Heinz Maus

Heinz Maus (born March 21, 1911 in Uerdingen ; † September 8, 1978 in Cölbe-Bürgeln ) was a German professor of sociology at the Philipps University of Marburg and, as a non-conformist representative of a Marxist- inspired sociology , embodied an important aspect of the history of this discipline in Germany .

person

After an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Mülheim (Ruhr) , Heinz Maus began studying sociology, philosophy and economics with Karl Mannheim and Max Horkheimer in Frankfurt am Main in 1932 and continued with Hans Freyer at the University of Leipzig after 1933 . Arrested on short notice in 1938, in 1939 he joined Ewald Bosses at the Institute for Social Research and Labor Studies (“Institutt for Samfunnsforsking og Arbeidslære”) in Oslo , where he worked as an assistant and librarian. In 1940, Maus returned to Germany as an assistant at the Ufa teaching show in Babelsberg . On May 25, 1940, he received his doctorate in philosophy, economics and general linguistics in Kiel. phil. PhD, the main examiner was Cay Baron von Brockdorff . The topic of the dissertation originally came from Ernst Hugo Fischer , with whom Maus had worked in Leipzig and Oslo. In 1943, Maus was arrested again and charged with violating the treachery law . After an acquittal, he volunteered for the medical service of the German armed forces .

After a short period as a prisoner of war, Maus worked in the career counseling of the Mainz employment office in 1946/47. In 1946/48 he became the editor of DIE UMSCHAU. International Review , 1949 lecturer at the "First School of Journalism" in Aachen, 1949/51 assistant to Ernst Niekisch and lecturer in social science at the Humboldt University in East Berlin , 1951 to 56 assistant to Max Horkheimer at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main and Head of the Mainz Enlightenment Publishing House.

After studying in Paris in 1955, Maus became a dietician and later a. o. Professor for Sociology appointed at the Pedagogical Institute in Weilburg . In 1959, Maus was appointed to the Philipps University of Marburg , where he was appointed full professor of sociology in 1960. With this, Maus entered the direct working environment of the lawyer and political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth and thus also shaped the Marburg School . In that year, Maus began as co-editor (with Friedrich Fürstenberg and later Frank Benseler ) the edition of the sociological texts at Luchterhand Verlag, which in his years was the most influential series of publications open to many approaches in the subject. The political commitment of Maus at the time against the emergency legislation is expressed u. a. in the publication of the volume Emergency Regulation and Society in the Federal Republic (with Werner Hofmann , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1967).

For the SPD, Maus sat on the city council of Cölbe .

effect

Heinz Maus was able to have a stimulating effect in teaching, in discussions and conversations through unusual education and renouncing narrow-mindedness. Maus is best known for the book series Sociological Texts, which he has co-edited since 1959, as a mediator of sociological classics and new sociological perspectives and as a historiographer of sociology. As the author of a brief textbook-like introduction to the history of sociology, Maus was not an unknown author in the United States and American sociology students in the 1960s either. Later on, further US textbooks still used by ´ undergraduates ´, including those by Lewis Coser and Robert Alexander Nisbet, were based on his English guide to (European) sociology history .

Heinz Maus influenced numerous young people through his work. His students include Dieter Boris (professor emeritus for sociology in Marburg), Lorenz Jäger (FAZ) and Ulrich Raulff .

100th birthday

On the occasion of the 100th birthday, from 25. – 27. March 2011 at the Philipps University of Marburg a three-day scientific conference on the topic of traditionality and topicality. Performed for the task of critical theory . Frank Benseler, David Salomon and Alex Demirović gave lectures on Heinz Maus there.

