Friedrich Tomberg

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Friedrich Tomberg (born June 7, 1932 in Goch am Niederrhein ) is a German philosopher and university professor .

Life

Tomberg studied philosophy , German and history at the Universities of Cologne and Freiburg im Breisgau , as well as at the Free University in West Berlin . He received his doctorate from the Free University in 1963 with a thesis on "Imitation as a Principle of Art".

Since 1968 Tomberg was editor of the magazine " Das Argument ". From 1974 to 1979 he was professor of philosophy at the University of Education in West Berlin . According to Hannes Schwenger, Tomberg was an idol of the West Berlin student movement with his study of the base and superstructure . The defected first lieutenant of the Ministry for State Security , Werner Stiller , discovered in 1979 that Tomberg had been listed as an agent since 1975. According to Jochen Staadt , Tomberg was responsible for the “development of a Marxist-Leninist point of view” in “new left circles”. Among other things, Tomberg also advertised in the magazine Argument for the deployment of Warsaw Pact troops against reform efforts in Czechoslovakia . Tomberg managed to escape to East Berlin in 1979. In the same year he was appointed professor for the history of philosophy with a focus on contemporary non-Marxist philosophy at the University of Jena. From 1987 to 1992 he worked at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin , where he was briefly elected head of the History of Philosophy Department at the Central Institute for Philosophy after the fall of the Wall. After the fall of the Wall, Tomberg himself claimed that, out of "fear of death, he followed a request from an employee of the Stasi" to do informal services for the GDR.

Fonts

  • Imitation as a principle of art . Berlin 1963, 134 pp., Diss. Freie Univ. Berlin, Berlin 1963.
  • Mimesis of Practice and Abstract Art . An experiment on the mimesis theory. Sociological essays. o. Bd. Neuwied 1968. 110 pp.
  • Base and superstructure. Social Philosophical Studies . Sociological essays. o. Bd. Neuwied 1969. 182 pp. - 2., through. 1974 edition. Luchterhand collection. Bd. 140. Darmstadt 1974. 206 pp.
  • Polis and nation-state . A comparative analysis of the superstructure following Aristotle. Luchterhand collection. Vol. 93. Darmstadt 1973. 282 pp.
  • Civil science . Concept, history, criticism. Fischer paperback. Books of knowledge. Vol. 6215. Frankfurt Main 1973. 196 pp.
  • Political aesthetics. Lectures and essays . Luchterhand collection. Bd. 104. Darmstadt 1973. 170 pp.
  • Comprehensive thinking . Studies on the development of materialism and dialectics. Studies on dialectics. o. Vol. Cologne 1986. 258 pp.
  • Habermas and Marxism . On the topicality of a reconstruction of historical materialism. Würzburg 2003. 436 pp.
  • World order visions in the German resistance . Kreisauer Kreis and Moltke - Goerdeler Group - Stauffenberg's ideological motivation. History. Vol. 1. Berlin 2005. 212 pp.
  • Christianity in Hitler's worldview . Munich 2012. 206 pp.

literature

  • Michaela Alth: Reply to Tomberg's criticism of Adorno . In: The argument. Volume 30, 1964, pp. 156-158.
  • Martin Bauer: Four books. Friedrich Tomberg explains Habermas . [Review note on:] Friedrich Tomberg: Habermas and Marxism. On the topicality of a reconstruction of historical materialism. Würzburg 2003. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 21, 2003.
  • Udo Kern: Review: Friedrich Tomberg, Habermas and Marxism. On the topicality of a reconstruction of historical materialism, Würzburg 2003. In: Theologische Literaturzeitung. Volume 128, 2005, pp. 1228-1231.
  • Werner Stiller: The agent. My life in three secret services , Berlin 2010, p. 162 (based on a report by the HA II of the MfS Enlightenment Headquarters, April 23, 1979)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagesspiegel 2 November 2009, Hannes Schwenger: GDR Escape to Dreamland. About spies and other emigrants: two books about people who went to the GDR.
  2. ↑ Jochen Staadt in Frankfurter Allgemeine, Monday, July 8, 2019, p. 6: Participating observers. In 1968, not only the West German constitutional protection was interested in the revolting students. The GDR recognized an opportunity to destabilize the Federal Republic - and took advantage of it.
personal data
SURNAME Tomberg, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Goch