Walter Troeltsch (economist)

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Walter Troeltsch, portrait by Julius Wilhelm Hornung , 1898

Walter Troeltsch (born July 6, 1866 in Mergelstetten , † February 23, 1933 in Marburg ) was a German economist .

life and work

Walter Troeltsch was the only son of the factory owner and MP Wilhelm Troeltsch . He studied political science at the universities of Munich , Tübingen and Berlin . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich in the special houses association . From 1888 he was employed in the Bavarian judicial service. On April 26, 1890, he was in Tübingen with a dissertation on the Munich beer tax to Dr. phil. PhD. He then took leave of absence and completed his habilitation on August 19, 1891 with a thesis on Bavarian municipal tax policy . During the subsequent time as a private lecturer, which he was able to finance from family assets, he devoted himself to teaching and subject-related publications. In 1897 he published Die Calwer Zeughandlungskompagnie and their workers . This study is still regarded today as fundamental work on location factors and their effects on the labor market.

After an extraordinary professorship in Tübingen, which he took up on December 27, 1897, he was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe on May 8, 1899 . From April 1, 1902, he was appointed full professor at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he served as dean of the Philosophical Faculty in 1910/11 and as rector in 1912/13 . On December 14, 1917, he was appointed a secret councilor. In 1929/30 he was Dean of the Law Faculty.

Politically, Troeltsch was left-wing liberal . He ran for the DDP for the Marburg city council. In 1918 he was deputy city councilor and in 1919 city councilor.

Troeltsch mainly examined the causes and effects of unemployment . Using empirical research, he demonstrated that there is no single cause of unemployment.

Troeltsch's students include Gustav Heinemann , Wilhelm Röpke , Rudolf Diels and Erwin Wiskemann . In his funeral speech in Troeltsch, Röpke expressed himself critical of National Socialism .

Troeltsch's grandson is the Hessian politician Walter Troeltsch .

Fonts

  • Contributions to the financial history of Munich in the second half of the 18th century (the city's so-called Bierpfenning) . Cotta, Stuttgart 1890.
  • The Bavarian municipal taxation since the beginning of the 19th century, with special consideration of indirect consumption taxes. Shown using official sources . CB Beck'sche Verlagsbuch, Munich 1891.
  • Contributions to the financial history of Munich in the 19th century (the so-called local malt surcharge). Cotta, Stuttgart 1893.
  • The Calw armory trading company and its workers. Studies on the industrial and social history of Old Württemberg . Fischer, Jena 1897.
  • About the latest changes in German economic life , lecture cycle. Kohlhammer, Berlin 1899.
  • The future German customs tariff. Lecture given at the Karlsruhe Trade Association on January 29, 1902 . Braun, Karlsruhe 1902.
  • Imperial finances and Imperial inheritance tax . Lehmanns, Munich 1904.
  • On the history of the University of Marburg . A. Asher & Co, Berlin 1904.
  • For the 70th birthday of Friedrich Julius Neumann . Printing house of the Allgemeine Zeitung, Munich 1905.
  • The Hessian economic policy legislation in 1902 and its successes to date (especially the state mortgage bank and the maintenance of small housing construction). Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905.
  • with Paul Hirschfeld: The German Social Democratic Unions . In: Studies and materials on their geographical distribution 1896-1903 . Heymann, Berlin 1905.
  • The problem of unemployment , Kaiser birthday speech. Elwert, Marburg 1907.
  • Modern territorial trade up to 1800 . In: The development of German economics in the nineteenth century: Gustav Schmoller on the seventieth anniversary of his birthday, June 24, 1908 .2 (1908) 1908, pp. 1-20.
  • Economic considerations on fashion. Speech given when the Rector took office on October 13, 1912 . Elwert, Marburg 1912.
  • The German industrial cartels before and since the war . Baedeker, Essen 1916.
  • The craft and the science , lecture by Kurh.-wald. Craftsmen Association, Kassel 1928.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5741, p. 134 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 125.
  3. ^ Sylvia Paletschek: The permanent invention of a tradition: the University of Tübingen in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, p. 245.
  4. ^ Critical lecture by the Marburg economist Wilhelm Röpke, February 8, 1933. Contemporary history in Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ^ Alfred Schüller: Wilhelm Röpke - work and activity in Marburg: Lessons for the present and future . In: ORDO. Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society 54 (2003), p. 37.
  6. ^ Rudolf H. Böttcher: Research on the Genealogy Troeltsch and von Tröltsch . Not yet published

literature

  • Walter Braeuer: Walter Troeltsch . In: Ingeborg Schnack (ed.): Marburg scholars in the first half of the 20th century. Marburg 1977 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. XXXV, 1), pp. 553–568.

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personal data
SURNAME Troeltsch, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Troeltsch, Walter Friedrich Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Mergelstetten , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1933
Place of death Marburg