Ludwig Freund (political scientist)

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Ludwig Freund (born May 22, 1898 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † September 1, 1970 in Hanover ) was a German-Jewish philosopher and political scientist.

Life

In 1919 he left his hometown of Mülheim an der Ruhr to study philosophy at the University of Göttingen . He continued this in Heidelberg, Munich and Leipzig. He received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1922.

From 1924 to 1930 Freund worked as a syndic for the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith , and from 1930 as the state manager of the Reich Association of Jewish Front Soldiers . As editor-in-chief he was in charge of the association magazine Der Schild . In 1934 he emigrated to the United States via Czechoslovakia.

Ludwig Freund found his way through doing odd jobs in New York until he got an assistant position at the Institute of Economics at Columbia University in 1936 . From 1937 to 1947 he held a professorship in sociology and political science at Ripon College , Wisconsin, and at the same time held the office of dean. During the war he worked for the American Army from 1942 to 1945, most recently as a special advisor to the military intelligence service. In 1947 he took up a professorship in political science at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he remained until his retirement in 1959.

A year after marrying a German colleague, he returned to Germany permanently, gave up his American citizenship and applied for German. He moved to Hanover, where he headed the Pedagogical University until 1961 .

Ludwig Freund was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences , president of the Society for Constructive Politics, employee of the United States Investigation Services in Germany and a member of the Bonn Defense Colloquium.

In 1967 he received the Konrad Adenauer Prize from the Germany Foundation .

Fonts

  • At the end of philosophy (1930)
  • Philosophy, an unsolvable problem. Reckoning with an Illusion (1933)
  • The Threat to European Culture (1935)
  • Motives of American Foreign Policy (1951)
  • Studied political science at home and abroad (1953)
  • Politics and Ethics: Possibilities and Limits of Their Synthesis (1955, 1961)
  • Freedom and Unfreedom in the Atomic Age (1963)
  • Understanding the American Type of Man (1964)
  • State and Sovereignty in the Light of Classical Literature and Today's Reality (1965)
  • Coexistence and Relaxation. Hope or danger? (1966)
  • Political Defense Strategy in the Nuclear Age (1966)
  • Political weapons. Basic Concept of the Western Defense Strategy (1966)
  • Germany in focus. American Political Science and the German Question (1968)
  • Under the umbrella of nuclear fear (1969)

literature

  • Barbara Kaufhold: Jews in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2004, pp. 168–170.

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personal data
SURNAME Friend, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1970
Place of death Hanover