Hinrich Knittermeyer

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Johann Hinrich Knittermeyer (born February 20, 1891 in Hamburg , † February 25, 1958 in Delmenhorst ) was a German librarian and philosopher .

biography

Knittermeyer studied philosophy at the University of Jena , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Marburg and received his doctorate in 1914 under Paul Natorp . He took part in the First World War until he was seriously wounded in 1918. In 1919 Knittermeyer passed the state examination in Marburg .

In 1920 he began to give philosophical lectures in Bremen . In 1922 he became editor of the Marburg-based magazine Christliche Welt . From 1923 he was director of the Bremen City Library , which was renamed the Bremen State Library (today: Bremen State and University Library) in 1927 . Since May 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP . From 1933 to 1936, Knittermeyer was also acting head of the Bremen public libraries , which succeeded them after the Bremen reading hall's sponsoring association was liquidated . In accordance with National Socialist ideology, he "cleaned up" the inventory of the reading room that he had taken over by 25% from 29,000 to 22,000 volumes.

On January 30, 1939, the then National Socialist government appointed him professor. On September 24, 1945 Knittermeyer was dismissed from civil service because of his active Nazi past.

He then worked as a freelance writer, lived near Delmenhorst and dealt with the neo-Kantianism of his doctoral supervisor Paul Natorps and the dialectical theology of Karl Barth and Friedrich Gogarten as well as the existential philosophies of Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger . In order to maintain his independence, Knittermeyer declined several appointments to philosophical university chairs.

Institutional collaboration

In 1924 he founded the scientific society Wittheit zu Bremen with the doctor Georg Strube , the radiologist Hans Meyer , the Bremen Chamber of Commerce Syndicus Johannes Rösing , and he became its secretary. In 1936 he became president of the board of directors there, to whom Dr. Adolf Seidler , a Nazi cultural politician appointed by the Senate.

Knittermeyer was also the director of the Bremen Adult Education Center, which was founded in 1941 as a successor organization to the National Socialist College in Bremen, which had existed since 1919 . He defined the goal of the institution as "defense against Jewish-Marxist efforts to decompose".

Between 1953 and 1958 Knittermeyer was co-editor of the Kant studies . In 1957 and 1958 Knittermeyer was responsible for some articles in the 3rd edition of the Lexicon Religion in Past and Present . In 1954 he was appointed as an advisory member of the board of Wittheit zu Bremen , which was newly founded in 1946 . In 1965 he was made an honorary member of the Philosophical Society.

Knittermeyer gained notoriety through his more than 100 scientific reviews a. a. of works by Paul Natorp, John Henry Newman , Oswald Spengler , Alfred Baeumler , Nicolai Hartmann , August Messer , Franz Brentano , Johannes Hessen , Erich Becher , Kurt Breysig , Jonas Cohn , Hugo Dingler , Walter Ehrlich , Friedrich Gogarten, Georg Misch , Martin Heidegger, Aloys Müller , Richard Hönigswald , Hans Leisegang , Arnold Gehlen , Helmut Schelsky , Gerhard Lehmann , Horst Fuhrmann , Theodor Ballauff , Otto Friedrich Bollnow , Reinhard Lauth and Walter Schulz .

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  1. ↑ https://m.suub.uni-bremen.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/
  2. ^ Miedtke, Erwin: Arthur Heidenhain, the first librarian in the "Reading Hall in Bremen" from 1901–1933. An appreciation, in: Bremisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 96, 2017, pp. 79–101
  3. ↑ a b Biography of Bremen 1912–1962. Published by the Historical Society of Bremen and the Bremen State Archives. Bremen 1969, pp. 277-279
  4. ↑ Fritz Peters: Bremen Between 1933 And 1945. BoD - Books on Demand, 2010, ISBN 978-3-867-41373-2 , p. 128 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!252333/
  6. ↑ http://www.rosa-luxemburg.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WK-15_Jun.NOS_VVP_06.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Knittermeyer, Hinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knittermeyer, Johann Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1958
Place of death Delmenhorst