Günther Hillmann (sociologist)

Günther Hillmann (* 1922 in Breslau ) is a German philosopher and sociologist .

Life

Günther Hillmann was born in Breslau in 1922. During his school days he was active in the NS youth organization . After graduating from high school in 1940, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and wounded on the Eastern Front . After the war he began studying philosophy , pedagogy and sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1950 to 1956 he interrupted his studies to get involved as a functionary in various organizations of the KPD . From 1957 to 1960 he worked as a milling cutter in a large company in Munich. He resumed his studies in 1960 and in the same year was charged with his previous political activities and sentenced to 15 months in prison. In 1963 he received his doctorate under Ernesto Grassi with a thesis on the relationship between Marx's early writings and Hegel's philosophy. A year later he had to serve six months of his prison sentence, despite violent protests from his doctoral supervisor and other scientists. As a freelance journalist in Munich, he dealt with questions about the development of Marxism and industrial sociological topics. He was the editor of a three-volume Marx edition in the series "Rowohlt's Classics" and the series "Texts of Socialism and Anarchism 1800–1950", also published by Rowohlt Verlag .

Works

• Marx and Hegel: From Speculation to Dialectics: Interpretation of the first writings of Karl Marx with regard to his relationship to Hegel (1835–1841) , dissertation, Frankfurt a. M .: European Publishing House, 1966
• Self-criticism of communism , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1967
• Karl Marx, Texts on Method and Practice, Vol. 1: Jugendschriften 1835–1841 , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1968
• Karl Marx, Texts on Method and Practice, Vol. 2: Paris Manuscripts 1844 , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1968.
• Karl Marx, Texts on Method and Practice, Vol. 3: Man in Work and Cooperation (From the Grundrissen der Critique of Political Economy, 1857/58) , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1968
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Confessions of a Revolutionary to Contribute to the History of the February Revolution , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, Texts of Socialism and Anarchism 1800–1950, 1969
• Eduard Bernstein, The Requirements of Socialism and the Tasks of Social Democracy , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, Texts of Socialism and Anarchism 1800–1950, 1969
• The liberation of work: the development of cooperative self-organization and the dissolution of bureaucratic-hierarchical rule , Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1970.
• Nikolaj Bukharin, Economics of the Transformation Period , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, Texts of Socialism and Anarchism 1800–1950, 1970.
• Vladimir Ilich Lenin, For and Against the Bureaucracy: Writings and Letters 1917–1923 , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, Texts of Socialism and Anarchism 1800–19, 50, 1970
• The council movement, Vol. 1 , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, Texts of Socialism and Anarchism 1800–1950, 1971
• The council movement, Vol. 2 , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, Texts of Socialism and Anarchism 1800–1950, 1972
• Joseph Stalin, writings on the ideology of bureaucratization , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, texts of socialism and anarchism 1800–1950, 1970
• About the working class environment. From the writings of Friedrich Engels , edited by Günter Hillmann, Bertelsmann Fachverlag, Gütersloh 1970
• Co-determination and self-determination / self-determined workforce cooperation against capitalist hierarchy and bureaucracy: a reader on change from the 19th to the 20th century , together with Lothar Wolfstetter and Hans P. Bahrdt, 2002

Web links

• As the law ordered, ZEIT-online
• WorldCat