Johannes Winckelmann (lawyer)

Johannes Friedrich Winckelmann (born March 29, 1900 in Hamburg , † November 21, 1985 in Bad Dürrheim ) was a lawyer . He became known through his editing of works by Max Weber .

Live and act

From 1927 to 1938 Winckelmann worked at various courts in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . From 1938 to 1945 he worked in various positions in the Reich Ministry of Economics and from 1946 to 1951 in the Hessian State Central Bank . After his retirement he had been an honorary professor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Munich since 1954 . He headed the Max Weber Archive there and later the Max Weber Institute.

Editor of works by Max Weber

Winckelmann was from the fourth edition of 1956 editor of Weber's monumental work Economy and Society . For decades, the text versions he edited formed the basis for studying key works by Max Weber. Because of this fact, he was nominally involved in the conception of the Max Weber Complete Edition .

According to his own statements, Winckelmann had already read the two brochures Science as a Profession and Politics as a Profession by Max Weber in his first year at the University of Marburg and then wanted to study with him. This wish was denied to him, however, because when Winckelmann arrived in Munich in the winter semester of 1920/21, Weber had already passed away. Since 1925 Winckelmann was in correspondence with Weber's widow Marianne Weber and made suggestions for the editing of Weber's texts.

In November 1945 Winckelmann wrote about himself: “ I consider myself a student of the democratic university professor Professor Dr. Max Weber, whose scientific and political teachings I largely adopted as my own, because they corresponded to my own intentions and experiences and were based on worldwide points of view. “(Winckelmann, 1945, p. 1 f.). Winckelmann was not interested in Weber's person or biography.

In 1949 Winckelmann published his first Weber work and then also contributed to the second edition of the collected essays on the science of science from April 1951. Winckelmann then campaigned very strongly for Weber. Further publications followed until the 1970s. He founded the Max Weber Society, the Max Weber Archive (1960–1966), the Max Weber Institute (1966–1976) and the Max Weber Office at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 1978). While the Max Weber Archive was limited to making materials accessible, the institute had the additional task of being a scientific meeting place for the uplifting international Max Weber research.

In later years Winckelmann was only able to do his work with the help of his research assistant, Liselotte Carolina Kreitmair, who was impaired by considerable visual disturbances.

Works

• Legitimacy and legality in Max Weber's sociology of domination . With an appendix: Max Weber: The three pure types of legitimate rule, Tübingen: Mohr, 1952.
• Society and State in the Understanding Sociology of Max Weber , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1957.
• The double-sided, opposing approach in empirical-comparative sociological cultural analyzes , in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 34 (1982) 3, pp. 435–443.
• Max Weber's main work that was left behind: The economy and social orders and powers . Origin and conceptual structure, Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1986.

literature

Dirk Kaesler : The time of outsiders in German sociology. In: Karl-Ludwig Ay , Knut Borchardt (Hrsg.): Das Faszinosum Max Weber. The history of its validity. UVK, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 978-3-89669-605-2 , pp. 169-195.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Winckelmann in the catalog of the German National Library