Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann

Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann ( pseudonyms: Leopold Dingräve, Severus, Habrich, Fellmann ) (born August 16, 1904 in Berlin , † February 22, 1987 in Munich ) was a German writer, sociologist and philosopher.

Live and act

Eschmann first completed a degree in law, economics, philosophy and history at the University of Heidelberg and got an assistant position there with the sociologist Alfred Weber . As his student, Eschmann received his doctorate in 1928 with a thesis on the fascist state in Italy.

In 1929 Eschmann began to work for the political monthly Die Tat , headed by Hans Zehrer . As a result, he became a member of the so-called Tat-Kreis, a group of young journalists which, in addition to Eschmann and Zehrer, also included Giselher Wirsing , Ferdinand Fried and Friedrich Wilhelm von Oertzen , who developed a considerable political influence in the early 1930s and in particular the powerful Reichswehr Minister Kurt von Schleicher served as a source of ideas.

He later judged the failure of the Tat-Kreis: “ We had no correct principles. We thought anything was possible. The idea of natural law , the inalienable rights of man, was alien to us. Our ideas were completely in the air without having a solid basis for our constructions. "

In September 1933, Zehrer had to resign as responsible for the magazine. From 1939 the magazine was given the new title Das XX. Published by Wirsing and Eschmann in the 19th century (they were also known as the publisher of "Tat" in 1938, previously Wirsing only), with Eschmann mainly taking care of the cultural part. From 1933 to 1943 Eschmann was a sociology lecturer and sociology professor at the University of Berlin. Eschmann became a NSDAP member on April 1, 1940 with the number 7617245, after his application for membership in 1937 had not been granted for formal reasons, although Wirsing, meanwhile editor of the NS newspaper Munich Latest News , had spoken to Reinhard Heydrich for him.

During the Second World War, Eschmann was director of the French department of the German Institute for International Studies . Interpreters, administrative officials and Nazi officials were trained here, that is, the future elites who deal with foreign countries. In the years 1941–1944 of the yearbook for politics and foreign studies published by SS leader Franz Six , Eschmann was responsible for the France part. In Paris he had contact with the collaborator Marcel Jouhandeau . Eschmann was head of the Paris German Institute branch in Marseille.

From 1945 Eschmann was initially a freelance writer. In 1960 he was appointed professor for philosophy, sociology and intellectual history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1969 he retired.

