Hans Heyse

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Hans Heyse (born March 8, 1891 in Bremen , † October 19, 1976 in Göttingen ) was a German philosophy professor.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1910, he began studying philosophy in Heidelberg, Marburg and Leipzig but was interrupted by the First World War and a long period of captivity in France . Hans Heyse received his doctorate in Switzerland in 1919; he completed his habilitation in 1925 with the support of Richard Hönigswald and became a private lecturer at the University of Breslau . In 1932 he became a professor (Kant chair) at the University of Königsberg . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . From December 1933 to March 1935 he was rector of the University of Königsberg before he was appointed to Göttingen as the successor to Georg Misch in 1935 . His appointment was largely based on the new leader principle against the opposition of the faculty, which listed first Martin Heidegger and second Hermann Glockner in their list of proposals. In 1935 Heyse was appointed to the scientific committee of the historical-critical complete edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's works in the Nietzsche archive in Weimar. Also in 1935, Heyse took over provisionally (until the cessation of activities in 1937) at the request of the Ministry of Science in agreement with the Rosenberg Office, as head of the Kant Society . He expressed the "firm intention not only to break with the liberal past of the Kant society, but also to make a positive contribution to helping the new National Socialist will to break through in philosophy and science." In 1937 he was head of the German delegation at 9th International Congress of Philosophy in Paris . In 1937 in Volk und Hochschule im Umbruch he wrote: "The new German university ... has only one law: from the very foundation of our Germanic-German reality ... to serve the deepest intentions and goals of the leader of the German people". In 1938 Heyse was appointed President of the Scientific Academy of the Nazi Lecturer Association at the University of Göttingen. In 1942, Heyse was involved in the revival of the Kant studies as the “Kant Studies New Series” as editor alongside Günther Lutz , August Faust and Ferdinand Weinhandl . In 1945 Heyse was ousted and officially retired in 1953 .

Heyses specialties were the Greek philosophy, the Kantian philosophy and the history of philosophy. After Hans-Joachim Dahms, Heyse was nicknamed “Party Comrade Plato” during the Nazi era .

Works

  • Introduction to category theory . Dissertation, Berlin 1921, 67 pp.
  • The concept of wholeness and the Kantian philosophy. Ideas for a regional logic and category theory . Reinhardt, Munich 1927
  • The idea of ​​science and the German university: Speech given at the solemn takeover of the rectorate of the Albertus University in Königsberg, Pr., On December 4, 1933 . Koenigsberg 1934.
  • Idea and existence , Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1935

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Dahms: Rise and End of Philosophy of Life: The Philosophical Seminar of the University of Göttingen between 1917 and 1950, in: Heinrich Becker u. a. (Ed.), The University of Göttingen under National Socialism, 2. Erw. Edition, Munich, Saur, 1998, pp. 287-317.
  • The German Leader Lexicon: 1934/1935. Berlin: Stollberg, 1934, p. 193 (with photo).
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 75. ISBN 3935025688 .
  • Léon Poliakov , Josef Wulf : The Third Reich and its thinkers , Berlin 1959, p. 110, 274 f.
  • Who is it Edited by Herrmann AL Degener , 10th edition, Berlin 1935, p. 675 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Grüttner, Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 75.
  2. ↑ George Leaman, Gerd Simon: The Kant Studies in the Third Reich , published in Kant Studies 85, 1994, 443–469, pdf page 7.
  3. ↑ Quotation in: Léon Poliakov and Joseph Wulf, Das Third Reich und seine Denker , Wiesbaden 1989 (first 1959), p. 110.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2nd updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 254.
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Dahms: Rise and End of the Philosophy of Life: The Philosophical Seminar of the University of Göttingen between 1917 and 1950, in: Heinrich Becker u. a. (Ed.), The University of Göttingen under National Socialism, 2. Erw. Edition, Munich 1998, p. 304.
personal data
SURNAME Heyse, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosophy professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 19th October 1976
Place of death Goettingen