Publications about mouse

• Gerd van de Moetter, "Message in a bottle from a lost critical theory. Correspondence between Max Horkheimer and Heinz Maus: 1946-1951", in: Yearbook for Sociological History 1994, Opladen 1996, pp. 227-276, Frank Benseler, "Heinz Maus March 21, 1911 -28.9.1978 ", pp. 277-288.
• Gerd van de Moetter, "L'albero della dialettica dell'illuminismo", in: Eclisse della societá civile, Palermo 1986, pp. 123-128.
• Lorenz Jäger, "The sociologist Heinz Maus. From dream hells to the realm of freedom", in: FAZ, November 28, 1995.
• Frank Benseler: "Heinz Maus - close in perspective", in: Völk et al: "... if the hour permits." On the traditionality and topicality of critical theory, Münster: 2012.
• David Salomon: "Traditionality and topicality (in) the sociology of Heinz Maus. An attempt at critical theory", in: Völk et al: "... if the hour permits." On the traditionality and topicality of critical theory, Münster: 2012.
• Oliver Römer et al: "Another sociology. Between ergonomics, sociography and critical social theory", in: Völk et al: "... if the hour permits." On the traditionality and topicality of critical theory, Münster: 2012.

Publications

• Materialism , in: H. Burgmüller (ed.), To clarify the terms. Munich 1947: 62-76.
• Philosophy of history and sociology , in: LHAd. Geck et al. (Ed.). Studies in Sociology. Festgabe für Leopold von Wiese […], Mainz: Internationaler Universum Verlag, 1948, Vol. I: 4–59.
• Sociology. In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Universitas Litterarum. Handbook of Science. de Gruyter, Berlin 1955, 305–328.
• History of Sociology , in: Werner Ziegenfuß (ed.), Handbook of Sociology. Stuttgart: Enke, 1956: 1-120.
• Report on sociology in Germany 1933-1945 , in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , 11 (1959) 1: 72-99.
• A Short History of Sociology (London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1962; ²1971, 226 p.)
• On the prehistory of empirical social research , in: René König (ed.), Handbuch der empirischen Sozialforschung Vol. I, Stuttgart: Enke, ²1967: 18–37.
• The dream hell of the Justemilieu. Reminder of the tasks of critical theory . Edited by Michael Th. Greven / Gerd van de Moetter. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 1981, foreword by Michael Th. Greven / Gerd van de Moetter, "Vita constructa. An attempt to reconcile the perception of Heinz Maus with his work", pp. 7–33, appendix a. Bibliography, pp. 447-457.
• " Introduction to Sociology ", in: Yearbook for the History of Sociology 1992 . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1994: 199–240 (with an introduction by Georg Ahrweiler: “Comments on the fragment by Heinz Maus: 'Introduction to Sociology'”: 195–197).
• "Annotated materials from the estate, edited by Gerd van de Moetter. Foreword by Frank Benseler 'In misery large: Heinz Maus'", first part. From the correspondence between Max Horkheimer and Heinz Maus, Part Two. Tagesfeuilletons und Miszellen, in: Yearbook for Sociological History 1993, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995, pp. 257–321.

literature

• Barry Charles Hyams: Heinz Maus in: Marburger Zeitung, 2 (1978) 12: 16-17.
• Jürgen Kaestner: Personal Bibliography Heinz Maus (1911-1978). A contribution to the history of German sociology , Scientific Authors-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
• Marvin Chlada / Jochen Zimmer (eds.): Critical theory in the province. Heinz Maus on his 90th birthday. Verlag Trikont Duisburg, Duisburg 2001, ISBN 3889741053 ( Summary of pages above mouse: [1] )
• Oliver Römer: From Frankfurt between the schools. Heinz Maus and the early West German sociology . In: Martin Endreß , Klaus Lichtblau , Stephan Moebius (eds.), Zyklos 1st yearbook for the theory and history of sociology . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-03960-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinz Maus: Critique of the Justemilieu. A socio-philosophical study on Schopenhauer . Dissertation, Kiel 1941 ( online edition ), p. 2.
2. ^ Heinz Maus: Critique of the Justemilieu. A socio-philosophical study on Schopenhauer . Dissertation, Kiel 1941 ( online edition ), curriculum vitae, p. 246.
3. ↑ Heiko Christians: The Buried . Die Welt , January 16, 2018, online .
4. ↑ Heinz Maus: Die Traumhölle des Justemilieu (Frankfurt / M. 1981, p. 26f.).
5. ↑ Lothar Peter : Marx to the university. The >> Marburg School. History, problems, actors, Cologne 2014, p. 13f.
6. ^ FAZ, July 24, 2010, Z1.
7. ^ Homepage of the conference organized by the Critical Theory Working Group

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Maus in the catalog of the German National Library