Georg Morgenstern

Georg Morgenstern (born April 6, 1892 in Hainichen , † February 12, 1975 in Göttingen-Weende ) was a German philosopher and university professor .

Life

The son of a businessman attended the Chemnitz State High School until he graduated from high school in 1911. Morgenstern began studying history in Göttingen, switched to philosophy under Edmund Husserl's impression and moved to Leipzig in 1912/13. After military service from November 1914 to 1916, which was terminated due to a heart defect, he studied and obtained his doctorate in Leipzig in 1917 on the concept of existence in modern philosophy with Johannes Volkelt , then assistant and study assessor in Wurzen in Leipzig . As assistant to Max Scheler since 1920, he became a private lecturer in Cologne in 1924 after completing his habilitation on the scientific nature of education. From 1926 to 1932 he taught philosophy at the Pedagogical Academy Elbing , after which he was reduced to the Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt (Main). Because he had been a functionary in the Prussian teachers' association , he was retired in 1933. But in 1934 Friedrich Kreppel called him to teach at the college for teacher training in Weilburg . From 1938 he taught there as a professor until it was closed. He was then transferred to the teacher training institutes in Hanover and Hirschberg . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP , as well as the Nazi lecturers' association .

From 1946 he taught again at the Pedagogical Institute Weilburg and was the first director before Walter Asmus (1950–1954) until 1950 , then his deputy until his retirement in 1957. In old age he moved to Weende.

Fonts

• The concept of existence in modern philosophy , Leipzig 1917 [= dissertation]
• with Hildegard Hetzer : Child and youth in the country. Contributions to psychological and educational factual research . Lindau (Bodensee): Piorkowski 1952

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 522–524 ( limited preview in Google Book search).