Hans-Jürgen Krahl

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Hans-Jürgen Krahl (born January 17, 1943 in Sarstedt ; † February 13, 1970 near Wrexen ) was a student activist of the 1968 movement , a well-known member of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) and a student of Theodor W. Adorno .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Krahl comes from a middle-class background, his parents Rudolf Krahl and Erna Krahl, née. Schulze, both were commercial employees. As a young child, he lost an eye in a bombing raid. According to his own statements, Krahl was a member of the Ludendorffbund , at the beginning of his studies of philosophy , German, mathematics and history at the University of Göttingen , Krahl joined the Verdensia Landsmannschaft in the Coburg Convent . In 1961 he became a member of the CDU and was "an enthusiastic founding member of the Junge Union " in Alfeld .

In 1964 he joined the Socialist German Student Union (SDS), and in 1965 he began his dissertation with Adorno on the subject of the natural law of the capitalist movement with Marx . Krahl was the only student and employee whom Adorno accepted as an equal partner, because Krahl had an excellent memory, a quick grasp, was highly educated and eloquent. The break with the father figure Adorno came after four years. Because of the occupation of the Institute for Social Research on January 7, 1969, Adorno and his colleagues ordered the evacuation by the police. In the following trial against Krahl on July 18, 1969, Adorno was called as a witness. But this did not lead to the fundamental debate that Krahl had hoped for with the most important theoretician of critical theory .

On September 13, 1968, at an SDS delegates' conference in Frankfurt, Krahl's popularity became the involuntary occasion for the start of the second wave of the German women's movement . After Helke Sander's unannounced speech on the liberation of women threatened to go under without discussion, Sigrid Rüger from Berlin came to her aid by shouting to Krahl in front of the assembled audience: “Comrade Krahl, you are objectively a counter-revolutionary and an agent of the class enemy . “To reinforce her criticism , she threw a tomato at Krahl .

On October 16, 1969, a trial began in Frankfurt against Krahl and Günter Amendt , both members of the SDS federal executive board, and against Karl Dietrich Wolff , who was considered the leading head of the SDS by the court. The background to the indictment was an unauthorized demonstration against the award of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Senegalese President Senghor , which took place on September 22, 1968. At that time, numerous other lawsuits were pending against the defendants. On December 24, 1969, the three accused of "rioting and breach of the peace as ringleaders " were found guilty and sentenced to one year and nine months in prison each. However, they did not have to begin their prison sentence, since Krahl's appeal for appeal was granted.

On the late evening of February 13, 1970, Hans-Jürgen Krahl died at the age of 27 in a car accident on an icy road on the B 252 near Wrexen . He was buried in the Ricklingen city cemetery in Hanover-Oberricklingen . His sudden death also gave the last impetus for the now hopelessly divided SDS members to dissolve their umbrella organization. After an informal agreement had been reached during his funeral, the official end followed on March 21, 1970 in Frankfurt.

Krahl's grave site, which had already been leveled, was due to be relocated in August 2005 because there were no more relatives living to take care of its preservation. Hanover's mayor at the time, Herbert Schmalstieg (SPD), granted Krahl's grave security and a share in the costs. A group of friends collected money for the care of the grave and on June 27, 2007 erected a tombstone designed by Uwe Spiekermann . The speaker at the unveiling of the Krahl monument in Hanover was the Adorno biographer Detlev Claussen ; he had already given the commemorative speech at Krahl's funeral.

In spring 2007, the Hans-Jürgen Krahl archive was set up within the framework of the Denkart e. V. started. The city of Frankfurt gave start-up funding for 2007.

Quotes about Krahl

"In Krahl, that's where the wolves live."

- Theodor W. Adorno

"He was the smartest of us all."

- Rudi Dutschke

"The most intelligent and consistent head of student leaders"

- Karl Heinz Bohrer

Fonts

  • 1970: Selected works. Articles, fragments, excerpts, notes. Tursen-Press, Helsinki.
  • 1971: constitution and class struggle. On the historical dialectic of bourgeois emancipation and proletarian revolution. Writings, speeches and drafts from 1966–1970. new criticism , Frankfurt am Main 2008 (new edition), ISBN 978-3-8015-0380-2 .
  • 1979: Experience of Consciousness. Comments on Hegel's introduction to the phenomenology of the mind and excursions to materialistic epistemology. Ed. And edit. by Carl G. Hegemann after the tape recording of the working group of H.-J. Krahl and J. Wieszt from the spring of 1968. Materialis, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-88535-016-5 .
  • 1984: From the end of abstract work. The abolition of senseless labor is laid out in the transcendentality of capital and justified in the secularization of philosophy. Edited and introduced by Walter Neumann . Materialis, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-88535-075-0 .

literature

  • Helmut Reinicke : For Krahl . Merve, Berlin 1973
  • Gerhard Zwerenz : The earth is as uninhabitable as the moon. Novel. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • Walter G. Neumann : Self-Enlightenment and Lust Today. Book 1: “Think like Marx”. Book 2: “1. and 2. Nature " . Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-89228-601-9 .
  • Alex Demirović : The non-conformist intellectual. The development of critical theory for the Frankfurt School. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, pp. 856ff.
  • Wolfgang Kraushaar : Frankfurt School and Student Movement. From the message in a bottle to the Molotov cocktail 1946 to 1995 , Volume 1: Chronicle . Rogner & Bernhard , Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8077-0345-4 .

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae 1965 ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: krahl-seiten.de . Retrieved February 8, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.krahl-seiten.de
  2. ^ Matthias Micus: Hans-Jürgen Krahl. The vagabond revolutionary . In: Stine Marg , Franz Walter (ed.): Göttingen heads and their work in the world . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-30036-7 , pp. 227–237, here p. 230.
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Noack : The Robespierre of Bockenheim . In: Der Spiegel , No. 17/1988, April 25, 1988. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  4. ^ Speech of the Action Council for the Liberation of Women . ( Memento from April 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frauenpolitischer Rundbrief , 3/1998
  5. ^ DPA notification dated February 14, 1970
  6. ↑ cf. Ex-student leader Krahl. A grave of honor for 1968 . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 27, 2007: “Hanover waives cemetery fees of 3884 euros. DenkArt will cover the maintenance costs during this period, according to the town hall, 2235 euros. The monument itself costs around 4,000 euros. This ensures the next 20 years. "
  7. ↑ sketch of the grave stone , krahl-seiten.de
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ a b Initiative to commemorate Hans-Jürgen Krahl ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , krahl-seiten.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.krahl-seiten.de
  10. ↑ The enormity of daily experience. Karl Heinz Bohrer on his intellectual biography . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 8, 2017, pp. 9–11, quotation on p. 9.
  11. ↑ Thomas E. Fischer: Review of: W. Kraushaar: Frankfurter Schule and student movement . In: hsozkult , May 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Krahl, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German student activist of the 1968 movement, board member of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS)
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarstedt
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1970
Place of death at Wrexen