Hermann Heidegger

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Hermann Heidegger (born August 20, 1920 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 13, 2020 in Stegen ) was a German historian and officer as well as the administrator of the estate of the philosopher Martin Heidegger , who is not his biological father, but who accepted paternity as his mother's husband .

Live and act

Heidegger studied philosophy, history, law and forestry for two semesters as a flag boy on leave . He was wounded four times as an infantry officer during World War II. While he spent two years as a convalescent in Freiburg from autumn 1941 , he attended three lectures and a seminar held by his father. In 1945 he was promoted to first lieutenant and battalion commander in a Volksgrenadier division . After returning from Soviet captivity in 1947, he studied history and education from 1948 to 1952 and then worked as a primary school teacher until 1955. In 1953 he received his doctorate under Gerhard Ritter with a dissertation on the subject of German social democracy and the national state .

In 1955, Heidegger was brought to the Federal Ministry of Defense as captain by Wolf Graf Baudissin , where he worked on the first four volumes of the political-historical handbook fateful questions of the present . He was also co-founder of the monthly information for the troops and served in several general staff and troop commander assignments. He received his farewell in 1979 as a colonel .

After Martin Heidegger's death in 1976, he was his estate administrator and oversaw the complete edition of the philosopher . He was also called in as an expert in deciphering his father's manuscripts, which are in German Kurrent script . The estate has been managed by Hermann Heidegger's son Arnulf Heidegger since 2014.

From 1985 to 2015 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft . He was a member a. a. the Ranke Society , the Clausewitz Society and the German Schiller Society .

In 2005, Hermann Heidegger revealed in the epilogue of the collection of letters "My dear soul!" Letters Martin Heidegger to his wife Elfride that he is not Martin Heidegger's biological son, but the son of the doctor Friedrich Caesar, a childhood friend of Elfride who died in 1946.

Fonts

  • Homecoming 47. Excerpts from the diary from Soviet captivity. Edition Antaios , Schnellroda 2007, ISBN 978-3-935063-73-9 .
  • German Social Democracy and the National State: 1870–1920. With special consideration of the war and revolution years. Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1956, also dissertation, University of Freiburg i. Br., 1953, OCLC 722739155 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences . 3rd edition (1998/99), Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, p. 384.
  2. ^ "My dear little soul!" Letters from Martin Heidegger to his wife Elfride. 1915-1970 . Ed., Selected and commented by Gertrud Heidegger. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Heidegger, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and officer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2020
Place of death Webs