Otto Auhagen
Otto Georg Gustav Edwin Auhagen (born November 10, 1869 in Hanover , † April 5, 1945 in Berlin-Schlachtensee ) was a German economist and university professor .
Life
He was the son of forester Ernst Auhagen and his wife Mathilde nee Angerstein from a formerly noble family, between 1220 and 1639 resident in Angerstein near Göttingen. After attending school in Hanover, Auhagen studied at the Universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Strasbourg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1894 . pole. PhD. The topic of his dissertation was the basics of the march economy . In 1897 Auhagen became an associate professor of political science at the University of Breslau. From 1900 he took a leave of absence to work as an agricultural expert in the Asian part of Russia for the German embassy in Saint Petersburg. In 1906 he returned to the German Empire after receiving a position as full professor at the Agricultural University in Berlin. In addition, from 1927 to 1930 he was an agricultural expert at the German embassy in Moscow in the Soviet Union . During this time, in 1929, he saw over 10,000 farmers of German descent, including numerous Mennonites, appear in the Kremlin in Moscow in order to obtain emigration from the USSR because of the imminent forced collectivization. Auhagen stood up for these farmers, so that most of them were allowed to leave. Most of the farmers moved to Brazil and named a new village they had created after him in honor of Auhagen.
From 1931 to 1933 Otto Auhagen was director of the Eastern Europe Institute in Breslau and in 1933 he became honorary professor at the University of Berlin.
Works (selection)
- Settlement of Siberia , 1903.
- Agriculture of Transcaspia , 1905.
- Pro Patria! Speeches in memory of the fallen members of the Agricultural University in Berlin and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the German Empire , Berlin, 1921.
- The balance sheet of the first five-year plan of the Soviet economy , 1933.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 42f.
- NDB 1 (1953), pp. 454f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Auhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the German biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jochen Oltmer: Migration and Politics in the Weimar Republic , 2005, p. 206.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auhagen, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Auhagen, Otto Georg Gustav Edwin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1945 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Schlachtensee |