Hans RG Günther

Hans Richard Gerhard Günther (born July 20, 1898 in Berlin ; † October 30, 1981 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German professor of philosophy .

Life

Günther was the son of a Baptist merchant and factory owner. After attending the secondary school , he took part in the First World War for two years . In 1919 he began studying philosophy and was in 1925 Eduard Spranger and Max Dessoir with the work on "psychology of religiousness Jung-Stilling's " doctorate . He saw the religious crisis of the 18th century as a harbinger of the critical development at the beginning of the 20th century. With the support of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft he continued his studies of the psychology of German Pietism and completed his habilitation in 1932 in Berlin with Spranger on "The Problem of Self-Understanding" despite clear criticism from Dessoir ("terrifying sapless, lifeless thinking"). His trial lecture was on "The question of the standard of value for assessing historical phenomena". On May 10, 1932, he became a private lecturer and, in October 1932, senior assistant at the Philosophical Seminar as the successor to Werner Ziegenfuß . In the inaugural lecture he dealt with " Max Scheler's conception of human conscience". After Alfred Baeumler stood in the way of another Spranger student's career, Günther started working in the field of army psychology. In November 1933 Günther became a member of the SA . From August 1, 1936, he worked for the III. Army Corps and from July 1937 for the national psychological group of the Psychological Laboratory of the Reich Ministry of War . From April 1, 1938 he was appointed head of the group for life course and clan research and on October 1, 1938 to the government council and assigned to the main office of the Wehrmacht for psychology and race research. On June 17, 1940 he became an adjunct professor. In 1940 he created his work "Talent and Achievement in German Soldiers' Sex". After substituting for a professorship in Prague in 1940, he was permanently appointed to Prague in 1941 and made full professor in 1943.

Günther was managing director of the German Philosophical Society under the chairmanship of Bruno Bauch . In addition, he and Erich Rothacker edited the series “New German Research”, in which a total of 332 volumes appeared from 1934 to 1944 at the Berlin publishing house Junker and Dünnhaupt .

In 1946 Günther got a position as a lecturer in Erlangen.

Fonts

• Psychology for Religiosity Young Stillings. A contribution to the psychology of German Pietism. Dissertation. Berlin 1925. (printed: E. Reinhardt, Munich 1928; reprinted as: Jung-Stilling. A contribution to the psychology of pietism . Federmann, Munich 1948)
• The problem of self-understanding . Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1934.
• Talent and achievement in German soldiers' families . Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1940. (Was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War .)
• Personality and history. Articles and lectures . Beyschlag, Augsburg 1947.
• Idea of ​​a story of piety . Mohr, Tübingen 1948.

literature

• Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003647-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans RG Günther in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Volker Gerhardt , Reinhard Mehring , Jana Räter: Berliner Geist: a history of the Berlin university philosophy up to 1946; with an outlook on the present of the Humboldt University. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, p. 286.
2. ↑ Ideological Powers in German Fascism Volume 5: Heidegger in Context: Complete Overview of the Nazi Engagement of University Philosophers , George Leaman, Rainer Alisch, Thomas Laugstien, Verlag: Argument Hamburg, 1993, page 107, ISBN 3886192059
3. ↑ Frithjof Rodi , Otto Friedrich Bollnow (ed.): Dilthey-Jahrbuch VIII / 1992-1993 .: For philosophy and history of the humanities. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, p. 223.
4. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone - List of the literature to be sorted out. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946, transcript letter G, pp. 127–154.