Heinrich Sauer (philosopher)

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Heinrich Sauer (born October 17, 1891 in Mengeringhausen ; † October 10, 1952 in the Lüneburg Heath ) was a German philosopher and professor at the University of Hamburg .

Sauer initially embarked on the career of a post office clerk, then took his Abitur in Kassel in 1911 and studied mathematics, chemistry, physics and philosophy in Berlin and Göttingen. He received his doctorate in 1923 from the University of Kiel under Heinrich Scholz and Moritz Schlick . From 1920 to 1924 he worked as a teacher in Kiel and completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1926 with Ernst Cassirer , where he was an associate professor in 1932. Professor was appointed. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . He dealt with logical questions, probability calculations and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

Sauer died in an accident in 1952.

Fonts

  • The logical place of statistical regularities and the calculation of probability , Kiel 1923 (Diss. 1922)

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 520
  • Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 241f

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personal data
SURNAME Sour, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Mengeringhausen
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1952
Place of death Lueneburg Heath