Paul-Gerhard Völker

Paul-Gerhard Völker , also Paul Gerhard Völker (born May 29, 1937 in Munich ; † May 12, 2011 in Munich), was a German Germanic Medievalist and political activist. His founding and theoretical work for the Marxist group and the Marxist magazine GegenStandpunkt took place largely in secret.

Life

Doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and a DFG position

The son of civil engineer Julius Völker graduated from the (Kurt-Huber-) Realgymnasium Gräfelfing near Munich in 1956. Since the winter semester of 1956/57 he studied - interrupted by a six-month study visit at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1960/61 - at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, German studies, history and geography. At the beginning of the following winter semester he was sponsored by the German National Academic Foundation, and a year later he passed the philosophical examination for academic teaching at secondary schools.

Völkers doctoral thesis was developed at the suggestion of Kurt Ruh (1914-2002) and was accepted by the Philosophical Faculty of the LMU in 1962. The doctoral supervisor was Hugo Kuhn (1909-1978). In the series of Munich texts and studies on German literature of the Middle Ages (= MTU) of the Commission for German Literature of the Middle Ages founded by Kuhn in 1959 at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Völkers dissertation The German writings of the Franciscan Provincial Konrad Bömlin . Part I: Tradition and investigation 1964 appear as volume 8. The foreword (p. V ‒ VI) provides information about the changes made for printing: “The excursus: 'The forms of traditional German sermons of the Middle Ages' has been removed and published as an essay. Furthermore, the edition part that is part of the complete edition of the Works Bömlin is to be replaced. Investigation of the filiation relationships and word registers are also saved for this edition. Compared to the dissertation, the description of three subsequently found manuscripts and a register, which is intended to open up the traditional part. ”The dissertation excursion, which was converted into an essay, was rated as epoch-making by renowned Germanists, above all Kurt Ruh and Volker Mertens.

From March 1, 1962 to February 29, 1964, Völker carried out the description of medieval manuscripts in the Munich University Library as part of a funding program for manuscript cataloging by the German Research Foundation, which began in 1960.

Research assistant at the Commission for German Literature of the Middle Ages

Since March 1, 1964, Völker worked with contracts for work , from January 1, 1968 to September 30, 1971 in a permanent position for the Commission for German Medieval Literature founded by Hugo Kuhn, as noted above. The job left a certain amount of leeway for free research: "The scientific staff should do their own research on traditions." For example, Völker made an important contribution to research on Mechthild von Magdeburg in 1967 with his essay on the transmission of the flowing light of the god . Volker's main task was a project on the German-language spiritual play of the Middle Ages and its transmission.

Scandal about the non-renewal of his teaching position at the seminar for German philology

From the 1963 summer semester to 1969 summer semester, Völker was a lecturer for German language and medieval literature at the Munich Department of German Philology, Senior Department. From the summer semester of 1966 he offered courses that indicate his left-wing politicization: "Heinrich Heine: The Poetry Cycles", "German Studies in the Third Reich. Time-dependent literary methodology ”,“ Introduction to semantics. Exercises in political terminology since 1945 ”,“ Exercises in the sociology of literature. The 'bourgeois' literature of the late Middle Ages ”.

Völker had not discussed the “German Studies in the Third Reich” colloquium and the introductory seminar on “Political Terminology since 1945” with the seminar board members. In one case as in the other, he was called to order; he made the measures in the assistant leaflet Wi-Sem. 1968/69 public.

Völkers confrontation with the Nazi era is in tension with the German Association of German Studies in 1966. The conference location was Munich, the title “German Studies and National Socialism”, desired by a group of university teachers, was weakened into “Nationalism in German Studies and Literature” by a majority decision of the board of the German Association of Germanists. The title of his essay “The inhumane practice of a bourgeois science”, explains Völker in the methodological criticism of German studies, refers to the discussion on the Germanistenag discussion with polemical intent . Materialistic literary theory and bourgeois practice (Stuttgart: Metzler 1970, p. 140). The collection of three essays published in the text series Metzler was created in collaboration with Marie-Luise Gansberg (1933-2003), assistant at the Munich Seminar for German Philology, Newer Department. The compilation, published four times in quick succession, suddenly made the rebellious duo known to the intellectual public of the old Federal Republic. Unlike Gansberg, Völker openly identified himself as a Marxist in the volume.

