Waldemar Mitscherlich

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Waldemar Mitscherlich (born March 22, 1877 in Hannoversch Münden , † July 31, 1961 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German economist. He was a son of the chemist and entrepreneur Alexander Mitscherlich .

Life

Mitscherlich studied natural sciences from 1898 to 1900 at the University of Göttingen , where he became a member of the Hannovera fraternity in 1898 , from which he left in 1935. Until 1907 he studied philosophy, history and economics at the University of Freiburg (Breisgau) , the University of Kiel and the University of Berlin . In 1904 he was promoted to Dr. phil. did his doctorate and habilitation in 1908 at the University of Kiel for economic political sciences . In the same year he became a professor for this subject at the Royal Academy in Posen , in 1915 he moved to the University of Greifswald , in 1917 to the University of Breslau and in 1928 to the University of Göttingen. After a student boycott because of his declared opposition to the emerging National Socialism , he was given leave of absence and transferred to the University of Halle in 1934 in exchange for Gustav Aubin , who was also known as an opponent of National Socialism . Mitscherlich was a member of the NSV, the NSRB, the RLB and was a supporting member of the SS . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . After clashes with National Socialist students again, Mitscherlich was transferred to the University of Leipzig in 1941 and retired in 1942 . Mitscherlich then lived in various West German cities (Freiburg, Coburg, Marburg) and returned to Halle in 1946. His reappointment as professor at the university there failed because of his supposedly reactionary capitalist teaching due to the objection of the communist university administration. Despite this, Mitscherlich taught in Halle as a substitute until 1947. In 1949 he moved to West Germany, where he died in Bad Godesberg in 1961.

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In his academic work Mitscherlich explored the question of political, economic and cultural causes for the emergence of nation and nationalism . He saw a way to overcome nationalism in a macroeconomic development towards a general state ( imperial state ). After the First World War , he relied on the League of Nations and major social revolutions in this regard .

After 1945 Mitscherlich tried harder to combine the scientific-explanatory with the humanistic-understanding method in order to work out the function of the idea as a formative force of the social.

Works (selection)

  • Economic progress. Its course and essence , Hirschfeld: Leipzig 1910
  • The nationalism of Western Europe , CL Hirschfeld: Leipzig 1920
  • An economic level theory. Sketch of the economic development of the Germanic-Romanic peoples , Hirschfeld: Leipzig 1924
  • An economic level theory. Sketch of the economic development of the Germanic-Romanic peoples , CL Hirschfeld: Leipzig 1924
  • Modern workers policy , Leipzig 1927
  • Tied economy or late capitalism. An examination of Werner Sombart's economic system of capitalism, Part 2 , Schmoller's Yearbook for Legislation, Administration and Economics, Volume 54, Issue 19, Duncker & Humblot: Munich 1931
  • The doctrine of flexible and rigid concepts. Explained in economics , Kohlhammer: Stuttgart 1936
  • Knowledge of the natural sciences and humanities , Stuttgart 1937
  • The three stages of the national economy and their ideal and moral foundations , Kohlhammer: Stuttgart 1943

literature

  • Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Mitscherlich, Waldemar , in: ders./Horst Knospe (ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon, Vol. 1, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1980, p. 292 f.
  • Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 340.
  2. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer , History of the fraternity Hannovera 1928 to 1945 , WJK-Verlag Hilden, 2009, p. 92 f.
personal data
SURNAME Mitscherlich, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hannoversch Münden
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1961
Place of death bad Godesberg