- Heinrich Waentig
Infobox Person
name = Heinrich Eugen Waentig
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birth_date =March 21 ,1870
birth_place =Zwickau , Saxony
death_date =December 22 ,1943
death_place =Baden-Baden ,Germany
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known_for = Foreign advisor to MeijiJapan ;Prussian Minister of the Interior
occupation = educator
nationality =Germany Heinrich Eugen Waentig (
March 21 ,1870 ndashDecember 22 ,1943 ) was a Germaneconomist andpolitician .Waentig was born in
Zwickau , Saxony. From 1888 to 1893, he studied atUniversity of Munich ,University of Berlin ,University of Leipzig , andUniversity of Vienna , eventually earning his doctoral degree at the University of Leipzig. Subsequently, he traveled to theUnited States and East Asia.He finished his
habilitation in 1895 atUniversity of Marburg in 1895 to become aPrivatdozent there. In the following year, he was appointed "professor extraordinarius", 1899 "zum professor ordinarius" of theUniversity of Greifswald . 1902 he switched to theUniversity of Münster , 1904 toUniversity of Halle .Waentig was hired by the government of the
Empire of Japan as a foreign advisor, and taught political economics and financial science from 1909-1913 at theTokyo Imperial University . One of the reasons he was hired was that although he was German, he could lecture fluently in theEnglish language .In 1913, Waentig was recalled by the Prussian Education Minister and returned (until 1933) to his Chair of Halle University. In 1920, he was elected member of the
Prussian Landtag ; in 1927, he was appointedOberpräsident of theProvince of Saxony ; in March 1930, Prussian Minister of the Interior.Waentig died in
Baden-Baden , Germany, in 1943.Works
* "Gewerbliche Mittelstandspolitik. Eine rechtshistorisch-wirtschaftspolitische Studie auf Grund österreichischer Quellen" Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1898.
* "Die japanische Revolution 1867 "("The Japanese revolution of 1867"). Bonn/Leipzig: K. Schroeder 1920.
*"Herausgabe: Sammlung sozialwissenschaftlicher Meister". Jena: Gustav Fischer; Aalen: Scientia Verlag 1903-10.
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