Karl Diehl (economist)

Karl Diehl (March 27, 1864, Frankfurt – May 12, 1943 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German economist and professor who taught from 1908 until his death in Freiburg.[1] He taught at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg, known for teaching on the subject of Anarchism.[2]

The motivating force behind his scholarship was that academia must counter the idea that "...anarchism represents a criminal sect which lacks any social or political programme..."[3] According to one historian on German reformers, Diehl had acquired a reputation as the "most important authority on socialism, communism, and anarchism," comparable only to Werner Sombart.[4]

  1. ^ "Definition: Diehl". Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon (Gabler Business Directory).
  2. ^ "Karl Diehl : Anarchist Professor and Theorist in Hitler's Germany". Anarchy Archives.
  3. ^ Mark E. Blum, William T. Smaldone, ed. (October 2015). Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity: Austro-Marxist Theory and Strategy. Volume 1. pp. 156–7. ISBN 9789004306349.
  4. ^ Kevin Repp, ed. (2000). Reformers, critics, and the paths of German modernity : anti-politics and the search for alternatives, 1890-1914. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. p. 253. ISBN 9780674000575.