Theodor Cassau

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Theodor Otto Cassau (born August 10, 1884 in Berlin ; †) was a German economist.

Life and activity

Cassau was a son of the master shoemaker Heinrich Cassau and his wife Marie geb. Noschka. From Easter 1890 to Easter 1894 he attended the Berlin community school and then the Friedrich-Werdersche Oberrealschule, which he left in 1903 with the school-leaving certificate. In the summer semester he began studying history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, from which he soon turned away, however, to instead devote himself to studying economics. In the last few years of his studies his main interests were social policy and trade union history. He spent the summer semester of 1907 in Leipzig. In 1908 he graduated with one of ... supervised dissertation on the Wood Workers Association and received his doctorate for Dr. rer oek .

On January 1, 1908, Cassau joined the Bureau for Social Policy and the editorial staff of the magazine Soziale Politik as an employee.

After the military collapse of the German Reich in November 1918 following the November Revolution Cassau, together with Hermann Paul Tear house of elected on 9 November 1918. Erfurt Workers 'and Soldiers' Council elected co-chairman.

From 1918 to 1921 Cassau was an advisor to the Reich Ministry of Economics. From 1923 to 1928 he headed the business section of the Berliner Tageblatt . As an economist, he was close to the Hofgeismar Young Socialist group during these years.

From 1928 to 1933 Cassau was director of the Prussian State Statistical Office in Berlin with the rank of government director.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Cassau was dismissed from civil service in accordance with the provisions of the law for the restoration of the civil service. In 1934 he emigrated to Great Britain, where he settled in London.

After his emigration, Cassau was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police in Germany: In the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who would be removed from the British Isles in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Occupation troops following special SS commandos should be located and arrested with special priority.

Fonts

  • The German Woodworkers' Association: constitution and administration of a modern trade union 1909.
  • Workers and intellectuals, in: Otto Jenssen , The living Marxism. Ceremony for the 70th birthday of Karl Kautsky , Jena 1924, pp. 177–194.
  • The consumer association movement in Germany , 1924 (also in English as The Consumers' Co-operative Movement in Germany , 1925)
  • The leader problem within the trade unions
  • Department store and consumption, in: Problems of the department store, Berlin 1928, p. 100 f.
  • The trade union movement, its sociology and its struggle , 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forces War Records: Hitler's Black Book - information for Theodor Cassau , accessed April 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Cassau, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cassau, Theodor Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century