Bernhard Rosenmöller

Bernhard Rosenmöller (born April 17, 1883 in Hamburg ; † March 19, 1974 in Münster ) was a German educator and Roman Catholic philosopher .

The family moved to Haarlem, the Netherlands . Rosenmöller wanted to become a priest, but he got caught up in the anti-modernist dispute and was excluded from training. In 1910 he did his German Abitur as an external student in Hameln . Then he studied theology, history and ancient languages. In 1914 he received his doctorate from the University of Münster on a historical topic from the time of Frederick the Great. In the same year he became German and in 1915 immediately drafted. In 1916 he was severely wounded and retired as a soldier and taught Latin in Münster. From 1920 to 1933 he headed the Catholic Academic Association in Münster. In 1925 he met the Protestant Karl Barth and initiated the first ecumenical meetings.

In 1923 he completed his habilitation with Max Ettlinger in Münster through Bonaventura . From 1923 he also headed the Institute for Scientific Education . In 1931 he became an adjunct professor of philosophy in Münster and helped found the Salzburg University Weeks. But it was not he who succeeded Ettlinger, but Peter Wust . In 1937 Rosenmöller was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Breslau . In 1944 he was illegally transferred to the theological faculty. He fled from Breslau to Borken . His interpretation of National Socialism saw it primarily as an apostasy from God.

In 1946 he was appointed founding rector of the Paderborn Pedagogical Academy . Due to organizational inadequacies, he left again in 1949 and continued to teach as an honorary professor at the University of Münster. His time as Paderborn rector was marked by the implementation of a confessional, traditional understanding of academic education. In 1959 he retired in Münster.

Fonts

• Philosophy of Religion , Münster 1932, 2nd edition 1939
• Metaphysics of the Soul , Münster 1947

literature

• Sigrid Blömeke : "... in search of solid ground" : Teacher training in the province ..., Waxmann, Münster 1999

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Rosenmöller in the catalog of the German National Library