Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz
Gerhart von Schulze- Gaevernitz ( born July 25, 1864 in Breslau, † July 10, 1943 in Krainsdorf ) was a German economist and politician ( FVG, FVP, DDP).
Life and career
Schulze- Gaevernitz, son of constitutional law teacher Hermann Schulze - Gavernitz and originally studied Protestant faith, after graduating from high school in Wroclaw at the universities of Heidelberg, Göttingen, Leipzig and Berlin law. After the training period in Strasbourg and Colmar and the Great State examination he worked for the Norddeutsche Bank in Hamburg. At this time he was awarded his doctorate in Göttingen as External Doctor of rights. After his habilitation in Leipzig legal Lujo Brentano's students in 1891 received his doctorate with the work of Carlyle's position on Christianity and Revolution in addition to the doctor of philosophy. 1893 he was appointed extraordinary professor of Economics at the University of Freiburg, where he became a full professor in 1896. After his retirement, he joined the Quakers. He was one of the founders of the Lions Berger Association.
He and his wife Johanna Hirsch ( * May 23, 1876 in Mannheim, † September 28, 1937 in Ascona ) he had three children:
- Ruth Gaevernitz ( born June 12, 1898 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † July 26, 1993 in London) was a British historian.
- Gero von Schulze- Gaevernitz ( born September 27, 1901 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † April 6, 1970 in the Canary Islands ) was a German economist.
- Margiana by Schulze - Gaevernitz ( born July 5, 1904 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † 1989 in Gstaad) was married to Edmund Stinnes.
Party memberships
During the imperial period Schulze- Gaevernitz belonged since 1903, first the Free Radical Association, which merged into the Progressive People's Party 1910. After the First World War he joined the German Democratic Party.
Deputies activity
Schulze- Gaevernitz was from 1912 to 1918 a member of parliament for the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Baden 5 ( Freiburg im Breisgau).
From a trip to Constantinople Opel in March 1916, he reported to the national government on the genocide of the Armenians. He was one of 1919/20, at the Weimar National Assembly since he was nachgerückt on 12 April 1919 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Baden Hermann Dietrich. He filed for bankruptcy on July 5, 1919 in vain, do not call the head of state to " Reich President " but " Reichswart ". He justified this by saying that a president chairmanships in a collegial way, what the head of state but did not do also exist in the case of this designation is a risk that it will come to a confusion with the Office of the President of the Reichstag. The Head of State, however, have the task to defend the Constitution and to ensure, so he fulfilled the duties of a warden of the Constitution.
Publications
- For social peace. A representation of the social political education of the English people in the nineteenth century. Leipzig 1890.
- The bulk operation - an economic and social progress. A study in the field of cotton industry. Leipzig 1892.
- British Imperialism and English free trade at the beginning of the twentieth century. Leipzig 1906.
- Letters to the People's Party youth. Hannover 1913.
- The German credit bank. In 1922.
- The English credit policy 1914-1921. Berlin 1924.