Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich

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Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich (born April 8, 1936 in Hamburg ; † April 19, 2018 ) was a German physicist and natural philosopher . Meyer-Abich was Senator for Science in Hamburg from 1984 to 1987 and until his retirement as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Essen .

Eva Rühmkorf with Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich at the SPD election party conference in 1983 in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund

Life

Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich was born in 1936 as the son of the natural philosopher Adolf Meyer-Abich (1893–1971) and the writer Siever Johanna Meyer-Abich (1895–1981). His older brother was the naval officer and geologist Helmut Meyer-Abich . He was married to the landscape architect Ingrid Meyer-Abich.

Meyer-Abich studied physics , philosophy and the history of science in Hamburg, Göttingen, Bloomington and Berkeley. He received his physics diploma in 1961 and his doctorate in philosophy in 1964. Subsequently he was among other things an employee of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the University of Hamburg. Since 1966 he also worked (part-time) as a study director at the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar . From 1970 to 1972 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world in Starnberg, where Weizsäcker was one of the directors. In 1972 he was appointed full professor for natural philosophy at the University of Essen.

Meyer-Abich was Chairman of the Board of the Association of German Scientists from 1976 to 1981 . From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of the study commission “Future Nuclear Energy Policy” of the German Bundestag and from 1984 to 1987 a non-party Senator for Science and Research in Hamburg. From 1987 to 1994 he was a member of the study commission “Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere” of the German Bundestag.

In numerous publications he developed his concept of "peace with nature".

Monographs (selection)

  • Correspondence, individuality and complementarity. Wiesbaden, 1965.
  • Paths to Peace with Nature. Practical natural philosophy for environmental policy. Munich, 1984.
  • Hatched Out - Arguments on Breeder Reactor Policy . Edited together with Ueberhorst, Reinhard . Birkhäuser, Basel, 1985. ISBN 3-7643-1701-9 .
  • Science for the future. Holistic thinking in terms of ecological and social responsibility. Munich, 1988.
  • Uprising for nature. From the environment to the community. Munich, 1990.
  • Practical natural philosophy for environmental policy. Memories of a forgotten dream. Munich, 1997.
  • Peter Frieß, Andreas Fickers (eds.): Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich and Horst-Eberhard Richter talk about the fear of technology (= TechnikDialog , issue 9). Deutsches Museum / Lemmens, Bonn, 1997. ISBN 3-932306-06-6 .
  • What it means to be healthy: philosophy of medicine . Hanser, Munich, 2010. ISBN 978-3-446-23413-0 .
  • Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich [Ed.]: From the tree of knowledge to the tree of life: holistic thinking of nature in science and economy; [Developed as part of the research project "Cultural History of Nature"] . CH Beck, Munich, 1997.

literature

  • Martin Held, Hans-Jochen Luhmann: From the environment to the natural world: Obituary for the physicist and philosopher Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich . In: Political Ecology . Vol. 36, H. 154.Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, Wuppertal 2018, p. 142-143 .
  • Ingensiep, Hans Werner / Eusterschulte Anne (ed.): Philosophy of the natural world. Basics - Problems - Perspectives. Festschrift for Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich, Würzburg 2002.

Web links

Commons : Klaus-Michael Meyer-Abich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary, SZ-Gedenken.de April 25, 2018, accessed April 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Abich, Klaus Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, natural philosopher and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2018