Erwin Herlitzius

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Erwin Herlitzius (2004)

Erwin Georg Herlitzius (born March 15, 1921 in Erfurt ; † January 29, 2013 in Meißen ) was a German Marxist philosopher .

Life

Herlitzius was born on March 15, 1921 as the son of the engineer Ferdinand Wilhelm Joachim Herlitzius (1884–1961) and his wife Marie Auguste Franziska, nee. Keck (1888–1979) born in Erfurt. After attending the upper secondary school in Erfurt, he completed an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman from 1937 to 1941 . From 1941 to 1946 he did military service and became an American prisoner of war. He then initially worked as a miner (pit fitter) in Hückelhoven . In 1946 he moved from Aachen to the Soviet occupation zone , where he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . In the school year 1946/47 he passed the Abitur at the adult education center in Erfurt. From June to September 1947 he was employed at the Erfurt youth welfare office until he began studying at the University of Jena , which he completed in 1950 with a diploma in social sciences and philosophy. On January 21, 1950, he married the student Rosemarie Cäcilie Jobst.

After graduating, he worked for a few months as a lecturer at the Deutsches Theater-Institut Weimar , then from 1951 to 1963 at the Bergakademie Freiberg . During this time he received his doctorate in 1959 at the Humboldt University in Berlin on the subject of Georgius Agricola - his worldview and his work as a pioneer of a materialistic conception of nature . The habilitation on Marxism on the nature, concept and origin of religion followed in 1965 there. In 1958 and 1961 he became the father of his sons Jobst Ulrich and Thomas.

From 1964 to 1986 Herlitzius was Professor of Dialectical Materialism and Marxist-Leninist Philosophy at the TU Dresden , where he also temporarily served as Director of the Institute for Philosophy, Dean and Vice-Rector for Social Sciences. Herlitzius was from 1967 to 1970 chairman of the National Committee of the GDR in the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science. He visited the United States several times between 1970 and 1977. After the death of his wife in 1994, he retired from Dresden to his forest property in Radeburg. He died in Meißen in 2013 and was buried in the Old Annenfriedhof in Dresden.

Fonts

  • Georgius Agricola (1494 - 1555) his worldview and his achievement as a pioneer of a materialistic conception of nature . Akademie-Verlag Berlin,
  • Marxism on the nature, concept and origin of religion . Berlin, 1965
  • Philosophical Problems of the Scientific-Technical Revolution . Technical University of Dresden, 1967
  • with Johannes Albert and Frank Richter: Creation conditions and development of technical sciences . German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig, 1982
  • The engineering ecology, a new technical science? . Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden, Vol. 32, Dresden, 1983
  • with Hans-Jürgen Jacobs : The humanism of associated work and the problem of the laws of technology . German magazine for philosophy, 33rd year, issue 5, 1985
  • with Johannes Albert: Economic laws of socialism and laws of technology - humanistic objectives and interdisciplinarity . Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden, vol. 34, issue 2, 1986
  • with Karl-Franz Busch, Dietrich Uhlmann and Günther Weise: engineering ecology . Fischer, Jena, 1983.
  • with Karl-Franz Busch, Dietrich Uhlmann and Günther Weise, Heinz Töpfer: engineering ecology . 2nd ext. Edition, Fischer, Jena, 1989.
  • with Rudolph Günther: Thomas Müntzer - humanist, reformer, revolutionary: for his 500th birthday . Dresden, 1989
  • Understanding of the revolution and worldview: Alexander von Humboldt . German magazine for philosophy, 38th year, issue 5, 1990

literature

  • Wolfhard Weber , Lutz Engelskirchen : Dispute over the history of technology in Germany 1945-1975 . Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2000
  • Lothar Mertens : Clio priest or court chronicler of the party? Collective biographical analyzes of the GDR historians . v & r unipress, Göttingen, 2006, p. 39, footnote 170 ( Google Books )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. phil. habil Herlitzius, Erwin in 175 years of TU Dresden: The professors of TU Dresden, 1828-2003
personal data
SURNAME Herlitzius, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herlitzius, Erwin Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2013
Place of death Meissen