Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr

Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr (born July 30, 1877 in Durlach , Baden , † June 12, 1969 in Percha near Starnberg ) was a German cultural and religious philosopher and writer .

life and work

After the Abitur at grammar school Tauberbischofsheim studied Schmid Noerr since the winter semester 1896/1897 Jura, from summer semester 1898 philosophy and religious studies and German literature at the University of Freiburg , where he is also a member of the Freiburg fraternity Teutonia was. He received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1904 and then moved to Heidelberg University . There he completed his habilitation in 1905 with a thesis on Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi . In Heidelberg he taught first as a private lecturer and from 1910 to 1917 as a. o. Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics. In Heidelberg he cultivated friendships with Karl Jaspers , Max Weber and Rudolf Steiner, among others . From 1917 he lived in Munich, later in Percha on Lake Starnberg as a freelance writer. As part of the Munich Council Republic , he worked on a memorandum for the draft of a new university constitution on behalf of the Society for New Education .

Growing up in Baden with Swabian roots, he sees the whole of southern Germany as his home. After moving to Starnberg in Bavaria, he included his new home as a writer in his work. His cultural, historical and religious philosophical works after 1918 are often linked to places around Lake Starnberg (e.g. "Percha" derived from the Germanic goddess Perchta ( Freya )), Frau Perchta's excerpt . But you also deal with Swabia . In his fairy tale work Der Drache über die Welt , published in 1932, he interweaves the history of the two cities in a fairy tale with historical characters in [Freiburg] Drachenzahnweh and in [Durlacher] Zwiewelewick . His work also pervades the search for a higher level of spirituality, especially in the large-scale work Our Good Women Entrance , which contrasts the Germanic myth with the entry of Christianity. In old age he summarized his philosophical knowledge with his last book The Mystic . This book contains an examination of the mystic type , such as St. Eckart , Theresa of Avila or the teachings of Brahmanism. Among others, Teilhard de Chardin and Werner Heisenberg were his spiritual and philosophical companions in this last phase .

As a writer, he is part of the neo-romantic trend . He wrote novels, fairy tales, sagas, short stories and poems and philosophical works in which he describes the inner path from Germanic to Christian worldview. He attempted to make the myth as the original form of poetry and poetry the subject. Five of his numerous poems were published in the Munich satirical magazine Simplicissimus . Schmid Noerr was friends with Gustav Meyrink , who like him lived in Starnberg. The two collaborated literarily, both in the Goldmachergeschichten (1925), but above all in Meyrink's last novel, the 1927 published angel from the western window (original title Baphomet ), for which Schmid Noerr created essential parts. They also wrote some unpublished film scripts together.

Since 1936 Schmid Noerr was active in the resistance movement against National Socialism. From 1936 to 1939 he worked on an extremely conservative “Draft of a German Reich Constitution” on behalf of Ludwig Beck . In 1938 he was in talks with Werner Otto von Hentig about the possibility of a form of government after the fall of Hitler. In the post-war period, his work was no longer considered contemporary. For his upright posture during National Socialism , he received the Federal Cross of Merit in 1963, an honorary salary from the Bavarian State Government and in 1958 the Johann Peter Hebel Prize for his solidarity with his homeland .

Schmid Noerr's son Gunzelin is also a philosophy professor.

Publications (selection)

