Name |
Place(s)
of Residence |
Comments |
Bach, E. |
(Stuttgart)
|
- 1984 - Attended International Union
conference, Cambridge, England
|
Baeck, Leo |
... |
- 1930 - Article,
World History,
from the paper To-Morrow;
Land & Liberty, September
|
Barteld, A. |
... |
- 1926 - Attended International Conference, Copenhagen
|
Barth, Theodor |
... |
- 1883 - Appointed editor of Die Nation (until 1907)
- 1896 - Visited the United States and traveled with William Jennings
Bryan during Bryan's Presidential campaign
- 1908 - Attended the Free Trade Conference in Lond
- 1909 - Died, 2 June, age 60
|
Bodenreform |
... |
- 1917 - Adolph Damashke, Editor; located at 32 Lessing Street, Berlin
- 1936 - Article,
Germany
Land & Liberty, February, p.28
|
Bohnsack, Gustav |
Hanover |
- 1964 - Paper,
"Germany's Building Land Tax,"
presented at the International Union conference, New
York, NY, August-September
- 1973 - Paper,
"Thoughts About Reform of Land Tenure in the Federal Republic of Germany,"
presented at the International Union, Isle of Man, September
|
Buescher, Gustav |
Switzerland (Zurich)
|
|
Burdorff, Fred |
... |
Note: Mr. Burgdoff resided in Cleveland, Ohio in the United States. He wrote
regularly about events in Germany. As of mid-2020 I have not found any biographical
information on him to learn whether he was born in Germany or what his connection
was to Germany.
|
Buscher, Gustav |
... |
- 1905 - Review of the book:
They Must,
by Hermann Kutter; The Public, 27 January
- 1910 - Review (unsigned) of the pamphlet:
A Word to the Socialists,
by Gustav Buscher; The Single Tax Review, January-February
|
Cassels, William |
... |
- 1899 - Article,
"Land Reform in Germany,"
National Single Taxer, July
|
Colbron, Grace Isabel |
Connecticut
(New Canaan) |
|
Damaschke, Adolf |
Berlin |
- 1892 - Joined League of German Landreform (or 1896)
- 1893 - Appointed Secretary of the
Lebensreform journal The Natural Doctor
- 1898 - Elected President, League of German Land-Reformers
- 1903 - Review of the book:
Land Reform
by Adolf Damaschke;
The Public, 24 January
- 19-- - Book, Land Reform published.
In this book he wrote:
"The social question is lying at
the root of life of every nation. The nation which does not find
the answer will go to ruin. The nation which does find the
answer will find the way opened to its highest fulfillment. The
decline or ascent of Germany, too, will be decided by it.
"
- 1911 - Address,
"What are the Social Duties of Our Upper Classes?"
delivered at the annual meeting of the League of German Land Reformers;
4-7 June
- 1912 - Assisted in preparation of a special
issue of the Single Tax Review for Germany (1,000 copies
distributed in Germany)
- 1913 - Chapter VI ("Battles for Land Reform in Rome and their Lessons") from the book:
Bodenreform
- 1919 - Name put forward as a candidate for
President of Germany (again in 1920)
- 1920 - Book,
Savings for Private Housing
published
- 1924-25 - Book,
My Life
published
- 1926 - Serving as a special correspondent,
Land and Freedom (thru 19xx)
- 1931 - Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1932 - Book,
Land Reform and Agriculture
published
- 1935 - Book,
A Struggle for Socialism and the Nation
published
|
Dobbert, F. |
...
|
- 1891 - Translated Progress and Poverty into German
|
Dupuis, Frank |
... |
- Educated in Belgium and Germany, remained in
Africa following the First World War
- [See listing under "United
Kingdom"]
|
Einstein, Albert |
... |
- 1939 - Letter to Anna George DeMille:
Henry George,
written from Princeton, New Jersey
- 1949 - Article,
Why Socialism,
reprinted from the Monthly Review, May
|
Eulenstein, Bernhard |
(Berlin) |
- 188- - Corresponded with Leo Tolstoy
regarding Henry George's works
- 1891 - Began correspondence with Henry
George; urged him to visit Germany
- 1894 - Translated Henry George's book The Condition of Labor
into German
- 1894 - Informed Henry George that Tolstoy
was reading Progress and Poverty to his peasants
- 1894 - Letter, received from
Leo Tolstoy,
regarding Henry George as leader of the Land
Reform Movement
- 1894 - Letter (PDF format) received from Count Tolstoi,
On Henry George,
The Single Tax, July
|
Erman, (Prof.) |
Munster |
- 1917 - Active Single Tax supporter
|
Fischer, Curt (Dr.) |
(Wiesbaden) |
- 1949 - Attended International Union
conference, Swanwick, England
|
Fischer, Helga |
... |
- 1949 - Attended International Union
conference, Swanwick, England
|
Flurscheim, Michael |
... |
- 188x - Book, Germany One Hundred Years Hence
- 1884 - Book, Auf Friedlichen Wege,
on the cause of economic depressions
- 1888 - Founded League for Land Ownership Reform
- 1888 - Sought out Henry George while in
Birmingham, England:
"Traveling
a couple of weeks with the Henry George party, Flurscheim made
several addresses; and, in his own self-estimate, he succeeded
better than the American in replying to socialist hecklers."
[Charles Albro Barker, Henry George, 1955, p.531]
- 1889 - On Henry George:
"He attributes
commercial depressions to speculative land values. But raw
materials, which is what land supplies to industry, are never
cheaper than in times of commercial depression."
New York Times, 21 July
- 1889 - Participated in an international
congress on the land question, Paris, July. Quote:
"In Germany the land question is a far more complicated one than in
England or America."
- 1889 - Article,
"Germany's Henry George: Herr Michael Flurscheim and his Land Theories,"
New York Times, 21 July
- 1890 - Paper,
Land Question,
presented at a symposium on the land question
-
On the Land Question,
from the transcript of A Symposium on The Land Question,
edited by J.H.Levy, 1890. The complete transcript is provided under the listing
for J.H. Levy
- 1890 - Comments offered at a symposium
On The Land Question,
responding to presentations by other participants
- 1897 - Excerpt from the preface to The Real History of Money Island:
"The distinctive feature of a 'crank' is that he never modifies his views. I own to
having once belonged to that honorary fraternity. I don't us ethe adjective 'honorary' in any
sarcastic sense, for I quite agree with Prince Bismark in preferring a man with one idea to
the majority who have none at all. But this little book shows that I have left the cranks, for
its gives the proof of my seriously transgressing the fundamental law of that fraternity -- the
law of believing in their own infalliblilty."
- 1898 - Visited Wellington, New Zealand and established the New Zealand
Commercial Exchange Co. Ltd. Members agreed to carry out exchanges without the use of money, a barter
system using exchange notes. Responding to adverse publicity of the project he moved to Ackland to open
another exchange
- 1898 - Pamphlet,
Business Without Gold,
published and journal, The Commercial Exchange Gazette,
launched
- 1905 - Left New Zealand; first staying in
California, where he formed a company to assemble railway tracks
across California toward Mexico. In 1910 he became ill and
returned to Germany
|
FRAGEN DER FREIHEIT
(Questions of Freedom) |
Coblenz |
- 1992 - Issue devoted to the land question, March/April
|
Freese, Heinrich |
... |
- 1888 - Elected President, League for Land Ownership Reform
- 1896 - Became editor of daily paper in Kiel
|
Friedrich, Karl |
Baden
|
- 1728 - Born, 22 November (Karlsruhe)
- 1746 - Became ruler of Baden-Durlach and later Baden-Baden
- 1772 - Tract,
Abrege des principes d'Economie Politicque on Physiocratie;
he also wrote essays
on Francois Quesney; a biographical note indicates he appointed
DuPont de Nemours as his finance minister for some period of time
- 1783 - Outlawed serfdom in his kingdom
- 1783 - Engaged the German physiocrat
Schlettwein to introduce the Physiocratic impot unique in three
villages. One historian reports that the experiment failed
because of unfavorable conditions and was abandoned.
