Carl Brinkmann
Carl Brinkmann ( born March 19, 1885 in Tilsit, East Prussia, † May 20, 1954 in Oberstdorf, Allgäu) was a German sociologist and economist.
Carl Brinkmann et al studied history in Freiburg, Göttingen, Berlin and Oxford. In 1908, he was with Gustav von Schmoller in Berlin doctorate with the work The Origin of Märkischen land book of Emperor Charles V in 1913 was his Habilitation in Freiburg with the work of freedom and statehood in the earlier German Constitution and received the Venia Legendi medieval and modern history. In Freiburg he taught until 1918 as a lecturer. From 1915 to 1923 he was counselor of legation at the Foreign Office. After the First World War, he taught in Berlin, where he became associate professor in 1921. In 1923, he received a call to the chair of economics and finance at the University of Heidelberg. In the thirties, Brinkmann was one of the most important representatives of the Historical School. In National Socialism Brinkmann was not a party member, but he got through some technical expressions in the vicinity of Nazi positions. In Heidelberg Brinkmann worked mainly objectively oriented towards themes of German economic and financial policies as well as during the time of National Socialism, the spatial and economic theory, however, he paid tribute to the system by writing anti- British propaganda writings quite recognition. From 1942 to 1946 Brinkmann taught as a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. 1946 was followed by a teaching post at the University of Erlangen. From 1947 to 1954 he was Professor of National Economics and Sociology at the University of Tübingen. His scientific interests of the economic and social history and particularly in the world economic history.
Writings
- Economic theory. Second, revised edition, Göttingen 1953.
- Economies and ways of life. 2nd edition, Tübingen 1950.
- Sociological theory of revolution. Göttingen 1948.
- English History 1815-1914. Berlin 1924.
- World politics and economy in the 19th century. Bielefeld 1921.