Werner Friedrich Bruck

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Werner Friedrich Bruck (born August 23, 1880 in Breslau ; died May 29, 1945 in New York City ) was a German-British agricultural scientist and economist.

Life

Werner Friedrich Bruck was a son of the Breslau criminal lawyer and privy councilor Felix Friedrich Bruck and Anna Elise; his mother died in childbirth. He studied biology and economics at the Universities of Breslau, Berlin and Halle and initially worked as a biologist and agricultural scientist. He received his doctorate in 1904 in Leipzig and after working at the Reich Office for Agriculture and Forestry in Berlin, he became an assistant at the University of Gießen in 1905, where he completed his habilitation in 1907 and was appointed private lecturer. From 1904 he was a member of the National Liberal Party and after 1918 of the German People's Party .

Before the First World War he undertook study trips to East Africa and Asia on behalf of the Reich Colonial Office, so that he received a teaching position for tropical agriculture in Giessen. During the war he worked for Walther Rathenau in the War Economics Office, as well as in the German embassy in Constantinople and in the Generalgouvernement of Warsaw , where he sought to improve the supply of raw materials to the German Empire. For this he was awarded the EKII . After working in the demobilization department in the Reich Ministry of Economics and at the University of Breslau , he was appointed professor of economic political science , industrial economics and global economics at the University of Münster in 1922 and wrote a series of articles on the political economy of the Weimar Republic . In 1929, together with the general director of the Westphalian Heimstätte Heinrich Vormbrock, he founded the Research Center for Settlements and Housing, today's Institute for Settlements and Housing in Münster, as well as the Transport Science Seminar. Together with Walter Hoffmann and Heinrich Weber , he headed the "Institute for Economic and Social Sciences" from 1924. Several seminars were attached to the institute: 1. the welfare seminar, 2. the employment placement and career counseling seminar, 3. the trade union seminar, 4. the socio-political seminar. In addition, he and Heinrich Weber took over the direction of studies at the Westphalian Administrative Academy, which was also affiliated with the "Institute for Economic and Social Sciences". 1)

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Bruck was given a forced leave of absence for racist reasons with the law to restore the civil service and had to submit a retirement application. In 1934 he emigrated to Great Britain and was visiting professor in Cardiff . He had been a British citizen since 1939.

With a Rockefeller scholarship , Bruck was able to travel to the USA in 1940 , where he received a chair in political administration at the New School of Social Research , as well as visiting professorships at the universities of Wisconsin and Kansas .

With his wife Antonia Coerper (* 1890) he had sons Caspar (* 1920) and Peter (* 1922), both of whom were soldiers in the British Army during the Second World War . He was a younger brother of the lawyer Eberhard Friedrich Bruck .

Fonts (selection)

  • The road to planned economy: capitalism and socialism in Germany's development , Cardiff: Univ. Press Board 1934.
  • The economic importance of the auditor and the demands on his knowledge in Germany and England , Berlin: J. Springer 1932.
  • Create work for millions of unemployed before winter! : a work program in the twelfth hour , Münster 1931.
  • The training problem of the civil servant in administration and economy. History and proposals for reform. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1926.
  • Institute for Economic and Social Sciences. In: Pocket book for the students of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster iW 1926, pp. 28–33.
  • History of the War Committee of the German Cotton Industry at the same time Abriß d. Cotton economy during d. War: On behalf of d. War Committee d. German cotton industry , Berlin: War Committee d. German Cotton Ind. 1920.
  • Jute substitute and hemp cultivation: a contribution z. Organization of our internal economic market during d. War , Berlin: Parey 1914.
  • How do you study biology? : an introduction to d. Science f. prospective students d. Botany and Zoology their complementary science, with advice z. expedient. Arrange d. Course of study , Stuttgart: Violet 1910.
  • Plant diseases , Leipzig: Göschen 1907.

Editing

  • Bruck, Werner Friedrich / Weber, Heinrich (ed.): Westphalian Administrative Academy. Münster: Verlag der Westfälische Verwaltungsakademie 1925ff, 4 issues.
  • Bruck, Werner Friedrich / Hoffmann, Friedrich / Weber, Heinrich (Hrsg.): Economic and social science treatises. 9 booklets. H. 1-4 Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1926 ff, from H. 5 Münster iW: Baader 1929 ff.

literature

  • Gisela Möllenhoff; Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer: Jewish families in Münster 1918 to 1945. Biographical Lexicon , Münster: Westfäl. Steam boat, 1995 ISBN 3-929586-48-7 .
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 160
  • Manfred Hermanns : Heinrich Weber: Social and Caritas scientist in a time of upheaval . Wurzburg. Echter 1998, pages 25, 27-30, 33-34, 88, 90, 99, 103, 107, 187, 202-203, 206-210. ISBN 3-429-01971-0 .
  • Claus-Dieter Krohn: Bruck, Werner Friedrich. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 88-89.
  • Bruck, Werner , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 48

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personal data
SURNAME Bruck, Werner Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British economist
DATE OF BIRTH 23 August 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1945
Place of death New York City