Hans-Georg Schweppenhäuser

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Hans-Georg Schweppenhäuser (born September 12, 1898 in Großbundenbach , † February 27, 1983 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German engineer and anthroposophist .

Life

Schweppenhäuser attended grammar school in Homburg and Zweibrücken from 1910 to 1916 . As a soldier in the First World War , he had to spend a long time in the hospital as a result of the effects of poison gas at the Battle of Verdun . After the war ended, Schweppenhäuser was dismissed as a lieutenant in 1919. He then studied mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at the Technical University in Darmstadt and in Munich . After completing his studies, he began his professional activities in 1922 as a production engineer and assistant manager at the Völklinger Hütte . In the same capacity, he was involved in the founding of Schleswig-Holsteinische-Elektrizitäts -versorgung GmbH in Rendsburg from 1923 , which started operations on January 5, 1924. As managing director of the United Großkraftwerke Schleswig-Holstein GmbH, Schweppenhäuser took over responsibility for the expansion of the high-voltage network in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein from 1925 . From 1934 he continued this task as a member of the board of Schleswig-Holsteinische Stromversorgungs AG (Schleswag).

In connection with her professional activities in the energy supply, she met Wilhelm Schmundt for the first time in 1940 , from which a lifelong friendship developed. The friendship of the two anthroposophists could also endure opposing social-scientific positions.

Immediately after the end of the Second World War , Schweppenhäuser was appointed by the British military government as energy officer for water, gas and electricity in the occupied area of ​​Schleswig-Holstein . He continued this activity as an energy consultant - appointed by the first state government - within the framework of Schleswag until 1954.

In the twenties Schweppenhäuser got to know anthroposophy and the Christian community . In 1928 he began his lifelong friendship with Johannes Hemleben . In 1931 Schweppenhäuser became a member of the Anthroposophical Society . After 1945 he printed Emil Bock's writings and founded - together with the pedagogue Hildegard Froebe-Meyer - the Waldorf School in Rendsburg.

Through the mediation of Franz Schily , Schweppenhäuser took over the commercial and technical management of the Berlin branch of the Bochumer Verein steelworks in 1954 . Schweppenhauser's political contributions to the discussion also extended to the division of Germany . At the same time he took part in the re-establishment of the school for eurythmy in Berlin .

After the end of his professional activities, Schweppenhäuser devoted himself to anthroposophy from 1963. In the same year he was one of the founding members of the social science institute for contemporary social issues in the legal form of a registered association . Schweppenhäuser headed the institute as a board member from 1963 to 1983. Christian Matthiesen and Manfred Kannenberg-Rentschler took over the management of the association.

In 1975 Schweppenhäuser moved to Freiburg im Breisgau, where a collaboration began with Herbert Hillringhaus, in whose magazine Die Kommenden he published articles on current political, economic and social issues. Together with Folkert Wilken , Friedrich Husemann and Fritz Götte, Hans-Georg Schweppenhäuser contributed to the development of the anthroposophical work. In 1976, Schweppenhäuser founded a journal for theoretical economics and social issues under the title Bausteine .

Schweppenhauser's academic estate including his library is administered in Berlin by Manfred Kannenberg-Rentschler.

See also

Publications (selection)

  • Ownership of the means of production. Study on the question of the cause and overcoming of the social contradiction. Preface and epilogue by Folkert Wilken . Die Kommenden, Freiburg im Breisgau 1963, PDF file
  • The division of Germany as a social challenge. The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1967
  • The struggle for participation. A catchphrase and its social consequences. The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1967
  • Power of property. On the way to a new social future. Radius, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-87173-040-8 .
  • The sick money. Proposals for a social monetary order of tomorrow. Radius, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-87173-501-9 .
  • The social mission of anthroposy. Die Kommenden, Freiburg im Breisgau 1972, PDF file
  • The organic monetary order. Institute for Current Social Issues, Berlin a. Freiburg im Breisgau 1975, PDF file
  • On the pathology of modern business society. Institute for Social Issues, Berlin 1975
  • Inflation - its origin and its overcoming. Novalis, Schaffhausen 1978, ISBN 3-7214-0042-9 .
  • Idea and practice of the association principle ( Demeter Association ). Institute for Current Social Issues, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, PDF file
  • Case study 13: At the end of the growth economy. Unemployment, inflation and national debt. Thoughts on overcoming the social crisis. Institute for Current Social Issues, Freiburg im Breisgau 1982
  • Work, wages and prices in their context. Newly checked u. edited by Manfred Kannenberg-Rentschler. Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1984, ISBN 3-7235-0378-0 .
  • The social riddle in the changes of individuals and societies in modern times. Philosophical-Anthroposophical Publishing House at the Goetheanum, Dornach 1985

literature

  • Christian Matthiessen: The Institute for Contemporary Social Issues eV, Freiburg, introduces itself. In: Stefan Leber (ed.): The main social law. Contributions to the relationship between work and income. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7725-0859-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kulturimpuls: Biography Wilhelm Schmundt
  2. ↑ Anthrowiki: Lemma Hans-Georg Schweppenhäuser
  3. ↑ building blocks. Imprint in issue 1/1992
  4. ^ Institute for social threefolding: Manfred Kannenberg-Rentschler
personal data
SURNAME Schweppenhäuser, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Großbundenbach
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1983
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau