“It was List who stimulated a general sense of national economy in Germany, without which no nation can adequately shape its destiny.”
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Friedrich List
Daniel Friedrich List was a German entrepreneur, diplomat, economist and political theorist who developed the nationalist theory of political economy in both Europe and the United States. He was a forefather of the German historical school of economics and argued for the Zollverein from a nationalist standpoint. He advocated raising tariffs on imported goods while supporting free trade of domestic…
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Born 6 August 1789 · Died 30 November 1846 · Q159917
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2026· 3 entries
“one to contemporary society and one to future generations”
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“world of bureaucrats separated from the people, spread over the whole country and concentrated in the ministries, ignorant of the needs of the people and the conditions of civil life, … opposing every influence of the citizen as if it were a threat to the state.”
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC/TMD) for Clinical and Research Applications: Recommendations of the International RDC/TMD Consortium Network* and Orofacial Pain Special Interest Group†” in Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache — cited 3,750 times.
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1917· 1 entry
Suggested the new central interchange station of the German rail network be named in honor of List
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1846· 2 entries
Died 1846-11-30.
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With his property lost in another American crisis and his health failing, List traveled to Tyrol and committed suicide in Kufstein on November 30 with a seven-inch travel pistol
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1845· 1 entry
Archived 2006-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
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1844· 2 entries
The writer of an article in a leading review had declared that 'in every point of view, whether politically or commercially, we can have no better alliance than that of the German nation, spreading as it does, its 42 mil
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The Zollverein set moderate protective tariffs focused on iron and yarn, stimulating economic development for a time but allowing technology transfers and the importation of necessary finished goods from England
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1843· 1 entry
Established the Zollvereinsblatt in Augsburg, a newspaper in which continued his advocacy for the enlargement of the Zollverein and the organization of a national commercial system
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1841· 3 entries
Published his main work, The National System of Political Economy, inspired by the work of Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, Histoire de l'economique politique en Europe
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Declined an offer to edit the Rheinische Zeitung, a new liberal Cologne newspaper, and the role went to Gustav Höfken
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The Württemberg government restored List's "civic honor", though his hopes of a position in the southern German states was not fulfilled
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1840· 1 entry
List returned to Germany following the death of his only son, Oskar, in the service of the French Foreign Legion
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1839· 1 entry
Was the first German long-distance railway line
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1836· 1 entry
After a corresponding petition for clemency had been rejected
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1835· 1 entry
For example, he advocated a route from Mannheim to Basel, another from Magdeburg to Berlin and a connection from there to Hamburg
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1834· 2 entries
Is considered one of the most important texts of early German liberalism
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Had primarily promoted Prussian interests within Germany, and that the greater German economy should establish an "educational" tariff to counter the superior productivity of England
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1833· 2 entries
And they exchanged letters for the remainder of their lives
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List began to promote the construction of a greater German railway network
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1831· 1 entry
Also founded the Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company, which opened a railroad line to transport the coal, making List an early American railroad pioneer
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1830· 1 entry
And appointed him consul to Hamburg in 1830, though this appointment was not confirmed by the United States Senate, and the Grand Duchy of Baden at Leipzig in 1833, providing him diplomatic immunity and protection from p
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1827· 1 entry
And several partners founded a coal mine
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1824· 1 entry
Having been unable to build a secure life in exile
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1822· 1 entry
List was sentenced to ten months imprisonment at Hohenasperg
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1820· 2 entries
Was elected to the state parliament from Reutlingen
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Where a pan-German follow-up conference to the Carlsbad Assembly was held
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1819· 1 entry
List traveled to Frankfurt and organized local merchants to establish the General German Trade and Industry Association
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1818· 1 entry
And managing director of the Trade and Industry Association
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1817· 1 entry
“No one in our University has any conception of a national economy. No one teaches the science of agriculture, forestry, mining, industry, or trade. ... [T]he forms of government are in such a truly barbarous state, that if an official of the seventeenth century rose again from the dead he could at once take up his old work, though he would assuredly be astonished to find the advances that had been made during the interval in the simplest process of manufacture.”
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1816· 1 entry
List's position in the bureaucracy was improved as the succession of King William I of Württemberg ushered in a period of reform
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1811· 1 entry
List was promoted to a post at Tübingen
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1805· 1 entry
And became Taxes and Warehouses Commissioner in Schelklingen
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1789· 1 entry
Born 1789-08-06.
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