Hermann Platz

Hermann Platz (born October 19, 1880 in Offenbach an der Queich , † December 4, 1945 in Düsseldorf ) was a German Romanist , author and cultural philosopher .

life and work

Made place in Landau in the Palatinate Abitur and studied in Würzburg, Munich and Münster first theology, then philology (German, English, Romance studies). He received his doctorate in German studies in Münster in 1905 with a dissertation on phonetic and conceptual word assimilation. Contributions to the so-called folk etymology especially from the area of ​​the Rhine Franconian and was a high school teacher in Düsseldorf and Bonn. He completed his habilitation with the collective work Intellectual Struggles in Modern France in 1922 and from 1926 was a full honorary professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with a teaching position for French intellectual and social history, which was withdrawn from him on March 23, 1935 by the National Socialists .

Under the influence of Marc Sangnier , Carl Sonnenschein and Herman Schell , Platz was an important democratic-pacifist reform Catholic with the ideal of European unification. He was involved in the resistance against National Socialism and after May 1945, under occupation law, was for a short time a kind of minister of culture of the later federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia with the official seat in Düsseldorf.

Under the influence of Alois Dempf , Platz founded the magazine Abendland in 1925 . German monthly magazine for European culture, politics and economy , which existed until 1930. From 1929 he published the series “Studies on Western Intellectual and Social History”.

He was a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Markomannia Würzburg , KDStV Aenania Munich and VKDSt Saxonia Münster .

Works

• The fruits of a social student movement, Mönchengladbach 1913
• In the struggle for time. Social-ethical and social student sketches, Mönchengladbach 1914
• War and soul. (3 chapters) Mönchengladbach 1916; 2nd edition: Zeitgeist and Liturgy, 1921
• Between today and tomorrow. Notes and Hopes, Habelschwerdt 1923
• Germany - France and the idea of ​​the West, Cologne 1924
• Around the Rhine and the Occident, Rothenfels Castle 1924
• Big city and humanity, Kempten 1924
• Aspects religieux de la France contemporaine, (2 volumes), Bielefeld 1927
• The religious in the crisis of the times, Einsiedeln 1928
• L'Eglise et l'état en France, Bielefeld 1929
• Le Moyen âge français, Münster 1929
• Germany and France. Attempt to lay the foundations for the problems in the history of ideas, Frankfurt a. M. 1930
• (Ed.) Poésies religieuses des modern, Bielefeld 1931
• (Ed. With Maria Beermann) Science as Religion in the 19th Century in France, Düsseldorf 1932
• (Ed. With Maria Beermann) Religious voices from modern France (1880–1914), Düsseldorf 1932
• (with Artur Poch and Paul Kämmer) Acquisition, practice, consolidation of vocabulary, Frankfurt a. M./Marburg 1932
• The spiritual upheaval in France, Breslau 1932
• Pascal. Man struggling for God, Dülmen 1937
• Friendship as life, Limburg 1940
• Pascal in Germany, Colmar 1900, 1944, Salzburg 1990

literature

• Hermann Platz. The world of the ancestors. Becoming and growing a Westerner in the bosom of home and family, represented for his children. Edited by Rudolf Platz, Nuremberg 1948
• Hermann Platz, 1880-1945. A memorial. Ed. Vincent Berning ; Contributions by August Heinrich Berning [et al.] And selected texts by Hermann Platz, Düsseldorf 1980
• Vincent Berning:  Place, Hermann Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 519-521 ( digitized version ).
• Anne-Marie Saint-Gille: La “Paneurope”. Un débat d'idées dans l'entre-deux-guerres. Paris 2003, p. 259
• Winfried Becker : Marc Sangnier and Hermann Platz. An early perception and appreciation of the "Sillon" in the Munich magazine " Hochland ", in: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 68, 2005, pp. 1009-1028
• Hans Manfred Bock: The occident and the work of Hermann place in the catholic milieu of the Weimar republic, in: The catholic intellectual milieu in Germany. Ed. Michel Grunewald, Uwe Puschner . Peter Lang, Bern 2006, pp. 337–362
• Winfried Becker : pioneer of an occidental Europe . The Bonn Romanist Hermann Platz 1880 - 1945 , in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 70, 2006, pp. 236–260
• Winfried Becker : Hermann Platz (1880-1945). In: Contemporary history in life pictures. 12. From the German Catholicism of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ed .: Jürgen Aretz , Mainz 2007, pp. 22–33.
• Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. Frankfurt 2008, pp. 145-146, p. 725
• Hans Manfred Bock , in: Charles Maurras et l'étranger, . Ed. Olivier Dard, Michel Grunewald. Lang, Bern 2009, pp. 362–364
• Bernhard Grün : Circles in times of crisis. The Romanist Hermann Platz (Markomannia Würzburg) shows the underestimated effect of Catholic cultural work, in: Academia, magazine of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations 3 (2019), pp. 18-19
• Bernhard Grün: 'Amicitia' as a principle of life - the Romanist, publicist and politician Hermann Platz (1880-1945). Approaching a great stranger, in: Rheinische Vierteljahrshefte. Publication of the Department for the History of the Early Modern Age and Rhenish Regional History of the Institute for History of the University of Bonn, 83rd year Bonn 2019, pp. 193–221

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Platz in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)