Max Ernst zu Solms-Rödelheim

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Max Ernst Wilhelm Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim (born May 16, 1910 in Strasbourg , † June 6, 1993 in Göttingen ) was like his better-known uncle Max Graf zu Solms a German sociologist. He taught as a professor at the University of Labor, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven and at the University of Göttingen .

Life

Max Ernst Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim was born in Strasbourg as the child of Ernst Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim (1868–1920) and Anna Countess von Platen-Hallermund (1874–1937). His father was a professor of sociology at the University of Strasbourg , who lost his post in 1919 after Alsace-Lorraine was ceded and worked in the employment office.

Solms-Rödelheim, who came from a noble family in Hesse , studied in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main (here in 1931 political involvement in the Red Student Group and acquaintance with Wolfgang Abendroth ) and at the University of Heidelberg . There he was in 1938 when Carl Brinkmann with a study on the consequences of the industrialization of the rural population doctorate and then employs to 1941 at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences. As a scholarship holder of the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Raumforschung (RAG), he worked on research assignments on North Baden agricultural and settlement problems in 1940/41, which was regarded as "war-important research" and led to several years' delay in drafting military service. In 1941 he was also a tax auditor for almost a year at the “General Plenipotentiary for Assets Anti-People and Reich Hostile” in Strasbourg. As a soldier, he finally began to work on his habilitation thesis “The question of the expressiveness of Max Weber's Protestantism thesis. A critical investigation based on the industrial history of Mülhausen. "

From 1946 to 1949, Solms-Rödelheim was again an assistant at the Heidelberg Institute and at the same time a lecturer at the Mannheim Business School . In 1949 he moved to the University of Work, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven, where he was appointed Professor of Sociology after his habilitation in 1951. He was one of the promoters of the reform approach of studying social sciences as a mixed subject. From 1962, after the university was integrated into the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen, Solms-Rödelheim taught there until his retirement in 1975.

His main scientific interests were in the sociology of culture and religion , economic and social history and sociography .

Fonts

  • Mithrsg .: From the writings on the sociology of religion / Max Weber , Frankfurt am Main 1948

literature

  • Hans Georg Rasch: Solms-Rödelheim, Max Ernst Graf to. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart 1984, p. 806.
  • Martin Osterland (Ed.): Work situation, life situation and conflict potential. Festschrift for Max E. Graf zu Solms-Roedelheim. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main / Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-434-20087-8 .
  • Harry Pross : Obituary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim: The national goods sales in the Strasbourg district. 1903, Retrieved June 22, 2018 .
  2. ^ Max Ernst Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim: The influences of industrialization on 14 rural communities near Karlsruhe , Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim 1939.
  3. ^ A b Carsten Klingemann : Sociology and Politics. Social science expert knowledge in the Third Reich and in the early West German post-war period . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 3-531-15064-2 , p. 18.
  4. ↑ Unprinted, a typewritten copy is in the Mannheim University Library .
personal data
SURNAME Solms-Rödelheim, Max Ernst to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Roedelheim, Max Ernst Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1993
Place of death Goettingen