Rudolf Ludloff (economic historian)

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Rudolf Ludloff (born January 31, 1927 in Cronschwitz ) is a German economic historian .

Life and Scientific Work

Rudolf Ludloff is a descendant of Hermann Ludloff, the last landowner of Billmuthausen and a "family of great agrarians".

He received his doctorate in 1955 under Max Steinmetz in Jena and completed his habilitation in 1961 based on the experience of Bernhard Averbeck , the former managing director of the Prüssing Group. Together with another “Propaganda Book”, he programmatically ended the cautious approach within the main technology history group of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) .

In 1961 the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences and Technology was created in the Faculty of Mathematics (not in the social sciences) at the Karl-Marx-Stadt University of Mechanical Engineering. Ludloff was appointed head and pleaded for "history of technology and natural sciences" in order to keep the name identical to the Dresden institute.

His teaching positions as a professor were:

  • 1951–1955 political economy and later economic history at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • 1961–1969: History of technology at the Karl-Marx-Stadt University of Mechanical Engineering / Chemnitz University of Technology
  • 1970/71: Scientific socialism at the Chemnitz University of Technology
  • 1972–1993: Economic history at the Chemnitz University of Technology / Chemnitz University of Technology

For the 125th anniversary of the Karl-Marx-Stadt University of Mechanical Engineering in 1963, Ludloff published a school history.

In 1962/1963 Ludloff benefited, partly through reluctance, from the dispute between the union-related Professor Heinz Müller of the TU Dresden and the party over the orientation of the Institute for the History of Technology and Natural Sciences (in which Müller had also included Ludloff). The institute was dissolved. Ludloff protested against the closure, did not change to the TU Dresden, but took on Müller's habilitation subject Civil Engineering History of West Germany as the focus of his institute.

The book on the history of technology , published in 1964, follows on from the discussion, as only representatives of the history of technology from Chemnitz and not representatives from Berlin or Dresden were involved in the creation. He also wrote a commemorative publication for the 10th anniversary of the Karl-Marx-Stadt University of Mechanical Engineering and its renaming to the Chemnitz University of Technology.

Political activities

On September 16, 1950, Ludloff, as a member named by the SED company organization , took part in an event ( Treitschke debate ) to expose Karl Griewank .

From this time he could be regarded as a “pioneer of GDR history” in the sense of a rigorous establishment of Marxism-Leninism through “state, (secret) police and legal means”, which is also reflected in his publications.

Werner Fritsch and Werner Nöckel undertook a critical appreciation of the political work.

Publications (selection)

  • with Horst Drechsler and Günther Steiger: Wartburg Festival of the German students 1955. 1817-1955, Festival of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena on October 14-16, 1955 , self-published by the University of Jena, 1955.
  • The stay of German university teachers in Moscow and Leningrad. In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Society and Linguistics Series 6, 1956/57, no. 6, pp. 709–722.
  • On the socio-economic development in the glass industry in Thuringia and Hesse in the 16th and 17th centuries. Thuringian Heimat 2, 1957.
  • Industrial development in 16th - 17th century Germany - Past and Present , 1957.
  • The political development at the University of Jena in the period of the relative stabilization of capitalism (1924–1928). In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Society and Linguistics Series 7, 1957/58, H. 2/3, pp. 213–228.
  • The humanistic vocation of German science and technology can only be fulfilled under the leadership of the working class , Urania, 1963
  • The productive forces of capitalism and the PDS program, UTOPIE Kreativ, H. 132 (October 2001), pp. 902-908 ( online ).
  • Optimistic German history of the present: economy, technology, science, poetry, politics , NORA, 2002

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In 1965 Ludloff was included in the Who is Who? recorded. The correspondence from 1969 to 1989 regarding the correspondence with Ernst Diehl is in the Federal Archives ; scientific articles on economic history, history of technology and natural sciences are available.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vademecum of History 1998/99 (3rd edition), p. 454.
  2. ^ Rudolf Ludloff. The productive forces of capitalism and the program of the PDS. In: UTOPIE Kreativ, H. 132 (October 2001), pp. 902-908 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Rudolf Ludloff: Dissertation: The development of the production conditions in the glass industry in Thuringia, from its beginnings to the complete development of capitalism . Jena 1955.
  4. ^ Rudolf Ludloff: Habilitation: From the individual work to the fascist group: Zur Geschichte d. German cement industry in imperialism until 1945 . Jena 1961.
  5. ↑ Hubertus Averbeck: From the cold water cure to physical therapy: considerations on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century . BoD - Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2 ( google.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
  6. ^ Rudolf Ludloff: Barracks instead of apartments. On the history of the German cement industry under imperialism up to 1945 . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1963.
  7. ↑ a b c d Wolfhard Weber, Lutz Engelskirchen: Dispute about the history of technology in Germany 1945-1975 . Waxmann Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8309-5992-2 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
  8. ^ Journal of History . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1969 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
  9. ^ Vademecum of German teaching and research institutions . Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, 1968 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
  10. ^ Society for social and economic history (Germany) working conference, Eckart Schremmer: Economic and social history: Subject and method: 17th working conference of the society for social and economic history in Jena 1997 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-515-07385-1 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
  11. ^ Rudolf Ludloff: From the Koeniglichen Gewerbschule Chemnitz to the University of Mechanical Engineering Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1836-1961. Ed .: The Rector of the University of Mechanical Engineering Karl-Marx-Stadt. G. Mugler, Oberlungwitz 1963.
  12. ↑ Anatolij A. Zvorykin and Rudolf Ludloff: History of technology . Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1964.
  13. ^ Rudolf Ludloff: Prehistory and beginnings of the TH Karl-Marx-Stadt . Ed .: Rector and Senate of the University. Karl-Marx-Stadt 1963.
  14. ^ A b Uwe Hossfeld: University in Socialism: Studies on the History of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1945-1990) . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-34505-1 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Werner Fritsch, Werner Nöckel: In vain hope for a political spring: Opposition and repression at the University of Jena 1956-1968: a documentation . Jena 1800, 2006, ISBN 978-3-931911-33-1 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
  16. ^ Paul Forman, Cathryn Carson, AB Kozhevnikov: Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis . World Scientific, 2011, ISBN 978-981-4293-11-2 ( google.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Uwe Hossfeld: "In the service of people and fatherland": the Jena University in the Nazi era . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2005, ISBN 978-3-412-16704-2 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who? Arani, 1965 ( google.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
  19. ↑ Correspondence with Ernst Diehl in the Federal Archives . Retrieved November 19, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Ludloff, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic and technical historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cronschwitz