Hermann Bäcker (philosopher)

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Hermann Rudolf Bäcker (born April 23, 1900 in Moers ; † March 18, 1944 ) was a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund, who was a member of the NSDAP before the " seizure of power " and as an officer in World War II has fallen.

Life

Baker was the son of a Protestant pastor. He attended the municipal grammar school in Elberfeld until 1915, then the Friedrich Wilhelm grammar school in Cologne , where he passed a secondary school diploma in 1917 . As a volunteer flag junior , he did his military service on the Western Front and received the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class. Appointed reserve lieutenant in summer 1918, he was dismissed from army service in 1920. From January 1919 to May 1920, Bäcker was a member of the Hartenstein Freikorps and took part in battles against communists in the Ruhr area.

From 1920 to 1924 he studied philosophy and psychology in Cologne. With a thesis "On the origin of the causal thought" he received his doctorate in February 1924 under Max Scheler . He then worked as an assistant at the Philosophical Seminar in Cologne until March 1929. During this time he was managing director of the Cologne branch of the Kant Society . In the summer of 1928, Bäcker married the historian Ermentrude von Ranke , a granddaughter of Leopold von Ranke , who initially worked as a lecturer in Cologne and at the time of the wedding as a private lecturer in modern cultural history in Kiel.

In 1929 the couple moved to the newly founded Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund . In November 1929, Bäcker completed his habilitation with the work “Studies on the History of Voluntative Realism in Maine de Biran ” and received the venia legendi for philosophy, which he held in Cologne parallel to his position in Dortmund as a private lecturer. Here he gave lectures on political ethics and political anthropology. His trial lecture had the topic "On the problem of the proposition of consciousness". His wife died of heart failure in 1931 at the age of 38 giving birth to their second child. By decree of September 20, 1931 he was appointed professor. From 1933 he had a teaching position in Dortmund for "character and youth studies and educational science".

On July 1, 1932, Bäcker became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 1.888.753) and of the SA on March 1, 1933 , where he was troop leader from May 1934. He signed March 4 to the University of Jena widespread call "The German spirit world list 1. Declaration 300 university teachers for Adolf Hitler ," the March 4, 1933 Völkischer observers appeared. Becker was also deputy leader of the Dortmund university group of the NSD lecturers' association . In 1936 he was given a leave of absence to train the NSDAP offspring at the NS-Ordensburgen in Krössinsee , Vogelsang and Sonthofen . On March 18, 1944, Bäcker fell as a Wehrmacht officer in World War II .

Individual evidence

  1. Biographical information from Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich , Academy, Berlin 2002, as well as in particular from: Alexander Hesse : The professors and lecturers of the Prussian Pedagogical Academy (1926-1933) and universities for teacher training (1933 –1941) , Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim 1995

literature

  • Uwe Sandfuchs : University teacher training in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich . Bad Heilbrunn 1978, p. 344.
  • Frank Golczewski: Cologne University Teacher and National Socialism . Cologne / Vienna 1988, p. 56.