Richard Ehrenberg

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Richard Ehrenberg (born February 5, 1857 in Wolfenbüttel , † December 17, 1921 in Rostock ) was a German economist .

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Ehrenberg came from a Jewish family of teachers from the Harz region . His father was the principal of the Samson School in Wolfenbüttel. He had an older brother, who later became a legal scholar Viktor Gabriel Ehrenberg . Ehrenberg attended the high school in Wolfenbüttel up to the lower level. He then completed a banking apprenticeship in Hanover and worked in banks and temporarily also in the book trade. Ehrenberg was a correspondent at the Hamburg bank CL Behrens & Co. Since 1884 Ehrenberg studied economics and political science in Tübingen, Göttingen and Munich. In Tübingen he received his doctorate in political science in 1886 with summa cum laude. In the years to come he went on trips and archived studies on economic history topics.

From 1888 to 1897 he was secretary of the Royal Board of Commerce in Altona . This was followed by a series of economic history studies and some investigations into the history of trade, shipping and finance, especially in Hamburg . In 1892 he wrote a treatise on this commercial interest group, founded in 1738. His main work is his account of the age of the Fuggers and the money and credit transactions in the 16th century (1896, three editions, translations into English and French). Ehrenberg became an associate professor for political science in Göttingen in 1897 without habilitation, where he taught in particular insurance and commercial science. From 1899 to 1921 he taught as a full professor for political science at the University of Rostock . Since 1900 Ehrenberg was married to Helene Rochow.

In his investigations Ehrenberg made it clear that he saw the relationship between workers and entrepreneurs as a working group, thus representing a contrary opinion to the supporters of the Catholic Socialism . Together with Richard Stegemann , the syndic of the Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce, he published nine volumes on the subject of archives for exact economic research , in which he presented his "exactly comparative" quantitative analyzes, which deviated from the methodology of German economics at the time. He also campaigned for the establishment of commercial colleges.

His teaching and research focus were economics, agricultural conditions in Mecklenburg and methods of economics. In Rostock he took care of the processing and preservation of the estate of the economist Johann Heinrich von Thünen . In 1901 he established the Thünen Archive at the Political Science Department of Rostock University as a foundation. In 1916 he was given the title of Privy Councilor . Ehrenbergstrasse was named after him in 1950 in the Altona district.

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literature

  • Martin Buchsteiner, Gunther Viereck (ed.): “I stand alone in science.” Richard Ehrenberg (1857–1921). Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-4574-1 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Karl Heinrich Kaufhold : Richard Ehrenberg. In: Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Volume 4 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg. Series A, Volume 4). Schmidt-Römhild, Rostock 2004, ISBN 3-7950-3741-7 , pp. 42-47.
  • Gerhard Ahrens: Ehrenberg, Richard . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 90-90 .
  • Thomas Henne: Ehrenberg, Richard. In: Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 156.

Web links

Wikisource: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ Thomas Henne: Ehrenberg, Richard. In: Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 156.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenberg, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1921
Place of death Rostock