Hellmuth G. Butow

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Hellmuth Günther Bütow (born January 24, 1925 in Weitramsdorf ; † September 23, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German sociologist and professor at the Free University of Berlin .

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Hellmut G. Bütow attended high schools in Simmern (Hunsrück) and Gera and passed the Abitur exam in 1943. He then trained as a pilot at the Air War School in Berlin-Gatow. After the end of the Second World War, he first worked as an assistant director, actor and broadcaster at the Stadttheater Gera , the Schauspielhaus Leipzig and the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Leipzig. From the winter semester 1954/55 he studied sociology , history , philosophy , economics and general political science at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin , and from 1958 worked as an assistant at the Eastern European Institute at the Free University of Berlin . In 1962 the doctorate followed, in 1970 the habilitation. Since then he has worked in Berlin as a professor of sociology; from 1983 he was Vice President of the Free University of Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

  • The development of dialectical and historical materialism in the Soviet zone. Three volumes. Harrassowitz, Berlin 1960–1963 (Bibliographical Notes from the Eastern European Institute at the Free University of Berlin, Vol. 4).
  • Philosophy and society in the thinking of Ernst Bloch . Harrassowitz, Berlin 1963 (Philosophical and Sociological Publications, Vol. 3) (= dissertation).
  • Philosophy and History in Marxism-Leninism. On the status of the discussion on questions of classification and methodology in the social sciences . Eastern European Institute, Berlin 1965 (reports from the Eastern European Institute at the Free University of Berlin, vol. 71).
  • Radical democracy or democracy of the radicals. Extra-parliamentary opposition today . Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1969.
  • What is Democratic Socialism Today? Akademie Sankelmark, Sankelmark 1973.
  • (as editor :) Country report Soviet Union . Hanser, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-446-14528-1 .

literature

  • Werner Suess (Ed.): Transitions. Contemporary history between utopia and feasibility; Contributions to philosophy, society and politics. Hellmuth G. Bütow on his 65th birthday . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-428-06785-1 (here biographical and bibliographical data, pp. 411-415).
  • Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin) from September 24, 2000 ( commemorative notice )

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personal data
SURNAME Bütow, Hellmuth G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bütow, Hellmuth Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Weitramsdorf
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1990
Place of death Berlin