Arthur Feiler
Arthur Feiler (16 September 1879 – 11 July 1942) was a German journalist.
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Biography
Arthur Feiler was born in Breslau. After attending the local Gymnasium in Breslau, Feiler trained as a banker. From 1903, he worked in the editorial department of the Frankfurter Zeitung, from 1903 to 1910 in the trade section, then until 1931 in the political section. From June 1920, he was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council as one of the twelve persons to be appointed by the Reich government at its own discretion, from January 1921 a member of the Socialization Commission, and from November 1923 an assessor at the Reich Cartel Court. At the same time, he worked as a contributor to economic journals. On January 22, 1923, he received his doctorate in Heidelberg. On February 10, 1928, he habilitated at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he taught as a Privatdozent until the end of the winter semester 1931/1932, and then as an associate professor. From the summer semester of 1932 (until 1933), he taught at the Handelshochschule Königsberg. In the summer of 1933, he emigrated to the United States, where he was a lecturer at the "Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science" of the New School for Social Research in New York. He ws a contributor to numerous American economic publications. Until 1934, he also worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung.
His younger brother Erich Feiler (1882-1940) was a professor of dentistry at the Goethe University, and directed the Carolinum Dental Clinic there from 1917 until his forced emigration to England in 1934.
His wife Marie Feiler, née Hoffmann (1883–1977) remained in the Unite States until 1970, from where she made many trips to Germany in the post-war period, for example to Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Nussdorf am Ammersee and Bad Ems, where a nephew of hers lived. In 1970 she moved to a retirement home in Königstein im Taunus, where she died. She was a teacher and also worked as one in the U.S.
Works
- Die Probleme der Bankenquete (1908)
- Das Ende der Hochkonjunktur – Rückblick auf das Wirtschaftsjahr 1907 (1908)
- Das Problem des deutschen Ostens (1911)
- Die Konjunkturperiode 1907–1913 in Deutschland (1914)
- Handelspolitik im Krieg (1916)
- Neuland – Eine Fahrt durch Ober-Ost (1917)
- Vor der Übergangswirtschaft (1918)
- Der Staat des sozialen Rechts (1919)
- Der Ruf nach den Räten (1919)
- Die Todesgefahr des Kontinents (1920)
- Die Wirtschaft des Kommunismus (1920)
- Ostpreußen hinter dem Korridor (1922)
- Die deutschen Finanzen vom Kriegsausbruch bis zum Londoner Diktat (1923)
- Das neue Österreich – Tatsachen und Probleme nach der Sanierungs-Aktion (1924)
- Amerika-Europa – Erfahrungen einer Reise (1926)
- Die neue Weltwirtschaft – Die Lehre von Genf, Mit dem Wortlaut der Entschließungen der Weltwirtschaftskonferenz in Genf (1927)
- Das Experiment des Bolschewismus (1929; The Experiment of Bolshewism, Translated by H. J. Stenning, London, Allen & Unwin, 1930; The Russian Experiment, Translated by H. J. Stenning, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1930)
- Das Reparationsproblem, Kapitalbildung und Steuersystem (1929–1930)
- "Kapitalwirtschaft in Sowjetrußland". In: Kapital und Kapitalismus (1931), pp. 481–90.
References
- Böker, Alexander (1943). "Arthur Feiler and German Liberalism," Social Research, Vol. X, No. 4, pp. 455–79.
- Mongiovi, Gary (1999). "Feiler, Arthur". In: Harald Hagemann, Claus-Dieter Krohn (eds.), Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Emigration nach 1933. 1. München: Adler–Lehmann, pp. 148–50.
- Walk, Joseph, ed., (1988). Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945. München: Saur (1988).