After the summer semester of 1969, Völker was informed in writing, without justification, that his teaching assignment could not be renewed. In another letter to the person concerned (September 23, 1969), the board members of the German Philology Seminars, Professors Werner Betz , Hans Fromm , Hugo Kuhn , Hermann Kunisch , Walter Müller-Seidel and Friedrich Sengle , justified their decision by saying Völkers openly Activity driving towards destruction is not compatible with teaching at the institution to be destroyed.

On the article Students Protest Ordinaries. Conflict in the seminar for German philology of the history doctoral student Rudolf Reiser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (October 27, 1968) 29 assistants and lecturers of the seminars for German philology at the LMU Munich reported with a letter to the editor. They demanded the renewed hearing of the Völker case and the temporary extension of his teaching post. Their main concern was of a fundamental nature: “For us, however, the legal and argumentative norms from which our demand originates are paramount. Because only these lead out of the friend-foe scheme. "The statement is also directed" against the undemocratic and intolerant style of argument practiced by some student groups [...], the very principles of opinion tolerance and methodological pluralism that we care about, endangered ”.

The education and science union accused the ordinaries of "clearly undemocratic disciplinary measures against an employee who was not politically acceptable to them".

The Münchner Studentenzeitung (MSZ) put forward the argument against the seminar leader to openly assert political reasons. Völkers criticism of the Huber Plan and the structure of the full-time university would be vilified as violence by the same people who filed criminal charges against thirty students involved in the active strike. A declaration of solidarity from the AStA was added to the MSZ article, in which the renewal of Völker's teaching assignment was requested.

In the MSZ edition of November 12, 1969, Völker stated in a lengthy “personal statement” on the press release of the Seminars for German Philology of November 3, 1969, printed in this same edition: “The 'agitatory' and 'demagogic' exceeding a German studies, which believed themselves to be apolitical, were necessary precisely in order to avoid the political content of this position adopted by the ordinaries, namely a blind justification of the current social conditions. [...] I return the accusation of 'order and working conditions' to the professors'.

Search of private rooms

On September 24, 1969, police officers broke into private apartments in Munich overnight, including the Völker couple's apartment in Schleissheim, and carried out searches that lasted for hours. At the same time, Trikont-Verlag was turned upside down. Those affected spoke of a “preventive attack” against two planned anti-fascist protests in Munich in connection with election appearances by Strauss , Kiesinger and Thadden .

Assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin

From the 1971/72 winter semester to 1976/77 winter semester, Völker held an assistant professorship in Faculty 16 (German Studies) at the Free University of Berlin. His application was supported by Wolfgang Dittmann (1933-2014) and the Dittmann assistants Hubertus Fischer and Werner Röcke . The neo-Germanist Ulf Schramm (1933-1999) and his wife Hilde , born as Speer, made the Völkers in 1972 an offer to move into an apartment in their large house in Berlin-Lichterfelde. One lived in a house community, but political differences arose increasingly. The relationship with the Germanist and comparativeist Eberhard Lämmert (1924-2015) is unclear. One difference concerned the existence of a national literature. Völker stuck to this paradigm.

Völkers early days at the FU was dominated by the co-development of a study concept. In the winter semester 1971/72 Dittmann organized a feudalism course with personal registration, which Völker took over two semesters later. Since 1974 he has led a research project on didactic literature in Germany from the 13th to the 15th century. His habilitation lecture, given in the 1975 summer semester, was titled: “ Dukus Horant . Courtly self-portrayal in heroic garb ”.

After 1972, the number of Völkers scientific publications decreased significantly. The program publication Wissenschaft und Kapital, which was praised in the fourth edition of the Methodenkritik der Germanistik (1973) . In order to lay the foundations for socialist university policy (Munich: Rotzeg 1972) of the AK faction of the Red Cells, Munich exemplifies three guiding ideas that Völker would elevate to his life program after the break in his academic career: Marxist theoretical work in a collective, criticism of capitalism and the university as a Junior recruiting field for the extra-parliamentary opposition .

Application to the University of Bremen, private lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, return to Munich

In September 1976 Völker applied for the university professor position advertised the month before for life with a focus on “Literature from the Early Middle Ages to Humanism (including Latin literature by German humanists and Middle High German language history)” in the Communication / Aesthetics (German) course at the University of Bremen. After the hearing, the appeal committee put him at number one on a list of three. In November 1977 the Bremen Senator for Science and Art rejected the appointment list on the grounds that none of the candidates were sufficiently qualified. The unspoken reason for the decision to leave the position on hold was the radical decree of 1972. The files in the Bremen University Archives show that Völker had definitely expected his appointment to Bremen. The position was only advertised again in 1998 and filled with Elisabeth Lienert.

