Buber, Martin (8 February 1878– 13 June 1965). Philosopher of Religion. From 1924 until 1933 he was Professor of Philosophy at Frankfurt. In 1938 he left for Palestine, where he was Professor of the Sociology of Religion at the Hebrew University. His most important book was Ich und Du (I and Thou) (1922). He was editor of a number of influential journals and of the critical series Die Gesellschaft (Society), which included books by Simmel, Tönnies and Sombart and also by Willy Hellpach, Gustav Landauer and Eduard Bernstein.
Gothein, Eberhard (29 October 1853– 13 November 1923). Political economist and cultural historian. Received his doctorate in 1877 in Breslau and gained his ‘Habilitation’ 1 there in 1879. In 1904 he became Weber’s successor at Heidelberg, where he remained until 1923. Weber expressly appreciated his Wirtschaftsgeschichte Schwarzwalds (Economic History of the Black Forest) (1892). He was a contributor to Weber’s Grundriß der Sozilökonomik.
Kantorowicz, Hermann (18 November 1877– 12 February 1940). Legal historian. Received his doctorate in jurisprudence in 1900 at Heidelberg and gained his ‘Habilitation’ in Freiburg in 1908. He was a professor there until 1927, when he became visiting professor at Columbia University, USA. From 1929 until 1933, when he was dismissed on racial grounds, he was professor at Kiel. He emigrated to the USA.
Michels, Robert (1 January 1876– 3 May 1936). German– Italian social scientist. Received his doctorate in 1900 at Halle, but because of his socialist leanings he was unable to work towards his ‘Habilitation’ in Germany and eventually gained it in 1907 in Turin. From 1914 until 1928 was an ordinary professor at Basel, and from 1928 until 1933 at Perugia. He dedicated his Soziologie des Parteiwesens (Sociology of Parties) (1911) to Max Weber. Weber distanced himself from Michels in 1915 because of Michel’s accusations about Germany’s war position. He was a contributor to Weber’s Grundriß der Sozialökonomik.
Ploetz, Alfred (22 August 1860– 20 March 1940). A doctor of medicine and a leading proponent of Racial Biology. Received his medical degree in 1890 at Zurich and went into private practice.
Schulze-Gaevernitz, Gerhart von (25 July 1864– 10 July 1943). Political economist. Received his doctorate in jurisprudence in 1886 at Göttingen and achieved his ‘Habilitation’ in 1891 at Leipzig. From 1896– 1923 he was ordinary professor at Freiburg, and was friendly with Weber from their Freiburg days. He contributed to Weber’s Grundriß der Sozialökonomik.
Simmel, Georg (1 March 1858– 26 September 1918). Philosopher and sociologist. Received his doctorate in philosophy in 1881 at Berlin and was promoted there in 1885. Was extraordinary professor at Berlin from 1901 until 1914, when he became ordinary professor at Strasbourg. He and his wife Getrud were close friends of the Webers from the late 1890s.
Sombart, Werner (19 January 1863– 18 May 1941). Political economist. Received his doctorate in philosophy in 1888 at Berlin. He was extraordinary professor at Breslau from 1890 until 1906; ordinary professor at the Handelhochschule in Berlin from 1906; and ordinary professor at Berlin from 1917 until 1931. He was Co-Editor of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik with Max Weber and Edgar Jaffé and was on friendly terms with Max Weber until the First World War.
Tönnies, Ferdinand (26 July 1855– 9 April 1936). Philosopher and sociologist. Received his doctorate in philosophy in 1877 at Tübingen and, in 1881, gained his ‘Habilitation’ at Kiel. He was extraordinary professor there from 1909 and ordinary professor from 1913 until 1933.
Troeltsch, Ernst (17 February 1865– 1 February 1923). Theologian and philosopher. Received his doctorate in theology in 1891 at Göttingen and received his ‘Habilitation’ there during the same year. From 1893 he was ordinary professor at Heidelberg and from 1915– 23 at Berlin. He was close to Max Weber from 1900 until 1915; between 1910 and 1915 he and his wife Marta lived in the top floor of Weber’s Heidelberg residence.
Voigt, Andreas (18 April 1860– 10 January 1941). Political economist. Received his doctorate in 1890 at Freiburg. He was ordinary professor of political economy at Frankfurt.
Weber, Max (21 April 1864– 14 June 1920). Political economist and sociologist. Received his doctorate in law in 1889 at Berlin and his ‘Habilitation’ there in 1891. He was Professor of Political Economy at Freiburg from 1893 until 1896 and Professor of Economics at Heidelberg from 1897 until 1903. He experienced periods of mental illness between 1897 and 1903, when he retired from Heidelberg. He was Co-Editor of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik with Edgar Jaffé and Werner Sombart and Editor of the Grundriß der Sozialökonomik.
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