Hugo Marcus

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Hugo "Hamid" Marcus (* 6. July 1880 in Poznan , Kingdom of Prussia ; † 18th April 1966 in Basel , Switzerland ) was a German writer and intellectual in the Berlin of the Weimar period , which for Islam converted and as managing director of the Berlin Mosque , the Shaped community life.

Life

Hugo Marcus was born in Posen as the son of the married couple Joseph Marcus and Cäcilie, née. Hepner born. In 1903 he came to Berlin, where he studied philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, campaigned for the rights of homosexuals on the scientific-humanitarian committee of his friend Magnus Hirschfeld and worked on Kurt Hiller's pacifist magazine "Das Ziel". Early on he celebrated great success with philosophical and spiritual books, which he wrote as a member of the George Circle . In 1908 he published his doctoral thesis. In the early 1920s, he converted to Islam, which at that time inspired many artists in Berlin, and called himself Hamid from then on.

From 1923 to 1938 Hugo Marcus was the syndic of the Wilmersdorfer Mosque , at that time the only mosque in Germany. He headed the magazine Moslemische Revue , translated the Koran into German, was even president of the German Muslim Society from 1930 to 1935 - and at the same time always remained a member of the Jewish community because he saw no contradiction between these two religions.

In 1938, with the help of the Muslim community, he escaped into exile in Switzerland in Oberwil BL , where he survived the war. After the war he continued to write for Der Kreis , an internationally acclaimed gay magazine, under the pseudonym Hans Alienus .

His brother was the Saxon District Chief Richard Marcus (1883-1933).

Works

  • Spring happiness (1901)
  • Meditations (1904)
  • Musical aesthetic considerations (1906)
  • The gate is booming (Berlin 1915)
  • Lord Byron's childhood dream (Leipzig 1925)
  • Metaphysics of Justice (Basel 1947)
  • Legal world and aesthetics (Bonn 1952)
  • Ideistics (Basel 1958)
  • The Foundations of Reality as Regulators of Language (Bonn 1960)
  • One seeks a friend (Heidelberg 1961)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Backhausen, The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement in Europe, Wembley 2008, p. 110.
  2. ^ Marc David Baer, ​​Muslim Encounters with Nazism and the Holocaust, The Ahmadi of Berlin and Jewish Convert to Islam Hugo Marcus, The American Historical Review 2015, Issue 1, pp. 140-171 (154f.).
  3. ↑ Baer, ​​p. 154.
  4. ↑ Backhausen, p. 110f.
  5. ↑ See also the story of Marcus' contemporaries Lew Nussimbaum alias Essad Bey and Else Lasker-Schüler .
  6. ↑ Gerdien Jonker, The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress, Leiden 2016, pp. 144, 199.
  7. ↑ Backhausen, p. 114.
  8. ↑ Gerdien Jonker, The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress, Leiden 2016, p. 90 (footnote 117).
personal data
SURNAME Marcus, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcus, Hamid (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and intellectual in Berlin during the Weimar period
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Poznan , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1966
Place of death Basel , Switzerland