Max Wirth (economist)

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Max Wirth

Max Wirth (born January 27, 1822 in Breslau , † July 18, 1900 in Vienna ) was a German journalist and economist.

Life

Wirth was a son of the journalist, politician and co-organizer of the Hambach Festival Johann Georg August Wirth and his wife Regina Wirth . During the period of political persecution of his father, he lived with his mother and two siblings in Weissenburg in Alsace from 1833 and attended a secondary school there. In 1839 he attended lectures at the philological seminary of the Protestant theological faculty in Strasbourg. From 1839 to 1843 he studied law at the University of Heidelberg (member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg ) and then embarked on a journalistic career. In 1839 he became a fraternity member in Breslau and Heidelberg. With his brother Franz Ulpian Wirth (1826–1897) he founded the weekly newspaper "Der Employer" in Frankfurt am Main as an organ for the demand and supply of work and at the same time worked as an editor for the "Frankfurter Handelszeitung" (later "Frankfurter Zeitung") . He was also a member of the board of directors of the Congress of German Economists and the National Association . In 1859 he was a war correspondent in northern Italy. In 1861 he was a co-founder of the workers' education association in Frankfurt. In 1865 he went to Bern as director of the Swiss statistical office, before he settled in Vienna in 1874 as an employee of the “ Neue Freie Presse ” and correspondent of the London “ Economist ”.

In addition to his professional activity, Max Wirth promoted new sports such as fencing and ice skating .

His wife Bettina, née Greiner (born February 7, 1849 in Munich), made a name for herself through the novella "Künstler und Fürstenkind" (Stuttgart 1876) and the novel "Hohe Lose" (Leipzig 1883) a. a. known. She was the Vienna correspondent for the London Daily News .

Their son, Josef Carl Wirth, was also active in journalism and politics. Among other things, he was head of the official news center in Vienna from 1919 to 1926, editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Die Stunden and the theater magazine Die Bühne from 1926 to 1938 , and editorial director of Compass Verlag from 1938 to 1945 .

Works

  • Grundzüge der Nationalökonomie (Cologne 1855–73, 4 volumes; Volume 1, 5th edition 1881; Volume 2, 4th edition 1882; Volume 3: Handbuch des Bankingwesens , 3rd edition 1883) Digitized
  • History of the trade crises (Frankfurt am Main 1858, 3rd edition 1883)
  • The German national unity in its economic, intellectual and political development (Frankfurt am Main 1859)
  • German History in the Age of Germanic State Formation (Frankfurt am Main 1862)
  • The raising of the working classes through cooperatives and Volksbanks (Bern 1865)
  • On the wings of steel . In: The Gazebo . 1867, p. 52 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • General description and statistics of Switzerland (Zurich 1870 to 1875, 7 books)
  • The Social Question (Berlin 1872)
  • Austria's rebirth from the aftermath of the crisis (Vienna 1876)
  • Culture and hiking sketches (Vienna 1876)
  • The Agricultural Crisis (Berlin 1881)
  • Money (Leipzig 1884, Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  • Hungary and its natural resources (Frankfurt am Main 1885)
  • The sources of wealth (Cologne 1886)
  • Serious and happy days from my experiences and forays out into the fields (Cologne 1884)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Max Wirth  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fraternity leaves . XIV., Berlin 1900, p. 282.
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1900
Place of death Vienna