Max Sering
Max Sering (born January 18, 1857 in Barby , † November 12, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German economist .
Life
Sering studied in Strasbourg and Leipzig , entered the judicial and administrative service in Alsace in 1879 and went to North America in 1883 on behalf of the Prussian government to study agricultural competition .
After his return he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn and became an associate professor in 1885 . Subsequently, he repeatedly undertook research trips to North America, where he met Karl Ludloff in 1887 . In 1889 he was appointed to the Agricultural University in Berlin and received a professorship at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin .
He was a member of the German Agriculture Council and the Prussian State Economics College. On behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture Sering published the compilation The inheritance of rural property in the Kingdom of Prussia (previously volumes 1–6 and 8–14, Berlin 1897–1905). From 1903 he was co-editor of the political and social science research .
In 1912, together with Friedrich Ernst von Schwerin, he founded the Society for the Promotion of Internal Colonization . In 1922 he founded the German Research Institute for Agriculture and Settlement ("Sering Institute") in Berlin. From 1927 he was the German representative in the agricultural commission of the World Economic Conference in Geneva . Sering was considered the most famous German agricultural economist of his time; among his students in Berlin was u. a. Heinrich Lübke and, for a short time, Otto von Habsburg .
From the beginning of 1933 he was gradually ousted from his offices. The reason for this was not his origin, but his opposition to National Socialism. In the course of the National Socialist science policy after Hitler was appointed Chancellor , Sering was expelled from the Prussian Academy of Sciences and was removed from his position as a German representative at international conferences and bodies. He withdrew into private life and died in Berlin in 1939.
Works
Among numerous other treatises, Sering wrote:
- History of the Prussian-German iron tariffs. In: Gustav Schmoller : State and social science research. Leipzig 1882.
- North America's Agricultural Competition. Leipzig 1887.
- Workers' committees in German industry (= publications of the Association for Social Policy, Volume 46). Leipzig 1890.
- The internal colonization in eastern Germany (= writings of the Association for Social Policy. Volume 56). Leipzig 1893. ( digitized version )
- The fall in grain prices and competition from abroad. Berlin 1894.
literature
- Rita Aldenhoff-Huebinger: Sering, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 267 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Walter Braeuer : Cohn, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 315 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 148 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
Web links
- CV of Max Sering (PDF file; 54 kB)
- Literature by and about Max Sering in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Max Sering in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sering, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and agricultural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barby |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1939 |
| Place of death | Berlin |