Max Hirsch (labor economist)

Max Hirsch ( born December 30, 1832 in Halberstadt, † June 26, 1905 in Bad Homburg ) was a German book publisher, co-founder of the trades unions, social politician and publicist.

Life

The son of a glover in Halberstadt and nephew of the famous Jewish publisher Ludwig Philippson has studied economics after the visit of the Magdeburg Domgymnasium in Tübingen, Heidelberg and Berlin and received his doctorate in this field.

For health reasons, he traveled to France and North Africa and published some writings to his collected impressions. After his return he founded in Berlin the political weekly The progress. 1863 could be deer in Magdeburg as a merchant and a publisher down. Here he came into contact with liberal social ideas, as represented especially Leberecht Uhlich, and with the forming democratic club movement. From 1863 stood deer with Uhlich together at the top of the Magdeburg Workers' Educational Association. In the same year he was co-founder of the Association of German Workers' Educational Associations and 1864 already a member of its Standing Committee.

He was a member of the liberal Progressive Party, which had a considerable following in Magdeburg, and entered a publicist for their goals. 1867 moved to Berlin deer. He had studied in England the local co-operative movement and founded by this suggestion in 1868 together with Franz Duncker and Hermann Schulze- Delitzsch Trade Unions ( Hirsch - Duncker Trade Unions from 1869). The is in competition with the socialist unions liberal labor unions had in Berlin and also in and around Magdeburg and in the province of Saxony and Anhalt partly considerable influence. The basic idea of the labor unions was after the liberal social concept to help themselves and stood in contrast to socialist ideas as well as to government social policy. The restlessly active deer, alongside his work for the labor unions also co-founder and board member of various associations that dealt with popular education and social policy. These activities sticking its organizational busyness as well as his teaching at the decisive co-founders of People's University, the Humboldt Academy, out. Of importance was his work in the German group of the Inter-Parliamentary Peace Conference and as chairman of the German Peace Society ( 1898-1900 ). Between 1869 and 1893 was Max Hirsch repeated member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and the German Reichstag, first for the German Progressive Party, later for the German Liberal Party. 1898-1905, he was a deputy of the Radical Party People's Party in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. His grave is located in the Jewish Graveyard Berlin -Weissensee in Honor series, box A1.

Writings

The main issues of the labor movement. 1886
The Labor Question and the German Trade Unions. Fs for the 25th anniversary of the German Trade Unions ( Hirsch - Duncker ). 1893
Community colleges. Your goals, organization, development, propaganda. In 1901.