Rudolf Kaulla

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Rudolf Benedikt Kaulla (born December 12, 1872 in Stuttgart ; † September 22, 1954 Oberstdorf ) was a German university professor , author and partner in the Jacob SH Stern bank .

Life

Rudolf Kaulla's house at Mörikestrasse 14, Stuttgart

Rudolf Kaulla was born on December 12, 1872 in Stuttgart and attended the Karls-Gymnasium there . He studied law in Lausanne , Strasbourg , Leipzig , Tübingen and Munich . In Munich he was Kaulla in 1897 with the dissertation "The legal nature of the defraudation of public taxes" to the Dr. jur. PhD . He then studied there economics at the " Ludwig-Maximilians-University ". There Kaulla 1902 at Lujo Brentano with the thesis "value concept in Roman law" to Dr. oec. publ. PhD.

In 1903 Kaulla qualified as a professor at the “ Technical University of Stuttgart ” with the thesis “Doctrine of the fair price in scholasticism”, began teaching there in 1904 as a private lecturer in economics and from 1910 to 1919 was an associate professor for special economics. In Stuttgart he was also a member of the supervisory board of the Königlich Württembergische Hofbank , which was co-founded by his ancestor, the court factor Karoline Kaulla (1739–1809) and led until 1915 by members of the Kaulla family.

In 1920 Kaulla moved with his family to Frankfurt am Main and became a co-owner of the Jacob SH Stern banking house . At the same time he was a member of the supervisory board of the German securities and exchange bank , the German-Asian bank and the Schantung railway company .

When the National Socialists seized power , Rudolf Kaulla emigrated to London ( Great Britain ) in 1933 and to Lausanne ( Switzerland ) the following year , where he lived for the rest of his life and worked as a private scholar and book author. In 1954 Rudolf Kaulla died while traveling in Oberstdorf ( Germany ).

Family and private

Rudolf Kaulla was the son of the Stuttgart lawyer Dr. jur. Max Kaulla (1829–1906) and his wife Jeanette Goldschmidt (1833–1920, member of the Frankfurt Goldschmidt banking family ) and niece of Benedikt Hayum Goldschmidt (1798–1873), founder of the Frankfurt bank BH Goldschmidt and consul of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany . Through his father, Rudolf Kaulla was a descendant of the court factor Karoline Kaulla (1739–1809) and was related to the banker , cooperative and social reformer Eduard Pfeiffer (1835–1921). Rudolf Kaulla's sister, Lucie Kaulla (1866–1955, called Luz), was married to Georges Gabriel Siegmund Warburg (1871–1923). He belonged to the German-Jewish banking family Warburg and was co-owner of the Hamburg banking house MM Warburg & Co . Her son was the German-British banker Siegmund G. Warburg , founder of the British bank SG Warburg & Co.

On March 20, 1907, Rudolf Kaulla married Louise Maria Stern (1874–1933), a daughter of the Frankfurt banker Theodor Stern (1839–1900), in Frankfurt am Main . With her he had a daughter, Margareta Wilhelmine (1913– ?, married to Paul Ossipow in Lausanne ). In her second marriage, Kaulla married Anne Marie Clara Ganz (1898–1988) in 1933, previously married to the writer Carl Zuckmayer until 1921 .

In the “ Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires ” from 1914, Rudolf Kaulla's wealth is given as nine million marks .

In 1910, Rudolf Kaulla commissioned the architects Hugo Schlösser and Johann Weirether to build a representative villa for him and his family at Mörike Strasse 14 in Stuttgart. At the same time, these architects were also commissioned to build the Villa Reitzenstein in Stuttgart , the official seat of the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg since 1952 . During his exile in Switzerland, Kaulla lived at 18 avenue d'Ouchy in Lausanne.

In 1898 Rudolf Kaulla joined the German Alpine Association (Swabia section), but was forced to leave the German Alpine Association in 1935 because of his Jewish faith .

Works

  • "The historical development of modern value theories", Laupp, Tübingen 1906
  • "Organization of the banking system in Württemberg in its historical development", Enke, Stuttgart 1908
  • "The object of exchange value, commemorative publication for Lujo Brentano on his 70th birthday", Munich and Leipzig 1916 (full text online )
  • “On the relationship between economics, law and politics”, Rothschild, Berlin 1919
  • "The basics of monetary value", Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1920
  • "Liberalism and the German Jews", Duncker & Humblot, Munich 1928
  • “State, Estates and the Just Price”, Springer, Vienna 1936
  • "Theory of the just price", George Allen and Unwin, London 1940
  • "Contributions to the history of the origins of money", Francke, Bern 1945
  • "Rule of Law and Currency", Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1949

See also

literature

  • Spitaler, Armin : The economist Rudolf Kaulla: To his 75th birthday In: Journal for the entire political science , Vol. 105, H. 1. 1948, Verlag Mohr Siebeck, ISSN  0044-2550 pp. 169-175
  • Vierhaus, Rudolf (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd Edition, Volume 5, KG-Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25035-5 , p. 544
  • Short biography of Rudolf Kaulla in: Werner Röder / Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 , Volume I, Verlag KG Saur, Munich 1980, p. 357 ( preview in Google book search)
  • Gerhard J. Mauch: Kaulla, Rudolf. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , p. 315f.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 357

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personal data
SURNAME Kaulla, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaulla, Rudolf Benedikt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, author, banker
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1954
Place of death Oberstdorf