Franz Staudinger

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Franz Staudinger (born February 15, 1849 in Wallerstatten near Groß-Gerau , † November 18, 1921 in Darmstadt ) was a German high school teacher, philosopher and active in the consumer cooperative movement .

Life

Franz Staudinger was the son of a Protestant pastor in Wallerstatten. He attended the old grammar school in Stuttgart and first studied architecture in Stuttgart. Then he changed his subject and studied theology in Giessen. Staudinger was one of the 16 founding fathers of the Giessen Free Student Association , a predecessor organization of today's Giessen fraternity Adelphia . In 1870 he passed the theological exam and in 1871 he received his doctorate in philosophy. For a short time he taught at private schools and then studied new philology. In 1875 he passed the state examination for higher teaching qualifications and a year later became a high school teacher in Worms.

At the center of his thinking was the question of practical philosophy. In this he represented the Marburg direction of neo-Kantianism, which was trained by Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp .

He developed a socialist conception that assumed that the moral question was a social question. The Marxian economy must be supplemented by ethics if human society is to be raised to a higher cultural level. What is remarkable here is the view that something needs to be done, needs to be raised . He got in touch with the consumer cooperative movement, for which he was involved from 1896 until his death. In the utility industry, he prophetically saw the foundations of salvation, a community to come . With this view he corresponded to the academic zeitgeist. He regularly wrote his own books, but also small essays in consumer cooperative literature. His style is now seen as lecturing and unnecessarily complicated. He published partly under the anagramatic pseudonym Sadi Gunter , which is composed of the letters of his surname. In Worms he was a member of the Masonic lodge to the rebuilt Temple of Brotherly Love and from 1883 to 1886 its master of the chair .

Consumer cooperative

On the constitutive day of the cooperative for the establishment of the Central Association of German Consumer Associations in Dresden in 1903 , he was elected to the committee of the association and to the supervisory board of the publishing house of this central association. After the establishment of the consumer cooperative training commission in 1910, he was a member. For Staudinger, the consumer cooperative was a way of solving the social question. Alongside Heinrich Kaufmann , he was the main proponent of the idea of ​​the general economic needs-based economy. In many essays he has promoted the consumer cooperative idea. For decades, he traveled through Germany as a traveling teacher and speaker at consumer cooperative workshops. He was a part-time teacher at the cooperative school. Even in the 1950s he was revered within the consumer cooperative movement as a pioneer of the consumer cooperative movement of the red, socialist and Hamburg directions.

family

Franz Staudinger was married to the women's rights activist Auguste Staudinger , née Wenck. Her son Hans Staudinger was a member of the SPD Reichstag, her son Hermann Staudinger was a chemist and Nobel Prize winner. Her daughter Luise Federn-Staudinger was a sculptor and women's rights activist. The grandson Klaus Federn was a professor of mechanical engineering at the TU Berlin.

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Sieg: Rise and Fall of Marburg Neo-Kantianism , Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann 1997, page 232, ISBN 3884799444 [1] Accessed April 27, 2009
  2. ^ Erwin Hasselmann: History of the German consumer cooperatives. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 291.
  3. ↑ Walther G. Oschilewski: Will and Action. The way of the German consumer cooperative movement. Hamburg 1953, p. 58.

literature

  • Heinrich Kaufmann : Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Central Association of German Consumer Associations . Published on behalf of the board and committee of the Central Association of German Consumers, printed by the Verlaggesellschaft deutscher Konsumvereine mbH, Hamburg 1928, 543 pages with appendix. Biography page 322.
  • Walther G. Oschilewski : Will and Action. The way of the German consumer cooperative movement. Hamburg 1953, especially page 57f.
  • Uwe Spiekermann , medium of solidarity. The advertising of the consumer cooperatives 1903-1933, in Peter Borscheid and Clemens Wischermann (eds.): World of images of everyday life. Advertising in the consumer society of the 9th and 20th centuries, Stuttgart 1995, 150-189, v. a. 153–155 (Staudinger's theory of cooperatives).
  • Erwin Hasselmann : History of the German consumer cooperatives. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971.

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personal data
SURNAME Staudinger, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sadi Gunter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher, philosopher and consumer cooperative
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Catfish sites
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1921
Place of death Darmstadt