Werner Picht

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Werner Robert Valentin Picht (born September 28, 1887 in Berlin ; † July 5, 1965 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German sociologist , administrative officer and writer .

family

Werner Picht was the son of Max Picht (1853–1889) and his wife Lilla Susanne, geb. Rautenstrauch (1867–1933), a sister of the politician Wilhelm Rautenstrauch . He was married to Greda Curtius . One of her three sons was the philosopher, theologian and educator Georg Picht .

Weimar Republic and National Socialism

In the Weimar Republic he was one of the theorists of adult education . From 1919 to 1925 Picht was an adult education officer in the Prussian Ministry for Science, Art and Education under Robert von Erdberg and a founding member of the Hohenrodter Bund ( Berlin direction ). From 1927 to 1933 he headed the university department of the League of Nations Institute for Spiritual Cooperation in Paris.

During World War II he was press officer at the Wehrmacht High Command in Berlin and wrote propaganda about the campaigns in Poland, Norway and France.

In 1946, the following works by Picht were included in the list of literature to be sorted out as part of National Socialist propaganda in the Soviet occupation zone : Die Wandlungen des Kämpfers (Vorwerk, Berlin 1938), The High Command of the Wehrmacht announces ( Mittler and Son , Berlin 1940), The Soldier Man . (Fischer, Berlin 1940), The Front Soldier (Herbig, Berlin 1940); The campaign in Norway ( Mittler and Son , Berlin 1940), The End of Illusions ( Mittler and Son , Berlin 1941), In spite of all violence (Zeitgeschichte-Verlag, Berlin 1942). In 1947 the foreign language editions of The Campaign in Norway were banned.

After 1952 Picht u. a. in the time and in the mirror in the public debate about the citizens in uniform turned on and on rearmament expressed.

Works (selection)

  • Toynbee Hall and the English Settlement Movement: A Contribution to the History of the Social Movement in England , Tübingen: Mohr, 1913
  • Cross and War , Berlin: Furche-Verlag, 1917
  • The fruit of suffering , 2. and exp. By Kreuz u. Krieg , Würzburg: Patmos-Verlag, 1920
  • In the struggle for adult education 1912-1926 , Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1926 (with Eugen Rosenstock )
  • Stefan George. A critical homage , Heidelberg: Weiss, 1931
  • Beyond Pacifism and Nationalism , Munich: Callwey, 1932
  • The changes of the fighter. Berlin, Vorwerk, 1938.
  • The Wehrmacht High Command announces: Truth u. Lie about d. September campaign 1939 , Mittler, 1939 (2nd edition 1940)
  • The soldier man , Berlin: Fischer, 1940 ( Fischer Verlag was in the hands of Peter Suhrkamp from 1936)
  • De Waarheid marcheert ... Op grond van officieele Gegevens samengesteld , 's-Gravenhage, 1940
  • La Fin des illusions , Bruxelles: Desmet-Verteneuil, 1941
  • The fate of popular education in Germany , Braunschweig; Berlin; Hamburg: Westermann, (1936) 1950
  • On the essence of war and the warfare of the Germans , 2. Erw. Edition of Die Wandlungen des Kämpfers (1938), Stuttgart: Vorwerk, 1952
  • The Utopia of the Citizen Soldier. In: Die Zeit 1952, No. 30.
  • Balance of the second world war. Findings and obligations for the future . Stalling, Oldenburg / Hamburg 1953.
  • Rearmament . G. Neske, Pfullingen 1954.
  • Citizen in Uniform? Analysis of a mission statement . In: New Society. 2 (1955), H. 2, pp. 53-61
  • Albert Schweitzer . Hamburg: Richard Meiner, 1960
  • Reflection on Stefan George , Düsseldorf; Munich: Küpper vorm. Bondi, 1964.

literature

  • Ulrich Raulff: Circle without a master. Stefan George's afterlife. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59225-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://mohr-rautenstrauch.de/Stamm_Rautenstrauch.htm
  2. ^ Raulff, Ulrich (2009): Circle without a master. Stefan George's afterlife. P. 449f.
  3. ↑ http://www.die-bonn.de/Weiterbildung/Archive/Meta-Archiv/lösungen.aspx?per_id=997
  4. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1946 .
  5. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1947 .
  6. ↑ WEHRWILLE: Citizens in Uniform . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1954 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Picht, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Picht, Werner R .; Picht, Werner Robert Valentin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, administrative officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1965
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau