Günter Freudenberg

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Günter Freudenberg (born September 16, 1923 in Mannheim ; † December 29, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German philosopher and university professor. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Osnabrück and a founder.

Life

Günter Freudenberg taught and researched from 1966 to 1988, initially at the Osnabrück University of Education - the Adolf Reichwein University - and then at the University of Osnabrück as a professor of philosophy. As deputy to the founding rector Manfred Horstmann and as the founding dean of the newly formed Faculty of Culture and Geosciences, he contributed to the integration of the former university into the university founded in 1973. Freudenberg's scientific work includes works on development policy, particularly on Korea, as well as works on peace research.

Günter Freudenberg was friends with the composer Yun Isang . After Isang Yun was kidnapped by the Korean secret service KCIA in 1967, he became involved in the Korea coordination group of the Evangelical Church in Germany and was a co-founder of the Korea Committee in Osnabrück. Günter Freudenberg was chairman of the Korea Committee and its successor organization Korea Association from 1977 to 1997 , of which he was honorary chairman until his death.

He was the founder and benefactor of the Asia House Foundation . Until his death he was honorary chairman of the foundation.

Publications

  • Time as a poetic experience in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's work , 1951.
  • The role of beauty and art in the system of the transcendental philosophy Hain, Meisenheim am Glan, 1960.
  • Categories and structures of cultural change. Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for Research on Cultural Studies, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1964.
  • Culture and cultural studies: research on the subject matter and theory of cultural studies. Hain, Meisenheim am Glan, 1971, ISBN 3-445-00881-7 .
  • Thinking and acting: Günter Freudenberg on his 60th birthday on September 16, 1983 . Department of Culture and Geosciences at the University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, 1983.
  • Target or process-oriented cooperation with project partners in the south? Secolo-Verlag, Osnabrück, 1994, ISBN 3-929979-12-8 .
  • Kant's writing "To Eternal Peace". Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik 11.1 (1967), pp. 65–79.
  • On the theory of violence and becoming violence the theory as a condition of positive peace in the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Peace, violence, socialism. Studies on the history of the socialist labor movement. Edited by Wolfgang Huber and Johannes Schwerdtfeger. Stuttgart 1976.
  • Kant's doctrine of eternal peace and its significance for peace research. Studies on Peace Research, edited by Georg Picht and Heinz Eduard Tödt, 1969, p. 190.
  • From the Tao. On the question of understanding in East Asia and Europe , in: Sparrer, Walter-Wolfgang (ed.): Ssi-ol. Almanac of the Int. Isang Yun Gesellschaft 1998/99, Berlin / Munich 1999, pp. 21-36.
  • The philosophical justification of Isang Yun's music , in: Sparrer, Walter-Wolfgang (ed.): Ssi-ol. Almanac of the Int. Isang Yun Gesellschaft 2000/01, Berlin / Munich 2002, pp. 51–59.

literature

  • Martin Lang, Wolfgang Lenzen, Adelhard Scheffczyk (eds.): Thinking and acting - Festschrift for Günter Freudenberg (=  Osnabrück Philosophical Writings . Series A). Department of Culture and Geosciences of the University, Osnabrück 1983, DNB  870126830 .
  • Jutta Held (ed.): Philosophy as political practice. Recalled contemporary history. Interview with Günter Freudenberg and Ursula Freudenberg (=  writings of the Guernica Society . Volume 5 ). 1st edition. VDG Weimar, Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-95899-078-9 .
  • Korea Communication and Research Center of the Korea Association (Ed.): Korea Forum: Society, Politics, Culture . Korea Communication and Research Center of the Korea Association, ISSN  0944-8373 , DNB  016751299 .
  • JoAnn Fagot Aviel: The growing role of NGOs in ASEAN. In: Asia-Pacific Review . tape 6 , no. 2 , 1999, p. 78-92 , doi : 10.1080 / 13439009908720018 .
  • JoAnn Fagot Aviel: Placing human rights and environmental issues on Asean's agenda: The role of non-governmental organizations. In: Asian Journal of Political Science . tape 8 , no. 2 , 2000, pp. 17-34 , doi : 10.1080 / 02185370008434168 .
  • Bum-Goo Jong: Friendship with Korea. Interview with Prof. Dr. Günter Freudenberg on his solidarity work for Korea . In: Yong-Seun Chang-Gusko, Nataly Jung-Hwa Han, Arnd Kolb (eds.): Unknown diversity. Insights into Korean migration history in Germany (=  edition DOMiD - Migration in Focus ). 1st edition. tape 2 . DOMiD, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816133-1-5 , p. 138-149 .
  • Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer (Ed.): Ssi-ol. Almanac 2000/01 of the International Isang Yun Society e. V. Berlin / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-88377-707-2 , p. 61-66 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Founder of the Asia House Foundation
  2. ↑ a b Press release of the University of Osnabrück, No. 125/1998, on the 75th birthday of Günter Freudenberg
  3. ↑ a b Jutta Held (Ed.): Philosophy as political practice. Recalled contemporary history. Interview with Günter Freudenberg and Ursula Freudenberg (=  writings of the Guernica Society . Volume 5 ). 1st edition. VDG Weimar, Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-95899-078-9 .
  4. ↑ The Abduction of Isang Yun . In: The time . ( online [accessed May 5, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Bum-Goo Jong: Friendship with Korea. Interview with Prof. Dr. Günter Freudenberg on his solidarity work for Korea . In: Yong-Seun Chang-Gusko, Nataly Jung-Hwa Han, Arnd Kolb (eds.): Unknown diversity. Insights into Korean migration history in Germany (=  edition DOMiD - Migration in Focus ). 1st edition. tape 2 . DOMiD, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816133-1-5 , p. 138-149 .
  6. ^ History of the Korea Federation
personal data
SURNAME Freudenberg, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2000
Place of death Berlin