After his assistant professorship contract expired, Völker was a private lecturer in the German Studies department of the FU from the winter semester 1975/76 to the winter semester 1995/96. His teaching duties related to this - reading and translation exercises, etc. - he performed with interruptions and since 1980 from abroad - Bremen, then Munich.

From the 1985 summer semester, Völker lived again in his hometown of Munich. There he led a "radical life" apart from his family. A few months before his death, he set up the Paul Gerhard Völker Foundation.

Commitment to method-critical German studies, democratic university structures and collective work

The SDS lecture How reactionary is German studies? (1966)

Völkers commitment to the student movement is documented among other things in the event leaflet Social Science Series of the SDS ★ WS 66/67 . His lecture "How reactionary is German studies?", Scheduled for December 19, 1966, represents one of the greatest breaches of taboo in post-war German studies. The SDS ( Socialist German Student Union ) (1949-1970) was the SPD's student organization until 1961.

The wizard leaflet Wi-Sem. 1968/69 (1969)

ASSISTANT FLYET Wi-Sem. 1968/69, sheet 1

ASSISTANT FLYET Wi-Sem. 1968/69, sheet 2

ASSISTANT FLYET Wi-Sem. 1968/69, sheet 3

The assistant leaflet , written together with Marie-Luise Gansberg and the new Germanists Hans-Wolf Jäger and Werner Weiland (1936-2010), was distributed at the LMU in January 1969. Here, too, Völker undermines the division into ancient and modern German studies and at the same time that into assistants and lecturers.

The leaflet is preceded by the following preamble: “A prerequisite for democratic practice within a university institute is that existing conflicts of interests are publicly and rationally carried out. This is the only way to prevent verifiable criteria from being replaced by personal and ideological differences as reasons for exercising power. "

In the main part, the four university lecturers present their case histories as collective subjects. The arbitrariness expressed in it is understood as the result of an outdated university structure, which is characterized by hierarchical structure, non-public decisions and institutionalization of professional competence.

In the final paragraph, two demands are made on the ordinaries, on the one hand for a content definition of the terms “authority to issue instructions” and “duty to supervise” with regard to the concept of science (interest in knowledge), methodology, didactics; on the other hand, after the disclosure of the assessment criteria for the recruitment and qualification of assistants for habilitation.

The University Reform Analysis Munich: Huberplan (1969)

On June 19, 1969, over thirty thousand students demonstrated against the planned university law of the incumbent Bavarian Minister of Education, Ludwig Huber . Völkers article printed in the July edition of SDS-Informations Munich: Huberplan appeared anonymously. The student newspaper published by the federal board of the SDS between 1961 and 1970 was published by the Frankfurt-based publisher Neue Critique . The information below the title line of Völkers article - “From SDS Info 1, via Trikont, 8 Munich 8, Josephsburgstr. 16 “- identifies the Trikont-Verlag as a distribution channel for press products of the New Left .

The criticism of the Huber Plan came over the comparatively analyzed opinions, printed in the special employers issue 1969 with the title We expect you that ... What the economy expects from the university graduate, experts from practice and science explain in parts about the marginal phenomenon. One of the central points of criticism was aimed at the economic purpose of science across all disciplines and across the interests of the general public. The CDU plan reduced the function of the university to the need to be enforced by force if necessary into an economic process that could no longer be questioned. The peculiarity of every science of being in a critical relationship to itself and to the social situation in which it sees itself is not indicated anywhere in the entire draft.

