Hermann Mathias Görgen

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Hermann Mathias Görgen (born December 23, 1908 in Wallerfangen / Saar, † May 3, 1994 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( CVP , CSU-Saar ).

Life and work

Görgen, who was a Roman Catholic , passed his Abitur in 1928 at the grammar school in Saarlouis . He then studied theology, philosophy, pedagogy, history and canon law at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1933. phil. received his doctorate. Until 1934 he was assistant to Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster . In 1934 he fled to the Saar area , where he belonged to the Catholic-conservative resistance group around Johannes Hoffmann . After the Saar referendum , Görgen fled to Austria. From 1935 to 1938 he was a full assistant at the Institute for German Intellectual History in Salzburg , where in 1938 he was appointed full professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the Catholic University. In 1935 he met his long-term employee, Dora Schindel .

For political reasons, Görgen fled to Prague , where he worked as a visiting professor, and then to Zurich , where he was again Foerster's assistant. In Zurich, Görgen obtained Czechoslovak passports for 48 people, including Jews and opponents of the regime (including Johannes Hoffmann and Walter Kreiser ), and started negotiations with nine countries to join the group. In 1941 he fled to Brazil via France, Spain and Portugal , where he worked as a private lecturer and in industry from 1942 to 1950. From 1950 to 1954 Görgen was given a teaching position at a private institute in Juiz de Fora (predecessor of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora founded in 1960).

Görgen returned to Saarland in 1954 , which at that time was an autonomous country under a French protectorate and not part of the Federal Republic of Germany. Through the mediation of Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann, he became General Director of Saarland Broadcasting in 1955 . After the Saar Statute, which Görgen advocated , was rejected in a referendum on October 23, 1955 with a two-thirds majority and, as a result, the previous Saarland state government under Johannes Hoffmann resigned on the night of the vote, he had to resign the same year.

After the Saarland joined the Federal Republic in 1957, Görgen was appointed to the Federal Government's Press and Information Office for special tasks in Latin America (until 1973) and two years later in 1959, in 1959, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's special commissioner for Brazil.

As a thank you to his former country of exile, he first founded the German-Brazilian Society for cultural exchange between the two countries in 1960 and the Latin America Center as an organization for development cooperation a year later . Görgen was also significantly involved in founding the Catholic aid organization Adveniat .

From 1961 Görgen was a member of the KDB Rheno-Guestphalia fraternity in Bonn in the RKDB , where he was active in promoting and supporting the students until his death.

Political party

After his return to Saarland , Görgen became a member of the CVP . When the CVP was constituted as the Saarland regional association of the CSU before the federal election in 1957 , he also became a CSU member and its deputy regional chairman in Saarland.

MP

Görgen was a member of the German Bundestag from 1957 to 1961 . He was elected via the CSU state list in Saarland .

Görgen campaigned for international understanding in the reparation committee.

Honors

Publications

  • FW Foerster's life and scientific development up to 1904 . Zurich 1933.
  • Austria and the imperial idea . Vienna 1938.
  • The Austrian question - historically . Zurich, 1938.
  • Tschiangkaischeck. China's struggle . Lucerne 1940.
  • A life against Hitler. History and rescue of the "Görgen Group". Autobiographical sketches . Lit-Verlag 1997 ISBN 3-8258-3457-3 .
  • 500 years of Latin America: light and shadow . Lit-Verlag 1993 ISBN 3-89473-484-1
  • Brazil: a geographical sketch . Tellus Verlag 1970

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sylvia Asmus: Dora Schindel (1915-2018) - In memoriam. German National Library, January 15, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro: Citizens of the world. Brazil and the Jewish Refugees 1933–1948. Lit Verlag, Münster u. a. 2014, p. 153.
  3. ↑ Uwe R. Schwindtke (Ed.): Ring members directory of the RKDB and the RKAB . Bonn 1994.
  4. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 35 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken July 13, 1989, p. 995 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 206 kB ; accessed on June 2, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Görgen, Hermann Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CVU, CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Catfish catch Saar
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1994
Place of death Bonn