Rudolf Wolfgang Müller

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Rudolf Wolfgang Müller (born October 19, 1934 in Kobe , Japan ; † October 6, 2017 ) was a German political scientist who researched and published mainly on sociological topics.

life and work

Müller grew up as the oldest of three children up to the age of twelve in Kobe, Japan. Like almost all Germans living in Japan, the family was forcibly repatriated by order of the SCAP in 1947. First they were brought to a camp in Planegg . After graduating from high school in 1954 at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart , Müller began an apprenticeship as a locksmith, which he broke off after three months. From 1954 to 1963 he studied Latin , Greek and history at the University of Munich , the Free University of Berlin and the University of Tübingen . In 1964 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. phil. and was there from 1965 to 1974 research assistant at the Department of Political Science .

He completed his habilitation in 1974 and became a professor at the University of Hanover that same year . Since 1980 he has stayed several times for research purposes at Japanese universities ( Tokyo , Daito Bunka , Osaka , Sendai ). Müller retired in 2000 . He died on October 6, 2017 at the age of 82.

His scientific focus was:

  • European rationality since early Greek antiquity and in a cultural comparison, especially with Japan, especially in basic philosophical- grammatical categories such as time, space, active / passive / medium.
  • Teaching: different areas of political science in the narrower sense: z. B. Social policy , history of political ideas (especially ancient and early modern times), society and politics in Japan.

The essay about the welfare state illusion , written together with Christel Neusüß in 1970, helped shape the state derivation debate of the 1970s. Geld und Geist (1977, 1981) is considered to be Müller's main work .

Fonts (selection)

  • Youth memories: Müller, Rudolf Wolfgang; As a child in Kobe; Freiburg 2009
  • Rhetorical and syntactic punctuation. Investigations into the designation of pauses in ancient Latin. Phil. Dissertation. Tubingen 1964.
  • with Christel Neusüß: The welfare state illusion and the contradiction between wage labor and capital. In: Socialist Politics . No. 6/7, June 1970, pp. 4-67.
  • Money and mind. On the genesis of identity consciousness and rationality since antiquity. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1977, ISBN 978-3-593-32170-7 ; Second edition, Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1981, ISBN 978-3-593-32859-1 (also habilitation thesis, FU Berlin 1974).
  • Chaos and order. Central perspective and state-regulated space as the disappointed perception expectations of European visitors to Japan. In: H. Kimmerle (Ed.): The other and the thinking of difference. Amsterdam 1987, pp. 283-314.
  • On the development of the term “society” in Japan and Germany. Doubts about Eurocentrism. In: News of the Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia. No. 143, Hamburg 1988 (1989), pp. 243-276.
  • The state and the city. How Germans see their state reflected in the image of Tokyo. In: Michael Buckmiller , Joachim Perels (ed.), Opposition as a driving force of democracy. Balance sheet and perspectives of the second republic. Jürgen Seifert on his 70th birthday. Offizin-Verlag, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-930345-13-7 , pp. 222-235.
  • Karl Löwith on the difference between Orient and Occident and Japanese problems in adopting European thinking. In: T. Ogawa, M. Lazarin, G. Rappe (eds.): Intercultural Philosophy in Japan. Berlin 1998, pp. 189-210.
  • Rationalization . In: H. Cancik u. a. (Ed.): Concise dictionary of basic concepts in religious studies. Volume 5, Stuttgart 1998, pp. 363-376.
  • Gernot Böhme - Anima naturaliter Japonica. In: M. Hauskeller u. a. (Ed.): Knowledge of nature and being nature . Festschrift Gernot Böhme. Frankfurt am Main 1998, pp. 323-337.
  • Commentary on the contribution by Christoph Deutschmann : “Theories on the social significance of money and their relevance in the case of Japan”. In: A. Ernst, P. Pörtner (Ed.): The role of money in Japan's society. In: Economy and Politics. Hamburg 1998, pp. 25-31.
  • "... when the doorbell rang at 6 in the morning, it was the milkman." Ernst Fraenkel and the West Berlin student movement 1967. In: H. Buchstein, G. Göhler (ed.): From Socialism to Pluralism. Contributions to the work and person of Ernst Fraenkel. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000.
  • Time in Language. A Universal of Grammar, Education, and Literature? In: MP Soulsby, JT Fraser (Eds.): Time. Perspectives at the Millennium. Westport, London 2001, pp. 81-93.
  • Shape, empire and myth. On Kurt Singer's political attitude between the world wars. In: A. Eschbach, V. Eschbach-Szabo, N. Ikeda (eds.): Intercultural Singer Studies. On the life and work of Kurt Singer. Munich 2002, pp. 137-160.
  • The Coming Only is Sacred - Rush to the Future. About time, money, the future today. In: Chr. Deutschmann (ed.): The social power of money. In: Leviathan. Special issue 21/2002, pp. 151–176.
  • Capitalism (Capitalist Society) in: International Encyclopaedia of the Church. Volume 1. Grand Rapids (Michigan) 2003.

literature

  • Detlef Thofern, Sonja Gabbani, Wilhelm Vosse (Ed.): Rationality in Discourse. Rudolf Wolfgang Müller on his 60th birthday. Diagonal-Verlag, Marburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-927165-36-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Müller, Rudolf Wolfgang; Amphibious life. As a child in Kobe; Freiburg 2009 [1]
  2. ↑ Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart: Yearbook 2019-2020. (PDF) Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Rudolf Wolfgang Müller: Death. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . November 4, 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Rudolf Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe , Japan
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2017