Hans Joachim Geisler

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hans Joachim Geisler (born November 5, 1934 in Dresden ; † April 28, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist . He was a co-founder, former chairman and, since 2011, honorary chairman of the Federal Freedom of Science (BFW).

Life

Geisler was born in Dresden in 1934 as the son of a journalist and a singer. The parents were divorced and he grew up with his mother in a middle-class situation. Apart from reports of deaths from acquaintances, he saw little of the war as a child. Through the certificate of a doctor friend of hers, the mother succeeded in preventing Geisler from having to join the Hitler Youth. When an uncle in SA uniform came to visit, the uncle was no longer invited. Geisler's mother thought that something like that was "inappropriate". At ten he witnessed the bombing of Dresden and the invasion of the Russian army, four years later the founding of the GDR. When he and his entire school class had to become a collective forced member of the FDJ in 1950, he initially paid no contributions. He gave in only after the uprising of June 17, 1953 and the threat that he would no longer receive a scholarship. Geisler did not take part in FDJ activities. In 1953 he passed his Abitur at the Kreuzschule in Dresden, which he had attended since 1949. He then began studying philosophy and classical philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1955 he fled the GDR together with his sister Eva-Maria and continued his philology studies at the Free University of Berlin until 1962 . In 1969 he was at the city's Faculty of Arts with the thesis P. Ovidius Naso, Remedia Amoris at Franco Munari to Dr. phil. PhD . After that he was a research assistant ( Academic Councilor ) at the Department of Classical Philology at FU Berlin until 2000 .

In response to the West German student movement of the 1960s , he co-founded the Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft (BFW) in 1970, of which he was a member from 1970 to 2000. According to the BFW, he was passed over to the professorship in the 1970s due to his conservative association activities . From 2000 to 2011 he was one of three chairmen of the BFW; Before that he was chairman of the Berlin section of the BFW ( emergency community for a free university ) until 1990 . Together with Otto von Simson , Thomas Nipperdey , Rudolf Kassel , Erich Loos , Peter Hanau , Georg Nicolaus Knauer , Stanislaw Kubicki , Jürgen Domes , Horst Sanmann and Bernd Rüthers , Geisler was one of the founding members of the Notgemeinschaft in 1969. The initiative to found it came to an end 1969 from Ernst Fraenkel . They chose the name Geisler had suggested because of the “emergency situation for the freedom of science, which was shaped by acts of violence” and as a deliberate reference to the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft , the predecessor organization of the German Research Foundation . With Georg Nicolaus Knauer, Geisler was considered to be their real strategist and doer. In the 1980s, NofU board members were particularly watched by the Ministry of State Security . Above all Hans Eberhard Zahn , who had been in prison in the GDR from 1953 to 1960. A "registration slip" was also prepared for Geisler.

At the founding congress of the Federal Freedom of Science in Bad Godesberg , Ernst Nolte , Richard Löwenthal , Wilhelm Hennis , Hermann Lübbe and Hans Maier gave the lectures and were also elected to the board. The founding committee, along with Geisler, were: Edith Eucken-Erdsieck , Karl Häuser , Wilhelm Hennis, Gerhard Löwenthal , Richard Löwenthal, Hermann Lübbe, Hans Maier, Thomas Nipperdey, Ernst Nolte, Heinz Dietrich Ortlieb , Konrad Repgen , Walter Rüegg , Horst Sanmann, Erwin K. Scheuch , Hatto H. Schmitt , Hermann Schmitt-Vockenhausen and Friedrich Tenbruck . The founding had an enormous public response, numerous prominent SPD members, top politicians and former emigrants were involved.

For the award of the honorary chairmanship of the BFW in 2011 Geisler received a personal greeting and congratulations from the former Federal President Roman Herzog . Historian Michael Wolffsohn gave the laudatory speech .

In his spare time, Geisler compiled a large historical atlas with historical maps and texts on prehistory , which ran from the beginning of the Paleolithic 2.5 million years ago to the end of the Bronze Age around 1000 BC, for years until his death . Chr. Range. They were published posthumously on the Internet.

In 1989 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

He was married and had four children. Geisler's sister was the German-Austrian painter Eva-Maria Geisler .

Fonts (selection)

  • P. Ovidius Naso, Remedia amoris. With commentary on verses 1–396. Dissertation, FU Berlin, 1969 (p. 375 curriculum vitae).
  • Ed .: 15 years of emergency community (= publications of the emergency community for a free university, No. 637). Emergency community for a Free University, Berlin 1986.
  • Ed .: Notes on the history of the federal freedom of science. 2 volumes, Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft, Berlin 2001/10.
  • Ed .: Freedom and responsibility in research, teaching and studies. The ethical dimension of science (= 34th educational policy forum). Scientific Freedom Association, Berlin 2004.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft ( Memento from January 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d Svea Koischwitz: The Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft in the years 1970–1976. An interest group between the student movement and university reform. Böhlau, Cologne 2017 ( Kölner Historische Abhandlungen 52nd), ISBN 978-3-412-50554-7
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Laudation by Michael Wolffsohn on the award of the honorary chairmanship of the Federation of Freedom of Science. In: freedom of science online / January 2012 ( Memento from December 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Ditha Brickwell : Eva Maria: the horror in the garden. In: 7 life: poetic biographies of women from the century of wars. Freimut und Selbst, Berlin 2005, pp. 147–169, ISBN 3-937378-07-3 .
  5. ↑ a b c d From the work of the Federal Freedom of Science ( Memento from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Freedom of Science.
  6. ↑ a b Bernd Rüthers : Traitors, chance heroes or conscience of the nation ?: Facets of resistance in Germany , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149751-3
  7. ↑ Michael Wolffsohn : German Jewish lucky children: A world history of my family . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-43166-8
  8. ↑ Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft: Circular October 2011 ( Memento from February 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Geisler's historical maps of prehistory and early history. Retrieved on February 6, 2018 (German).
  10. ↑ Federal Gazette . (PDF), No. 78, April 25, 1989, p. 2110.
personal data
SURNAME Geisler, Hans Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geisler, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, co-founder of the Federation of Freedom of Science
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2015
Place of death Berlin