Johannes Sauter

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Johannes Sauter , also Johann Sauter , (born May 24, 1891 in Kleeberg in Bavaria ; died December 12, 1945 in Winhöring ) was a German legal philosopher .

Life

Johannes Sauter studied philosophy for two semesters and theology for eight semesters at the Passau Lyceum . After receiving his ordination , he worked as a pastor from 1916 to 1923. In the summer semester of 1923 he took leave of absence from the Passau diocese and studied philosophy at the University of Munich . In March 1926 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on The Social Philosophy of Franz von Baader and its relationship to German Romanticism . At the same time he studied political science at the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

He then worked as a teacher at the Vienna Commercial Academy , was habilitated at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Vienna in August 1927 with a further study on Franz von Baader , and from the winter of 1927 taught the subject of "Social Studies " as a private lecturer . In June 1933 he was awarded the title of associate university professor, and in 1934 he received the Venia legendi for social theory, general political theory and legal philosophy.

According to his own statements, Sauter was closely connected to the rise of the NSDAP in Munich , he participated in the Hitler putsch in 1923 and fled to Vienna because of police investigations. He had contacts with the NSDAP member and ideological pioneer of Austrofascism, Othmar Spann, and with the philosopher Hans Eibl , who, referring to the "positive Christianity" in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, stood up for an alliance between Christianity and National Socialism. He was a member of the German Philosophical Society in Austria, which, according to Sauter, supported the illegal work of the NSDAP in Austria.

On June 22, 1936, the positivist philosophy professor Moritz Schlick was appointed by Dr. Hans Nelböck , who received his doctorate from Schlick in 1931, murdered. In public, Sauter took sides against the "Jews and Freemasons Schlick". Under the pseudonym "Prof. Dr. Austriacus ”he accused Schlick in an article in the weekly Schoenere Zukunft Schlick of disrupting young people. On this occasion, Sauter demanded: Christian philosophers belong to the philosophical chairs of the Vienna University in Christian-German Austria! and hoped for the horrible murder of the University of Vienna on a truly satisfactory solution to the Jewish question. The perpetrator was sentenced to ten years in prison and Sauter visited him repeatedly in prison until he was released by the National Socialists.

After Austria was annexed and the university was bloodleaded by the expulsion of the Jewish professors, Professors Alexander Hold-Ferneck and Alfred Verdroß applied to appoint Sauter as full professor of legal philosophy . On the part of the National Socialists, however, he was accused of his closeness to the Catholic Church and his relationship with Othmar Spann, who had now fallen out of favor, and in April 1938 he was advised to voluntarily renounce teaching. Instead, Sauter submitted an application for membership of the NSDAP in May 1938, which was rejected in September 1941. On March 22, 1939, he was dismissed on the basis of Section 4 (1) of the Ordinance on the Reorganization of the Austrian Professional Civil Service due to political unreliability. He was unemployed and penniless. In 1940 he tried in vain to turn the tide in a petition to Reich Minister of Education Bernhard Rust , pointing out his status as an old fighter and his other services to the National Socialist movement in Austria. The former Vienna Gauleiter of the then illegal NSDAP Franz Brandl and the Vienna SA-Oberführer Carl von Bardolff vouched for his National Socialist sentiments. The only concession he was finally allowed to do in 1942 was to open a housing agency in Vienna.

On March 18, 1943, Sauter was arrested by the Gestapo because he was suspected of belonging to a reactionary and opposing group of people . It is not known whether Sauter, like Franz Meuren, who was arrested with him, was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp , nor is his fate after the end of the war.

Johann Sauter died on December 12, 1945 in Winhöring, Altötting district , in the American zone of occupation in Germany.

Fonts

  • Franz von Baader's social philosophy . Innsbruck, 1926. Dissertation at the University of Munich 1926
  • Josef von Baader (1763 - 1835): a forgotten chapter from d. Story d. Railways , in: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics , Vol. 124, 1926, pp. 61–70
  • (Ed.): Franz von Baader's writings on social philosophy . Jena: G. Fischer, 1928
  • Baader and Kant . Jena: G. Fischer, 1928
  • The philosophical foundations of natural law. Studies on the history of legal and political theory . Vienna, Springer, 1932
  • Law and Philosophy of Law . Prague: VIII International Congress of Philosophers 1934 in Prague

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria
  2. ↑ The information follows Tamara Ehs: The expulsion of the first political scientist: Helene Lieser and Johann Sauter , 2010
  3. ^ Hans Eibl in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  4. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Austriacus: The case of the Viennese professor Schlick - a warning to examine conscience , in: Schönere Zukunft , Wien, XI. Vol., July 12, 1936, No. 41, pp. 1–2, link at the University of Innsbruck
  5. ^ Franz Meuren ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), at DÖW
personal data
SURNAME Sauter, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauter, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleeberg (Ruhstorf an der Rott) , Ruhstorf an der Rott , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1945
Place of death Winhöring