Wilhelm Andreae (economist)

Wilhelm Friedrich Otto Andreae (born April 8, 1888 in Magdeburg , † May 20, 1962 in Gießen ) was a German social economist.

Life

Andreae was born in Magdeburg as the son of the shipowner Johann (Hans) Andreae († 1901) and his wife Martha († 1940), née Müller. From 1894 to 1906 he attended the grammar school at the monastery of Our Dear Women . From 1906 to 1908 he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Magdeburg. Then he joined an intellectual circle around the universal historian and professor at the Berlin University Kurt Breysig in Niederschönhausen near Berlin together with his brother Friedrich Andreae . Through the circle he met Friedrich Wolters , Berthold Vallentin and Kurt Hildebrandt , with whom he became especially friends. In the Niederschönhausen district, later in the Lichterfeld district, he also came into contact with Stefan George , for whom he, for example, re-translated some of Plato's works. After Andreae acquired his commercial diploma in 1910, he worked as a businessman. From 1912 he studied at the University of Padua . In 1914 he volunteered for service in the First World War, and from 1915 he was active in the Patriotic Aid Service. After 1918 he studied philosophy, archeology, sociology, classical philology and economics at the universities of Heidelberg, Padua and Breslau until 1921. He received his doctorate on April 21, 1921. From 1921 to 1925 he owned a factory in Glöwen.

In 1925 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna under Othmar Spann with an edition of Plato's writings. On November 5, 1925, he received his license to teach economics and sociology in Vienna. In 1927 he received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Graz . He married Illa Lackmann in 1928 , with whom he had seven children. His children included Clemens August Andreae , Stefan Andreae , Bernard Andreae and Gabriele Andreae , who also embarked on scientific careers. In 1930 he became a full professor at the University of Graz and from 1933 to 1942 he was a full professor at the University of Giessen . However, when he was classified as politically unreliable, he lost his chair. Then he was on the board of a Berlin company for a year. Until 1944 he was chamber director of Prince Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck in Grevenbroich. After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was on the run until the end of World War II. From 1945 he was again a professor in Gießen, in between also for a short time at the Philipps University of Marburg . Günther Hedtkamp and Wilhelm Wapenhans completed their habilitation under him . Wilhelm Andreae retired on September 30, 1958 and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in February 1959 .

In the Soviet zone of occupation , his book Capitalism, Bolshevism, Fascism (Fischer, Jena 1933) was placed on the list of literature to be segregated.

literature

• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. Edit v. Inge Auerbach. Vol. 2, 1979, p. 387.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Andreae in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Birth Records 1874–1903 [database on-line], Magdeburg Old Town Registry Office, Register Number 1018/1888
2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit.html