Herbert Franz Wolf

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Herbert Franz Wolf (born June 24, 1927 in Rudelsdorf ; † May 15, 1993 in Leipzig ) was a German sociologist who taught as a professor at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and was one of the founders of sociology in the GDR .

Life

After the Second World War , in which he was first an air force helper and then a tank grenadier, Wolf finished his school education in 1947 at the Schönebeck secondary school . He then studied from 1947 to 1949 at the University of Rostock and from 1949 to 1951 at the University of Leipzig social sciences . There he was in 1964 with a thesis on the formal sociology Leopold von Wiese Dr. phil. PhD . A second doctorate ( Dr. sic. Phil. ) Followed in 1973, also in Leipzig . The title of the dissertation was: Socialist perspective awareness as a subjective driving force of action .

From 1969 to 1976 Wolf taught as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Leipzig, interrupted by a six-month guest lecturer at the University of Havana (1974), from 1956 to 1990 he was a full professor of Marxist-Leninist sociology there . He was a co-founder of the Society for Sociology of the GDR and from 1989 to 1991 chairman of the Regional Association South and from 1991 co-editor of the Berlin Journal for Sociology . From 1992 until his death he was a member of the German Society for Sociology .

Wolf is counted among the co-founders of academic sociology in the GDR because he and Robert Wilhelm Schulz initiated a sociological seminar at Leipzig University as early as 1957 , where empirical social research was soon carried out.

Fonts (selection)

  • The development of formal sociology and its systematic formulation by Leopold von Wiese. A contribution to the analysis of the crisis development of bourgeois sociology . Leipzig 1964 (dissertation).
  • Socialist perspective consciousness as a subjective driving force of action . Leipzig 1973 (dissertation).
  • Contributions to Marxist-Leninist sociology . Leipzig 1984 (editor).
  • Collective relationships and way of life . Dietz, Berlin 1984 (with Alice Kahl and Steffen H. Wilsdorf).

literature

  • Mühler, Kurt / Berger, Horst, Nekrolog auf Herbert F. Wolf (June 24, 1927 - May 15, 1993) . In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 1993 (3), no. 3, pp. 431-433.
  • Grätz, F., Wolf, Herbert F. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.), Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2: Articles on sociologists who are alive or who have died after 1969, 2nd edition, Stuttgart 19984, p. 933– 934.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig: Prof. Dr. sc. phil. Herbert Franz Wolf .
  2. ↑ Hansgünter Meyer , Sociology and Sociological Research in the GDR . In: Bernhard Schäfers (Ed.), Sociology in Germany. Development, institutionalization and professional fields, theoretical controversies . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1995, pp. 35-49, here p. 37.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Herbert Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1993
Place of death Leipzig