|
GERMAN GEORGIST CONFERENCE |
... |
- 1968 - Held in St. Gall, Switzerland, early
September; 100 attendees anticipated per Robert Clancy
(February)
|
GERMAN LAND REFORM UNION
|
(Berlin) |
- 1936 - Addressed a memorial to Reich Finance
Minister Dr. Hjalmar Schacht:
"urging that the land tax
be converted into a land value tax not merely as a financial
measure but above all because of its effect in providing
employment and improving housing conditions." This
memorial is referred to in an article by the late Dr. Adolf
Damaschke in Bodenreform
|
Gesell, Silvio |
Berlin |
- 1862 - Born, 17 March, in Belgium of German parents
- 1906 - Book, The National Economic Order
- 1915 - Followers founded Free Land and Free Money League
|
Gutschow, C.D.F. |
... |
- 1880 - Translated Progress and Poverty
into German from the author's edition
|
Heilig, Bruno |
Austria |
- See Austria for biographical details on
Bruno Heilig
|
Heinrich, Ernst |
Berlin
|
- 19-- - Participated in the University Land Reform Association in Berlin
- 19-- - Teaching a course using Henry George's book Progress and Poverty,
to the Worker Educational Association in Arnswalde
- 1924 - Serving as President of the German Students' Union for Land Reform
|
Hirsch, Max |
... |
- SEE THE LISTING UNDER "Australia" FOR MORE BIOGRAPHICAL
DETAILS AND WRITINGS
- 18-- - Graduated from Berlin University
- 1890 - Began support of the Single Tax
- 189- - Migrated to Australia
- 1909 - Died, 4 March, in Vladivostock, Russia
|
Imhoff, (Prof.) |
Freiburg |
- 1890's - Active Single Tax advocate
|
Juliusburger, Otto |
...
|
- 1941 - Migrated to the United States and settled in New York City
- 1952 - Died, 7 June (age 84) in New York City
|
Karutz, Otto |
... |
- 1926 - Attended International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
|
Kriese, Ulrich (Dr.) |
... |
- 2012 - Actively supporting campaign for
adoption of land value taxation
|
Kruger, Hans |
... |
- 1926 - Attended International Conference, Copenhagen
|
Kruger, Hans |
... |
- 1912 - Article,
Land Monopoly,
The Single Tax Review, March-April
- 1912 - Article,
"Land Reform in Eisenach",
The Single Tax Review, March-April
|
LAND AND FREIHEIT |
... |
- 1926 - Published in Hamburg; Alfred Schar, Editor
|
LAND AND FREEDOM |
New York (New York) |
- ARTICLES FOCUSED ON GERMANY PROVIDED HERE
|
League of German Land Reformers |
(Dresden)
|
- 1911 - Annual meeting held, 4-7 June; attendees from "all parts of Germany, North
and South, East and West, but also from Austria, Russia, Australia and Canada."
|
Levy, Afolf |
... |
- 1938 - Article, "To Speak on Bodenreform," The Freeman, February:
Adolf Levy, whose article, "Tax Nonsense in Germany," appeared
in the January issue of The Freeman, will speak on the land reform mvoement in Germany before 1933
at the Henry George School of Social Science soon. The date is to be announced. Mr. Levy was an
associate of Adolph Damaschke and the Boden-reformers.
|
Loehr (Lohr), Dirk |
... |
- 2012 - Actively suporting the campaign for
the adoption of land value taxation
- 2015 - Visited Sichuan University in China, July; applied for funding
for a project on proeprty taxation from the national government
- 2019 - Report on Advocacy of Land Value Taxation in Germany made at the meeting of
the IU Executive Committee, February
|
Marfels, Carl |
(Heidelberg) |
- 1918 - Book,
Philosophic and Economic Talks,
a compilation of earlier pamphlets
- 1927 - Visited the United States in the
Fall; met with prominent Single Taxers
- 1927 -Pamphlet,
The True Cause of Unemployment and the Business Cycle
written; publication
information not available
- 1928 - Arranged for translations of Will
Atkinson's Outlines of Progress and Poverty into German and Spanish
- 1929 - Died, 11 October, in Berlin (age 75)
|
Marx, Karl |
... |
- 1881 - Letter to Friedrich A. Sorge,
Regarding Henry George,
30 June. Quote:
"Theoretically
the man is utterly backward. He understands nothing about the
nature of surplus value. ...The whole thing is threrefore simply
an attempt, decked out with socialism, to save capitalist
domination and indeed to establish it afresh or even under basis
than its present one."
