Rudolf Forberger

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Rudolf Forberger (born April 13, 1910 in Carlsfeld , † December 18, 1997 in Dresden ) was a German economic historian and member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

Life

The son of the Carlsfeld station master Otto Forberger and his wife Helena attended elementary schools in Carlsfeld and Eibenstock until Easter 1921. Due to the transfer of his father to Dresden, Forberger moved to the secondary school in Dresden-Neustadt in October 1921. He completed his primary education in 1929. In the summer semester of 1929 Forberger began studying economics at the Technical University of Dresden , but combined his main subject with general engineering, mechanical and chemical technology, business administration, factory organization and power generation. In the winter semester of 1932/33 he was able to complete his studies with a degree in economics. He then worked from 1934 to 1942 as a research assistant at the Girozentrale Sachsen in Dresden.

On the subject of public employment services in Dresden: Looking back over a century of development , Forberger received his doctorate in 1940 at the Dresden University of Technology. rer. pole. In 1941 he received a teaching position at the Saxon Municipal Administration and Sparkasse School in Dresden and was then employed by the construction industry in Dresden from 1942 to 1945. After the Second World War he took up a position at the Vereinigte Ingenieurbau-Betrieben GmbH in 1946, for which he worked until 1948. From 1949 he was an aspirant at the Technical University of Dresden, but moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1951 . He completed his habilitation in Die Manufaktur in Sachsen from the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 19th century in 1955 with the acquisition of the academic degree Dr. rer. oec. habil. from. An activity at the Institute for Economic History at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin under the direction of Jürgen Kuczynski followed. In November 1963 he was appointed lecturer for the history of mining and metallurgy at the Bergakademie Freiberg and in 1967 he was appointed professor for this subject. Since 1975 Forberger was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

As a result of a disease of spinal polio in 1924 , his right arm remained completely paralyzed, the left arm was only partially mobilized. Since 1952 Forberger was with Ursula geb. Claus married. The couple had two sons. He received active support in his scientific work from his wife. The focus of research by Rudolf and Ursula Forberger was on Saxon economic history.

tomb

Forberger volunteered, among other things, in the Society for Local History and in the Society for Monument Preservation in the Kulturbund of the GDR . His focus was on the maintenance and care of technical monuments . He was a member of the editorial board of the Sächsische Heimatblätter . Forberger died in Dresden in 1997 and was buried in the Striesen cemetery .

Honors

At Forberger's birthplace, the so-called “Bahnhaus” in Carlsfeld, a memorial plaque was attached by the “Förderverein Geschichte Carlsfeld” on December 18, 2010.

Scientific legacy

In July 2004, Forberger's widow Ursula handed over his scientific legacy to the Dresden Main State Archives . These include letters, positives and negatives, manuscripts, certificates, books, offprints and academic papers by both Rudolf and Ursula Forberger .

Works (selection)

  • The public employment agency in Dresden. Dresden 1940
  • The manufacture in Saxony from the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 19th century. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1958
  • Industrial revolution in Saxony 1800–1861. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1982, volume 1/2,
  • From Böttger's artistically designed hard-paste porcelain to technical porcelain in the 19th century. Meeting reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Philosophical-historical class, Volume 125, Issue 4. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1985.

literature

  • Obituary , in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (VSWG) , Volume 85 (1998), Issue 4, p. 459.
  • Wolfgang Uhlmann : Rudolf Forberger on the 100th birthday. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 2/2010, ISSN  0232-6078 , pp. 11-12.
  • Reiner Groß : Obituary for Rudolf Forberger . In: Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Yearbook 1997–1998, Leipzig (1999), pp. 387–391.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Forberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Roßki: Hermann Seidel bred hardy rhododendron . In: Sächsische Zeitung , September 2, 1999, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Forberger, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1997
Place of death Dresden