Max Sering (18 January 1857 – 12 November 1939) was a German economist. Sering was considered the most famous German agricultural economist of his time; his students briefly included Otto von Habsburg.

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Max Sering
Max Sering in 1933
Born	(1857-01-18)18 January 1857 Barby
Died	12 November 1939(1939-11-12) (aged 82) Berlin
Nationality	German
Academic career
Field	Agricultural economics
Alma mater	University of Strasbourg
Doctoral advisor	Gustav von Schmoller

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Sering studied in both Strasbourg and Leipzig, before entering the civil service in Alsace in 1879. In 1883 he was sent by the Prussian government to North America to study agricultural competition.

Sering remarked that the Russian Revolution served to further enhance the transition of peasant land from common ownership to private ownership.^[1]