Waldemar Zimmermann

Waldemar Zimmermann (born August 3, 1876 in Plötzensee , Niederbarnim district ; † June 16, 1963 in Hamburg ) was a German economist and social politician .

Life

After a practical training in mechanical engineering , followed by a degree at the TH Charlottenburg , Waldemar Zimmermann devoted himself to studying law and political science with Gustav v. Schmoller , philosophy and geography at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , 1902 Dr. phil. after receiving his doctorate , he worked as an editor and co-editor of the weekly newspaper Soziale Praxis until 1912 .

In 1905 he went on a study trip to England and Scotland . In 1907 he completed his habilitation in Berlin for economics and social sciences. In 1913 he was appointed associate professor there. During the First World War , Zimmermann held a leading position on the War Committee for Consumer Interests , and in 1918 he was appointed advisor to the Economic Commission of the Prussian War Ministry .

In 1920 he went to the University of Hamburg as an associate professor for economics and social policy , which in 1925 appointed him full professor . In 1941 he retired . In addition, he temporarily worked as general secretary of the Society for Social Reform . With Ludwig Heyde he sat on the board of the Evangelical Social Congress . During the economic crisis , he advocated a policy of job creation, as it was later implemented by the National Socialists . For the ergonomic institute he worked as a consultant to the institute management.

Fonts

• Industrial Unification in England and Scotland: Report of the Study Commission of the Society for Social Reform, Fischer, Jena, 1906
• Liability and omission of collective agreements under applicable law, Sittenfeld, Berlin, 1913
• Legal questions of the labor collective agreement: liability, waiver; Based on a survey by the Labor Law Committee of the Society for Social Reform, Fischer, Jena, 1913
• Expansion and improvement of the commercial unification system: Based on a survey by the labor law committee of the Society for Social Reform, Fischer, Jena, 1914
• The worker question in Germany after the war, Gersbach & Sohn, Berlin, 1925
• The living and working conditions of employed youth in Germany: Lecture at the conference of the Evangelical Social Congress in Saarbrücken on May 27, 1926, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1926
• With Rudolf Meerwarth, Adolf Günther : The impact of war on population movement, income and standard of living in Germany, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, 1932

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 228 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , page 671.
• Hauke ​​Jannsen: Economics and National Socialism: The German economics in the thirties of the 20th century. Third, revised edition, Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3895187520 . Page 637.

Web links

• Literature by and about Waldemar Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library