Education
In 1911, he completed his doctoral dissertation with an investigation of the impact of the alcoholic beverage industry on market price structures.
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Gotz Briefs
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Career
In 1908, Briefs began to study history and philosophy at the University of Munich. As it was customary in German academic circles at the time, he frequently switched universities, moving in 1909 to Bonn, and later in 1911 to Freiburg. He was awarded the highest honor Summa Cum Laude for his dissertation and continued on the topic of profits with his Habilitation on the impact of average profits on the economy in 1913.
In 1919, he was named Professor for economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg.
Two years later 1921 he accepted a professorship at the Julius-Maximilian-Universität in Würzburg. In 1923 he returned to Freiburg and in 1926 to Berlin at the Technische Hochschule.
In 1928, he founded an Institute for Industrial Sociology in Berlin. On 16 May 1974 Briefs died in Rome after a short illness.
He is buried in the Vatican"s Campo Santo Teutonico.
Briefs received multiple scholarships and six honorary doctorates. In addition:
1959 – The Distinguished Service Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany "Pour le merit"
1968 – The Star to the Order of Merit
Briefs published approximately 350 scientific articles The road "Götz-Briefs-Weg" in his hometown was named after him in 1989.
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Membership
In Freiburg, he became a member of K.D.St. V. Wildenstein Freiburg im Breisgau, a Catholic student fraternity that belong to the Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen. With Gustav Gundlach, Theodor Brauer, Paul Jostock, Franz H. Mueller, Heinrich Rommen and Oswald von Nell-Breuning, he was a member of the "Königswinter Circle" at the Königswinter "Institute for Society and Economy".
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Religion
Catholic