The Program Outline On the Current Function of Socialist University Practice (1969)

With the name "PG Völker" appeared on October 28, 1969 in the apo press. Forum of the worker base groups and the apprentices, the socialist students & pupils the article on the current function of socialist university practice (No. 27/28 / II, p. 1‒4). In the contribution, the theoretical foundation and working method of the Marxist group are germinated:

The university revolt was guided by a series of fictions which resulted in stagnation; However, this situation does not result in the impossibility of a permanent process of politicization and the insignificance of the university revolt for the non-university class struggle (p. 1). The switch to collective forms of work should play a key role in achieving the goals (p. 3). The latter thought is carried out as follows: “The extra-university practical relevance as a corrective to scientific fetishism makes it possible to go beyond the internal-university reform of science, which was almost the only content of the previous student movement (critical learning material, public examinations, adequate form of presentation and didactics) and study under the to understand given conditions as preparation and practice of social practice. The task is to organize collective forms of work that <,> freed from belief in the scientific nature of university studies <,> accumulate the knowledge required for exams in the most energy-saving way possible [...] <and> convert the time gained into political-practical work. At the same time, the collective forms of work are the organizational germs of collective behavior in the professional field and <,> transcending the student relationship <,> practicing solidarity within the labor movement, which is particularly difficult for the intelligentsia due to their origins and upbringing. "Socialist university practice of this type has for Objective (p. 4): “Agitation campaigns and actions at the university do not prepare for the class struggle, nor do they replace it, but they are necessary in order to give the student avant-garde, which is on the side of the working class, an abstract consciousness to bring concrete action and to practice at the university the models and forms of action that are necessary for the organization of the class struggle. "

Member of the GEW and the ALG in the 1970s

His application in Bremen shows that Völker was a member of the Education and Science Union (GEW) and the Liberal Germanist Campaign (ALG) during his time as an assistant professor. Which tasks he took on in each case has not yet been researched.

Commitment to the Easter march movement and political work from the underground

Founding member of the "Working Group on Nonviolent Politics"

The loose association “Working Group for Nonviolent Politics”, established by Erika Kleversaat and Paul-Gerhard Völker in November 1963, was neither politically nor ideologically bound according to its statutes, but committed itself to the principles of freedom and democracy. The focus should be on the protest methods of the black civil rights movement.

Spokesman for the Bavarian South Regional Committee of the Campaign for Democracy and Disarmament

In the 1960s, Erika Völker joined the World Organization of Mothers of All Nations (WOMAN), a women's association that was intensively involved in the peace and disarmament movement. Christel Küpper headed the WOMAN working group in Munich . There was an exchange between the nationally and internationally active peace activist Küpper and Paul-Gerhard Völker through the “Campaign for Disarmament - Easter March”. According to APO-Press. Information service for the extra-parliamentary opposition of September 23, 1968 Völker was confirmed as spokesman for the regional committee Bavaria South of the campaign for democracy and disarmament.

Völkers broadly defined militarism term is evident from his article Munich: Huberplan (1969): “The militarization of studies and the reduction of the goal of scientific work to the generation of fungible individuals who remain excluded from the scientific process during their entire studies is far more serious than that Destruction of student organizations. "

During the Berlin years, Völker participated in various expressions of solidarity against repression, armed violence and exclusion. For example, he, Gerhard Bauer , Horst Domdey , Friedrich Rothe , Uwe Wesel and others signed the "Declaration of the Initiative of Progressive Publicists, Artists and Scientists" on the occasion of Thieu's visit on April 10, 1973 in Bonn.

Founding member of the Marxist group

The Marxist Group (= MG) was constituted at the federal level in 1974. Völkers participation in the foundation was confirmed by Wendula Dahle, a German scholar from Bremen, who had been with him for many years . It remains to be seen whether and how he succeeded in doing development and theoretical work for the MG during his time as an assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin. The MG Westberlin published the Marxist Student Newspaper (Munich: Association for the Promotion of Student Press Relations 1974-1980) since 1974 . In May 1977 Völker moved with his family from Berlin to Bremen. The Bremen MG published the Bremen university newspaper since 1979 . Newspaper of the Marxist Group (Munich: Association for the Promotion of Student Press Affairs, MHB). The MG activists were characterized by a high degree of networking; their secrecy precautions to the outside world earned the organization the reputation of a secret society. The criticism of the "extremely hierarchical <n> organization structure with simultaneous authoritarian management style of the headquarters" bounced off the leading group members.

After the fall of the wall, the MG came to the conclusion that communist politics had to change. On the other hand, one wanted to continue the achievements of the scientific debates with “bourgeois society” and with capitalism also with a view to later generations. Dissatisfaction with the political situation should be given a critical publication as a starting point for further agitation. After the decision on May 20, 1991 to dissolve MG, the magazine GegenStandpunkt was founded .

