Wolfgang Ritscher

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Wolfgang Ritscher (born November 19, 1892 in Munich ; † May 12, 1964 ) was a German economist and trade union historian.

Life

Wolfgang Ritscher studied economics and jurisprudence in Munich and Paris and received his doctorate in economics in Munich in 1916 under Lujo Brentano . Ritscher's dissertation on the history of German right of association - the basis of freedom of association - was re-edited and commented on by Rainer Schröder in the series of major works on labor law and social policy. Ritschers study of the history of German labor law leads from the journeymen to society . Ritscher studied law in Erlangen and received his doctorate in 1917 under Paul Oertmann with a dissertation on the jurisprudence of maximum prices.

Rainer Schröder's new edition of the dissertation on German right to form associations includes a biography of Ritscher. His most important professional activity then began at Deutsche Bank in Augsburg, where he completed his banking apprenticeship from trainee to deputy director in the years after the First World War, until he was appointed to the management board of Süddeutsche Holzwirtschaftsbank in 1924. He married Gertraude von Bismarck in 1919 and had two sons. In 1933 he emigrated with his family to Czechoslovakia, from where he returned to Munich in 1945.

The Bavarian State Office for Asset Management and Reparation appointed him as the central trustee for the former trade union assets, which led to the establishment of the Bank for Economy and Labor in Munich in 1949, the first institute of a group of banks that was formed with the participation of trade unions and consumer cooperatives and later merged to form the bank for community service . He was a committed advocate of the common economy as the third path between socialism and capitalism.

As such, he was a member of the following supervisory boards until his retirement in 1961: Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau since 1948; Maximilianshütte since 1952; BMW Bayerische Motorenwerke AG since 1955; Bayer. Landesbodenkreditanstalt since 1951. His social commitment led him to the board of Pfennigparade eV and the Supervisory Board of the zoo Hellabrunn .

Awards

literature

  • Rainer Schröder: Introduction. In: Wolfgang Ritscher: Coalitions and right of coalition in Germany up to the Reichsgewerbeordnung. (Staatswiss. Diss. Munich) Stuttgart 1917, ed. and introduced by Rainer Schröder (= major works of labor law and social policy ). Frankfurt am Main 1992, pp. 2-6.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coalitions and freedom of association in Germany up to the Reichsgewerbeordnung. In: Lujo Brentano, Walter Lotz (Hrsg.): Münchner Volkswirtschaftliche Studien. 1917.
  2. ^ Rainer Schröder: Wolfgang Ritscher - Coalitions and right of association in Germany up to the Reichsgewerbeordnung. Keip Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-8051-0111-2 .
  3. ↑ Jurisprudence on maximum prices (in particular general and civil law issues). In: Journal of the Royal Bavarian State Statistical Office . No. 4, 1917, pp. 598-622.
personal data
SURNAME Ritscher, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and trade union historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1964