Fritz Morstein Marx

Fritz Morstein Marx ( born February 23, 1900 in Hamburg, † 9 October 1969 in Baden -Baden ) was a German -American Politics and Public Administration scientists.

Morstein Marx studied after brief military service in World War jurisprudence. In 1922 he received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg and then stepped into the administrative services of the Free and Hanseatic city. 1930/31 he was a research fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States and emigrated in 1933 to the handover of power to the Nazis there. He has been active in academic teaching and in administration. From 1942 to 1960 he was a member of the Bureau of the Budget of the U.S. president. In addition, he was a research professor at Princeton University. From 1960 to 1962 he was dean at Hunter College in New York City.

1962 returned Morstein Marx returned to Germany and became professor of Comparative Public Administration and Public Law at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. He retired in 1968 but continued teaching activities continued until his death.

German -language journals (selection)

• Introduction to the bureaucracy. A comparative study of the civil service, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1959
• American administration. Main aspects and problems, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1963
• The dilemma of administrative man, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1965.