Oskar Büchner (statistician)

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Gustav Adolf Oskar Büchner (born March 12, 1879 in Dresden , † June 9, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German statistician who headed the statistical office of the city of Berlin as director.

Life

He was the son of the rentier Hans Büchner and his wife Johanna Meier-Martzilger. After attending the secondary school in Kassel , Oskar Büchner studied at the universities in Munich, Strasbourg and Berlin. In 1903 he received his doctorate at the Faculty of Arts of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin to Dr. phil.

In 1906 Oskar Büchner became a research assistant at the Statistical Office of the City of Berlin. Three years later he was appointed director of the statistical office of Rixdorf, later the city of Neukölln . During the First World War he participated as a volunteer in the Guards Foot Artillery Regiment and from June 1915 led a heavy battery in the east. He was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class.

After the formation of Greater Berlin , Büchner was promoted to the senior magistrate's council in 1921 and taken over into the central administration of Berlin. In 1923 he was appointed director of the statistical office of the city of Berlin. He held this position even after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 further. Under his directorate, the 75th anniversary of the Statistical Office was solemnly celebrated in Berlin in 1937.

In addition, Oskar Büchner was a member of the statistical committee of the working group and the Central Office for Municipal Statistics of the German Municipal Council. In addition, Oskar Büchner was on the board of the German Statistical Society and an honorary member of the Hungarian Statistical Society and the Mexican Society for Geography and Statistics.

After his sudden death at the age of 64, Oskar Kürten succeeded him as director of the statistical office.

Fonts (selection)

  • The statistics in the new Berlin. In: Problems of the New City of Berlin . Berlin-Friedenau 1926, pp. 517-523.
  • For the 75th anniversary of the Statistical Office of the Reich capital Berlin . In: Berliner Wirtschaftsberichte 14 (1937), pp. 9–15.

family

In 1919 he married Hedwig, the daughter of the factory owner and city councilor Sander from Neukölln.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Büchner, Oskar (Gustav Adolf) . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 2 : Bohacz – Ebhardt . KG Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-23162-8 .
  2. ^ Büchner, Oskar Gustav Adolf. In: Reich manual of the German society . Volume 1. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930.
  3. ^ Eckart Elsner: Statistics on Berlin. Brief outline of the history of a Berlin institution . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 2, 1997, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 17-23 ( luise-berlin.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Büchner, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Büchner, Gustav Adolf Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1943
Place of death Berlin