Manfred Buhr

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Manfred Buhr (born February 22, 1927 in Kamenz ; † October 22, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German Marxist philosopher , historian of philosophy and head of the Central Institute for Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Life

Buhr first acquired a commercial training at a business school. After that he was a member of the Reich Labor Service . On April 20, 1944, he joined the NSDAP in Kamenz ( membership number 9.978.129). Then he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Buhr completed training as a new teacher after the Second World War . In 1945 he joined the KPD and in 1946 became a member of the SED . In 1947 he began studying history , philosophy and German at the University of Leipzig , which he successfully completed in 1952. As a scientific aspirant, Buhr received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1957 , then switched to the German Academy of Sciences in East Berlin as a research assistant . Manfred Buhr completed his habilitation at the University of Greifswald in 1962 and in the same year became deputy director of the Institute for Philosophy there. In 1965 he became professor of philosophy at the University of Greifswald.

From 1970 to 1990, Buhr headed the Central Institute for Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR as director, succeeding Georg Klaus . In 1990 he was replaced as director of the institute as a result of democratic elections. Together with Klaus he published the Philosophical Dictionary in the GDR in 1964 , which was also published in 1972 by Rowohlt Verlag in West Germany and had a total circulation of around 750,000 copies. Buhr was in charge of the series on criticism of bourgeois ideology . This central institute also dealt with the philosophy of science in the field of Philosophical Questions in Scientific Development , headed by Herbert Hörz .

Buhr was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR since 1971 .

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Buhr was one of the exposed representatives of Marxism-Leninism and contributed to the institutional exclusion of deviating currents in Marxism, such as B. the “philosophy of hope” by Ernst Bloch , whose assistant he was from 1952 to 1957. Since 1965 he was registered with the GDR State Security as an unofficial employee "Rehbein". In 1971 he became chairman of the “Scientific Council for Basic Issues of the Ideological Struggle between Socialism and Imperialism” and in this function controlled the trips to the West by the GDR philosophers. In 1981 he was involved in the reprimanding of the philosophers around Peter Ruben and Camilla Warnke . Furthermore, he opposed the establishment of a department for sociology under Hansgünter Meyer at the Central Institute for Philosophy .

He is buried in cemetery IV of the St. Hedwigsgemeinde and cemetery of the St. Piusgemeinde in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen .

Fonts

  • The transition from Fichte to Hegel , 1965
  • Size and limits of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant , 1974
  • Immanuel Kant , 1968
  • Reason - Man - History , 1977
  • Sensible Story , 1986
  • Interventions - opinions - statements. On the history and social function of philosophy and science , 1987
  • (Ed.) Europe and the intellectual situation of the time: Contributions to the intellectual European heritage , 2000

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supporting documents

  1. ^ Arnold Schölzel: Realizable Reason: The philosopher Manfred Buhr has died . In: Junge Welt from October 23, 2008, online .
  2. ↑ Alexander Dill: Wise men think up new thoughts, fools spread them. Die Zeit, September 11, 1992
  3. ↑ According to Kurt Lenk , Ernst Bloch and the SED revisionism , he presented the "most demanding Bloch criticism on the part of GDR philosophy in terms of its content".
  4. ^ Jan Wielgohs :  Buhr, Manfred . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Buhr, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamenz
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2008
Place of death Berlin