Helmut Folwart

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Helmut Folwart (born September 16, 1902 in Nieder-Bludowitz west of Teschen in Austrian Silesia as Helmut Folwartschny (also Folwarczny ); † March 13, 1987 in Mölln ) was an Austro-German philosopher. Folwartschny changed its name to Helmut Folwart in mid-1934.

Life

Folwart was the son of the pastor and later church councilor of Austrian Silesia Hugo Folwartschny and his wife Martha, née Lisztwan. From 1913 to 1921 he attended the Staats-Reformrealgymnasium in Freiwalden in the Jeseníky Mountains . After passing his Abitur with distinction, he studied German, history and philosophy at the University of Breslau from 1921 . He passed the supplementary examination in Greek in June 1922. His mentor in philosophy was Eugen Kühnemann . After two semesters abroad in Berlin (1923/24) and Heidelberg (1924), he also attended theological lectures in Breslau, among others with the early National Socialist Karl Eduard Bornhausen . His promotion took place in 1930 at Kühnemann, by which he was a scholarship of the Emergency Association of German Science to get together with the received philologist and Germanist Josef grains at the Schlegel to work output. In the dissertation , he took the view against Carl Schmitt that there was a significant influence of the early Romanticism on Hegel . On February 14, 1931, Folwart passed the scientific examination for the state examination in higher education.

Folwart became a German citizen in 1932 and married Johanna Speisiger, teacher and daughter of a pastor, in January 1934. He joined the SA (Sturm 7 / II) on July 4, 1933 . He was active as a squad trainer and later as a squad leader. On October 4, 1934, he became a member of the NSLB (membership number 322.123). In his application for Habilitation he described already that his father in the "nationally mixed area" of his Sudeten home for the Germans had used. As a youth he felt the fall of the Habsburg Empire as sad and was annoyed about the assignment of the region to the Czech Republic . After graduation, he and his schoolmates vowed to defend German culture in their homeland. The habilitation took place again in November 1934 with Kühnemann with a thesis in which Folwart criticized the more recent approaches of Husserl and Heidegger from the standpoint of criticism . His sample lecture was on “The Problem of Ethics in the Present”. The theme of the inaugural lecture was “Volkstum as a philosophical problem”. In 1935 Folwart was given a teaching position. He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 ( membership number 4,998,458) and was active as a block leader since March 1, 1939. Folwart was appointed lecturer of the new order on August 26, 1939 and extraordinary professor on November 24, 1942. During the war he did military service in Poland and France , where he was injured. From 1942 he was deployed in camps in the Ukraine and Italy in the administrative service.

After the Second World War , Folwart successfully applied as a lecturer in the church service in the formerly German areas of Poland, but was expelled in 1946. As a result, he continued his training as a pastor and worked as a pastor at the Friedenskirche in Hamburg-Eilbek . In addition, he taught from 1949 to 1954 at the Church University of Hamburg , where he held courses on logic, epistemology and ethics as well as exercises on Kant. Folwart's wife died in 1950 and he married Alice Olga Pagel in 1957. From 1957 he worked as a hospital priest.

Fonts

  • Friedrich Schlegel's relationship to philosophy. A contribution to German intellectual history at the end of the 18th century . 1. Prolegomena. Ohlau in Schlesien 1930 (dissertation).
  • Jean Paul's personality and worldview according to his letters . Weimar 1933 (thesis).
  • Kant, Husserl, Heidegger. Criticism, phenomenology, existential ontology . Ohlau in Schlesien 1936 (habilitation).
  • Kant and the present . In: Kant studies 43 (1943), 103-169.

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  1. ↑ Year given by Christian Tilitzki: The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in National Socialism, Academy, Berlin 2002, 663 - the article in the BBKL names 1936 as the year of the name change, in which this was formally carried out. See Rainer Hering:  Folwart (until 1936: Folwartschny), Helmut. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 526-529.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ^ Joined the party on May 1, 1932 according to the article in the BBKL. Compare Matthias Wolfes:  Bornhausen, Karl Eduard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 264-286.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  3. ↑ Information on Nazi activities from: George Leaman: Heidegger in context. Complete overview of the Nazi involvement of university philosophers. From the American by Rainer Alisch and Thomas Laugstien, Argument, special volume AS 205, Hamburg and Berlin 1993 - some deviations in the entry of the BBKl.
personal data
SURNAME Folwart, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Folwartschny, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieder-Bludowitz
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1987
Place of death Mölln