Arthur Hoffmann (philosopher)

Arthur Hoffmann (born July 10, 1889 in Erfurt , † February 8, 1964 there ) was a German National Socialist philosopher, educator and university professor.

The son of a railway official attended the public school in Erfurt, then the teachers' seminar and, after completing his elementary school teacher exam , taught in Ellrich am Harz. He then studied philosophy, mathematics, physics and education at the University of Jena between 1914 and 1921, interrupted from military service from 1916 to 1918 . Bruno Bauch received his doctorate in 1921 with a thesis on “The system program of the philosophy of values. A tribute to Wilhelm Windelband's axiology ”. In 1917 he founded the German Philosophical Society with Bauch, became its executive chairman and from 1921 to 1927 published the society's journal: Contributions to the Philosophy of German Idealism . Until 1924 Hoffmann was an assistant at Bauch, then a teacher in Erfurt and lecturer at the Institute for Curative Education in Halle (Saale). From 1929 to 1932 he went to the Erfurt Education Academy as a professor of psychology and philosophy , which was closed on March 31, 1932 due to the financial crisis. For a short time he became an SA troop leader and worked for the racial office of the NSDAP . On April 1, 1934, he was reappointed to the Cottbus College for Teacher Education as a professor of character and youth studies as well as the basics of folk-biological education. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP. From 1939 to 1941 he taught briefly at the HfL Frankfurt (Oder) before returning to Cottbus as head of the teacher training institute .

After 1945 he retrained to become a carpenter and worked so successfully in an Erfurt factory and orthopedic workshop that he wrote several essays on the history of orthopedics in the GDR.

In his studies, Hoffmann wanted to expand psychology through folk-biological (hereditary, racial and population-based) factors. From 1933 on he published essays on racial hygiene , genetics and family history. Hoffmann described the “racial mixture” as the most visible threat to the “organically grown life association”.

Fonts

• Cultural property and school: On the spirit of education , Stenger, Erfurt 1925
• (Ed.): Rassenhygiene, Herblehre, Familienkunde , Stenger, Erfurt 1933
• Student booklet: Vom Erbgut u. from D. Hereditary health of our people , Stenger, Erfurt 1933
• The educational psychologist , Zts. for educational psychology, 42 (1941), pp. 197-203
• with Rudolf Frercks : Erbnot and Volksaufartung: Image and counter-image from life for practical racial hygiene training , Stenger, Erfurt 1934
• Weimar-Jena's contribution to the founding of modern German orthopedics by Johann Georg Heine , FSU magazine, Jena 1959
• The contact between classical Weimar and Würzburg in its effect on the work of Johann Georg Heine , Weimar 1959

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 364–365 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich , Vol. 1, Berlin 2002, p. 492 ff.

Web links

• Hans-Christian Harten u. a .: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich: Bio-bibliographical manual , Academy, Berlin 2006 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
• Uwe Wolfradt u. a .: German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945 ( limited preview in Google book search)