# Weber takes the Freiburg chair of political economy

Date: 1894

## The fact

In 1894 [Max Weber](/people/max-weber), then thirty, became ordinary professor of political economy at Freiburg, leaving a Berlin legal-academic track for a teaching chair. Lecture notes later edited in MWG III show worker question and finance courses. A chair is not a party office.

## Context

German economics chairs were state offices in an unreformed Kaiserreich. Lujo Brentano’s generation of Kathedersozialisten was the neighbourhood, not a party whip. Marianne Schnitger had married him in 1893. Household labour is named, not erased. The 1895 inaugural’s polarisation is a separate row.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Freiburg’s university portal at https://uni-freiburg.de/en/ is the official home of the chair. SEP at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/ independently dates the Freiburg appointment in the career.

Official or archival record: University of Freiburg — portal (https://uni-freiburg.de/en/; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).

## Significance

Education path, modest weight. High confidence on the 1894 chair.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Weber became Freiburg professor of political economy in 1894. Not established: a unique enrolment series, or that the chair was a liberal ministry. Contribution is recorded as He occupied the economics chair. The Baden ministry appointed; students heard the lectures now in MWG III. The impact note is A public political-economy chair put agrarian and worker questions into a faculty timetable, a modest education path. The dated heading stays Weber takes the Freiburg chair of political economy on 1894-04-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date. Bound 1 for weber-freiburg-1894: the instrument remains Weber takes the Freiburg chair of political economy (1894-04-01), with official locator https://uni-freiburg.de/en/ and independent locator https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/, not a later museum door or a translated schoolbook treated as this act.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The Freiburg chair is not the 1895 inaugural speech. Mixed effects of Weber takes the Freiburg chair of political economy are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Weber takes the Freiburg chair of political economy. Naming Max Weber does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1894-04-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Max Weber: https://factrail.ai/people/max-weber

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/
- https://uni-freiburg.de/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/weber-freiburg-1894