... Reprinted from Charles
Albra Barker, Henry George, 1955, p.356
- 1891 - Letter from Karl Marx to "a friend in New York":
On Henry George,
printed in
Neue Zeit, 1892
- 1934 - Article taken from The Property in the Soil,
Property in Land,
unpublished material housed in the Marx-Lenin Institute
|
Misera, Joe |
Muenster |
- 1982 - Attended International Union
conference, Utrecht, Holland
|
Morton, George |
Stuttgart |
- 19-- - Moved to Stuggart, where he lived for 12 years
|
Nuschke, Otto |
... |
- 1929 - Serving as Deputy Prime Minister (DDP
- German Democratic Party)
- 1929 - Elected Vice President, International Union
- 1945 - Re-emerged as one of the leaders of
the SPD (Social Democrats), calling for land reform
- 1951 - Letter, from the State Assocation to
Nuschke (2 April) regarding the return of property confiscated
from democratic organizations by the Nazi regime and was now in
East Germany
|
Oppenheimer, Franz |
California
(Los Angeles) |
- 1864 - Born, 30 March, Berlin
- 1885 - Completes medical studies
- 1890 - Begins career as journalist, as
editor of welt am Montag
- 1909 - Serving as Professor of Economics,
University of Berlin
- 1914 - Review by Stanley Bowmar of the book:
The State, by Franz Oppenheimer
The Public, 22 May
- 1917 - Book,
Land Tenure in Palestine
co-authored by Jacob Oettinger, published by the Jewish National Fund
(full text provided)
- 1919 - Appointed Professor of Sociology and
Theoretical National Economics, Frankfort
- 1922 - Book,
The State
published (full text provided)
- 19-- - Book, System of Sociology, published
- 1936 - Book, The Land Reform, translated into English
- 1938 - Emigrates to U.S. (Los Angeles)
- 1941 - Co-founder of American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- 1942 - Article,
"Lebenstraum in Germany,"
The Freeman, June
- 1943 - Died, 30 September
- 1948 - Article,
The Gospel of Freedom
American Journal of Economics and Sociology,
Vol.7, No.3, April, pp. 353-367
|
Paletta, Alexander (Dr.) |
... |
- 1923 - Paper,
"The Taxation of Land Values in Germany,"
delivered at the International
Conference to Promote Land Value Taxation and Free Trade;
Oxford, England
- 1926 - Attended International Conference, Copenhagen
- 1929 - Elected to the Executive Committee,
International Union
|
Pfannschmidt, Martin (Dr.) |
... |
- 1952 - Attended International Union
conference, Odense, Denmark
- 1954 - Book,
Die Bodenrente in Raumwirtschaft Und Raumpolitik
(Land Rent in "space economics"and "space politics"),
published
- 1954 - Review by Bennett Challis of the book:
Die Bodenrente in Raumwirtschaft Und Raumpolitik;
Henry George News, July
- 1957 - Paper,
"Will West Germany Introduce Land-Value Taxation,"
presented at the IU conference
- 1959 - Attended International Union conference, Hanover, West Germany
|
Rumely, Edward |
Baden (Freiberg) |
|
Schar, Alfred |
(Hamburg) |
- 19-- - Joined the Bodenreform Bund (The Land Reform Union)
- 1926 - Attended International Conference, Copenhagen
- 1926- Paper,
"The Distribution of Landed Property in Germany,"
presented at the International
Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1936 - Attended International Union
conference, London
- 1936 - Elected a Vice President of the International Union
|
Scheld, Max |
Berlin |
- 1886 - Wrote to Henry George to inform him
of founding of Land Liga
|
Schmidt, Rudolph |
... |
- 1947 - Member, Bund fur Land und Freiheit
- 1949 - Paper,
Starting Anew in Germany,
presented at International conference on
Land Value Taxation and Free Trade, Swanwick, England
- 1952 - Attended International Union
conference, Odense, Denmark
|
Schmoller, Gustav |
... |
- Leader of Germany's historical economists
- 1881 - Criticized Henry George's Progress
and Poverty in Schmoller's Jahrbuch:
"Schmoller
... acknowledged in George a writer of large heart and sharp
vision who had penetrated the American situation ... and ... had
woven new woof across the old warp of classical economics."
