Herbert Rüssel

Herbert Werner Rüssel (born December 11, 1897 , † April 6, 1940 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German journalist, translator, writer and victim of National Socialism.

Life

Rüssel studied philosophy from 1923 , among others with Max Scheler at the University of Cologne , and completed his training in 1927 with a doctorate. phil. from. From 1929 he worked as a journalist in Oberhausen and Cologne . He was a member of the German Center Party and among other things worked for the Catholic newspapers Germania and Hochland . In 1932 he was first investigated for homosexual contacts. In 1936 he was arrested for allegedly supporting a Catholic resistance group. After his release he moved to Potsdam. From January to October 1938 he was again in protective custody and pre-trial detention for political statements and homosexual relationships, before he was sentenced to a year in prison in March 1939 under Section 175 of the Criminal Code. After his release he was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on March 6, 1940, where he died a little later.

Up until the 1940s, several of his writings on Christian ethics were published, some of them by Dutch publishers in exile. His transfer of the work “On Human Dignity” by Giovanni della Mirandola (1940) was reprinted several times after his death.

Works

• The relationship between aesthetic and ethical values (inaugural dissertation) Cologne: Printer's Student Bureau , 1927
• Max Scheler and the problems of German politics (Hochland 27th vol. (Sept. 1930) vol. 2, pp. 518-529)
• Essays on the history of antiquity and Christianity (co-authors Franz Altheim , Karl Kerényi and others), Berlin: Die Runde, 1937
• On the history of humanism (review in: Hochland 35th vol. (Feb.1938) vol. 1, pp. 409-411)
• The life of Master Gerhard / Thomas von Kempen . Trans. And included. by Herbert Rüssel, Freiburg: Herder, 1939
• Alkibiades, Berlin: The Round, 1939
• The praise of right-wing loneliness , Amsterdam: Pantheon, Akad. Verlagsanstalt, 1940
• Figure of a Christian humanism (Pantheon, Akad. Verlagsanstalt. Amsterdam / Leipzig 1940)
• Keresztény humanizmus: kultura, eszmeny, hitvallás / HW Rüssel. [A ford. Tolnai Gábor munkaja] (Hungarian transl.), Budapest: Pharos, 1944, Facsimile Budapest: Ecclesia-Kairosz 1997, ISBN 963-363-210-2 .
• Profilo d 'un umanesimo cristiano / Translated into Italian by Giuseppe Rensi, Rome: Einaudi 1945
• Ancient world and Christianity, Amsterdam: Pantheon, Akad. Verlagsanstalt, 1941 a. 1944

New editions

• Shape of a Christian Humanism , Kulmbach: Verlagbuchhandlung Sabat, 2016 ISBN 978-3-943506-34-1
• Ancient world and Christianity , Kulmbach: Verlagbuchhandlung Sabat, 2016 ISBN 978-3-943506-38-9
• The life of Master Gerhard / Thomas von Kempen; translated and introduced by Dr. Herbert Rüssel, Sabat publishing house, 2016 ISBN 978-3-943506-35-8
• Human dignity: together with a few letters and the biography of Pico della Mirandolas / Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; selected, translated and introduced by Dr. Herbert Rüssel, Kulmbach: Sabat Publishing House, 2016 ISBN 978-3-943506-36-5

literature

• Personalities in Berlin 1825-2006. Memories of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and intersex people. Edited by the Senate Department for Labor, Integration and Women. Berlin 2015, p. 62f.