• The philosophy of Fichte with regard to the question of the "changed teaching" , Freiburg, Heinrich Nelson, 1904 (dissertation)
• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi : a presentation of his personality and his philosophy as a contribution to a history of the modern value problem , Heidelberg, Winter, 1908 (habilitation thesis)
• The prisoners . Comedy in 5 acts. Berlin, Oesterheld & Co., 1908
• Zwiewelewick: the treasure and guardian spirit of the good margrave town Durlach , Berlin, 1908
• Monk and Philistine: Cultural Problems in German Intellectual Life in the Last Two Centuries , Heidelberg, Winter, 1909
• Six reflections on the possibility and subject of the philosophy of art , Tübingen, Mohr, 1914
• Streets and Horizons , Poems, Leipzig, Verlag der Weisse Bücher, 1917
• Ecce Homo , Leipzig, Meyer & Jessen, 1918
• Memorandum on the draft of a new university constitution. On behalf of d. "Society f. new education " , Munich, Steinicke, 1919
• Memorandum on the draft of a new university constitution , Munich, Müller, 1919; M. Müller & Son, 1920
• Das Leuchterweibchen - a story from Albrecht Dürer's Nuremberg , Berlin-Grunewald, Horen-Verlag, 1928
• Ms. Perchta's move out , Berlin-Grunewald, Horen-Verlag, 1928
• How the Sankt Antonii Altar in Isenheim was built by Master Mathis Grünwald - a conversation , Berlin-Grunewald, Horen-Verl., 1929
• The dragon over the world. 3 fairy tales in the German landscape , Weimar, Duncker, 1932
• The Herrgottsturm , Leipzig, List, 1933
• Honor and happiness of the people. Cosmos, myth, world history. Three books of the tour to the empire of the Germans . Munich, Bruckmann, 1933 (banned before publication).
• On the mystery of the spirit - a selection from the writings of Jakob Böhme . Concerned due to KW Schiebler's edition, new through. and a. by Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr , Leipzig, Reclam, 1937, 1940, 1965
• On the miracle of the soul, a selection from the treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart . Using d. critical text output by Franz Pfeiffer newly translated, incorporated. u. ed. by Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr , 1935, 2011. Numerous new editions, ISBN 978-3-15-007319-3
• Our good women's entry , Leipzig, List, 1936
• Swabian landscape , poems, 1937
• Gods, demons and consciences . An attempt, Berlin, Vorwerk, 1938
• Dear you lively , Hamburg, Ellermann, 1939
• Bienchen , Mühlacker, Elser, 1939
• Der Kaiser im Berg, the mythical poem about the transfer of the German soul to the mountain , around 1940
• The Mother of Life - Three Perchten Stories , Prague; Berlin; Leipzig, Noebe, 1944
• The prisoner's light . Mythical Tales, 1947
• Eternal Mother Europe, The Myth of the European , Oldenburg, Oldenburger Verl.-Haus, 1949
• From god-shaped people. A selection of the sermons by Johannes Tauler , Stuttgart, Reclam, 1961
• The Hohenstaufen. Myth and legend; Rise and fate; Symbol and sinking , Stuttgart, Vorwerk, 1955
• The Freiburg Drachenzahnweh , Lahr / Black Forest, Schauenburg, 1957, 1996. ISBN 3-7946-0450-4
• The Durlacher Zwiewelewick , Lahr / Schwarzwald, Schauenburg, 1959, 1970 (first published in 1908 under the title Zwiewelewick: the treasure and guardian spirit of the good margrave town Durlach ).
• Document of Resistance. Draft of a German constitution , 1937. Printed with a preface by Ralf Ritter and an explanation by Schmid Noerr in: Voran und persistent. Freiburg Burschenschaft Teutonia , Heft 33/34, pp. 33–46, Freiburg, 1961
• A life in a poem , Munich, Bogen-Verl., 1961
• The mystic. Characteristic description of a human archetype , Munich-Pasing, Drei-Eichen-Verl., 1967

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Johann Peter Hebel Prize 1958 for Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr (accessed on December 22, 2013)
2. ^ University archive Freiburg, Teutonia factual files (B 1/2709)
3. ^ University archive Freiburg, matriculation books (A 66/9)
4. ↑ Freiburg University Archives, doctoral degrees from the Philosophical Faculty from 1904 (D 9/83)
5. ^ Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach , holdings on Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr
6. ↑ Inheritance and Mission . In: The Freiburg Drachenzahnweh , Lahr / Schwarzwald, Schauenburg, 1957. pp. 220–222.
7. ↑ Poems by Schmid Noerr in Simplicissimus ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Frans Smit: Gustav Meyrink. In search of the supernatural. German by Konrad Dietzfelbinger. Langen-Müller, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7844-2162-8
9. ^ Theodor Harmsen: “My strangest vision”: Occultism and modernity in Gustav Meyrink's strange stories
10. ^ Document of the Resistance. Draft of a German Reich constitution , 1937. Printed with a foreword by Ralf Ritter in: Voran und persistent. Freiburg Burschenschaft Teutonia , Heft 33/34, pp. 33–46, Freiburg, 1961

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr in the catalog of the German National Library