Günter Rohrmoser

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Günter Rohrmoser (born November 29, 1927 in Bochum ; † September 15, 2008 in Stuttgart ) was a German social philosopher . He belongs to the knight school .

Life

Günter Rohrmoser was the son of a typesetter, whose ancestors found a home in East Prussia as exiles from Salzburg . From 1947 to 1954 he studied philosophy , theology , history , German literature and economics at the Universities of Münster - with Joachim Ritter , Carl Heinz Ratschow , Alfred Müller-Armack - and Tübingen .

In 1954 he received his doctorate at the University of Münster under Benno von Wiese with the work Critical Explanations on Gundolf's Shakespeare picture under the categories of history and person .

In 1961 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne, led by Ludwig Landgrebe , with a work on subjectivity and reification, theology and society in the thinking of the young Hegel . Until 1976 he was full professor of philosophy at the University of Education in Münster / Westphalia and honorary professor at the University of Cologne.

After the attempt by the SPD to appoint him as a professor to the Cologne chair for philosophy had failed due to resistance from the CDU , he switched to the chair for social philosophy at the University of Hohenheim in 1976 as a full professor . This chair was established for Rohrmoser on the initiative of Prime Minister Hans Filbinger . In addition, he taught political philosophy at the University of Stuttgart until the summer of 1996 .

The focus of his work lay in the areas of the philosophy of religion , the philosophy of the political and the theory of society.

Rohrmoser was married; he and his wife, who died before him, had two children who died shortly after the birth. He was buried near his place of residence on the Ostfilder cemetery in Stuttgart - Sillenbuch .

Political activity

Together with Peter von Oertzen, Rohrmoser was a member of the Marxism Commission of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the EKD Synod , a multiple speaker at the Evangelical and Catholic Academies (including Bad Boll , Baden , Bavaria , Berlin, Hamburg, Hofgeismar , Tutzing ), and Vice President of the Weikersheim Study Center . SPD Federal Managing Director Peter Glotz appreciated his contributions to the SPD Fundamental Values ​​Commission, and his presentation at the Tübingen Forum (with Johano Strasser , moderated by Herta Däubler-Gmelin ) was received with great approval. Rohrmoser was an employee of the German-Scandinavian Society for Philosophy of Religion. The Lutheran Rohrmoser was received by Pope John Paul II in 1981 .

Together with Iring Fetscher , he was appointed by the social-liberal federal government to the commission for research into the spiritual causes of terrorism . In this context, he also visited Horst Mahler , who was imprisoned as an RAF terrorist and who was represented by later Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the proceedings for re-admission as a lawyer. Mahler and Schröder later visited Rohrmoser in Stuttgart together.

Journalism

Rohrmoser also stood out as a columnist and interview partner, among others for Die Welt , Rheinischer Merkur , Badische Zeitung , Evangelical Commentaries , Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt , IDEA Spektrum , Catholica , Junge Freiheit , Stuttgarter Zeitung , Stuttgarter Nachrichten , MUT , Zeit -fragen and the now discontinued Criticón . The communications and short comments of the Society for Cultural Studies regularly published his time analyzes. In 1987 and 1988 Rohrmoser was a multiple speaker for CAUSA Deutschland e. V. In the years between 1981 and 1998 Rohrmoser was a multiple speaker at the SPD.

Rohrmoser was also a co-founder of the association “Die Wende”, which published regular printed publications with articles from him.

Later positions

After working as a consultant for Franz Josef Strauss and Hans Filbinger , Rohrmoser was considered a Christian-conservative social philosopher who wanted to create a spiritual foundation for conservatism around the CDU . In September 2006 von Rohrmoser published Conservative Thinking in the Context of Modernism . On the other hand, Rohrmoser was described as a "competent analyst who stood above the ideological fronts" and a "passionate liberal".

Rohrmoser was of the opinion that Russian conservatism, which was reflected in acts of violence against gays around 2006, would be useful against a liberal decadence. He said that although he did not want to "rejoice" that Volker Beck , "the main representative of German gayism", was hit in the face and injured at Moscow Pride in May 2006 , he believes that Russia has made 100,000 new friends because of it it is a country that says "We don't want it" and acts accordingly.

Philosophical positioning

His work The Misery of Critical Theory (translated into Japanese, among other things) is a metacriticism of the “ Frankfurt School , especially Marcuse , Adorno , Horkheimer and Habermas ” from the “concern that emancipation can also lead to the destruction of freedom ”. His works Der Ernstfall - The Crisis of Our Liberal Republic and New Conservative Thought as an Imperative to Survival (together with Anatolij Frenkin ) have been translated into Russian.

Appreciations

Russia 1996

In 1996, the Russian Academy of Sciences invited him as the first German conservative philosopher, discussed his works and dedicated a symposium to him. In 1997 she dedicated a chapter to him in the anthology of the world's greatest political thinkers .

Laudation for the 70th birthday

A laudation on his 70th birthday on December 1, 1997 was given by Vyacheslav Stjopin , Director of the Institute for Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and honorary doctorate from the University of Karlsruhe , Christof Zernatto ( ÖVP ), then Governor of Carinthia ; the Protestant Württemberg regional bishop i. R. Hans von Keler and the formerly radical leftist Horst Mahler , who later became a member of the NPD . In his laudation for Rohrmoser, Mahler declared Germany to be an “occupied country” that had to free itself from “debt bondage” to the upright walk of its “national identity”.

