Eberhard Günter Schulz

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Eberhard Günter Schulz (born October 27, 1929 in Neusalz in Lower Silesia ; † August 3, 2010 in Marburg an der Lahn ) was a German philosophy - historian , writer and cultural politician .

Life and achievement

Eberhard Günter Schulz grew up in Neusalz in Lower Silesia, where his father Artur Schulz worked as a naturopath. In January 1945, the sixteen-year-old had to flee from his hometown before the approaching Soviet front. He attended the Athenaeum in Stade from 1946 to 1949 and passed his matriculation examination at the Realgymnasium in Marburg an der Lahn in 1949. Schulz studied philosophy, modern German literature, psychology, history and general political theory at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1949 to 1957 . He was then a research assistant at the Philosophical Department of the University of Marburg. In 1964 Schulz obtained his Magister Artium at the University of Hamburg , entered the university service of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1967 and received his doctorate in 1971 at the Ruhr University in Bochum and habilitated in 1978 at the University of Duisburg . Schulz took off in 1972 as a lecturer and since 1982 as a professor the subject Philosophy credit history at the Gerhard-Mercator University of Duisburg-Essen until his retirement in 1995th

Schulz was a proven and internationally recognized expert on the East Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant . He played a major role in the great Kant exhibition at the Duisburg Museum Haus Königsberg in 2004. On April 22nd, Kant's birthday, Schulz always spoke in front of the memorial plaque for the philosopher in the Duisburg town hall arch. He also gave courses and lectures at the Duisburg Adult Education Center.

Schulz held the position of chairman of the Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien from 1972 to 2001 and since 2000 he was president of the Stiftung Ostdeutscher Kulturrat , Stiftung Deutsche Kultur im Eastern Europa - OKR / Bonn.

Schulz was a member and co-designer of the House of Silesia in Königswinter .

From 1964 to 1967, Schulz designed the exhibition Achievement and Fate , which dealt with 700 years of Germanism in the East, for the Haus des Deutschen Ostens Foundation in Düsseldorf on behalf of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1993, under the direction of Schulz, a group of eight experts designed the exhibition Great Germans from the East . In 1994 he also published the catalog for it: Great Germans from the East. Insights and overviews of an exhibition by the Ostdeutscher Kulturrat Foundation .

Special mention should be made of his works as an author and / or editor:

  • 1967: achievement and destiny. Treatises and reports on the Germans in the East
  • 1986: as an editor with Lothar Bossle, Gundolf Keil and Josef Joachim Menzel: Silesia as an object of interdisciplinary research. Sigmaringen 1986 (= Silesian Research. Volume 1).
  • 2005: Through Self-Thought Towards Freedom: Contributions to the History of Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment
  • 2005: Kant's great discoveries: fourteen essays
  • 2005: Kant in his time
  • 2006: Rare on the German cultural heritage of the East (series)
  • 2007: On the contribution of the Silesians to German culture (extended new edition)
  • 2008: Thoughts on Germany and Europe 1967–2007
  • 2010: freedom and peace. Basic features of a philosophical constitutional and state law
  • 2012: respect and benevolence. Principles of a Philosophical Ethics

From 1976 to 2009 Schulz was editor of the quarterly magazine Schlesien .

For 2011, the work Shining Silesia was published. The Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, to whom Schulz was very close, provided for reflections on events and personalities . From 1980 to 2010 he was chairman of the publisher's supervisory board.

Schulz was married and the father of two daughters.

Honors

  • Knight of Honor of the Silesian Cooperative of the Order of St. John 1974
  • Legal Knight of the Silesian Cooperative of the Order of St. John 1983
  • Bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • Honorary President of the Association of Evangelical Silesians
  • Bearer of the Silesian Cross
  • Carrier of the siling ring
  • Holder of the Gerhart Hauptmann plaque from the Silesian Cultural Works Foundation

literature

  • Professor Schulz 65 years . Schlesischer Kulturspiegel 29 (1994), pp. 56-57.
  • Incurable optimist and unparalleled role model. Prof Dr Eberhard Günter Schulz on his 80th birthday . Series of authors. Schlesischer Kulturspiegel 44, 2009, pp. 83–86.
  • Obituaries in Frankfurter Allgemeine , August 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Eberhard Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, writer and cultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Neusalz , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2010
Place of death Marburg