Heinrich Pesch

Heinrich Pesch ( born September 17, 1854 in Cologne, † April 1, 1926 in Valkenburg ) was a Catholic theologian, Jesuit, economist and social philosopher. He is considered the founder of the solidarity principle of Catholic social teaching. Pesch was the teacher of Oswald von Nell- Breuning and Gustav Gundlach. With his five-volume " textbook economics ", he created the basic principles of published five years after his death encyclical Pius XI. " Quadragesimo anno ".

Life

Heinrich Pesch studied from 1872 in Bonn theology, philosophy and economics. In 1876 he entered the Jesuit order and learned during a four -year stay in England, where he completed his theological studies, know the developed capitalism and the social contradictions of the country. From 1892 to 1900 he was spiritual director of the seminary of Mainz, where he wrote the book Liberalism, Socialism and Christian worldview. Through lectures of the publicist Rudolf Pesch Meyer became acquainted with the teachings of Marx and Rodbertus. After a renewed study of economics at Schmoller and Wagner in Berlin (1900-1902) lived in the writer Pesch home of the German Province of the Jesuits in Luxembourg and worked on his published from 1905 textbook of political economy. From 1910 until shortly before his death Pesch was active in Catholic urban pastoral in Berlin -Marie Felde monastery.

According to him, the Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Speyer, led by the Jesuit Heinrich- Pesch -Haus in Ludwigshafen, named.

The UNITAS Association gives a named Pesch Award for outstanding contributions to the design and implementation of Catholic social teaching.

Work

Pesch is in his work on the assumption that there is a mutual dependence and obligation between the individual and the society. From this basic idea, he developed his "social work system ", in which man and the service are defined the common good as a goal of the economy. Pesch advocated private enterprise and free competition, but that should be subordinated to social justice and the common good as a regulative principles.

Writings

  • Textbook of Political Economy, 5 vols, Freiburg 1905-1923
  • Liberalism, Socialism and christl. Company's opinion, 2 vols, Freiburg 1893-1900
  • The social competence of the Church, 2nd, presumably edition, Berlin 1899
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