Hans Lutter
Hans Lutter (born April 29, 1928 in Magdeburg ; † March 1, 2009 ) was a German Marxist philosopher in the GDR and taught at the Güstrow University of Education .
biography
Hans Lutter's professional and political development can be summarized as follows: working-class child - bricklayer - new teacher - school director - school board - teacher trainer - diploma (Berlin 1960) - doctorate (Jena 1966) - habilitation (Potsdam 1971) - lecturer - professor.
Following a family tradition, he joined the SPD as a bricklayer in 1945 and became a member of the SED through the compulsory union of the SPD and KPD , of which he remained a member even after the name was changed to PDS . He only resigned in 2006.
After completing his habilitation in 1971 at the Potsdam University of Education , he became the founding rector of the Güstrow University of Education in 1972 , which he headed until 1988 and which was largely shaped by his Marxist and atheist worldview. Until his release in 1990 he taught there in the Marxism-Leninism section . In Güstrow he founded a research group on Marxist-Leninist religious studies that dealt with Protestantism in the GDR. With similar interests, Olof Klohr conducted research in Wustrow at the seafaring school parallel to Catholicism in the GDR. The PH Güstrow was closed in 1991.
From 1971 to 1990 Lutter was a member of the Schwerin District Assembly and for ten years was chairman of the permanent education commission. After the fall of the Wall he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the German Freethinkers Association from 1994 to 2000 .
Since 1963 he was active in the field of so-called "Scientific Atheism". In 1988 he and his research collective rejected this term as unscientific, but without giving up his work in the field of atheism and Marxist religious studies .
In the course of the turning point and the peaceful revolution , he was given early retirement in May 1990 and his chair was closed.
In December 1990 he founded the magazine "Berliner Dialog-Hefte", later called "Neue Dialog-Hefte", as the responsible editor. In 1998 an honorary colloquium took place in Berlin on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In 2004, for reasons of age, he finished the magazine with issue 60.
Awards and honors
- 1974 GDR Medal of Merit
- 1974 MDI Gold Medal of Merit
- 1976 Honored Teacher of the People
- 1978 Pestalozzi gold medal
- 1978 DSF badge of honor in gold182
- 1980 Johannes R. Becher Medal of the Kulturbund in silver
- 1980 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1984 Karl Marx Order
- 1988 Certificate of honor for 40 years of activity as a public teacher
Fonts
- Opposites between worldviews are not contradictions between people. In: Manfred Isemayer (ed.): Humanism is the future. Humanistic Association, Berlin 2006, pp. 167–182
literature
- Honorary colloquium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. sc. phil. Hans Lutter , Society for the Promotion of the Christian-Marxist Dialogue, Berlin 1998
- Simone Thiede: The dialogue between religions and secular worldviews. Shown using the example of the Christian-Marxist dialogue in the GDR. Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1998 ISBN 978-3-631-33981-7
- Simone Thiede: Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the GDR , 2009
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Lutter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lutter, Hans-Joachim . In: G. Baumgartner, D. Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR . Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, p. 499 ( google.de ).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b German Freethinkers Association eV: Freethinkers mourn Hans Lutter. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 31, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Anja Kirsch: Weltanschauung as a narrative culture: On the construction of religion and socialism in citizenship school books of the GDR . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-525-54049-7 , p. 50 f . ( google.de ).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lutter, Hans |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lutter, Hans Joachim |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Marxist philosopher in the GDR |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1928 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 2009 |