Wilhelm Rieger

Wilhelm Rieger (born May 7, 1878 in Saarburg , Alsace-Lorraine , † March 15, 1971 in Stuttgart ) was a German economist .

Life

Rieger first studied law from 1914 , then from 1916 economics at the University of Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate on November 16, 1918 with the dissertation “The reasons for the transition to the gold standard in Germany”. He had been a full-time lecturer at the Nuremberg Commercial College since 1919 , and a full professor there since 1925 . Ludwig Erhard is one of his students there , and he felt grateful for his teacher . From 1928 Rieger was full professor for private business studies at the University of Tübingen . Erich Preiser completed his habilitation with him in 1930. Wilhelm Rieger made a fundamental contribution to the constitution of this subject, particularly with his comprehensive “Introduction to Private Business Studies”. In 1947 Rieger retired. From 1928 to 1942 he also held a teaching position for business administration at the TH Stuttgart .

Works (selection)

• The reasons for the transition to the gold standard in Germany . Dissertation, University of Strasbourg, November 16, 1918
• Introduction to private business . Nuremberg: Hochschulbuchhandlung Krische & Co., 1928, VI, 331 p .; 3rd, unchanged. Edition. Erlangen: Palm and Enke, 1984, VI, 331 pp., ISBN 3-7896-0063-6
• Schmalenbach's dynamic balance sheet. A critical investigation . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1936, VIII, 136 p .; 2nd edition, 1954, 140 pp.

Honors

• 1949 Dr. oec. hc from the Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences
• 1953 “The company in the market. Festschrift for Wilhelm Rieger on his 75th birthday “ed. by Johannes Fettel and Hanns Linhardt, Stuttgart and Cologne
• 1958 Dr. oec. hc from the University of Munich
• 1957 honorary member of the Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration
• 1957 Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Since 1958 Wilhelm Rieger-Gesellschaft based in Nuremberg
• Street in the Herpersdorf district of Nuremberg

literature

• The company in the market. Festschrift for Wilhelm Rieger on his 75th birthday . Stuttgart; Cologne: Kohlhammer, 1953, 322 pp.
• Johannes Fettel and Hanns Linhardt (eds.): The company in the company. Festschrift for Wilhelm Rieger on his 85th birthday . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1963, XII, 478 pp.
• Helmut Marcon and Heinrich Strecker : Article 69. Wilhelm Rieger, in: 200 years of economics and political science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Life and work of the professors, Vol. I, Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, pp. 515–519, ISBN 3-515-06657-8 [with personal bibliography and list of literature on WR]
• Siegfried Menrad : Wilhelm Rieger's years in Tübingen as reflected in the files in the university archive . In: Baussteine ​​zur Tübingen University History, No. 6 (1992), pp. 109–120.
• Dieter Schneider:  Rieger, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 580 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Rieger in the catalog of the German National Library
• David AR Forrester: Wilhelm Rieger and Cash Accounting. An Essay in Controversial Ideas, in: Abacus 36 (1), 2000 ( Memento from September 29, 2000 in the Internet Archive )