Carl August Emge

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Carl August Emge (born April 21, 1886 in Hanau ; † January 20, 1970 in Bad Honnef ) was a German legal philosopher and legal sociologist . For a time he headed the Nietzsche archive in Weimar .

Life

Emge completed theological and legal studies in Marburg and Heidelberg . He completed his habilitation in 1916 at the University of Giessen with the text About the basic dogma of legal-philosophical relativism and was there in 1922 a full professor of law. From 1928 he was an associate professor in Jena , where he received a chair for philosophy and sociology in 1932. After Emge joined the NSDAP on December 1, 1931 , on July 29, 1932, he was one of the initiators of a call by Jena university teachers to elect the NSDAP. He also signed the declaration of 300 university professors for Adolf Hitler for the Reichstag election on March 5, 1933 .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1934, Emge became deputy chairman of the Committee for Legal Philosophy at the Academy for German Law founded by Hans Frank , which met in the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar. In 1934/35 he became the sole editor of what was previously the neo-Kantian periodical Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy . In 1935 he was appointed full professor in Berlin . After he had published the essay Ideas on a Philosophy of Leadership in 1936 , he became Deputy President of the Academy for German Law after Wilhelm Kisch in 1937 , a post he held until 1942. His competitors for the post were Johannes Popitz , Axel von Freytagh-Loringhoven and Justus W. Hedemann . Spoke for Emge, so u. a. Werner Weber in his role as "class secretary" that he was one of those German scholars who "joined the movement at an early stage and did a great job of it."

In addition, Emge headed the "Scientific Committee" of the Nietzsche Archives . Although he was a party member and an active National Socialist, according to Christian Tilitzki, he also appeared as a critic of the National Socialist racial policy because it was not compatible with his basic attitudes based on God. During the National Socialist era, Carl August Emge held the only chair for legal philosophy . From 1939 to 1945 he was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

After the end of the Second World War , Emge became senator of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz in 1949 . In 1953 he was also a member of a European research group on refugee issues . Most recently he held a chair in Würzburg, where he retired in 1957.

Since 1906 Emge was a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg and Suevia Heidelberg .

Emge published some of his works under the pseudonym Ab-Insulis .

Emge's writings Geistiger Mensch and National Socialism (Verlag für Zeitkritik, Berlin 1931) and ideas for a philosophy of leadership (Verlag für Staatswissenschaft und Geschichte, Berlin 1936) were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

Publications (selection)

  • On the basic dogma of legal philosophical relativism , 1916.
  • Hegel's Logic of the Present , 1927.
  • The philosophical content of religious dogmatics , 1929.
  • Spiritual man and National Socialism. An interview for the educated among his opponents . Berlin 1931. Under the pseudonym Ab Insulis .
  • Ideas for a philosophy of leadership . In: Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy , Vol. XXIX (29), 1935/36, pp. 175 ff.
  • A legal philosopher wanders through the old philosophy . Berlin 1936.
  • About the difference between 'virtuous', 'progressive' and 'situation-appropriate' thinking, a trilemma of 'practical reason' (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1950, Volume 5). Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden).
  • Bureaucratization from a philosophical and sociological point of view. Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden), Mainz 1950 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1950, volume 18).
  • The task of humanity for the spirit, a methodological inquiry. Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden), Mainz 1951 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social sciences class. Born 1951, Volume 7).
  • The "upside-down Platonism". (Nietzsche's suggestions for situation philosophy .) (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1951, Volume 10).
  • About the false alternative between the collective and the individual (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born in 1953, Volume 10).
  • Law and psychology. Thoughts on their relationship (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1954, Volume 1).
  • Unity moments in a unified Europe (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born in 1954, Volume 9). Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden).
  • About Nietzsche's enduring legacy. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1955 (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1955, No. 2).
  • About the logical-ontic structural relationships in d. legal philosophical thoughts of Schopenhauer. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden) 1955 (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1955, No. 7).
  • About the relationship between “normative legal thinking” and “real life”. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden) 1956 (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1956, No. 3).
  • The essence of ideology. An attempt with regard to anticipation, perspective, prejudice, resentment, self-evident, assuming claims of thought and similar anticipations more (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. 1961, No. 1).
  • Philosophy of Law , 1961.
  • The question of a new concept of culture. Considerations on the guideline of the view of Thomas Stearns Eliot (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. 1962, No. 7).
  • Max Stirner. A tendency that has not been overcome mentally. 1963 (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1963, No. 12).
  • The intellectual mastery of the so-called European idea, a social psychological attempt (= treatises of the humanities and social science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1965, No. 1).
  • About the indispensability of the concept of situation for the normative disciplines (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. 1966, no. 3).
  • The importance of legal sociology for dogmatics , 1968.

literature

  • RM Emge: Emge, Carl August , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, 2nd edition, Stuttgart 1984, p. 212 f.
  • Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 887.
  • Michael Walter Hebeisen: "In itself, everything that is speaks the yes". On the use of Nietzsche by the legal philosopher Carl August Emge. In: contradictions. To the early Nietzsche reception. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2000, pp. 291–337.

Web links

Wikiquote: Carl August Emge  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry Meyer's encyclopaedic lexicon , Bibliographisches Institut Mannheim, corrected reprint 1980, vol. 7, p. 739.
  2. ^ Otthein Rammstedt : German Sociology 1933-1945. The normality of an adjustment. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-518-28181-X , p. 100.
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 134 f.
  4. ↑ BArch R 61/71, sheet 38; quoted from: Hans-Reiner Pichonot: The Academy for German Law - Establishment and development of a public corporation of the Third Reich. (Dissertation). Kiel 1981, p. 110 f.
  5. ^ Christian Tilitzki: The legal philosopher Carl August Emge. From Hermann Cohen's student to Hans Frank's deputy ; in: Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2003), pp. 459–496. Link to the abstract of the article: The legal philosopher Carl August Emge
  6. ^ Members of the previous academies. Carl August Emge. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 18, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 102 , 958; 67 , 877.
  8. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  9. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation, list of literature to be sorted out, transcript letter I and J respectively . Second supplement, Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948, pages 134-143, accessed on August 24, 2017.
  10. ↑ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet occupation zone list of auszusondernden literature transcript letter E . Second supplement, Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948, pages 60-69, accessed on August 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Emge, Carl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ab Insulis (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1970
Place of death Bad Honnef