Co-founded the magazine GegenStandpunkt

After founding the Marxist theory magazine GegenStandpunkt (= GS; alternative abbreviation: GSP) (Munich: Objektpunkt Verlag) in 1992, Völker continued his political work uninterrupted. The editors of the periodical are not the collective of authors. The entire editorial team consists of a large number of authors and editors who divide up their research and each of them write the texts that are revised and approved by the entire editorial team. Therefore, there are no personal names in the introduction to the article. Names that are responsible for the GS project from the beginning are printed in issue 1 of the first year: Karl Held (editor in charge), Peter Decker, Theo Ebel, Herbert L. Fertl, Harald Kuhn, Heinz Scholler.

The GS series results brings together the books planned by Marx / Engels but no longer completed. The series title Results is the short form of the original series title Results of the Labor Conference , as the MG called this project in the 1970s. While working on these issues, it soon became clear that this task would not have to be shouldered in the context of a few working conferences.

The extremism researcher Armin Pfahl-Traughber considers it appropriate to speak of a “counter-standpoint group” in view of the existence of regional group formations and the resulting agitation work at universities. This is the left-wing extremist organization with the highest personal potential.

The Paul Gerhard Völker Foundation

On May 8, 2010, Völker founded a foundation bearing his name in Munich. This pursues the purpose, “a. To support Marxist approaches in the press and literature and in the public and to ensure a sufficient livelihood for people who are or were scientifically active in the fields of analysis of civil society, the economy and international intercourse ”.

family

Erika Kleversaat and Paul-Gerhard Völker, who came from West Berlin, were married in Berlin in 1963. The marriage resulted in two sons. From July 17, 1969 to the 1971 summer semester, Erika Völker was a social officer at the AStA at LMU Munich and, from the 1970 summer semester, she was also a member of the board of the student union.

Fonts

• A new fragment of the Notkerchen psalm paraphrase, in: Contributions to the history of German language and literature [Tübingen] 83, 1961/62, pp. 63‒79.
• Review oT [Gerardachten, Hermann Knaus: German and Dutch prayer book manuscripts of the Hessian State and University Library Darmstadt, Wiesbaden: Roether 1959], in: Anzeiger für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 74, 1963, pp. 37-45.
• The forms of tradition of medieval German sermons, in: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 92, 1963, pp. 212-227.
• The German writings of the Franciscan Konrad Bömlin, Part I: Tradition and Investigation (MTU; 8), Munich: Beck 1964 [no more published].
• NDB article: Groß, Erhard, in: Neue deutsche Biographie 7, 1966, p. 139. Hans v. Bühel, in: ibid., Pp. 624-625. Heinrich von Rugge, in: ibid. 8, 1969, p. 422. Heusler, Andreas, in: ibid. 9, 1972, pp. 49-52.
• News on the transmission of the flowing light of the divinity , in: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 96, 1967, pp. 28-69.
• Regimen sanitatis - Vom Heilwesen im Mittelalter, Munich: A. Frühmorgen 1967 (special editions: A. Frühmorgen 1974; Esslingen: Robugen-GmbH, Pharmazeutische Fabrik, 1974).
• Gisela Kornrumpf, Paul-Gerhard Völker: The German medieval manuscripts of the Munich University Library (The manuscripts of the Munich University Library; 1), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1968.
  • The Latin medieval manuscripts of the Munich University Library (The Manuscripts of the Munich University Library; 3), Wiesbaden 1974–1979 (based on preliminary work by Paul-Gerhard Völker).
• The inhumane practice of a bourgeois science. On the history of methods in German studies, in: The argument. Berliner Hefte für Problems der Gesellschaft 10, 1968, No. 49 [Special issue “Critique of the Civil Society. Science as Politics (II) ”(3rd edition December 1970), pp. 431-454.
• Difficulties in the edition of sacred games of the Middle Ages, in: Hugo Kuhn, Karl Stackmann, Dieter Wuttke (eds.), Colloquium on problems of old Germanistic editions, Marbach am Neckar, April 26th and 27th, 1966 (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1968, pp. 160-168.
• Reflections on the history of spiritual play in the Middle Ages, in: Ingeborg Glier, Gerhard Hahn, Walter Haug, Burghart Wachinger (eds.), Werk - Typ - Situation. Studies on poetological conditions in older German literature. Hugo Kuhn on his 60th birthday, Stuttgart: Metzler 1969, pp. 252-280.
• From the Antichrist . A Middle High German adaptation of Passauer Anonymus, ed. by Paul-Gerhard Völker (Small German prose monuments of the Middle Ages; 6), Munich: Fink 1970.
• Marie-Luise Gansberg, Paul Gerhard Völker: Method criticism of German studies. Materialistic literary theory and bourgeois practice, Stuttgart: Metzler 1970 (4th, partly revised edition 1973).
• Wolfgang Dittmann, Hubertus Fischer, Irmela von der Lühe, Werner Röcke, Klaus Tuch, Paul Gerhard Völker, Sabine Zurmühl: Basics of the genesis, development and theory of feudalism, [typewritten] Berlin, winter semester 1971/72.
• Wolfgang Dittmann, Hubertus Fischer, Dieter Kartschoke, Erika Kartschoke, Irmela von der Lühe, Werner Röcke, Paul Gerhard Völker, Sabine Zurmühl: Reformed Old German Studies. Report on a basic study model at the German Department of the FU Berlin, Berlin: Press and Information Office of the FU 1972. Reprinted in: Bundesassistentenkonferenz [Hrsg.], For example Old German Studies. Historical science and teacher training (texts on study reform; 3), Bonn: Bundesassistentenkonferenz 1972, pp. 16-95, and in: Yearbook for International German Studies 4, 1972, 1, pp. 108-157.
• Marie-Luise Gansberg, Paul-Gerhard Völker: Review oT [Jost Hermand: Synthetisches Interpretieren. On the methodology of literary studies, Munich: Nymphenburger 1968], in: The argument. Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences 14, 1972, No. 72 [Special issue “Problems of Aesthetics (IV). Literature and Linguistics ”], pp. 350‒352.
• Feudalism as a problem of a materialistic view of history, in: Dieter Richter (ed.), Literatur im Feudalismus (literary studies and social sciences; 5), Stuttgart: Metzler 1975, pp. 297-339.
• Hubertus Fischer, Paul-Gerhard Völker: Konrad von Würzburg: Heinrich von Kempten . Individual and feudal anarchy, in: ibid., Pp. 83-130.
• The spiritual drama, in: Winfried Frey, Walter Raitz, Dieter Seitz and others, Introduction to German literature from the 12th to 16th centuries, Vol. 2: Patriciate and regional rule - 13th to 15th centuries, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1982, Pp. 282-315.

literature

• Wieland Schmidt: On the cataloging of occidental manuscripts in Germany, in: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 16, 1969, pp. 201-216, here p. 208.
• Jost Hermand: History of German Studies, Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1994 (unchanged new edition 2017), ISBN 978-3-499-55534-3 , pp. 161, 163, 239, 262.
• Burghart Wachinger: Hugo Kuhn and the Munich Academy Commission for German Literature of the Middle Ages, in: Eckart Conrad Lutz (Ed.), The Middle Ages and the Germanists. On the recent history of methods in Germanic philology (Scrinium Friburgense; 11), Freiburg / Switzerland: Universitätsverlag 1998, ISBN 978-3-7278-1184-5 , pp. 33-48, here pp. 35, 44-46
• Rainer Rosenberg: The sixties as a turning point in German literary studies. Theoretical history, in: Rainer Rosenberg, Inge Münz-Koenen, Petra Boden (eds.), The Spirit of Unrest. 1968 in comparison. Science - Literature - Media, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-05-003480-7 , pp. 153-179, here p. 162, note 27.
• Jörg Schönert: Missed lessons? In 1968, the German Federal Republic of Germany in its reform period 1965-1975 (6 August 2008), stating the methods of criticism Germanstik in the "References" section, sub-heading "The reform of the German language from 1965 to 1975" [8] .
• Jörg Schönert: Walter Müller-Seidel in conflict constellations at the seminars for German philology at the LMU Munich in the years around 1970 (2011), pp. 4, 6‒7, 15 [9] .
• [Jörg Schönert (Ed.):] On the conflict about the lecturer Paul Gerhard Völker (1968/69). Two articles in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (2011) [10] .
• Simone König: The commemorative events to commemorate the resistance of the White Rose at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich from 1945 to 1968 (Contributions to the history of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich; 8), Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag 2017, ISBN 978- 3-8316-4610-4 , pp. 104-105.
• Stefan Hemler: From the “Working Group on Nonviolent Politics” to the grassroots group movement. Erika and Paul-Gerhard Völker in the left-wing drift of the 1960s (July 6, 2018) [11] .
• Julian Klüttmann: The reader's letter "Abuse with the memory of the White Rose" by the Völker couple in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 16, 1965 and the reply from the Rector of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (July 6, 2018) [12] .

