Hans Bogner

Hans Bogner (born November 8, 1895 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ; † December 28, 1948 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German classical philologist . His specialty was the interpretation of democracy from the experience of antiquity.

Life

After participating in the First World War , he studied Classical Philology at the University of Munich , and was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate and habilitation in 1933. Bogner belonged to the Hamburg circle around Wilhelm Stapel and is assigned to the Conservative Revolution , which stood in opposition to the liberalism and parliamentarism of the Weimar Republic . In National Socialism he saw a means to overcome the shortcomings of the previous system. So he wrote in 1932:

“It doesn't depend on the program, not on the leader; In the case of a vessel of choice and the tool of history, one should not ask about its intrinsic value. But one must not hope that conservative belief will ever grasp such quantities in a better way. "

"The small group of conservative thought, which is already struggling to shape post-democratic forms of rule, can only take action when it [National Socialism] has prepared the ground for it."

During the time of National Socialism , he was a member of the advisory board of the research department of the Jewish question in the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany from 1936 and published the book The Jewish question in the Greco-Roman world . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP .

From 1936 to 1941 Bogner taught as a full professor in Freiburg , from 1941 to 1944 as a full professor at the University of Strasbourg . After the Nazi period, he was no longer allowed to return to a university and worked as a teacher for ancient languages ​​at the Evangelical Seminary in Blaubeuren .

After the end of the war, his writings The Education of the Political Elite (= Stalling library "Writings to the Nation", No. 6. Stalling-Verlag , Oldenburg 1932) and Platon in the classroom (= On the way to the national political high school , no. 1. Diesterweg, Frankfurt 1937) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet zone of occupation .

plant

• The double face of democracy. Plato and the teaching of antiquity. Collective work: Reich and Reich enemies. Vol. 1 (from a total of 4). Writings of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1941

literature

• Jürgen Malitz: Classical Philology , in: Eckhard Wirbelauer (Hrsg.): The Freiburg Philosophical Faculty 1920–1960. Members - Structures - Networks , Freiburg / Munich 2006, pp. 303–364. ( PDF )

Memberships (selection)

• Paul Ernst Society

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Bogner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Bogner: The end of enlightened democracy; in: Deutsche Rundschau , 1932, p. 13.
2. ↑ Hans Bogner: The education of the political elite, Oldenburg, 1932, Schriften an die Nation, No. 6, p. 31.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt 2007, p. 61.
4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-b.html
5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-b.html