Max Pietsch

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Max Pietsch (born December 20, 1902 in Voitsberg , Styria , † October 12, 1976 in Graz ) was an Austrian economist and sociologist.

Life

Max Pietsch studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Graz, then economics at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1931 under Othmar Spann and Ferdinand Degenfeld-Schonburg . For a while he was part of the circle around Othmar Spann.

From 1931 to 1938 he was the office director of the Catholic University Association and secretary of the Salzburg University Weeks . He then took on various positions in larger German industrial companies, with a focus on business administration and social law. From 1947 he was a lecturer for social law and from 1948 additionally for business administration at the Technical University of Graz , where he completed his habilitation in 1952. From 1955 to 1973 he was professor for general business administration.

A focus of Pietsch's work was on researching the effects of rationalization and automation on human work and the associated consequences.

Fonts

  • Of the value and dignity of human work . Frankfurt am Main: Josef Knecht 1952
  • The industrial revolution. From Watts steam engine to automation and atomic fission . Freiburg im Breisgau – Basel – Vienna: Herder 1961

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