Sigmund Schott (statistician)

Sigmund Albert Julius Schott (born October 10, 1868 in Leipzig , † November 19, 1953 in Heidelberg ) was a German statistician .

Life

Born in Leipzig, Stuttgart grown Sigmund Schott studied by put- High School at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig , 1890 took place its graduation to the Dr. phil. In 1890 he took up his first position as a volunteer assistant in the statistical office of the city of Leipzig, in 1892 he moved to the grand ducal statistical office in Oldenburg as a government assessor , and in 1897 he was appointed director of the statistical office of the city of Mannheim founded two years earlier . At times he was also head of the Mannheim employment office and the evening academy . In 1934 he was retired.

Sigmund Schott completed his habilitation in 1907 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , in 1908 he was promoted to associate professor there , from 1928 to 1933 he worked as a personal professor at the Mannheim University of Commerce , where he was appointed director of studies in 1908 . After leaving the company, he was given an honorary doctorate in economics for his long-term commitment . Schott - he carried out pioneering statistical work in the Mannheim area - was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Mannheim in 1949 .

Fonts (selection)

• Public prosperity in the Kingdom of Saxony , dissertation . M. Hoffmann, Leipzig-Reudnitz 1890.
• The results of the occupation census of June 14, 1895. Haas, 1898.
• The industrial port of Mannheim : Festschrift for the inauguration of the port on June 3, 1907. Mannheimer Vereindruckerei, Mannheim 1907
• City development in major German cities since 1871, habilitation thesis . 1907.
• Guide through Mannheim. Verlag des Verkehrsverein Mannheim, Mannheim 1907.
• Old Mannheim families: A contribution to the family statistics of the XIX. Century. Bensheimer, 1910.
• The sampling procedure in city statistics. One try. 1917.
• Statistical remarks on the result of the national elections in Mannheim. Mannheim 1919.
• Statistics. Leipzig, Teubner 1920 (From nature and the spiritual world. Collection of scientific-common understandable representations 442).
• Results of the housing census of May 12, 1925. Edited by Sigmund Schott. In: Contributions to the statistics of the city of Mannheim. Mannheim 1925.
• Selected Writings. Published by the city administration of Mannheim on the occasion of the 350th city anniversary. Printing and Verl.-Ges. Mannheim 1957.

literature

• Georg von Mayr , German Statistical Society , Working Group for Municipal Statistics: General Statistical Archive . Volumes 37-38. Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1953, p. 377.
• Karl Otto Watzinger : Schott, Sigmund. In: Bernd Ottnad (Ed.): Badische Biographien . New series, volume 3. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-17-009958-2 , p. 248 ( E-Text ).
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 122.

Web links

• History of the Mannheim municipal statistics at www.mannheim.de