Fritz-Joachim von Rintelen
Fritz-Joachim Paul von Rintelen (born May 16, 1898 in Stettin , † February 23, 1979 in Mainz ) was a German philosopher and university professor .
Life
Fritz-Joachim von Rintelen came from an old Herford council family and was the son of the royal Prussian lieutenant general Wilhelm Rintelen (1855–1938), who was raised to the Prussian hereditary nobility in 1913 , and Hedwig Russell (1865–1953). Rintelen remained unmarried.
Von Rintelen studied philosophy, theology, psychology and education in Berlin, Innsbruck, Bonn and Munich. His teachers in Munich were mainly the philosophy historian Clemens Baeumker and the psychologist Erich Becher . In Munich, Rintelen first became a member of the Catholic student union Saxonia in the KV , but then resigned from this union in 1920 and re-established the Rheno-Bavaria in the KV with other former members of Saxonia and former Rheno-Bavaren . This connection was a re-establishment of a Catholic student group that was disbanded during the First World War . Rintelen had the main merit in the re-establishment of this 'academic circle of friends', u. a. in which he headed the Rheno-Bavaria until 1934 as a Philistine Senior and organized lectures and symposia.
In 1923 Rintelen received his doctorate with a thesis on "the religious-philosophical problems with Eduard von Hartmann and their epistemological-metaphysical foundations". In 1928 he completed his habilitation for philosophy at the University of Munich . Appointed associate professor in 1931, he accepted an appointment at the University of Bonn in 1934 , where he was given a full professorship in the same year. From 1936 he taught in Munich, but his teaching activity there was increasingly curtailed until he was completely relieved of his office in 1941 for political reasons - although himself a member of the NSDAP . In February 1941, Gauleiter Adolf Wagner canceled the chair of Rintelens for the purpose of “standardizing the National Socialist teaching system” and Rintelen “put it on leave until further notice”. For this reason, and because there was a risk of arrest because of the complaints issued, about 70 students led by the Scholl siblings held a demonstration in front of Rintelen's house to show their solidarity. From 1941 to 1945 he lived as a private scholar in Deidesheim . After the war he was one of the co-founders of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and held the chair for philosophy , psychology and education there until his retirement in 1969 . The University of Mainz was opened in the summer of 1946 with a speech by Rintelens.
Von Rintelen was visiting professor at the universities of Córdoba, Argentina (1950/51), Los Angeles (1957), Tokyo (1972) and Chicago (1973). Lecture tours have taken him through North and South America, Mexico, Israel, Iran, Japan and India. In 1948 he was President of the II. German Philosophers' Congress in Mainz after the Second World War, which was preceded by the I Congress in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1946 and the III. Congress in Bremen, at which the General Society for Philosophy in Germany was founded and Helmuth Plessner was elected its first President. He was also Vice-President and President of the Institut international des Etudes Européennes .
Rudolph Berlinger was one of his students .
Research and teaching
Rintelen founded the so-called value realism in dealing with the historical development of the philosophy of value and the philosophy of existence . This understands itself as a thinking penetration of time in a realistic approach to the given reality in order to track down what is meaningful and valuable in the basic features of the present age, which unfolds and illuminates in the history of ideas and values as a living spirit. In Goethe he saw a pioneer of this way of thinking. He compares the contradictions of an action that, for lack of binding content, sees its meaning solely in the dynamics of the will with the behavior of a patient who throws himself from one side to the other in the hope of lying better. instead of focusing your thoughts and efforts on getting well.
After the Second World War, von Rintelen warned his students: “Give time a big thought so that it can make a living from it. This thought is the idea of freedom. "
Honors
- 1949 Lima: Dr. suffered. hc
- 1949 Santiago de Chile: Dr. em artes hc
- 1963 Cordoba: Dr. phil hc
- Honorary member of numerous philosophical societies
- 1960 Festschrift "Sense and Being" (see literature)
- 1978 Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
Book publications (selection)
- Pessimistic religious philosophy of the present. Dr. FA Pfeiffer & Co., Munich 1924. Dissertation.
- The attempt to overcome historicism in Ernst Troeltsch. 1929.
- Albert the German and us. Meiner, Leipzig 1935.
- Realism - Idealism? In: Carmelo Ottaviano : Critique of Idealism. Aschendorff, Münster 1941.
- Goethe as an occidental person. Kupferberg Verlag, Mainz 1946.
- Demony of will. A historical and philosophical investigation. Kirchheim Verlag, Mainz 1947
- From Dionysus to Apollo. The ascent in the spirit. Metopen Verlag Wiesbaden 1948.
- Philosophy of finitude as a mirror of the present. Westkulturverlag, Meisenheim / Glan 1951. 2nd edition 1960.
- The rank of the mind. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1955. 2nd, expanded, edition Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1970.
- The European man. Austria-Ed., Vienna 1957.
- Philosophy of the Living Spirit in the Crisis of the Present. Musterschmidt Verlag, Göttingen, Zurich, Frankfurt a. M. 1977.
literature
- Eckhard Wendt: Rintelen, Fritz Joachim von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 643 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Festschrift for Fritz Joachim von Rintelen: Sense and Being. A philosophical symposium. Published by Richard Wisser. May Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1960. 860 pages.
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B. Volume XXI, Volume 108 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1995, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 , p. 466.
- Ernst Schmittmann: You followed the voice of your conscience. Published by the KStV Rheno-Bavaria, Munich 1989.
- Siegfried Koß in: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 4th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 5). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1996, ISBN 3-89498-032-X , p. 89 ff with additional information
- Hermann Krings : Philosophy of the Living Spirit. In: Philosophical Yearbook. 85, 1978, pp. 394-397.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz-Joachim von Rintelen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ blogspot.co.uk ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ George Leaman: Ideological Powers in German Fascism Volume 5: Heidegger in Context: Complete overview of the Nazi engagement of university philosophers. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg, 1993, translated by Rainer Alisch and Thomas Laugstien, ISBN 978-3-88619-205-2 , p. 104
- ↑ FJ v. Rintelen: Goethe as an occidental person. Mainz 1946.
- ↑ Dieter Stolte: Live and let live. In: The world. July 27, 2007 ( welt.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rintelen, Fritz-Joachim von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rintelen, Fritz-Joachim Paul von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1979 |
| Place of death | Mainz |