[Reprinted from Charles Albra Barker, Henry George,
1955, p.334]
|
Schoder, Herbert |
... |
- 1981 - Issued a Diploma as Honorary Professor of the Albert Einstein
Institute of Zurich, Switzerland
|
Schrameier, Ludwig Wilhelm (Dr.) |
(Berlin) |
- 1859 - Born, 2 October, Essen
- 18-- - Received doctorate in theology
- 18-- - Served in China for 25 years and was
given charge of the fiscal affairs of the colony of Kiauchau
- 1910 - Returned to Germany
- 1911 - Article,
On Germany,
The Single Tax Review
- 1917 - Contributed chapter on the "Single
Tax in Kiauchan" for the Single Tax Five Year Book
|
Schwartz (or Schwarz), Arnold (Dr.) |
... |
- 1926 - Attended International Conference, Copenhagen
- 1936 - Visited offices of Land and
Freedom. Joseph Dana Miller wrote:
"He says there
is no ban on the teaching of our philosophy in Germany. Writers
and speakers must refrain however from saying anything against
the government. On other topics they are free to speak."
- 1949 - Attended International Union conference, Swanwick, England
|
Schwerin, _____ von |
... |
- 1911 - Remarks on the Physiocrats, Henry George and the Single Tax delivered at the annual
meeting of the League of German Land Reformers, held in Dresden, 4-7 June
|
Seminar Fuer Freiheitliche Ordnung
(Society for a Liberal Social Order) |
... |
|
Sitte, Siegfried |
... |
- 1890s - Joined League of German Landreform
|
Ternyik, Stephen I. |
(Pullach) |
- 2005 - Member, Council of Georgist Organizations
|
Thuenen, Heinrich von |
... |
- 1890s - Joined League of German Landreform
|
von Schwerin, A. (Dr.) |
... |
|
Wagner, Adolph |
Berlin |
- 1835 - Born, 3 March, Erlangen
- 1858 - Appointed Instructor of Political
Economy, Vienna; he became a strong proponent of the welfare state
- 1870 - Appointed professor of political
economy, University of Berlin
- 1881 - Reviewed Henry George's Progress and Poverty
|
Wernicke, Waldo I. |
... |
- 1927 - Described by Dr. Ramon P. deNegri
(Mexican consul to Germany) as "a Henry George man"
|
Zincke,
Erich |
Hanover |
- 1957 - Article,
"A Remembrance of Arthur Madsen,"
Land and Liberty
- 1959 - Attend IU conference, Hanover, West Germany
- 1959 - Translated Progress and Poverty into German
- 1960 - Paper,
"German Economists and Political Economy,"
presented at the Henry George Schools
conference, Detroit, MI
- 1960 - Address,
"Germany's Land Problem,"
Henry George School banquet, May; reprinted
in the Henry George News, June
- 1969 - Paper,
[title not known],
American
Journal of Economics and Sociology, April
- 1969 - Died, 14 August, age 80
|
Name |
Place(s)
of Residence |
Comments |
Obeng-Odoom, Franklin

|
... |
- 1981 - Born, in Cape Coast, Ghana
- 199- - Completed his bachelor's degree in land economy in Ghana, then
studied urban economic development in England and political economy in Australia
- 2014 - Book, Oiling the urban economy: land, labour, capital, and the
state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, published by Routledge studies in international
real estate
- 2016 - Book, Reconstructing urban economics: towards a political economy
of the built environment, published by Zed Books Ltd.
- 2021 - Appointed a Docent in Sociology at the University of Turku
- 2021 - Book, The Commons in an age of uncertainty: decolonizing nature,
economy and society, published by the University of Toronto Press
- 2022 - Book, Global migration beyond limits: ecology, economics,
and political economy, published by Oxford University Press
- 2024 - Serving as a Professor of Global Development Studies at the University
of Helsinki, Finland
- 2024 - Serving as the Vice President from Ghana and Finland on the Executive
of the International Union for Land Value Taxation
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