Otto Hintze

Influenced by Ernst Troeltsch and Max Weber, he emphasized the continuity and rationality of Western institutions.

[1] Hintze was born in the small town of Pyritz (Pyrzyce) in the Province of Pomerania, the son of a civil servant.

Seven volumes of sources on the economics and administrative organisation in Prussia, with detailed historical commentaries, were published by 1910.

In 1895, his post-doctoral thesis to become a lecturer was accepted by Treitschke and Schmoller; in 1902 as Professor of the newly created Department of Political, Constitutional, Administrative and Economic History.

[3] Hintze ceased publishing after the Nazi Party came to power and, in 1933, he was the only member to speak against Albert Einstein's expulsion from the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Otto Hintze
Otto Hintze speaks (Berlin, 1913)
A person holding Otto Hintze’s book Die Hohenzollern und ihr Werk