Olof Klohr

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Olof Klohr (born January 4, 1927 in Hamburg , † September 28, 1994 in Rostock ) was a German Marxist philosopher and university professor in the GDR .

Life

The son of a typesetter graduated from middle school in Hamburg in 1943 and did commercial training in Hamburg from 1943 to 1946, interrupted by military service. 1946–1947 Klohr attended the interpreting school in Hamburg , which he completed with the interpreter's test in English, but only used it briefly in 1947 with the British military government in Hamburg. 1947–1949 he attended the pre-study college in Halle and in 1949 passed the Abitur. 1949-1951 he studied social sciences at the University of Leipzig to the graduate teacher of Social Sciences, 1951-1957, he was a lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Halle , where he in 1956 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate with a dissertation on Ernst Haeckel : The biogenetic law and its philosophical interpretation . 1957–1962 he taught as a lecturer at the University of Rostock , followed by his habilitation in 1962 at the University of Jena with the thesis: Catholic philosophy and theology on some basic questions in life. An examination of idealistic errors and misinterpretations in West German Catholic literature . Then he was there from 1963 to 1969 Professor of Religious Sociology and "Scientific Atheism ". His works included an empirical study of class consciousness in a large company.

After protests on the part of the church, he was transferred in 1969 as professor of dialectical and historical materialism to the Maritime Engineering School in Warnemünde / Wustrow , where he taught in the field of Marxism-Leninism until 1990 . This subject was available at every university in the GDR. With Hans Lutter ( Güstrow University of Education ) and Eduard Winter ( University of Greifswald ) he formed a research community on "Scientific Atheism". At the end of 1989 the name was changed to "Religious Studies".

Klohr dealt with atheism and especially with Catholicism , such as Teilhard de Chardin , as well as with the sociology of religion . In the GDR philosophy , this position was increasingly isolated from around 1969, because the SED leadership wanted to avoid the conflict with the Protestant church on the way to socialism. The atheism researcher Martin Robbe, for example, shifted his interest to oriental studies . Atheism was a central theme in Soviet philosophy. In the 1980s Klohr was involved in the creation of an Eichsfeld study on Catholicism there.

Stefan Heym ironically represents Klohr in the novel Ahasver as Dr. Dr. hc mugwort.

Fonts

literature

  • Scientific atheism in the struggles of our time: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Olof Klohr on his 60th birthday . Rostock-Warnemünde 1987.
  • Michael Ploenus: "... unique from Eisenach to Vladivostok". Olof Klohr (1927–1994) . In: Matthias Steinbach (ed.): Heretics, Käuze, Querulanten . Jena (et al.) 2008, pp. 366-380.
  • Simone Thiede: The dialogue between religions and secular worldviews. Shown using the example of the Christian-Marxist dialogue in the GDR. Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1998. ISBN 978-3-631-33981-7
  • Simone Thiede: Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the GDR , 2009.
  • Manfred Lauermann : Atheism: the unloved stepchild of the GDR . In: Richard Faber u. a. (Ed.): Atheism: ideology, philosophy or mentality? , Würzburg 2006, pp. 121-146. ISBN 3-82602895-3

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in book preview Eichsfelder conscientious objector publisher Mecke Duderstadt pdf
personal data
SURNAME Klohr, Olof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist philosopher in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1994
Place of death Rostock