Friedrich Georg Friedmann

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Friedrich Georg Friedmann (born March 14, 1912 in Augsburg , † January 3, 2008 in Friedberg in Bavaria ) was a German cultural historian and an important representative of the dialogue between Jews and Christians in Germany.

Life

Friedrich Georg Friedmann was born in 1912 into a Jewish family that had lived in Augsburg since the 19th century. His father was a partner in the "Friedmann & Dannenbaum" textile factory . After Friedmann had passed his Abitur at the humanistic grammar school near St. Stephan in 1931 , he was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1933 after the Nazi seizure of power . He subsequently emigrated from Germany.

Friedmann spent the next few years in Rome , where he studied philosophy and also worked as a Latin teacher at the Vatican . There he met Elisabeth Oberdorfer, who was also born in Augsburg in 1910 and whom he married in 1938. Shortly before the start of the Second World War , the two fled to England , where their son John Friedman was born in London in 1940 . In the course of the war they finally emigrated to the United States of America , with the convoy of ships that brought them across the Atlantic being torpedoed by German submarines shortly before Canada . Both Friedrich Georg's and Elisabeth's parents were murdered by the National Socialists.

Friedmann made a scientific career in the USA and worked as a university professor of philosophy at Central High School in Little Rock , Arkansas , among others . When he advocated equal rights for black students during the race riots of 1957/58 , he was dismissed. Friedmann's daughter Miriam was born in Jackson , Tennessee as early as 1942 .

In 1960 the family returned to Germany, where Friedmann accepted a chair for North American cultural history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, making him one of the founders of American studies in Germany after the Second World War. In addition, he devoted himself to researching the living environment and culture of the southern Italian farmers. In the following years he more and more advocated the dialogue between Jews and Christians in Germany. In 1979 he retired and moved with his wife to Friedberg near Augsburg, where he lived until his death in January 2008.

Awards

Fonts

  • The Hoe and the Book: An Italian Experiment in Community Development / Fredrick G. Friedmann. Ithaca, NY 1960.
  • Society without humanity? . Stuttgart 1967.
  • Authority and credibility . Munich 1967.
  • Politics and culture . Munich 1969.
  • Carter's America: Culture, Religion, Politics . Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-7201-5095-X .
  • From Cohen to Benjamin: On the Problem of German-Jewish Existence . Einsiedeln 1981, ISBN 3-265-10250-5 .
  • Hannah Arendt: A German Jew in the Age of Totalitarianism . Munich 1985, ISBN 3-492-05201-0 .
  • Da Cohen a Benjamin: Eat ebrei tedeschi . Firenze 1995, ISBN 88-8057-007-2 .
  • Contemporary Considerations: Notes by a Humanist . Munich 1999, ISBN 3-931428-06-0 .
  • Returning to Exile: Jewish Existence in Encounter with Christianity . Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-48096-9 .
  • The Ethnographic Moment / Robert Redfield and FG Friedmann; ed. David A. Rees. New Brunswick, NJ2006, ISBN 0-7658-0333-X .

literature

  • The rector of the University of Augsburg (ed.): Life and work of Friedrich G. Friedmann. Three lectures as part of a symposium of the Jewish Culture Weeks 1995 on November 16, 1995 at the University of Augsburg (= Augsburger Universitätsreden, Vol. 30). University of Augsburg, Augsburg 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. W. Degener: Who is who? , Issue 29, 1990.
  2. ↑ Hans Maier : pioneer of cultural sociology. On the death of the Americanist Friedrich Georg Friedmann, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 9, 2008.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g University of Augsburg: Honorary Citizens, Senators and Members of the University of Augsburg - Retrieved on January 29, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g House of Bavarian History : Searching for Traces - Biographies - Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  5. ^ Augsburger Allgemeine : Houses with memories - Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  6. ^ Manfred Hinz: Friedrich Georg Friedmanns Süditalien-Studien . In: The Rector of the University of Augsburg (ed.): Life and work of Friedrich G. Friedmann . University of Augsburg, Augsburg 1995. pp. 6-30.
personal data
SURNAME Friedmann, Friedrich Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Augsburg , Bavaria, Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 2008
Place of death Friedberg , Bavaria, Germany