Erich Hochstetter

Erich Hochstetter (born August 4, 1888 in Berlin , † June 16, 1968 in Greste ) was a German philosopher .

Born as the son of a pharmacist in Berlin, he graduated from the Luisenstädtisches Gymnasium and studied philosophy in Berlin, especially with Benno Erdmann . From 1916 to 1918 Hochstetter served in the First World War. In 1915 he received his doctorate and in 1926 his habilitation on philosophical-historical topics from the Middle Ages. In 1921, Hochstetter received a regular job at the Leibniz Edition of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . From 1927 he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Berlin , in 1930 he became an associate professor. Hochstetter was considered apolitical and without ambitions in the time of National Socialism . Nevertheless, he joined the NSDAP in early 1941 . In August 1942 he quit his job at the academy and became an unscheduled employee in the Rosenberg office . After 1945 he taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Münster and built up the Leibniz Research Center , which was officially established in 1956. His successor in 1968 was his pupil Heinrich Schepers . Hochstetter was married to a stepdaughter of Benno Erdmann. In 1960 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

literature

• Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich , Berlin 2002, Part I, p. 342f

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Hochstetter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Leibniz edition

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tilitzki, 2002, p. 754, online at Google Books
2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 115.