Karl Buchheim

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Karl Arthur Buchheim (born March 27, 1889 in Dresden , † August 24, 1982 in Munich ) was a German historian and philosopher .

Life and career

Buchheim was born in Dresden in 1889 as the son of the post office clerk Arthur Buchheim and his wife Nanny Buchheim (née Joly). After completing his secondary school leaving certificate in 1908, Buchheim studied history, German and Latin with Wilhelm Wundt , Wilhelm Stieda , Emil Jungmann , Georg Witkowski , Ernst Windisch and Max Heinze at the universities of Jena , Bonn and Leipzig until 1913 . He was at Karl Lamprecht Dr. phil. is doing his doctorate with the work The position of the Kölnische Zeitung in pre-March Rhenish liberalism .

From the beginning of his studies in 1908 he was a member of the St. Pauli Jena singers , and after moving to Leipzig also of the St. Pauli University singers in Leipzig . In 1915 he was injured in the war on the Eastern Front .

From 1919 to 1934 he was a teacher in Freiberg . From 1934 to 1945 he lived in the " inner emigration ".

In 1942 he left the Protestant Church and became a Catholic. He had contacts with the resistance around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler . He then worked as a freelance writer and publishing director until 1945.

He was a co-founder of the Democratic Party of Germany (DPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Leipzig. For the latter he was a city ​​councilor and from 1946 to 1950 a member of the Saxon state parliament . He was also a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig.

There he became director of the Leipzig University Library .

In 1950 he became professor of history at the Technical University of Munich . He died in that city in 1982.

Private

Karl Buchheim is the father of Hans Buchheim .

Fonts

  • The messianic kingdom: On the origin of the church in the gospel , 1948, Kösel-Verlag
  • Suleika: From the Eternal in Love . Kösel, 1948
  • Truth and History , Leipzig, Hegner-Verlag, 1935, Kösel-Verlag, 1950.
  • Logic of facts. On the historical essence of creation . Leipzig, Hegner 1937.
  • History of the Christian parties in Germany , Munich 1953.
  • The Weimar Republic. The German Empire without Kaiser , Munich 1978. ISBN 978-3-453-48033-9 .
  • The German Empire 1871–1918: Prehistory, rise, fall , 1969, Kösel-Verlag
  • Militarism and the Civil Spirit: Democracy in Germany , 1964, Kösel
  • Ultramontanism and Democracy. The way of German Catholicism in the 19th century . Munich 1963.
  • The Historical Christ: Historical Reflections on the New Testament . Kösel-Verlag, 1974 ISBN 978-3-466-41003-3

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Karl Buchheim: The position of the Kölnische Zeitung in pre-March Rhenish liberalism , p. 286.
  2. ^ Karl Buchheim, Udo Wengst (arr.) A Saxon life story. Memoirs 1889–1972. Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, p. 27
  3. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Buchheim, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchheim, Karl Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1982
Place of death Munich