Works

• The fascist state in Italy. With 16 (photo) illustrations (on panels). (Series: Jedermanns Bücherei; Law and Political Science Department) Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1930 (²1933).
• About the meaning of the revolution. Eugen Diederichs, Jena, 1933.
• The foreign policy of fascism. Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1934.
• Greek diary. Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1936 (new editions: Schilling, Düsseldorf 1965; Claassen, Hamburg and Düsseldorf 1967).
• Made up letters. Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1938.
  • Made up letters. Hans Bühler junior, Baden-Baden 1947.
  • Made up letters. From Babylon to today. List books, 231, List, Munich 1962.
  • Made up letters. From Babylon to today. Drawings by Friedrich and Hannelore Schwarzat. Claassen, Hamburg, 1986 (5th revised and expanded edition).
  • Made up letters. From Babylon to today. Moewig, Rastatt 1981 (TB No. 6801; Series: Playboy Esprit), ISBN 3-8118-6801-2 .
  • Made up letters. From Babylon to today. With drawings by Friedrich and Hannelore Schwarzat. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich (dtv 10831), ISBN 3-423-10831-2 ).
• Ariadne. Tragedy. Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Jena 1939.
• as Severus: France and England. Series: The British Empire in World Politics, 25th publications of the German Institute for Foreign Policy Research and the Hamburg Institute for Foreign Policy, 40th ed. in association with the German Institute for International Studies. Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1940.
• The rise of Italy to a great power and an empire from 1871 to the entry into war against the Western powers. (Göschen Collection, Volume 1143.) de Gruyter, Berlin 1941.
• Conversations in the garden. Eugen Diederichs, Jena, 1941.
• From the point book. First edition (WG II 17). Berlin, Ulrich Riemerschmidt, 1942.
• The other sultan. Legends. Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1942.
• The ruling classes of France. Volume I: From the Capetians to the end of the Grand Siècle. (not published anymore) Junker & Dünnhaupt Verlag, Berlin 1943.
• Miniatures. (German series. Volume 152.) Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1944.
• The other sultan. Legends. Eugen Diederichs, Jena, 1942.
  • The other sultan. Legends. Hand etchings by Franz Danksin. Ex libris, Zurich 1948.
  • The other sultan. Legends. Rode and Welte, Umkirch 1986, ISBN 3-925345-01-9 .
• Visiting fishermen and other stories. Benno Schwabe, Klosterberg-Basel 1948 (Klosterberg Collection, European Series. Edited by Hans Urs von Balthasar).
• Paul Valery. Bühl, Herrliberg-Zurich, 1948.
• Alcestis. Play. Heliopolis, Tübingen 1950.
• The double sign. Stories. Heliopolis Verlag, Tübingen 1951.
• Fair for Leopold Bernhardt. Stahlberg, Karlsruhe, 1951.
• The Olympic Festival. The story of a great idea. (Photographs of the sculptures of Olympia by Walter Hege.) Obpacher Kunstverlag, Munich undated [1951]. (Series: Das Künstbüchlein, Volume 1. A small library for art lovers.)
• Suburban echo. Stahlberg, Karlsruhe, 1952.
• The FIR. Novel. Stahlberg, Karlsruhe 1953.
• At the edge of reality. Modern sciences on the way to metaphysics. Rascher, Zurich - Stuttgart, 1959.
• In the America of the Greeks. Stories. Eugen Diederichs, Düsseldorf and Cologne 1961 (Claassen, Hamburg 1967).
• Notes in the valley. Eugen Diederichs, Düsseldorf and Cologne, 1962.
• The carpenter and the savages. Stories. Claassen, Hamburg 1964.
• The heart in cult and belief. In: The heart. Part 1: In the vicinity of faith. (Private print) Dr. Karl Thomae GmbH, chemical-pharm. Factory , Biberach an d Riss, 1965.
• Entries. Notes in the room. Claassen, Hamburg and Düsseldorf 1967.
• A god descends. Attempt an artemis. The man under the window. Stories. Claassen, Hamburg and Düsseldorf 1968.
• Ticino epistles. Heinrich Ellermann, Hamburg 1949 (extended new edition: Claassen, Hamburg and Düsseldorf 1970).
• With Adolf Rieth: Asclepius's teacher. - Cheiron instructs Asklepios - Design: Gerhard Marcks. (Private print) Dr. Karl Thomae GmbH , Biberach an der Riß, undated (around 1970).
• The art of Gandhara . With a bibliography. (Private print. Ed. Karl Thomae) Dr. Karl Thomae GmbH . Biberach an der Riß no year (approx. 1970–1975).
• Luther finds JC Stück in 12 pictures. Eugen Diederichs, Düsseldorf and Cologne, 1975.

Editions

• Where will German youth find new living space? Report on the survey by the German Student Union. Published by the Deutsches Studentenwerk e. V. Edited and summarized by Dr. EW Eschmann. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Leipzig 1932.
• With Giselher Wirsing: The XX. Century. Monthly. (as Die Tat founded in 1909, under the new title since 1939, discontinued in 1944; Eschmann has been involved since 1929, co-editor since 1939) Eugen Diederichs, Jena.
• Prayers of humanity. Religious testimonies of all times and peoples. Edited by Alfonso M. de Nola. Compilation and introduction of the German edition by Ernst Eschmann. Eugen Diederichs, Düsseldorf and Cologne 1963 (= Deutscher Bücherbund, Stuttgart-Hamburg 1963; Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1977, it 238, ISBN 3-458-01938-3 .)

literature

• Michael Frederik Plöger: Sociology in totalitarian times. On the life and work of Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann (1904-1987) Lit, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0781-8 . Review: [1]
• Wolfgang Geiger: L'image de la France dans l'Allemagne nazie 1933-1945 , Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 1999, ISBN 2-86847-374-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From Schleicher to Springer, p. 63.
2. ↑ The yearbook 1944 is called "Jahrbuch der Weltpolitik". Publishing house Junker & Dünnhaupt Berlin
3. ↑ Gerhard Heller with Jean Grand: In an occupied country. Lieutenant Heller and the censorship in France 1940-1944 . Translated by Annette Lallemand-Rietkötter. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1985, ISBN 3-404-65066-2 , p. 112
4. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war the muses are not silent". The German Scientific Institutes in World War II. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001. ISBN 3-525-35357-X , p. 103
5. ↑ 80 p. The pharmaceutical company also published illustrated books by Albert Renger-Patzsch with essays by Ernst Jünger . - This commitment to archeology, art history and literature, which is essentially limited to the 1960s and 1970s, in the form of the " Lynkeus " series, deserves an investigation from the perspective of contemporary and mentality.