Hugo Staudinger

Hugo Staudinger (born July 5, 1921 in Dresden ; † September 3, 2004 in Paderborn ) was a German historian and scientific theorist .

Life

Hugo Staudinger grew up in Dresden and attended the St. Benno high school there . After graduating from high school in 1940, he studied theoretical physics at the TH Dresden until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He did military service in Russia and on the Western Front.

In 1947 he returned from British captivity and took up studies again. At the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , which was reopened after the destruction , he now studied history , philosophy , Latin and theology and passed his first state examination in history, philosophy and Latin. In 1950 he was with the work world order and constitution at Otto of Freising at the Philosophical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University doctorate .

After completing the pedagogical examination in 1952, he was accepted into the higher education service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . He taught at the Mariengymnasium Werl ( Soest district ). During this time he also became a specialist advisor to the school inspectorate for contemporary history. 1962 Staudinger was appointed Professor of Political Education and Teaching of History at the University of Education Paderborn appointed . After founding the University of Paderborn , he taught at the same as a full university professor.

Hugo Staudinger had been married to Hilde Staudinger, née Kröger, since 1951. The marriage had six children.

Act

In 1963, the Bayerische Schulbuch Verlag published the three-volume historical work entitled Our Story - Our World , which Staudinger had written together with the historians Heribert Hilgenberg and Elmar Wagner.

As early as June 1, 1958, Staudinger, together with former colleagues and interested like-minded people , founded the German Institute for Education and Knowledge (DIBW) in Frankfurt am Main , the main office of which was later relocated to Paderborn. In its statutes, the institute had set itself the goal of "imparting the knowledge of our time to people in a meaningful way, opening their eyes to reality as a whole and thereby enabling comprehensive education". In order to do justice to this mandate, the institute brought together scientists from all disciplines and subject areas in working groups and larger conferences, each of which had a specific topic.

The experience gained here resulted in the desire for an own research center. In 1970 Staudinger founded the Institute for Basic Scientific Research and developed a new method of interdisciplinary and interdenominational collaboration for this purpose. For many years he was director of this institute.

After the smashing of National Socialism , a new spiritual orientation was required in society , politics and science . With the now inflowing educational, ideological and scientific influences, new difficulties arose for the spiritual orientation of the people. Staudinger sought to meet them in various fields.

He turned against the claim of totalitarian world views and rejected educational relativism, dealt with Max Horkheimer and the Frankfurt School and dealt with current historical, philosophical and scientific questions. In the center of his activity, however, more and more basic anthropological questions emerged, which he sought to answer from the basis of the Christian message. Ultimately, he was concerned with the metaphysical background of human existence.

As a result of the institute's research work, 16 books were published, some of which were written by Staudinger alone and some in collaboration with members of the institute. There were also numerous essays and many lectures. Staudinger's last essay entitled Mythos and History appeared a few weeks before his death (September 3, 2004) in the ibw-Journal , the journal that has been published six times a year by the Institute for Education and Knowledge for 43 years.

About one and a half years after his death, the Institute for Education and Knowledge was dissolved with effect from December 31, 2005 and the ibw journal was discontinued.

Due to his services, Staudinger was an honorary member of the German Institute for Education and Knowledge and Commander of the Papal New Year's Eve . On March 23, 1992 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Fonts

• together with Heribert Hilgenberg and Elmar Wagner: Our story - Our world , Bayerischer Schulbuchverlag, Munich 1963/64 1st edition, 1967 2nd edition.
• People and politics, ways of becoming human , vol. 5, Spee-Verlag, Trier 1967, ISBN 3-87760-001-8
• God: No? A historian's reflections on the foundations of his science , Spee-Verlag, Trier 1968
• Man and State in the Structural Change of the Present , Schöningh-Verlag, Paderborn 1971
• Humanity and religion, correspondence and conversation with Max Horkheimer , Naumann Verlag, Würzburg 1974, 2nd edition 1991, ISBN 3-921155-12-6
• together with Wolfgang Behler: Chance and Risk of the Present - a critical analysis of the scientific-technical world , Schöningh-Verlag, Paderborn 1976, ISBN 3-506-78631-8
• together with Johannes Schlueter : Who is a person? Draft of an open and imperative anthropology , Burg-Verlag, Stuttgart and Bonn 1981, ISBN 3-922801-86-2
• The Frankfurt School. Menetekel of the present and a challenge to Christian theology , Naumann, Würzburg 1982, ISBN 3-88567-030-5
• together with Wolfgang Behler: Basic problems of human reflection - An introduction to modern philosophizing , Herderbücherei Volume 1146, Freiburg 1984, ISBN 3-451-08146-6
• together with Johannes Schlueter: Believe in miracles? God's omnipotence and modern world experience , Herderbücherei Volume 1258, Freiburg 1986, ISBN 3-451-08258-6
• together with Georg Masuch: Creatures without a creator? The Darwinism as a biological and theological problem , Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1987, ISBN 3-417-29523-8
• together with Johannes Schlueter: The credibility of revelation and the crisis of the modern world , Burg Verlag, Stuttgart and Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-922801-67-6
• together with Richard Krenzer: Ethics of Science and Technology , Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1989, ISBN 3-417-2690-16
• Ethical questions in the field of biotechnology , especially genetic engineering , Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1990, ISBN 3-417-26905-9
• The word of God and the word of man - Critical considerations in view of the paths and wrong turns of modern exegesis , Bonifatius GmbH Druck-Buch-Verlag, Paderborn 1993, ISBN 3-87088-770-2
• The historical credibility of the Gospels , 7th edition, Brockhaus, 1988, ISBN 3-417-29526-2
• together with Carsten Peter Thiede: The creed , Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 1992, ISBN 3-87088-712-5
• together with Joseph Ratzinger and Heinz Schütte : On basic questions of theology today , Paderborn 1992, ISBN 3-87088717-6
• God the truth of the world? From the reason of faith , Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1997, ISBN 3-417-29076-7
• Church history as an interpretation of world history , Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 1998, ISBN 3-7171-1051-9
• together with Hermann Rick: Faith in the third millennium after the birth of Christ. The claim of Christian revelation , Johann Wilhelm Naumann Verlag, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-88567-083-6
• History of critical thinking from the beginning to the present , Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 2000, ISBN 3-7171-1078-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Staudinger in the catalog of the German National Library