Max must

Max Ludwig Adolf Muss (born April 8, 1885 in Bad Schwartau ; † February 12, 1954 in Darmstadt ) was a German university professor .

Life

Max Ludwig Adolf Muss was born in April 1885 in Bad Schwartau as the son of the nursery owner Ludwig Adolf Muss and his wife Johanna Röhmer. After graduating from secondary school, he first completed an apprenticeship at the Oldenburgische Spar- und Leihbank from 1901 and then became a bank clerk. In 1906/07 he did his one year military service. From 1909, Muss studied economics, history, statistics and ethnography at the University of Leipzig . He completed his studies on April 26, 1913 with a doctorate in philosophy. The title of the work was: Die Staatliche Kreditanstalt des Duchy Oldenburg .

He then worked for a year as a research assistant at the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Wirtschaftsarchivs and the Rheinische Gesellschaft for Scientific Research in Cologne. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier .

On January 1, 1919, he took up a position as an assistant at the political science seminar at Leipzig University. During his time in Leipzig, Muss was a member of a democratic student association and was chairman of the democratic student association in 1919/20. Must habilitated in May 1921. The topic of his habilitation thesis was "The banking moderate Settlements in Germany: A study of theory and structure of the German giro and check system". From then on he was a private lecturer in economics and private economics at the University of Leipzig. In the following year he received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Rostock .

On April 1, 1924 he was appointed to a full professor of economics at the TH Darmstadt . Must thus succeeded Franz Berghoff-Ising , who had died in April 1920. At the same time, Muss also took over the management of the state economic institute in Hesse. The appointment of Max Muss was related to the recently decided establishment of an independent department for cultural and political sciences at the TH Darmstadt. This took account of the growing importance of these subjects in training. Nevertheless, these subjects retained the status of supplementary subjects until the university was expanded after the end of the Second World War.

Max Muss played a decisive role in the development and expansion of this new department. From 1928 to 1930 he was Dean of the Department of Cultural and Political Studies.

Max Muss’s attitude towards the Nazi regime cannot be answered clearly. He did not join the NSDAP , the SA or the SS . However, he was uncritical of the war aims. In addition, he was involved in "war-important arms research projects". In 1942 he was head of the university study group for spatial research at the TH Darmstadt.

After the closure of the TH Darmstadt at the end of March 1945 by the American military authorities, Muss participated in the efforts of numerous professors for a quick reopening. Muss was elected to the so-called "Confidence Committee" on April 28, 1945. This also included the mechanics professor Wilhelm Schlink and the civil engineer Erich Reuleaux . Since Muss also worked for the Hessen Economic Institute and the State Statistics Office from July 1945, he resigned from the committee of trust. He was followed by Alwin Walther after.

From 1946 to 1949, Muss was the first dean of the newly founded Faculty for Cultural and Political Sciences at the TH Darmstadt. During this time he was significantly involved in the development of the new industrial engineering / mechanical engineering course. In 1953 he retired. Max Muss died in Darmstadt at the age of 78. He had been married to Elisabeth Säuberlich since 1914.

Publications

• 1913: The State Credit Institution of the Duchy of Oldenburg, Tübingen.
• 1920: Leopold Bleibtreu (1777–1839), Essen.
• 1922: The bank-based payment settlement in Germany: A study on theory and Structure d. German giro u. Checks, Berlin.
• 1924: The German national economy as an organism, Leipzig.
• 1932: The economic crisis in Germany, Stuttgart.
• 1935: The structure of the modern economy: An overview of the interrelationships, the forms and forces in the national economy, Berlin.
• 1938: Task for the Technical University of Darmstadt, in: Konrad Meyer (Hrsg.): People and living space. Research in the service of regional planning and regional planning, Heidelberg, pp. 510–515.

literature

• Melanie Hanel: Normality under exceptional conditions. The TH Darmstadt under National Socialism. Scientific Book Society (WBG), Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-534-26640-1 .
• Christa Wolf and Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1977, p. 147.
• 100 years of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Yearbook 1976/77, Darmstadt 1977.

Web links

• Entry on Max Muss in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium