Rudolf Meerwarth

Rudolf Meerwarth (born July 16, 1883 in Karlsruhe , † March 9, 1946 in Berlin ) was a German economist , statistician and professor at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Meerwarth studied political science from 1902 to 1906 at the universities of Munich , Breslau , Heidelberg and Karlsruhe. In 1905 the doctorate to Dr. phil. in state economics at the University of Munich, in 1906 he passed the state examination for cameras in Karlsruhe for entry into the higher service in the financial administration of Baden.

From the end of 1906 he worked at the Imperial Statistical Office in Berlin as a scientific assistant , from 1907 as a permanent employee. In 1914, he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin . From 1914 on he was a member of the Prussian State Statistical Office (with war interruption) and briefly took part in the First World War in 1916 , until he was postponed from arms service at the end of that year. In 1918 Meerwarth became a government and economic councilor. At the University of Berlin he completed his habilitation in 1921 on the significance of the inflation figures and was then active there until 1922 as a private lecturer in political science and from 1922 to 1928 as an associate professor of statistics.

In 1927 he became a senior government councilor as well as a member of the International Statistical Institute and a year later government director at the Prussian State Statistical Office, where he remained a member until 1934, when it was merged with the Reich Statistical Office . From 1928 to 1941 he was a full professor of statistics and director of the Institute for Economics and Statistics at the University of Leipzig.

Meerwarth signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges about Adolf Hitler in November 1933 .

Publications (selection)

• Introduction to economic statistics , Jena 1920.
• Problems with the German balance of payments , Munich-Leipzig 1924.
• Economics and Statistics. An introduction to empirical economics , Berlin 1925.
• Statistics Guide , Leipzig 1939.
• Co-editor of the Deutsche Statistisches Zentralblatt (since 1924) and the Deutsche-Französische Rundschau

Web links

• Rudolf Meerwarth in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig