Franz Loeser

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Franz Loeser (1981)

Franz Georg Loeser (born December 20, 1924 in Breslau ; † January 21, 1990 in Bergheim-Kenten ) was a German philosopher.

Life

Loeser, son of a Jewish lawyer, fled to England in 1938, like his two brothers, on a Kindertransport . After the beginning of World War II , he joined the British Army and took part in combat operations in North Africa, the " Second Front " and the Far East. He later worked on a research project for radioactive isotopes in the USA and thus financed his studies at the University of Minnesota . During the McCarthy era he lost his job because of political activities in the American student movement and then had to leave the USA because of his Marxist sentiments. He continued his studies in England at the University of Manchester . At the same time he was general secretary of Paul Robeson's civil rights movement .

In 1957 he moved to the GDR . There he was in 1962 at the Humboldt University of Berlin with the work of criticism of subjectivism in the ethical views of Bertrand Russell to Dr. phil. doctorate and later received a professorship for Marxist-Leninist ethics and headed the ethics section at the Institute of Philosophy. In 1969 he became a full professor for Marxist-Leninist organizational science. He published in the fields of popular science and mnemonics . At the same time he was chairman of the Paul Robeson archive of the Academy of Arts of the GDR and member of the presidium of the GDR Peace Council . In 1976 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1980 in silver. Loeser lived in Neuenhagen near Berlin .

He fled in September 1983 from the GDR via New York , where he first political asylum requested in the Federal Republic. There he published the book The Implausible Society. Quo vadis, GDR? .

Franz Loeser had been married to the English teacher Diana Loeser (1929–1996) since 1953 , who had presented the school program English for you on GDR television since the mid-1960s ; their son Tony Loeser (* 1953) is an animation film producer and director.

Fonts

  • Deontics. Planning and directing moral development . Berlin 1966
  • To develop a Marxist interpretation of Deontics . Berlin 1967
  • Interrogative logic. For the scientific control of creative thinking . German Science Publishers , Berlin 1968, DNB 574649522 .
  • Rational reading. A guide to reading faster and more thoroughly . Leipzig 1971
  • How tall is man , Berlin 1973
  • Murder on command. Why did the Rosenbergs have to die? Berlin 1976
  • with Dieter Schulze, epistemological questions of a logic of creativity . German Science Publishing House , Berlin 1976.
  • Breakthrough of the new gender. Creativity and Morality of the Future . Berlin 1976
  • Memory training , Leipzig 1976
  • Ed., Higher Mental Achievement, But How? Berlin 1978
  • The adventures of an emigrant. Memories . Berlin 1980
  • with Dieter Schulze, creativity in a straitjacket? , Berlin 1980
  • Interest, convince, inspire. Suggestions for mass writing . Berlin 1982
  • The implausible society. Quo vadis, GDR? Cologne 1984
  • Never say you go the last way. A German life . Cologne 1986
  • with Hermann von Berg and Wolfgang Seiffert , The GDR on the way to the year 2000. Politics, economy, ideology. Plea for a democratic renewal . Cologne 1987
  • President of the State Council, you should have kept silent! in “DDR heute”, No. 24, January / February 1989

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Loeser  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berliner Zeitung , 4./5. October 1980, p. 4
  2. ↑ SED: “Most comrades think like me”. In: Der Spiegel , August 6, 1984
personal data
SURNAME Loeser, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loeser, Franz Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1990
Place of death Bergheim-Kenten