Jan Vogeler

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Jan Jürgen Vogeler (born October 9, 1923 in Moscow , † January 23, 2005 in Worpswede ) was a German-Soviet philosopher and university professor .

Life

Jan Vogeler was the son of the painter Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) and of Zofia (Sonja) Marchlewska (1898–1983), the daughter of the Polish communist Julian Marchlewski . His parents moved with him in 1924 from his birthplace in Moscow to Berlin , where the family initially lived in Berlin-Neukölln . His parents married in 1926 after his father's first marriage to Martha Vogeler , who had three daughters, had been divorced in 1901 . In 1927 the Vogeler family moved into an apartment in the horseshoe settlement built by Bruno Taut in Berlin-Britz . In 1931/32 the parents emigrated together with the then 8-year-old and returned to Moscow. The parents' marriage ended in divorce in 1941.

Jan Vogeler attended the Karl Liebknecht School in Moscow from 1932 to 1937 , after which he went to a Russian-language high school until 1941. In 1937 he took on Soviet citizenship and was a member of the CPSU until 1991 . From 1941 he served as an interpreter in the Red Army . From 1942 to 1943 he attended a Comintern school . In 1943 he was a co-founder of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD). As a non-commissioned officer in the Red Army, he was the supervisor of front officers of the NKFD. At the end of the war he served on the staff of the 1st Belarusian Front .

In 1947 Vogeler made up his Abitur and then studied philosophy and history of philosophy at Moscow's Lomonossow University . In 1952 he received his doctorate in the history of philosophy with a thesis on Martin Heidegger's being and time . He later completed his habilitation with a thesis on Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School . He became a lecturer and, in 1962, professor of Marxist and German philosophy at Lomonossow University in Moscow, as well as visiting professor at the Lenin School there , where he was a popular lecturer among West German students. In 1990 Vogeler retired . From 1957 to 1960 he was visiting professor at the University of Leipzig . Before and during the fall of the Wall , he gave numerous lectures in the Soviet Union, Germany and other countries. In 1998 he regained German citizenship. For a short time he lived on Lake Starnberg . From 2001 he lived in Worpswede and worked in Haus im Schluh in the Heinrich Vogeler Foundation .

Jan Vogeler was married and has a daughter, Natascha. His wife Soja and daughter continue to live in Moscow.

Fonts

  • Translation of Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin on the XX. Party Congress, Moscow 1956

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SURNAME Vogeler, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogeler, Jan Jürgen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Soviet philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2005
Place of death Worpswede