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul-Gerhard Völker in the bibliographic database WorldCat [13] .
• Archive of the journal Das Argument (1959ff.) [14] .
• Münchner Studentenzeitung (MSZ) (1968ff.) [15] .
• Walter Müller-Seidel. Documents - Information - Opinions - Analyzes (2011). [16] . Here in the menu item "Materials" the sub-item "Biographical and scientific history" with the sub-item "University around 1968".
• 1968 in German literary studies (2018ff.) [17] . In particular, the headings "Introduction", "The Assistant Flyer 1968/69" and "Paul-Gerhard Völker (1937-2011)".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The spelling without a hyphen (“Paul Gerhard”) is not authentic, at least for the period up to 1971/72, even if it is encountered in official documents.
2. ↑ Willi Paul Julius Völker came from like his wife Luise Lina Clara, b. Schmidt (1912-1945), from Rodach near Coburg (Upper Franconia). From 1943 to 1947 Paul-Gerhard attended elementary schools in Rodach, Munich-Obermenzing and Planegg near Munich.
3. ↑ Paul-Gerhard Völker: Curriculum Vitae, in: ders., Die Deutschen Schriften des Franziskaners Konrad Bömlin, 1964, uncounted page after p. 262. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Leipzig, call number: SA 17491-8.
4. ^ The Swiss German Medievalist Ruh had taught in Munich in the summer semester of 1958 and in the winter semester of 1958/59 before he accepted the call to Würzburg in 1960. Völker took part in his events, including the lecture on (women's) mysticism in the winter semester of 1958/59. Volker Mertens: Structures - Texts - Text History. On the scientific work of Kurt Ruh, in: Eckart Conrad Lutz (Ed.), Das Mittelalter und die Germanisten. On the recent history of methods in Germanic philology (Scrinium Friburgense; 11), Freiburg / Switzerland: Universitätsverlag 1998, pp. 49-62.
5. ↑ Submitted as early as 1961, as Völker passed the Rigorosum on February 27, 1962. Premiere Munich: O-Npr-1961/62.
6. ↑ The volumes of the MTU series that were published up to 1987 can be accessed via the link http://www.dlma.badw.de/mtu/mtualt.html , see Kurt Ruh: Franziskanisches Schrifttum im deutschen Mittelalter, Vol. 1: Texts (MTU 11), 1965; Vol. 2: Texts (MTU 86), 1985.
7. ^ Wachinger: Hugo Kuhn and the Munich Academy Commission for German Medieval Literature, 1998, p. 34.
8. ↑ Ten printed copies had to be handed in to the faculty (date of receipt: November 27, 1964), and only then was the right to use the doctoral title obtained. Reviews of the print version of Völkers doctoral thesis have been published in German, English, French and Latin, as the following selection shows: Collectanea Franciscana 35, 1965, pp. 431-432 (Latin; reviewer: Octavianus a Rieden, OFM); Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 59, 1966, pp. 486-488 (reviewer: Clément Schmitt, OFM); Erasmus 18, 1966, Col. 605-607 (Reviewer: Rainer Rudolf); German studies. Internationales Referatenorgan 7, 1966, No. 2420 (Reviewer: Herbert Backes); Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 41, 1966, pp. 380-381 (reviewer: Franz Bäuml); Études Germaniques 22, 1967, pp. 111-112 (Reviewer: R. Edighoffer); Franciscan Studies. Vierteljahresschrift 49, 1967, pp. 166-168 (reviewer: Werinhard J. Einhorn, OFM).
9. ↑ The plan to edit Bömlin's complete works did not materialize.
10. ↑ The forms of transmission of German sermons in the Middle Ages, in: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 92, 1963, pp. 212-227.
11. ↑ Volker Mertens, Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Regina Dorothea Schiewer, Wolfram Schneider-Lastin (ed.): Sermon in Context, Berlin: de Gruyter 2008, p. 161, note 22, 428. Also: Regina D. Schiewer: Die German sermon around 1200. A manual, Berlin: de Gruyter 2008, p. 817.
12. ^ Schmidt: On the cataloging of occidental manuscripts in Germany, 1969, p. 203.
13. ↑ Völkers work was continued from November 1, 1964 by the German mediaevalist Gisela Kornrumpf (she succeeded him in the Academy Commission on September 1, 1972); The result of the cooperation was the catalog Die deutscher Medieval Manschriften of the Munich University Library , published in 1968 under both names (the publication is accessible online via the manuscript portal Manuscripta Mediaevalia [1] .
