Johann Ludwig Tellkampf

Johann Louis Tellkampf, Johann Ludwig ( born January 28, 1808 in Biickeburg, † February 15, 1876 in Breslau) was a Prussian economist and politician.

Life

Tellkampf studied at the University of Göttingen, where he in 1835 settled as a lecturer, in 1838 was a result of the overthrow of the Hanoverian constitution to America, where he held until 1846 as professor of political science only at Union College, then at Columbia College in New York and wrote out various trade papers a font: On the improvement of prisons in North America and England (Berlin 1844). Commissioned by the Prussian government, which had already consulted him for a consultation about prison reform, he studied in 1846 the prison system in England, France and North America, and was appointed in the same year as professor of political economy at the University of Breslau. From 19 May 1848 to May 21, 1849 Tellkampf belonged to as MP for Schweidnitz the Frankfurt National Assembly. He was one of the fractions Landsberg and Württemberg court and belonged to the Standing Orders and the Constitution Committee on. From 1849 to 1851 he was a member of the Prussian Lower House and in 1855 representatives of the University of Breslau in the Prussian House of Lords, where he belonged to the liberal minority. In the Reichstag, which he joined in 1871, he belonged to the National Liberal faction.

Work

• Contributions to the national economy and trade policy. Leipzig 1851-53, 2 ​​booklets
• The North German Confederation and the Constitution of the German Reich. Berlin 1866
• The principles of money and banking. Berlin 1867
• Essays on law reform, commercial policy, banks, penitentiaries, etc. London 1857; 2nd edition, Berlin 1875
• Self-management and reform of the municipal and county orders in Prussia and self-government in England and North America. Berlin 1872.
• MacCulloch (Translation of Tellkampf and Bergius ): Money and banks. Leipzig 1859