Max Wirth

Max Wirth ( born January 27, 1822 in Breslau, † July 18, 1900 in Vienna ) was a German journalist and economist.

Life

Wirth was a son of the journalist, politician and co-organizer of the Hambach Festival Johann Georg August Wirth and his wife Regina Wirth. During the time of his father's political persecution he lived in 1833 with his mother and two siblings in Wissembourg in Alsace, where he attended secondary school. In 1839 he attended lectures at the philological seminary of the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Strasbourg. 1839 to 1843 he studied law at the University of Heidelberg ( Heidelberg Rhenaniastraße member of the Corps ) and then pursued a career in journalism. He was a fraternity in 1839 in Breslau and Heidelberg. With his brother Franz Ulpian Wirth (1826-1897) he founded in Frankfurt am Main, the weekly paper " The employer " as an organ for demand and supply of labor and was active at the same time as an editor for the " Frankfurter Zeitung trade " (later " Frankfurter Zeitung " ). He also served on the board of the national economy Congress and the National Association. In 1859, he worked as a war correspondent in Northern Italy. In 1861 he was co-founder of the Workers' Educational Association in Frankfurt. In 1865 he went as a director of the statistical bureaus of Switzerland to Bern, before he settled in 1874 as a staff of the " Neue Freie Presse" and correspondent of the London "Economist " in Vienna.

In addition to his professional activities Max Wirth promoted new sports like fencing and ice skating.

His wife Bettina, nee Greiner ( born February 7, 1849 in Munich ) (1876 Stuttgart) and the novel " High Lose" (Leipzig 1883), among others, made ​​famous by the novel " artist prince and child." She was the Vienna correspondent of the London "Daily News".

Their common son Joseph Carl Wirth was also a journalist and politically active. Among other things, he was from 1919 to 1926 head of the official news agency in Vienna, 1926-1938 Chefredekteur the newspaper The Hour and the theater magazine The Stage, and from 1938 to 1945 editorial director of Compass publisher.

Works

• Principles of Political Economy (Cologne 1855-73, 4 volumes, Volume 1, 5th edition 1881, Volume 2, 4th Edition 1882, Volume 3: Manual of banking, 3rd edition 1883)
• History of commercial crises (Frankfurt am Main 1858, 3rd edition 1883)
• The German national unity in their economic, intellectual and political development ( Frankfurt 1859)
• German History in the Age of the Germanic state formation ( Frankfurt 1862)
• The elevation of the working classes through cooperatives and cooperative banks ( Bern 1865)
• On the wings of the steel. With illustrations in The Gazebo (1867 ), Issue 52
• General Description and Statistics of Switzerland ( Zurich from 1870 to 1875, 7 books)
• The social question (Berlin 1872)
• Austria's rebirth from the aftermath of the crisis (Vienna 1876)
• Cultural and hiking sketches (Vienna 1876)
• " The Crisis of Agriculture ( Berlin 1881)
• The money (Leipzig 1884)
• Hungary and its natural resources ( Frankfurt 1885)
• The sources of wealth (Cologne 1886)
• Serious and happy days of my experiences and rambles (Cologne 1884)