Friedrich Bassenge

Friedrich Bassenge (born March 12, 1901 in Leipzig , † February 17, 1970 in Staaken near Berlin) was a German philosopher , editor of philosophical works and translations and editor at the Aufbau-Verlag .

Life

Friedrich Bassenges' father was director of the worsted spinning mill in Leipzig . After graduating from high school in 1920, Bassenge studied political science, law and philosophy in Leipzig, Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . In Freiburg he studied ethics and logic with Edmund Husserl . 1923 put Bassenge in Leipzig, the first state examination and was in 1924 with his work "legal relationship and state" to Dr. jur. PhD . In 1925 he was a trainee lawyer in the local courts in Wurzen and Dresden.

From 1926 to 1928 he continued his philosophy studies in Cologne and Leipzig and in 1930 in Leipzig with his work “The promise. A contribution to the philosophy of morality and law ”to the Dr. phil. PhD. In 1930 he was a trainee lawyer in Bautzen and passed the second state examination in law in 1931. From 1931 to 1933 Bassenge was an assistant judge at the Klingenthal District Court and the Dresden Regional Court .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Bassenge was dismissed from the civil service because of anti-fascist statements and was unemployed until 1935. From 1935 to 1941 Bassenge worked as an independent lawyer in Neustadt (Saxony) . From 1941 to 1953 he was legal advisor at Raiffeisen in Erfurt and Berlin. From 1954 to 1970 Bassenge was lecturer for philosophy at Aufbau-Verlag in East Berlin. Bassenge died in Berlin in 1970.

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Bassenge was editor of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's “Aesthetics”, Denis Diderot's “Aesthetic Writings” and works by other important philosophers, he also translated the metaphysics of Aristotle and published numerous articles in West and East German journals. As a non-Marxist philosopher, Bassenge wrote profound essays on logic , natural philosophy , the theory of action , aesthetics and the person of Aristotle, which he was unable to publish in the GDR, in and alongside his work as a publisher's editor . His philosophical legacy is still being indexed today.

Publications

• About questions of logic . In: German magazine for philosophy. Vol. 3, No. 4, 1955, pp. 477-496.

literature

• Guntholf Herzberg:  Bassenge, Friedrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Bassenge in the catalog of the German National Library