Fritz Leist

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Fritz Leist (born July 31, 1913 in Rockershausen near Saarbrücken , † 1974 in Munich ) was a German psychotherapist and Catholic religious philosopher .

Life

Fritz Leist grew up in Elversberg / Saar. Romano Guardini's pupil was a leading member of the Deutschmeister Jungschaft, which was founded out of the Quickborn . At the beginning of 1934, this and groups from the New Germany Federation created the Gray Order , which was continued by Leist despite the bans on the youth of the Bund . In January 1938, 18 members of the Gray Order, among them Leist, were arrested by the Gestapo for "group activities". After three months of detention, he was due to after the annexation of Austria adopted amnesty dismissed. Although Leist distanced himself from the Gray Order and the Bundestag youth after the amnesty, a group of friends from the Bundestag, including Willi Graf , continued to meet in his Munich apartment . When Graf asked Leist to participate in the actions of the White Rose in 1942 , he refused for himself and the remaining groups of the Gray Order.

Studies and professorship

Leist studied theology, philosophy and depth psychology. He obtained his doctorate in 1938 on Thomas Aquinas and completed his habilitation in 1947.

From 1952, Leist was Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Philosophical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

His book Sexual Emergency and the Churches (1972) was seen as an attack on the churches. The pressure on Herderverlag became so great that delivery was stopped after 14 days. Leist contradicted the ratings and the book was immediately published by Gerd Mohn publishing house in Gütersloh .

Fonts

  • The living God and the gods. 1949.
  • Not the god of the philosophers.
  • The biblical saga of heaven and earth.
  • Moses - Socrates - Jesus: about the encounter with the biblical and ancient world. 1959.
  • The greater god. 1959, Imprimatur November 19, 1959, Manz Verlag, Munich 1960.
  • On the way to marriage. Reihardt-Verlag Munich 1961.
  • Love and sex. Herder library no.367, 1970, previously: Manz Munich 1964.
  • Love, sex, marriage. Rex-Verlag 1968.
  • Existence in nothing. - Attempt to analyze nihilism in 1961.
  • Man under the spell of images. - seduction or escort .
  • His speech happened inside me. - Practice in the Old Testament .
  • Celibacy - Law or Freedom. Rex-Verlag Munich 1969.
  • Dream, knowledge and experience. Rex-Verlag Munich 1969
  • Health and Illness of the Soul: Confidence in Psychotherapy. Herder, Freiburg 1969.
  • The sexual emergency and the churches. Herder, Freiburg 1972, ISBN 3-451-01923-X ; 2nd edition Mohn, Gütersloh 1972, ISBN 3-579-04545-8
  • Utopia marriage between pornography and prudery. Tübingen 1973.
  • On the subject of celibacy. Confessions from those affected. Kindler Verlag 1973, new edition 1982, ISBN 978-3-463-00553-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hellfeld: Bündische Jugend and Hitlerjugend . ISBN 3-8046-8683-4 , pp. 140ff
  2. ↑ Fritz Leist Love and Sex , Herder Library No. 367, 1970
  3. ^ Spiegel report "Forbidden Lust". Retrieved May 21, 2018 .
  4. ^ Fritz Leist The sexual emergency and the churches , foreword to the 2nd edition
personal data
SURNAME Leist, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist and Catholic religious philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockershausen near Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH 1974
Place of death Munich