Königsberg Kant celebration (1924)
With the Kant celebration in 1924 , Königsberg honored the philosopher Kant, the city's greatest son. After the coronation of Wilhelm I , it was the most significant celebration in the history of East Prussia's provincial capital.
World importance
The celebrations for Immanuel Kant's 200th birthday in Königsberg lasted from April 19 to 24, 1924. Among the participants were the Reich Vice Chancellor Karl Jarres , the Prussian Prime Minister Otto Braun , the Prussian Minister of Education Otto Boelitz , the chairman of the Kant Society Arthur Liebert , the philosophers Erich Adickes and Hans Driesch as well as Alexander von Staël-Holstein as President of the University of Peking . Reich President Paul von Hindenburg telegraphed.
It started with the festive meetings of the Königsberg Kant Society in the Collegium Fridericianum and the German Kant Society in the Palaestra Albertina as well as a ceremony in the Königsberg Cathedral . At the inauguration of Kant's cenotaphion on April 22nd, the Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention together with the other associations and associations charged . Adolf von Harnack gave the keynote address. The city's gala evening was followed by a ceremony in the Königsberg City Theater . “The teaching staff of the Albertina took their seats on the stage. This is also where the connections with their banners were set up. The uninvited guests were allowed to follow the course of a centenary from the upper echelons. For refreshment, sausages and free beer were offered in the sales outlets of the theater. ”The rector ( Alfred Uckeley ), the mayor ( Hans Lohmeyer ) and the representatives of the authorities involved made welcoming speeches. They were followed by delegates from the philosophical faculties of Anglo-Saxon, Romance, Chinese and Japanese universities and especially from the universities of the Baltic border states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). To honorary doctors were appointed Oscar Almgren , Bernhard Schmid , Arthur Warda and Agnes Miegel . The largest number of guests gathered for Kommersbuch the students in the Great Hall of the City Hall (Koenigsberg) . The city paid for the beer. 2,300 liters are said to have been served. The Society of Friends of Kant celebrated their bean meal in the same room . Albert Goedeckemeyer edited the university's festschrift . For the Association of German Book Trade gave Otto Paetsch the University Library Koenigsberg books worth 70,000 Reichsmarks . The Königsberg learned society received state recognition.
The Kant celebration was also a milestone in the development of Germany's easternmost university in other respects. The warnings of the post-war rector Adalbert Bezzenberger , who has since died, were not without echo in Berlin. The curator Friedrich Hoffmann had pursued them emphatically. The Minister of Education (Boelitz) announced at the Kant celebration that considerable funds were planned for expanding the Albertus University .
Other Kant celebrations
In May 1924, Kant celebrations took place in Cologne and Basel. In Kiel on May 3, 1924 Heinrich Scholz gave the lecture “What we owe Kant”.
literature
- The celebration of the 200th birthday of Immanuel Kant in his hometown. The Königsberg Kant days (April 19 to 24, 1924) according to the reports of the Königsberger Hartungschen Zeitung . Hartung, Koenigsberg 1924.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. Munich 2010, Vol. 2, p. 277.
- ↑ Helga Neumann, Manfred Neumann: Agnes Miegel - the honorary doctorate and its history in the mirror of contemporary literary criticism (Würzburg 2000)
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
- ↑ Götz von Selle : History of the Albertus University in Königsberg in Prussia . Würzburg 1956
- ^ Kant Society, Kiel