Heinz Marr

Heinz Marr (born February 6, 1876 in Leipzig ; † 1940 ) was a German sociologist who taught as a professor at the University of Frankfurt during the Nazi era .

Life

Heinz Marr was the son of Wilhelm Marr and his third wife, Jenny Therese Kornick. He studied economics and modern history at the University of Leipzig , became managing director of the Social Museum in 1916 , completed his habilitation in 1929 and, in the mid-1930s, succeeded Karl Mannheim as the director of the sociological seminar at the University of Frankfurt.

During the Weimar period, Heinz Marr was a member of the Hohenrodter Bund and the Advisory Board of the Abraham Lincoln Foundation .

Fonts (selection)

Proletarian Desire: A Contribution to the Psychology of Arms , Jena: E. Diederichs, 1921
The mass world in the struggle for its form: On the sociologist of the German present , Hamburg: Hanseatische Verlags Anstalt, 1934

Web links

Literature by and about Heinz Marr in the catalog of the German National Library
On the history of sociology in Frankfurt

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Carsten Klingemann : Heimatsoziologie or Ordnungsinstrument . Technical historical aspects of sociology in Germany between 1933 and 1945, in: M. Rainer Lepsius (ed.): Sociology in Germany and Austria 1918-1945 . Special issue 23 of the "Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie", Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1981, pp. 273–307; here p. 279.

personal data
SURNAME	Marr, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	1940

[1] Cf. Carsten Klingemann : Heimatsoziologie or Ordnungsinstrument . Technical historical aspects of sociology in Germany between 1933 and 1945, in: M. Rainer Lepsius (ed.): Sociology in Germany and Austria 1918-1945 . Special issue 23 of the "Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie", Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1981, pp. 273–307; here p. 279.