Spruce Society from 1914

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The 1914 Fichte Society was founded in Hamburg in 1916 from the ranks of the German National Handicrafts Association (DHV) in order to keep the national enthusiasm of 1914 at the start of the war alive through lectures and publications. The name goes back to the speeches to the German nation of the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte . It existed at least until 1938, most recently as the Fichte Society

The managing director was initially the life reformer Adalbert Luntowski , the association's body was the communications of the Fichte Society . A spruce college was founded in Hamburg under the direction of Pastor Emil Engelhardt , and Ferdinand Jakob Schmidt ("Fichte und Luther") contributed to the opening . Even Frank Glatzel was a member of the Spruce College in Leipzig initiated. From 1919 the journalist Wilhelm Stapel published the magazine Deutsches Volkstum for the DHV , to which the announcements were enclosed and whose political concerns received attention far beyond university circles. Stapel, as a representative of the ethnic-national, anti-Semitic Neufichtenians , also criticized the Weimar Republic and certified Fichte that he had designed a kind of democracy "which differs in its innermost convictions from what has been introduced as democracy in our country today". From 1926 to 1934, Heinz Dähnhardt was head of the Reich office and adult education officer at the Fichte University. In 1926 he transferred the seat of the association and the school to the Spandau Evangelical Johannesstift (Berlin) .

The Jena philosopher Bruno Bauch met Lenore Ripke-Kühn in the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar in January 1917 to set up an interested philosophy circle in society. In March 1917 he gave a lecture on Fichte and the German Thought to an audience of 600 in Erfurt , to which the anti-Semitic Deutschbund had also invited, and called a meeting in the Nietzsche archive at Pentecost 1917. Bauch considered important ideas of Nietzsche compatible with German idealism, especially Fichte. This lecture appeared in the pan-German magazine Der Panther , edited by Lenore Ripke-Kühn, the wife of Axel Ripke . Initially, a double membership with a German Philosophical Society was considered, but the restriction to Fichte turned out to be too narrow. Therefore, an independent German Philosophical Society was officially founded on May 21, 1918 under the managing director Arthur Hoffmann , which brought together a considerable number of respected philosophers.

literature

  • Sven Schlotter: The tyranny of values. Philosophy and politics with Bruno Bauch. In: Klaus M. Kodalle (ed.): Fear of the modern. Philosophical answers to crisis experiences. The microcosm of Jena 1900–1940. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000, pp. 89-102.
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  • Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003647-8 .