Heinrich Waentig

Heinrich Eugen Waentig
Born	21 March 1870 Zwickau, Saxony
Died	22 December 1943(1943-12-22) (aged 73) Baden-Baden, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	educator
Known for	Foreign advisor to Meiji Japan；Prussian Minister of the Interior

Heinrich Eugen Waentig (21 March 1870 – 22 December 1943) was a German economist and politician.

Waentig was born in Zwickau, Saxony. From 1888 to 1893, he studied at University of Munich, University of Berlin, University of Leipzig, and University of Vienna, eventually earning his doctoral degree at the University of Leipzig. Subsequently, he traveled to the United States and East Asia.

He finished his habilitation in 1895 at University of Marburg in 1895 to become a Privatdozent there. In the following year, he was appointed professor extraordinarius, 1899 zum professor ordinarius of the University of Greifswald. 1902 he switched to the University of Münster, 1904 to University 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 the Tokyo Imperial University. One of the reasons he was hired was that although he was German, he could lecture fluently in the English 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 under the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD); in 1927, he was appointed Oberpräsident of the Province of Saxony; in March 1930, Prussian Minister of the Interior. After an argument with the SPD in 1931 he resigned his party membership.

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.

External links

Works by or about Heinrich Waentig at Internet Archive

Interior Ministers of Prussia

Count Alexander von Dohna-Schlobitten Count Karl August von Hardenberg Count Friedrich von Schuckmann Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt Count Friedrich von Schuckman Baron Gustav von Brenn Gustav Adolf Rochus von Rochow Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg Ernst von Bodelschwingh-Velmede Alfred von Auerswald Friedrich von Kühlwetter Franz August Eichmann Baron Otto Theodor von Manteuffel Ferdinand Otto Wilhelm Henning von Westphalen Eduard von Flottwell Count Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar Gustav Wilhelm von Jagow Count Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg Count Botho zu Eulenburg Robert von Puttkammer Ludwig Herrfurt Count Botho zu Eulenburg Ernst von Koeller Baron Eberhard Recke von der Horst Baron Georg von Rheinbaben Baron Hans von Hammerstein-Loxten Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg Friedrich von Moltke Johann von Dallwitz Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell Bill Drews Paul Hirsch vacant Carl Severing Albert Grzesinski Heinrich Waentig Carl Severing Franz Bracht Hermann Göring

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