August Gallinger

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Gallinger's publication "Gegenrechnung" , Süddeutsche Monatshefte, 1921

August Gallinger (born August 11, 1871 in Worms , † June 7, 1959 , in Munich ) was a German medic , philosopher and regimental doctor in the Bavarian Army .

Life

He was born as the son of the Jewish textile merchant Leopold Gallinger (1835–1899) and his wife Rosalia, born in Albisheim / Pfrimm , in the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate . Benedict (* 1839).

Gallinger grew up in Worms and attended grammar school there, which he had to leave after the 10th grade for family reasons. He went to Munich and heard from the winter semester 1896 at the city's university lectures in philosophy and science, while in 1900 caught up on a high school simultaneously. In 1901 he received his doctorate under Theodor Lipps Dr. phil., 1908 also Dr. med. and completed his habilitation in Munich in 1914 with the philosophical topic: "On the foundation of a doctrine of memory". In the First World War he served voluntarily as a medical officer and senior physician in the Kgl from September 1914 . Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 18 ( 8th Bavarian Reserve Division ), where he was taken prisoner on September 26, 1918. He was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. August Gallinger taught philosophy at the University of Munich until 1935 . On December 31, 1935, as a Jew, his license to teach and the title of professor were revoked. During the Nazi era he received permission to move to Stockholm in Sweden in 1939 . In 1947 he was called back to Munich University, where he held a chair for philosophy until 1952 .

In 1921 Gallinger published, as part of the Süddeutsche Monatshefte , a book with the title “Gegenrechnung” on crimes against German prisoners of war during the First World War. To this end, he also collected a large number of testimony from former soldiers as evidence. This writing made him famous, especially through the English edition the following year. The background to the publication was a. his own experiences when he was taken prisoner by France in 1918 and was literally plundered.

Works

  • The problem of objective possibility: an analysis of meaning . Writings of the Society for Psychological Research 16. Leipzig. Barth. 1912
  • On the foundation of a doctrine of memory . Max Niemeyer. Halle / Saale. 1914 (habilitation thesis)
  • Offsetting. The crimes against German prisoners of war . Süddeutsche Monatshefte, 18th year, 1921
    • engl. Countercharge. The Matter of War Criminals from the German Side . Munich. 1922
  • The beast in man . Experiences of civil and colonial prisoners among the French. Verlag GmbH Munich, 1923
  • Travel impressions in today's France . Munich. Knorr & Hirth. 1926
  • Edited by German-Austria culture problems . Munich, Huber, 1930

items

  • On the dispute over the basic problem of ethics in the more recent philophical literature . In: Kant Studies 6/1901, 353-426.
  • Georg Simmel on the possibility of a universally valid moral norm . in Kant studies. 6/1901. P. 406 ff.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Trumpp: The KB Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 18 , Volume 56 of the Bavarian part of the memorial sheets of German Regiments, Munich, 1928, p. 375; (Detail scan)
  2. ↑ Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2002, p. 461, ISBN 3050079819 ; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Gallinger, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1959
Place of death Munich