Dieter Brüll

Dieter Brüll (born March 2, 1922 in Nuremberg , † March 23, 1996 in Zutphen , Netherlands ) was a German social scientist and anthroposophist .

Life

Dieter Brüll was expelled from school in 1934 as a “ half-Jew ” - his father was Jewish. He then attended the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, and from 1936 in Holland, where the family had emigrated. Thanks to the Allied invasion, he escaped deportation to a concentration camp after several weeks in prison in 1944 .

Brüll studied social sciences at the University of Amsterdam . From 1951 to 1953 he worked at the America Institute there, from 1953 as a lecturer in tax law . In 1956 he met the anthroposophical doctor Karl König . During his habilitation in 1964 he received the (first) "Kluwer-prijs". From 1967 to 1974 he was associate professor for tax law at the Catholic University in Tilburg . In 1974 he became a full professor in Amsterdam.

In 1976 he founded the anthroposophical magazine info3 in Amsterdam with his son Ramon . After his retirement in 1983, he worked as a lecturer, editor and book author for social threefolding .

In 1968 he co-founded the Triodos Bank , which only invests its profits in a socially or culturally motivated manner.

Works

• with Lex Bos and Arnold Henry: Social structures in motion . Achberger Verlags-Anstalt, Achberg 1976, ISBN 978-3-88103-055-7
• The anthroposophical social impulse. An attempt to capture it . Novalis, Schaffhausen 1984
• Community and togetherness . Urachhaus (Lectures 32), Stuttgart 1986
• Waldorf school and threefolding - the embarrassing task. On the risk of being an anthroposophical institution . Lazarus, Raisdorf 1992, ISBN 3-924967-06-7
• Building blocks for a social sacramentalism . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1995, ISBN 3-7235-0777-8
• 'About Urielites'. Pro Drei, Beuron 1992

Web links

• Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls
• Literature by and about Dieter Brüll in the catalog of the German National Library