Honors

  • 1997: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon (on the occasion of the 70th birthday)
  • 2007: Certificate of thanks from the University of Hohenheim for his excellent work and many years of service

Fonts

  • The misery of critical theory . Rombach, Freiburg 1970.
  • The metaphysical situation of time . Seewald, Stuttgart 1975.
  • Time signals. Balance of an era . Seewald, Stuttgart 1977.
  • State Ethic Today - The Topicality of Prussia . Society for Cultural Studies V., Bietigheim / Baden 1982.
  • Political culture crisis . v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1983.
  • Mental turn why . v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1984.
  • Religion and Politics in the Crisis of Modernity . Styria, Graz 1989.
  • The emergency - the crisis of our liberal republic . Ullstein, Berlin 1994.
  • Emancipation or freedom . Propylaea, Berlin 1995.
  • The return of history . Society for Cultural Studies V., Bietigheim / Baden 1995.
  • Agriculture in the ecological and cultural crisis . Society for Cultural Studies V., Bietigheim / Baden 1996.
  • Who interprets the story - The challenge of the value debate . Society for Cultural Studies V., Bietigheim / Baden 1996.
  • Christian decadence in our time - a plea for Christian reason . Society for Cultural Studies V., Bietigheim / Baden 1996.
  • Spiritual Vacuum - Late Effects of the Cultural Revolution . Society for Cultural Studies V., Bietigheim / Baden 1997.
  • The emergency also in Russia - Russian philosophers discuss Günter Rohrmoser . Society for Cultural Studies V., Bietigheim / Baden 1997.
  • Battle for the middle. Modern conservatism after the failure of ideologies . Olzog Verlag , Munich 1999.
  • Spiritual change. Christian thinking as the foundation of modern conservatism . Olzog, Munich 2000.
  • Germany's tragedy. The spiritual path to National Socialism . Olzog, Munich 2002.
  • Conservative thinking in the context of modernity . Society for Cultural Studies V., Bietigheim / Baden 2006.
  • Cultural Revolution in Germany. Philosophical interpretations of the intellectual situation of our time , Resch, Gräfelfing, 2008.
  • Faith and Reason at the End of Modernity. Hegel and the philosophy of Christianity . EOS, St. Ottilien 2009.
  • Can modernity survive Christianity? Or can modernity survive without Christianity? Logos Editions, Ansbach 2013.
  • Higher than all reason. The topicality of the Reformation today. Logos Editions, Ansbach 2017.

literature

  • Anthology of the world's greatest political thinkers . Volume 2. Moscow 1997.
  • Rudolf Bahro : Logic of Salvation . Stuttgart 1987 and Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-522-70350-2 .
  • Federal Minister of the Interior (ed.): Analyzes on terrorism . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1981–1984, Volume 1: Iring Fetscher, Günter Rohrmoser (and colleagues): Ideologies and strategies (1981).
  • Peter von Oertzen : Neither prophet nor demagogue . In: The time . No. 3 from January 13, 1995.
  • Academy of Sciences of Russia: The emergency also in Russia. Russian philosophers discuss Günter Rohrmoser . Society for Cultural Studies, Bietigheim / Baden 1997, ISBN 3-930218-33-X .
  • Philosopher in the cultural crisis . Society for Cultural Studies, Bietigheim / Baden 1993.
  • Notifications . Bulletin of the Society for Cultural Studies, Bietigheim / Baden 1998.
  • Tame! Against the current. Günter Rohrmoser on his 80th birthday . Verlag Neinhaus, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-87575-027-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Rohrmoser died of Walter Egeler in Burschenschaftliche Blätter
  2. ↑ Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 640 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Fred Ludwig Sepaintner: Hans Filbinger. From nine decades , DRW-Verlag 2003, p. 235.
  4. ^ Ansgar Graw: Günter Rohrmoser, philosopher (1927–2008). In: welt.de . September 18, 2008, accessed January 19, 2015 . .
  5. ^ Obituary by Walter Egeler.
  6. ↑ Peter von Oertzen is dead - April 16, 2008, difference and commonality - obituary of the Stuttgart social philosopher Günter Rohrmoser. In: gfk-web.de. June 10, 2004, accessed January 19, 2015 .
  7. ^ Tübingen Forum - overview page. In: tuebinger-forum.de. Retrieved January 19, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Journal Forum for Spiritual Leadership No. 3, 1988 p. 37.
  9. ↑ http://medrum.de/content/jahrestagung-des-vereins-die-wende .
  10. ↑ http://www.gfk-web.de/inhalt/rezensions/rezensions.html .
  11. ↑ a b Peter von Oertzen: Neither prophet nor demagogue. In: zeit.de . January 13, 1995, accessed January 19, 2015 . .
  12. ^ The Weikersheim, Rohrmoser and Liberal Decadence Study Center , gaywest.wordpress.com, April 20, 2007.
  13. ^ Vyacheslav Daschitschew: Laudation of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the philosopher Günter Rohrmoser. In: gfk-web.de. June 10, 2004, accessed January 19, 2015 .
  14. ^ Bibliography Horst Mahler ( Memento from January 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  15. ^ Speech by Horst Mahler on the occasion of Günter Rohrmoser's 70th birthday ( memento from December 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  16. ↑ Certificate of thanks for Prof. Dr. Günter Rohrmoser press release from the University of Hohenheim on the occasion of Rohrmoser's 80th birthday.
  17. ^ Nohaus publishing program (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Rohrmoser, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 2008
Place of death Stuttgart