Rudolph Eberstadt

Rudolph Eberstadt (born July 8, 1856 in Worms , † June 9, 1922 in Berlin ; full name: Rudolph Michael Eberstadt ) was a German economist and city ​​planner .

Life

Eberstadt was a son of Ferdinand Eberstadt (1808-1888) and his wife Sara Zelie (nee Seligmann) from Kreuznach.

At the age of 16 he attended the commercial school in Frankfurt am Main in 1872 . He trained as a banker and worked in Great Britain, France and Belgium (Mainz bank "Bischofsheim") before finally settling down as an independent businessman with a trimmings shop in Berlin, where he stayed until 1894. But this activity did not satisfy him. So he caught up with the Abitur and embarked on a scientific career.

1894-1897 he studied in Berlin and Zurich economics , where he received his doctorate in Zurich already 1895th In 1902, Eberstadt completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in economics at the royal Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. Then he was a lecturer in economics at the University of Berlin, from 1907 with the title of professor . On June 26, 1917, he was appointed full honorary professor at the University of Berlin . His connections to TH Berlin were limited to participating in urban planning lecture cycles at the urban planning seminar by Josef Brix and Felix Genzmer at the Technical University of Charlottenburg from 1907 to 1920. He lived in Berlin on Bendlerstraße, his motto was: “Et in terra pax ".

Eberstadt's main interest was the development of urban structures in which many residents could be accommodated in humane surroundings. To this end, he undertook intensive research in Great Britain and the Netherlands and the terraced housing estates that had emerged there at the time.

Rudolph Eberstadt published a whole series of works on economic questions and on the problems of modern housing construction. The latter led to the fact that he was called upon to collaborate in urban planning in Berlin and in the version of the Prussian Housing Act.

Eberstadtstrasse, which still exists today, was named after him in the north-west of Frankfurt. He was also honored in Berlin: in the small housing estate in Berlin-Britz, which was built by the “Ideal” building cooperative at his suggestion, one of the streets in the first block was called “Eberstadt-Allee”.

Fonts

Rudolf Eberstadt: Speculation in modern urban planning, Jena 1907

• System and principle in the Berlin city administration. A contribution to communal reform. H. Steinitz, Berlin 1893.
• Urban land issues. Four papers. C. Heymann, Berlin 1894.
• The evolution of business law and business taxation in France from the 12th to the end of the 15th century. Zurich, Faculty of Political Science, inaugural dissertation. 1895.
• Magisterium and Fraternitas. An administrative history representation of the development of the guild system. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897.
• French trade law and the creation of state legislation and administration in France from the 13th century to 1581. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1899.
• The origin of the guild system and the older craftsmen's associations of the Middle Ages. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900.
• The German capital market. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1901.
• The current crisis, its causes and the tasks of legislation. K. Hoffman, Berlin 1902.
• Rhenish housing conditions and their significance for housing in Germany. G. Fischer, Jena 1903.
• Housing. G. Fischer, Jena 1904.
• Speculation in modern urban planning. A study based on urban housing. At the same time a defense against the attacks directed against the systematic housing reform. G. Fischer, Jena 1907.
• Building Code and Economics. in: Urban planning lectures, seminar for urban planning at the TH Berlin, Volume II, Issue 7. Wilhelm Ernst Verlag, Berlin 1908.
• Urban land parcelling in England and its comparison with German institutions. C. Heymann, Berlin 1908.
• Handbook of Housing and Housing. G. Fischer, Jena 1909.
• together with Bruno Möhring and Richard Petersen : Greater Berlin. A program for planning the modern city. Berlin 1910.
• Our housing system and the need to create a Pruszian housing law. G. Fischer, Jena 1910.
• Land parcels and residential streets. in: Urban planning lectures, seminar for urban planning at the TH Berlin, Volume IV, Issue 7. Wilhelm Ernst Verlag, Berlin 1910.
• New studies on housing and housing. Jena 1912.
• together with Bruno Möhring: Development plan for the central part of Treptow. Berlin 1914.
• Urban planning and housing in Holland. G. Fischer, Jena 1914.
• The urban real estate credit crunch and real loan reform. G. Fischer, Jena 1916.
• On the history of town planning. B. Cassirer, Berlin 1916.
• Economic forms of division for small house estates. in: Urban planning lectures, seminar for urban planning at the TH Berlin, Volume IX, Issue 7. Wilhelm Ernst Verlag, Berlin 1920.
• Urban planning and settlement. in: A. Miethe: The technology in the 20th century. Braunschweig 1920.
• Handbook of Housing and Housing. 4th edition, Jena 1920. Digitized edition
• Housing. Volume 1. 1922.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolph Eberstadt in the catalog of the German National Library

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• Handwritten directory of the residents of Worms, 1800-1870, Worms City Archives.
• Mannheim family sheet Ferdinand Eberstadt, Mannheim City Archives.
• Sauer, General Artist Lexicon, Volume 32, Munich-Leipzig 2002.
• British Catalog of Printed Books, Vol. V., William Clowes and Sons Limited, London, 1933.
• Catalog General des Livres Imprimes de la Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 1924.
• The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints, (Vol. 154 R. Eberstadt).
• Christian Gottlob Kayser's Complete Lexicon of Books 1750-1898, Leipzig 1899.
• Hinrichs' five-year catalog of the books published in German bookshops 1891-1895, Leipzig 1896.
• German Biographical Yearbook, 1922. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart, Berlin 1922.
• Encyclopedia Universal Illustrada Europeo Americana. Bilbao 1924 and 1930.
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1922. Berlin 1922.
• Wasmuth's Lexicon of Architecture. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1930.
• Karl-Heinz Hüter: Architecture in Berlin 1900-1923. Kohlhammer, Berlin 1988.
• Theodor Heuss: Diary letters 1955–1963. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1970.
• Announcements from the building cooperative "Ideal", 3rd year, No. 7, Berlin July 9, 1912: The baptism of the residential streets.
• Walter Lehwess: Rudolph Eberstadt, his life and work. in .: Urban architecture of the old and new times; Half-monthly publication, issue 7, Berlin 1922.