Hans Erler

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Hans Erler (born February 18, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German political writer and editor.

He is primarily concerned with Jewish thought, Jewish history and the Jewish foundation of the SPD.

Life

Hans Erler is the son of the former SPD parliamentary group and deputy party chairman Fritz Erler, who died in 1967 .

He studied in Tübingen and Cologne , where he received his Dr. phil. and worked for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for a total of 27 years from 1980 to 2007 . Immediately after retiring, he joined the SPD. His suggestion to include Judaism as the first of the spiritual roots of social democracy in the new Hamburg basic program of the SPD was taken up in 2007 by the party leadership.

Hans Erler has been married to the author Ursula Erler since 1968. The couple have two daughters and have lived in Wiehl-Marienhagen for many years .

Works

As an author

  • Fritz Erler versus Willy Brandt - Democracy or Popular Front in Europe , Stuttgart 1976
  • Hannah Arendt, Hegel and Marx - Studies on Progress and Politics , Cologne Vienna 1979
  • Judaism and Social Democracy. The anti-authoritarian foundation of the SPD , Würzburg 2009
  • On the topicality of Judaism. Lectures 1997 to 2010 , Würzburg 2011
  • Gentle flowers are public. The railing of poetry , Würzburg 2012 (poems)

As editor

  • The world is made for me. The intellectual legacy of German-speaking Jewry , Frankfurt 1997
  • The dialogue between Jews and Christians. Attempts at the conversation after Auschwitz , Frankfurt 1999 (therein as author: Philosophical anti-Judaism: Hegel )
  • Jewish life and culture in Germany. History, destruction and a difficult new beginning , Frankfurt 2000 (in it as author: Judaism and Social Democracy: Moses Hess - Karl Marx - Ferdinand Lassalle - Eduard Bernstein )
  • Understand Judaism. The topicality of Jewish thought from Maimonides to Hannah Arendt , Frankfurt 2002 (in it as author: The political universe of Judaism: Leo Baeck - Martin Buber - Theodor W. Adorno - Hannah Arendt )
  • Remembering and understanding. The genocide of the Jews in the political memory of Germans , Frankfurt 2003
  • Against all futility. Jewish resistance against National Socialism , Frankfurt 2003

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personal data
SURNAME Erler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin