Richard Kerschagl

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Richard Kerschagl (born May 25, 1896 in Vienna , † December 30, 1976 in Hermagor , Carinthia ) was an Austrian economist.

Life

Richard Kerschagl was the son of a Carinthian citizen school director and music writer. He attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and then began to study law and political science at the Vienna University . At the beginning of the First World War he volunteered for military service, which he performed in the field howitzer regiment No. 14 until the end of the war and where he achieved the rank of lieutenant. According to his own information, he also took part in the Carinthian defensive battle . In 1919 he received his doctorate. iur, 1922 Dr. rer. pole.

From 1920 Richard Kerschagl worked as a currency expert at the Oesterreichsch-Hungarian Bank , from 1923 as a legal advisor and economics advisor at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank . He later became head of the statistical and journalistic department and the library there. As a representative of Austria, he was delegated to several international conferences.

From 1921 Kerschagl taught as a private lecturer at the University for World Trade . In 1929 he became an associate professor for economics, including finance. From 1928 to 1938 he also taught at the Consular Academy , from 1930 onwards with the title of Professor of Trade Policy. In 1933 he set up the seminar for currency research at the University for World Trade and became head of the Institute for Economic Policy at the Consular Academy. In 1937 he was appointed associate professor at the University of World Trade. Kerschagl was a member of several academic associations and the Leo Society .

In 1929 Kerschagl joined the Vienna Home Guard , where he was company commander in 1933/34 and with whom he took part in the February fights in 1934 . During these years he also belonged to the so-called Spannkreis and worked on its magazine Ständisches Leben in 1931 and 1932 .

In the Austro-Fascist corporate state , Kerschagl belonged to the State Council from November 1, 1934 and to the Bundestag from November 27, 1934 .

With the "Anschluss" of Austria to the Nazi state in March 1938, Kerschagl was relieved of all offices and was imprisoned from March 13th to July 29th, 1938. Then he was given a "district ban". In August 1938 he was dismissed under the BBG , which was retrospectively converted into retirement in March 1940 with a reduction in remuneration. He worked in Berlin until 1944 and as head of a bank in occupied Poland . In 1944 he returned to Carinthia and became active in the resistance movement.

From May 1945 he worked in occupied post-war Austria as an advisor on economic issues for the British military authorities and as a representative for Western Carinthia for the provisional provincial government, where he worked, among other things, on denazification . In the same year he was rehabilitated. He returned to his chair at the Vienna University of World Trade and was appointed full professor and head of the Institute for Economics. From 1947 to 1949 and from 1960 to 1962 he was rector of the university. In addition, he was honorary lecturer from 1949, from 1952 honorary professor for world economics at the law faculty of the University of Vienna . From 1952 Kerschagl was also chairman of the university professors' union. He accepted several visiting professorships in the USA , France and Spain . In 1967 Kerschagl retired .

Kerschagl sat in the presidency of several domestic and foreign scientific associations. From 1958 he was President of the Austrian UNESCO Commission . From 1958 to 1976 he was President of the Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers. Politically, he was involved in the ÖVP , for which he carried out various economic and scientific-political functions.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Austria's share in the progress of modern national economy , 1938
  • Trade Policy , 1947
  • Outline of the financial economy , 1950
  • Austrian foreign exchange law , 1957
  • Inflation , 1973

literature

  • Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Johannes Kraus: Christian - Estates - Authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938. Ed .: Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance and Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2 , pp. 120–122.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Reinhard Müller : Richard Kerschagl. In: agso.uni-graz.at. July 2015, accessed August 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Hansjörg Klausinger: o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Richard Kerschagl. In: gedenkbuch.wu.ac.at . Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  3. ↑ High awards. In:  Tiroler Anzeiger , November 14, 1935, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / tan
  4. ↑ ÖCV complete directory 2009.
  5. ↑ a b Richard Kerschagl (awards) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Kerschagl, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1976
Place of death Hermagor , Carinthia