Adolf Günther

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(Gustav) Adolf Günther (born March 21, 1881 in Ansbach , Franconia ; † January 4, 1958 in Innsbruck ) was a German lawyer and political scientist .

Life

During his studies, Günther became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in Erlangen in 1901 . Günther received his doctorate in law from the University of Munich in 1905 and completed his habilitation in political science at the University of Berlin in 1910 . It was there that he became an adjunct professor and soon afterwards full professor at the Nuremberg Commercial College ( at the same time honorary professor at the University of Erlangen ). From 1923 to 1929 Günther was a professor at the University of Innsbruck . He then worked in various functions in the Reich Ministry of Labor, statistical offices and administrative academies. From 1940 to 1948 Adolf Günther was a professor at the University of Vienna .

Günther was not a trained sociologist , but devoted himself to the practical application of sociological knowledge, although he was not committed to any school. He oriented himself to Leopold von Wiese , Max Weber , Georg Simmel , Werner Sombart and Ferdinand Tönnies , but also to Othmar Spann . The holistic approach of the author is particularly clear in his narrative-based and in the tradition of subjective-empirical social research in the sense Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt -standing case study for Alpine society: from the point of settlement to / below the Alps are socialization, community education, culture and political institutional structure methodically developed.

Günther had worked in the ergonomics institute of the DAF since 1938 .

Günther's role in National Socialism is largely unexplored. According to information on the website of the University of Vienna, Günther is said to have been classified as "less burdened" in the court proceedings in 1948. In 1946 he was accepted back into the newly founded German Society for Sociology .

Fonts (selection)

  • Social policy. Part 1: Social Policy Theory . Handbook of economics and social science in individual volumes, Ed. A. Günther & Gerhard Kessler , 9th volume. Association of Scientific Publishers, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1922
  • Alpine society as a social and political, economic and cultural sphere. With contributions to the methodology of the social sciences. G. Fischer, Jena 1930 [with a map]
  • The idea of ​​race in the ideological debate of our time . Junker & Dünnhaupt , Berlin 1940
  • Community or collectivism? Ed. Ergonomic Institute of the German Labor Front. Berlin 1940

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 297.
  2. ↑ Margarete Grandner: Studying at the law and political science faculty of the University of Vienna 1945–1955 (PDF; 160 kB) vgs.univie.ac.at. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
  3. ↑ Henning Borggräfe, Sonja Schnitzler: The German Society for Sociology and National Socialism. Association-internal transformations after 1933 and after 1945 , in: Michaela Christ, Maja Suderland (editors), Sociology and National Socialism: Positions, Debates, Perspectives . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, pp. 445–479, here p. 462.
  4. ^ Table of contents at the German National Library online
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günther, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1958
Place of death innsbruck