Ferdinand Alois Westphalen
Ferdinand Alois Graf von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg[1] (7 February 1899 – 11 June 1989) was an Austrian national economist.
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Biography
Ferdinand Alois was born at Przemyśl in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of Count Ottokar von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg and his wife Josephine (née Countess von und zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg). Ferdinand Alois was born as the third of five siblings. With the Law on the Abolition of Nobility in 1919 his noble name components became obsolete.
He grew up at his father's ancestral home, Kulm Castle in Bohemia. From 1917 to 1918, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. After the end of the World War I he studied law at the Czech Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, where he joined the CV-Association Saxo-Bavaria Prague in 1921. This was followed by a doctorate in 1922. In Munich and Vienna, Ferdinand Alois Westphalen studied national economics, receiving his doctorate in 1925.
In 1932, he received his habilitation in the field of national economics at the University of Vienna. In 1937, he received an appointment as university professor of economics at the University of Vienna and in 1938 as university professor of economics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. Westphalen was dismissed for political reasons in March 1938 and reactivated as a university professor after the end of the war. He was a university professor of economics at the University of Vienna from 1945 to 1969 and the first director of the Institute of Law and Social Science at the University of Vienna from 1960 to 1969. In 1969 he became emeritus professor.
Works
- Die Veränderungen in der Gestaltung der Absatzgrundlage der nordwestböhmischen Braunkohlenindustrie seit Ende des Krieges (1925; dissertation)
- Die theoretischen Grundlagen der Sozialpolitik (1931)
- Die Lohnfrage: vom ehernen Lohngesetz zum gerechten Lohn (1934)
- Sociology and Economics in Austria. A Report on Postwar Developments (1953)
- "Eigentum und soziale Ordnung." In: Eigentum und Gesellschaft. Beiträge für eine zeitgemäße Eigentumsordnung (1956)
- Antonio Rosmini, Die Politik als philosophisches Problem (1963; translated by Ivo Höllhuber, edited by Ferdinand Wagner and F. A. Westphalen)
- "Tradition und Gegenwart." In: Ordnung im sozialen Wandel: Festschrift für Johannes Messner zum 85. Geburtstag (1976), pp. 27–41.
