Ludwig Landgrebe

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Ludwig Landgrebe (born March 9, 1902 in Vienna , † August 14, 1991 in Cologne ) was a phenomenologist and philosopher .

Life

childhood

Ludwig Landgrebe was born in Vienna as the son of the businessman Karl Ludwig Landgrebe (1871–1931) and his wife, the kindergarten teacher Rosa Anna Tuma (1877–1903). After his mother died just 1 year after his birth, he was first raised by his grandmother Leopoldine Landgrebe and later by his father, who made it possible for his son to study with great financial difficulty.

Years of study up to habilitation

There he first studied philosophy, history and geography. Inspired by the writings of Max Scheler, he moved to Freiburg to deepen his knowledge . In 1923 he became Edmund Husserl's assistant . After completing his doctorate in 1927, he completed his habilitation in 1935 at the Philosophical Faculty of the German University in Prague with Oskar Kraus and the granting of teaching permits.

Marriage to Ilse Maria Goldschmidt

On July 22, 1933, Landgrebe and Ilse Maria Goldschmidt (1906–1982), daughter of the Hamburg Higher Regional Court Judge Arthur Goldschmidt and sister of the writer Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, married . Arthur Goldschmidt, whose family was of Jewish origin, had converted to Protestantism at a young age, like his parents . In 1935 the couple moved to the Prague suburb of Roztoky .

Time of National Socialism and the persecution of the Jews

With the passing of the Nuremberg Laws and the invasion of the German troops and the fall of Czechoslovakia as a state, the living conditions for the family suddenly change. Landgrebe is without income; his wife is of Jewish origin. He accepts an offer from Leuven, where the Franciscan priest and philosophy professor Herman Leo Van Breda had saved Husserl's estate from destruction by the Nazis. Landgrebe, who played a key role in this relocation, worked from 1939 onwards, together with Husserl's last assistant, Eugen Fink, in Löwen on the Husserl archive set up there. He emigrated to Belgium with his family with great difficulty . After the German attack on Belgium and the occupation, he was arrested and interned by the Belgian police. Meanwhile, his wife gives birth to their son Winfried. The family, which has not only lost its household through looting, but in turn has no income, has no other choice than to return to Germany.

Return to Germany

The young family returned to Reinbek on October 10, 1940 and moved in with their parents, Goldschmidt. Since the NS- Dozentbund rejected him because of his Jewish wife and other hopes of returning to the university were shattered, he accepted an offer from his neighbor, Carl Dobbertin's friend, to work in his company in Hamburg as a commercial clerk.

after 1945

In 1945 he achieved a post-doctoral qualification in Hamburg and in 1947 became a full professor in Kiel , where Hans Blumenberg and Kurt Hübner were among his students. In 1954 he took over a chair at the University of Cologne , where he was in charge of the university's Husserl archive. The social philosopher Günter Rohrmoser completed his habilitation with a thesis on the young Hegel and wrote the foreword to the collection of essays The Path of Phenomenology (1963). Landgrebe is considered one of Husserl's closest students, but who also developed his own focus on history, religion and politics. Here there is a proximity to existential philosophy and metaphysics .


Landgrebe and his wife had 4 children, of whom the second eldest son, Hans-Detlev Landgrebe (born 1935), has captured memories of the extensive families of his father and mother.

Works

  • Wilhelm Dilthey's theory of the humanities , Halle 1928 (dissertation)
  • Nominal function and word meaning. A study of Marty's philosophy of language , Halle 1934 (habilitation thesis)
  • What does philosophy mean to us today , Hamburg 1948 (2nd edition 1954)
  • Phenomenology and Metaphysics , Hamburg 1949 (collection of articles)
  • Philosophy of the Present , Bonn 1952 (2nd edition Frankfurt / M. 1957)
  • The way of phenomenology , Gütersloh 1963 (4th edition 1978)
  • Phenomenology and History , Gütersloh 1968
  • On some basic questions in the philosophy of politics , Cologne / Opladen 1969
  • Facticity and individuation . Studies on the basic questions of phenomenology, Hamburg 1982 (bibliography p. 157–162)
  • The concept of experience. A contribution to the critique of our self-image and the problem of mental wholeness [written 1929–1932]. Edited by Karel Novotny (Series: Orbis Phaenomenologicus - Sources. New Part 2) Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010 ISBN 978-3-8260-3890-7

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Rohrmoser: Subjectivity and Reification. Theology and society in the thinking of the young Hegel . Gütersloher Verl.-Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1961.
  2. ↑ Detlev Landgrebe: Kückallee 37. A childhood on the verge of the Holocaust. Rheinbach 2009, ISBN 9783870621049
personal data
SURNAME Landgrebe, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1991
Place of death Cologne