Gerhard Möbus

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Gerhard Georg Paul Möbus (born March 19, 1912 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † September 10, 1965 in Bad Oldesloe ) was a German pedagogue , psychologist and political scientist as well as a professor at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Life

The son of master carpenter Johann Paul Möbus grew up in a Catholic village with a two-class school in Schreibersdorf , Lower Silesian , Neumarkt district . Five of his six siblings died in childhood. He received private lessons in the old languages ​​from the pastor in order to pass the examination for the fourth at the Catholic Matthias Gymnasium in Breslau at Easter 1925 . In 1932 the A student passed the Abitur. He became a member of the “New Germany” and the “ Sturmschar ” and showed political interest as a member of the “ Windthorstbund ”, the youth organization of the German Center Party .

In June 1934, younger brother Herbert Möbus was beaten up by the National Socialists and died a week later. Apparently the attack was aimed at Gerhard Möbus, who studied at the University of Breslau : ancient languages, history, German, philosophy, psychology. In 1937 he laid the I. state examination for teaching in the subjects of history, Latin and Greek, and in 1939 he graduated as Dr. phil. with the philological dissertation Nobilitas . The essence and transformation of the leading class in Rome as reflected in a word coined by Hans Drexler . He became an assistant to the ancient historian Joseph Vogt and to the psychologist Philipp Lersch . During the Second World War he was an army psychologist and taught at a school for the war blind and brain injured in the Ore Mountains, where he hid temporarily after the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 . He belonged to the Catholic resistance group around Heinrich Krone and Hans Lukaschek .

As early as July 1, 1945, he received a teaching position at the University of Jena and in 1946 was able to complete his habilitation with the pedagogue Peter Petersen for psychology and philosophical anthropology with the work Man and History . In the same year he moved to the University of Halle , where he became an associate professor and then a full professor and director of the Psychological Institute. He also wrote in the CDU newspaper " Neue Zeit ". But in 1950 he fled the newly founded GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany because of political pressure. This also had something to do with the implementation of Soviet pedagogy operated by Hans Siebert .

Initially he taught at the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Bonn and was appointed to the German University of Politics in Berlin (West) in 1951 . In 1958 Möbus took over the management of the scientific research and teaching staff at the Bundeswehr School for Inner Guidance in Koblenz. From 1960 to 1963 he also taught as an honorary professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Mainz, and from 1963 until his death he headed it as professor and director. His assistant was Lothar Bossle .

In the West he wrote for Catholic magazines such as the expellees' organ “Home and Faith”, for “Living Testimony” and the “ Voices of the Times ” published by Jesuits . His main interest was communist youth education. He also wrote standard works on political theories from the beginnings to the French Revolution and published the series “Politics of the Present”. Further topics were Thomas More , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Joseph von Eichendorff .

When the Heimatwerk Silesian Catholics was founded in 1959, Möbus became its first president. He also gave many lectures, such as B. 1955, 1957 and 1962 at the "Silesian Priest Conferences" in Königstein im Taunus . During or after a lecture given in Bad Oldesloe, Möbus died of a stroke on September 10, 1965.

Honor

In 1982 the Gerhard Möbus Institute for Silesian Research was founded by Lothar Bossle , Gundolf Keil and Joseph Joachim Menzel as an association and in 1986 it was recognized as a scientific institution at the Bavarian Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where the “Silesian Research” was published. The research carried out by the institute, which was removed from the register of associations in 2013, is being continued by the Wullstein Research Center for German Medical Literature of the Middle Ages .

Works

  • Power and humanity in the utopia of Thomas More: Lecture held at d. German University f. Policy for the matriculation ceremony on November 14, 1952, electronic reproduction, Frankfurt / M. 2018
  • Communist youth work - On the psychology and pedagogy of communist education in Soviet-occupied Germany , Berlin 1957
  • The political theories from the beginning to Macchiavelli , Cologne a. Opladen 1958 (Political Theories, Part 1)
  • Psychagogy and pedagogy of communism , Cologne a. Opladen 1959
  • Soviet education in Germany. West German publishing house, Cologne 1959.
  • The other Eichendorff. On the interpretation of the poetry of Joseph von Eichendorff , Osnabrück 1960
  • The political theories in the age of absolute monarchy up to the French Revolution , Cologne a. Opladen 1960, 2nd edition, ibid. 1966 (Political Theories, Part 2)
  • Reality or illusion. On the problem of the "unresolved past" , Osnabrück 1961 (Politics of the Present, Vol. 1/2)
  • Claim without evidence. On the analysis and criticism of Marxism-Leninism , ibid. 1961 (Politics of the Present, Vol. 6).
  • European humanity as political form , ibid. 1963 (Politics of the Present, Vol. 8) *
  • The Christ Question in Goethe's Life and Work , ibid. 1964.
  • Submission through education. On political education in Soviet-occupied Germany , Mainz 1965

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gundolf Keil: Foreword. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 7–11, here: pp. 7 and 9 f.
  2. ^ Gundolf Keil, Christine Wolf: Gerhard Möbus Institute for Silesian Research (formerly AN Institute of the University of Würzburg): Report of the project management for the years 2012–2014. In: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau. Volume 53/54, 2012/2013 (2015), pp. 699-706.
personal data
SURNAME Möbus, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möbus, Gerhard Georg Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, political scientist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1965
Place of death Bad Oldesloe