kiel 1921.
  • "World Feeling" and Politics , 1922.
  • Paths to True Law. Outline and elevation of a German legal system. A teaching and guidance for path seekers from the thicket of today's legal confusion , Verlag Deutsche Zukunft A. Herpel, Hamburg 1930.
  • The compensation office (Dickel / Herpel system). Their tasks and their possibilities , Verlag Deutsche Zukunft, Hamburg 1932.
  • Credit autarky creates work and income , Verlag Deutsche Zukunft, Hamburg 1932.

literature

  • Udo Kissenkoetter: Gregor Strasser and the NSDAP. 1976.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg 20, No. 397/1934
  2. ^ Walter Görlitz: The Junkers. Adel and Bauer in the German East , 1981, p. 384.
  3. ^ Gerhard Schulz: Between Democracy and Dictatorship. From Brüning to Hitler. 1992, p. 1033.
  4. ^ Avraham Barkai : The National Socialist Economic System : Ideology, Theory, Politics; 1933-1945 . Extended new edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-596-24401-3 , p. 154.
personal data
SURNAME Herpel, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelsterbach
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1934
Place of death Hamburg