Edith Eucken-Erdsiek

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Edith Eucken-Erdsiek (born Edith Erdsiek ; born April 2, 1896 in Smolensk , † June 22, 1985 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German cultural philosopher and writer.

Life

Edith Erdsiek was born in Smolensk. Her mother was of Jewish origin, the family on her father's side came from Westphalia. She was the older sister of the legal scholar Gerhard Erdsiek (1897–1975). She spent the first years of her childhood in Kursk . In 1904 the family moved to Germany, first to Düsseldorf and in 1905 to Berlin . There she passed the Abitur in 1914.

At the University of Berlin she studied economics, literature and philosophy. During her studies she met Walter Eucken , whom she married in December 1920. Thus she became the daughter-in-law of the philosopher and Nobel Prize winner for literature Rudolf Eucken . After getting married, she gave up her studies. From 1925 the couple lived in Tübingen and from 1927 in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1925 Edith Eucken-Erdsiek published her first essay in the magazine Die Tatwelt , which she edited from 1928 to 1934. In part she published it under the pseudonym Janus .

She gave birth to a son and two daughters in the 1930s. Edith Eucken-Erdsiek stopped her journalistic work. In 1938 she joined the Freiburg Council . The discussion group consisted of pairs of pastors and professors. They met in private apartments, including the Euckens.

After the end of World War II Edith Eucken-Erdsiek began to publish again. After Walter Eucken's death in 1950, she initially devoted herself to editing his work Principles of Economic Policy . She made a major contribution to founding the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg in 1954 and kept in touch with Eucken’s students and friends. The Eucken district met annually in her apartment.

Edith Eucken-Erdsiek wrote articles for newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Swiss monthly and the Philosophical Yearbook .

In 1970 she was one of the founding members of the Federation of Freedom of Science . In 1985 she died in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Publications

  • Greatness and madness. Three essays on Frederick the Great, Napoleon and Hitler . Tubingen 1950
  • Our social order and the radical left . Stuttgart 1971
  • They shaped our century. Contemporary portraits . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, ISBN 3-451-07824-4
  • Magic of extremes - from the difficulty of spiritual orientation . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1981, ISBN 3-451-07908-9

literature

  • Wendula Countess von Klinskowstroem: Introduction: Edith Eucken-Erdsiek (1896–1985) . In: Nils Goldschmidt , Michael Wohlgemut (eds.): Basic texts on the Freiburg tradition of order economics , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, p. 375ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Wendula Countess von Klinskowstroem: Walter Eucken, A biographical sketch . In: Lüder Gerken (Ed.): Walter Eucken and his work. Review of the pioneer of the social market economy , Tübingen 2000, pp. 53–115 as well as p. 126 ( digitized extracts )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendula Countess of Klinskowstroem: Walter Eucken, a biographical sketch . In: Lüder Gerken (Ed.): Walter Eucken and his work. Review of the pioneer of the social market economy , Tübingen 2000, pp. 53–115, here: pp. 74f. as well as illustration on p. 126 ( full text in the Google book search); see. furthermore: Gerhard Marquordt: Obituary for Gerhard Erdsiek . In: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1975, pp. 1688 f., And GND 116531509 .
personal data
SURNAME Eucken-Erdsiek, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erdsiek, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural philosopher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Smolensk
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1985
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau