Georg Friedrich Knapp

Georg Friedrich Knapp ( born March 7, 1842 in Giessen, † February 20, 1926 in Darmstadt) was a professor of economics and rector at the University of Strasbourg. He is regarded by his book "State theory of money " as the founder of Chartalismus.

Family

His parents were originally from Michel in the Odenwald Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1814-1904) and the Darmstädterin Katharina Elisabeth Liebig (1819-1890), a sister of the later ennobled chemist Justus von Liebig. His paternal grandfather was the former president of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Johann Friedrich Knapp. Georg Friedrich Knapp was married to the tribe from Georgia, Lydia of Karganow and had two daughters: Marianne and Elly, the future wife of the first German President Theodor Heuss. After the mental illness of his wife (who was henceforth placed in sanatoriums ) he raised the children alone.

Life

After his school career Georg Friedrich Knapp studied from 1853 in Munich, Berlin and Göttingen, the subjects of physics, chemistry and economics. His studies he finished 1865 with his PhD. at the University of Göttingen. In the years 1869 to 1874 Knapp was Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Leipzig. In 1874, he finally accepted a full professorship of political economy at the University of Strasbourg, which he held until 1918.

In his presidential address on May 1, 1891 as Rector of the University, he characterizes the German state as follows: "Our officials [ ... ] will no longer be possible to take the book out of his hand, even by parliamentary majorities not we so masterfully know to treat. No rule is so easy to endure, yes felt so grateful, as the rule of high-minded and highly educated officials. The German state is a bureaucratic state - we hope that he remains a bureaucratic state in this sense. "

Works

• The abolition of serfdom and the origin of the agricultural workers in the older parts of Prussia 2 Tle, Leipzig, 1887. 2nd unchanged edition Munich 1927. Part 1 of the issue of 1887 as pdf files
• State theory of money, Munich and Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1921. 3rd edition ( attempt at a positive legal justification for the money). English edition of 1924 as PDF
• Introduction to some of the main areas of economics, Munich and Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1928.