The Federation (Academic Society)

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The Bund was a German "Society for Spiritual Renewal" founded in 1946 .

history

It was founded in Wuppertal in the summer of 1946 and existed until 1975. The company was founded on the initiative and with the support of the Wuppertal city administration. Its founders were the doctorate in law Hans Jürgen Leep, the entrepreneur Klaus Gebhard , the lawyer Heinrich Gremmels and the writer Gerhard Nebel . The content and results of the meetings were published in a separate magazine "Der Bund". "Bund" director was Dr. Hans Jürgen Leep (1910–2001), who was also the first full-time director of the adult education center in Wuppertal. Significantly involved in their professionalization and equipping them with a "House of Adult Education", he made sure that in 1969 the founder of the Bonn stage for sensual perception - KONZIL and poet Gerd Hergen Lübben was entrusted with the management of the faculty for humanities and cultural education has been. When he took office, Dr. Leep the text “Der Bund. Wuppertal. Three lectures. December 1959 ”on the subject of“ The Darkness in Modern Poetry ”. Various “Bund” years were published by the Marées publishing house in Wuppertal. Lübben was then, until his move as head of the cultural department to Unna in 1972, as a full-time lecturer also responsible for federal events. a. with the speakers Ernst Bloch and Richard Löwenthal . - The question has arisen whether the Society for Spiritual Renewal, “Der Bund” , headed by Hans Jürgen Leep, will join the Wuppertal-born Dr. Artur Jacobs was in Essen in the 1920s from a “working group” of the socialist educational community “Der Bund”, which he founded there in 1919 . As Lübben reports in his essay on the pedagogue and philosopher Artur Jacobs, Hans Jürgen Leep suggested to him that between the "Bund" he directed and the " Bund - Gemeinschaft für Sozialistisches Leben " founded by Jacobs , an "experimental group" for a coexistence "in responsibility for oneself and the world" and for an "overall scientific lesson" there is definitely an organizational history connection: After the Second World War, Artur Jacobs began anew with his idea of ​​a "workers' Academy ”does not take place in the“ Bundes-Haus ”in Essen, but in Wuppertal. And in 1966 the Wuppertal city council was able to expressly build on that of Dr. Wuppertal with the initiation of a "Scientific Society" with a view to further development into a university town. Leep ran the academic society “Der Bund” in conjunction with the adult education center.

Goals and members

The aim was, as a reaction to the catastrophe of National Socialism, to develop solutions for important social problems and crises in a union of the sciences and in exchange. Writers in particular were also included in the debates. The formats of the society were mainly specialist groups, discussion groups and lectures. There were 15 specialist groups. Its members and guests included many of the leading representatives of the intellectual life of the time, such as Jürgen Habermas , Arnold Gehlen , Carl Schmitt , Ingeborg Bachmann , Paul Celan , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Heinrich Böll and Hans Mayer .

literature

  • Uwe Eckardt : Paul Celan (1920–1970) and the Wuppertaler »Bund« , in: Geschichte im Wuppertal 4 (1995), pp. 90–100

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk van Laak : Conversations in the security of silence: Carl Schmitt in the political intellectual history of the early Federal Republic . 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-05-003744-X , p. 44 , note 7 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Culture news . In: The time . No. 21/1946 ( online ).
  3. ↑ These are lectures by Ferdinand Kriwet ( Divided Language ), Dr. Franzöffelholz ( reflections on a theory of modern arts ) and Bazon Ph. Brock ( on poetic syntax ).
  4. ↑ Hans Jürgen Leep: The Bund. Yearbook 1947, Wuppertal 1947.
  5. ↑ Hans Jürgen Leep: The Bund. Yearbook 1948–49. Contributions by G.Britting, W. Lehmann, W. Bergengruen u. a., Wuppertal 1949.
  6. ↑ Cf. “Safety through approach. Professor Löwenthal on Ostpolitik in the Angel Year ”; in: Westdeutsche Rundschau, November 11, 1970.
  7. ↑ Cf. Gerd Hergen Lübben, “On a thin line. For learning and growing from the spirit of truth, art and humanity. Approaching the pedagogue Artur Jacobs - also with a view to the philosopher Ernst Marcus and the movement educator Dore Jacobs, née Marcus ”; in: "THE BRIDGE - Forum for Anti-Racist Politics and Culture" (Saarbrücken 2008), Issues 147–149; especially issue 147, pages 54 ff.
  8. ↑ See Frank Friedhelm Homberg, Rescue Resistance in Wuppertal during National Socialism , dissertation, Düsseldorf 2008; in particular the chapter The “Bund. Community for socialist life "and his work in Wuppertal , p. 109 ff.
  9. ↑ Françoise Lartillot: Document / Monument . Ed .: Françoise Lartillot, Axel Gellhaus (= Association des Germanistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur [Ed.]: Actes du ... congrès de l'Association des Germanistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur . Volume 38 ). Peter Lang, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-03911-494-8 , pp. 318 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).