Kurt Stavenhagen

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Kurt Stavenhagen (born 13 jul. / 25. December  1884 greg. In Tukkum as Karl Friedrich Kurt , † 8. December 1951 in Goettingen ) was Baltic German philosopher and university lecturer.

Life

Kurt Stavenhagen was the son of the teacher and journalist Karl Stavenhagen and his wife Julie, b. Worms. He grew up in Jelgava and Riga and received private lessons. In 1902 he went to the Herzogliche Neue Gymnasium in Braunschweig, where he graduated from high school the following year. From 1904 to 1909 he studied classical philology, history and philosophy at the University of Göttingen . In 1907 he was awarded the University's Golden Medal for his achievements. In 1908 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate, in 1909 he passed the state examination # teaching degree for the subjects of Greek, Latin and history.

From 1909 to 1919 Stavenhagen was a senior teacher at the Landesgymnasium in Goldingen in Kurland . After Latvian independence and the fighting of 1919 and 1920, Stavenhagen was one of the founders of the Herder Institute in Riga in 1921 . From 1921 to 1927 he was a lecturer in philosophy and from 1928 to 1939 full professor of philosophy. He represented a phenomenological philosophy, was influenced by Max Scheler and - inspired by Alexander Pfänder - interested in borderline questions of philosophy, psychology and sociology. National Socialist students demanded in 1935 - in vain - that the rector of the Herder Institute remove Stavenhagen from office.

In addition to his academic duties, Stavenhagen was involved in cultural policy; He advocated extensive cultural autonomy for national minorities in the Republic of Latvia . From 1920 to 1934 he was part-time managing director of the German parliamentary group in the Saeima and the committee of the Baltic German parties, and from 1927 to 1935 of the Baltic German national community in Latvia .

In 1939 Stavenhagen was resettled on the basis of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty . From 1940 to 1941 he taught as a professor of philosophy at the University of Königsberg . It soon turned out that it did not fit into the reorientation of the Philosophical Seminar in the interests of the Nazi state; he was considered a "backwoodsman of ethics". He was accused of writing and talking about "home", "nation" and "people" without taking up the "basic fact of race ". In 1941 Stavenhagen moved to the University of Posen , where he was one of the few professors who did not belong to the NSDAP. Qua office he was a member of the working group "Suitability Research " of the Reich Foundation for German Research on the East , headed by Rudolf Hippius . But as a university lecturer, he made no concessions to the Nazi ideology.

From 1945 to 1946 Stavenhagen had a teaching position in Hamburg and since 1946 in Göttingen.

Fonts

  • Absolute opinions. An ontological inquiry into the nature of religion . Publishing house of the Philosophical Academy Erlangen, Erlangen 1925.
  • Herder in Riga . G. Löffler, Riga 1925.
  • Respect as a feeling of solidarity and the basis of communities . G. Löffler, Riga 1931.
  • The essence of the nation . HR Engelmann, Berlin 1934.
  • Critical courses in popular theory . Plates, Riga 1936.
  • Home as the basis of human existence . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1939.
    • New edition under the title Home as a Sense of Life . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1948.
  • Kant and Königsberg . Deuerlich, Göttingen 1949.
  • Person and Personality: Studies on Anthropology and Ethics . Edited from the estate by Harald Delius. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1957.

literature

  • Ella Buceniece: Teodors Celms, Kurt Stavenhagen and Phenomenology in Latvia . In: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.): Phenomenology World Wide. Foundations - Expanding Dynamics - Life Engagements. A Guide for Research and Study (= Analecta Husserliana , Vol. 80). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2002, ISBN 1-4020-0066-9 , pp. 312-315.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003647-8 , Vol. 2, p. 805.
  2. ^ A b Christian Tilitzki: The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003647-8 , Vol. 2, p. 806.
  3. ↑ Ella Buceniece: Teodors Celms, Kurt Stavenhagen and Phenomenology in Latvia . In: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.): Phenomenology World Wide . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2002, pp. 312-315, here p. 313.
  4. ^ A b Christian Tilitzki: The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, vol. 2, p. 807.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 598.
  6. ^ Christian Tilitzki: The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, vol. 2, p. 808.
personal data
SURNAME Stavenhagen, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stavenhagen, Karl Friedrich Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Tukkum
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1951
Place of death Goettingen