Gustav von Schönberg

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Gustav von Schönberg (born 21 July 1839 in Stettin; died 1908) was a German economist.

Schönberg studied law and politics at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. After successfully completing these studies he transferred in 1860 to the civil service and within 5 years was promoted to Gerichtsassessor.

Subsequently, Schönberg worked at the Seminar of the Prussian Statistical Bureaux. In 1867, he took call to the role of Lecturer in Political Economy at the Prussian Agricultural Institute in Proskau, where among other things, he was heavily involved in the establishment of several agricultural cooperatives in Schlesien.

In autumn 1868, Schönberg was appointed Professor ordinarius in Economics at the University of Basel and in 1870 moved to the same subject at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg. Three years later he moved again to the University of Tübingen, where in addition to his role as Professor ordinarius in Political Science, he was also Chancellor for some years. An important part of his work was starting, in 1887, the publication of the Tübinger Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft (Tübingen Magazine for the Entire Political Science), a task handled by Schönberg along with Schäffle and Fricker.

The Association for Social Politics found in Schönberg a dedicated co-worker, who campaigned vehemently for the social interests of the "labour question".

On 7 December 1907, Schönberg was named Freeman of the City of Tübingen. He died in 1908 at the age of 69.

[edit] Selected Works

• Arbeitsämter. Eine Aufgabe des Deutschen Reichs. Berlin 1871
• Basels Bevölkerungszahl im 15. Jahrhundert. Jena 1883
• Die deutsche Freihandelsschule und die Partei der Eisenacher Versammlung vom Oktober 1872. Tübingingen 1873
• Finanzverhältnisse der Stadt Basel im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert. Heidelberg 1879
• Die Frauenfrage. Basel 1872
• Handbuch der politischen Ökonomie. Tübingen 1885-86 (3 Bde., zusammen mit Benecke, Conrad u.a.)
• Zur Handwerkerfrage. Heidelberg 1876
• Die Landwirtschaft der Gegenwart und das Genossenschaftsprinzip. Berlin 1869
• Die sittlich religiöse Bedeutung der sozialen Frage. 2. Aufl., Stuttgart 1876
• Die Sozialpolitik des Deutschen Reichs. Tübingen 1886
• Die Volkswirtschaft der Gegenwart im Leben und in der Wissenschaft. Basel 1869
• Die Volkswirtschaftslehre. Berlin 1873
• Zur wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung des Zunftwesens im Mittelalter. Berlin 1868