14. ↑ The first post was filled in 1963 with the medieval Germanist and art historian Hella Voss, later Frühmorgen-Voss (1931-1972). For the summer semester of 1964, Völker planned a proseminar with this colleague, which, among other things, would deal with pseudo-knitter poems.
15. ^ Wachinger: Hugo Kuhn and the Munich Academy Commission for German Medieval Literature, 1998, p. 44f. Apart from that, Völkers tasks included: editing the MTU series, building up the library, contributing to the reports on editing projects published annually in the German Studies department .
16. ↑ Published in: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 96, pp. 28-69.
17. ↑ The related materials (literature, films and photos, card files, descriptions) were used from 1975 on the initiative of the commission for a follow-up project that Rolf Bergmann at his chair (Augsburg, since 1977 Bamberg) with the collaboration of Eva Pauline Diedrichs and Christoph Treutwein carried out: Catalog of the German-language spiritual games and Marienklagen of the Middle Ages (publications of the Commission for German Literature of the Middle Ages of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences), Munich: In commission at CH Beck 1986.
18. ↑ The four-hour “Basic Language History Course (Gothic, Old High German, Middle High German)” planned by Völker for the winter semester 1969/70 will probably not have taken place.
19. ↑ The LMU lecture catalogs are available in digitized form on the Ludovico-Maximilianea platform of the Munich University Library [2] .
20. ↑ Schönert: Walter Müller-Seidel in Conflict Constellations at the Seminars for German Philology at the LMU Munich in the years around 1970, 2011, p. 6.
21. ↑ On March 16, 1965, he and his wife Erika had published the article Abuse with the memory of the White Rose in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . The lecture series “The German University in the Third Reich” organized by the LMU in the winter semester of 1965/66 should also be mentioned at this point.
22. ↑ First published in: Das Argument. Berliner Hefte für Problem der Gesellschaft 10, 1968, No. 49 (3rd edition December 1970), pp. 431-454. The Germanist Wendula Dahle also took part in number 49 - she did her doctorate in 1968 at the Free University of Berlin on military terminology in German from 1933 to 1945 - and the English and Marxist Thomas Metscher , professor of literary studies and aesthetics at the University of Bremen since 1971.
23. ↑ Gansberg published her lecture manuscript on some popular prejudices against materialistic literary studies . The review of Jost Hermand's Synthetical Interpretation was created in the same constellation . On the methodology of literary studies (Munich: Nymphenburger 1968), in: The argument. Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences 14, 1972, No. 72, pp. 350‒352.
24. ^ Methodenkritik der Germanistik, 1970, pp. 74-132.
25. ↑ Schönert: Walter Müller-Seidel in Conflict Constellations at the Seminars for German Philology at the LMU Munich in the years around 1970, 2011, p. 7, note 12.
26. ↑ The reason was published in the Münchner Studentenzeitung (No. 6, November 5, 1969, p. 4) and in the information of the Seminars for German Philology, University of Munich (No. 5, 1969, p. 8).
27. ↑ Participation for assistants and lecturers, in: [Jörg Schönert (Ed.),] On the conflict about the lecturer Paul Gerhard Völker (1968/69). Two articles in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (2011) [3] .
28. ↑ Ibid.
29. ↑ The MSZ contains four articles on the case of peoples: Ordinaries - agents of state power and capital. On the case of Dr. PG Peoples (No. 5, October 29, 1969); First relegated lecturer. Subsequent information on the Völker case (from German studies), added: ASTA declaration (No. 6, November 5, 1969); On the situation of German studies [press release of the seminars for German philology at the University of Munich, Munich 13, November 3, 1969, Schellingstrasse 3], added: Personal statement by Dr. Völkers (No. 7, November 12, 1969); Morals from the Phil. Faculty II. A right student representative on the Völker case (No. 10, December 9, 1969).
30. ↑ Münchner Studentenzeitung No. 6, November 5, 1969, p. 4.
31. ↑ Münchner Studentenzeitung No. 7, November 12, 1969, p. 4.
32. ^ German University Handbook (FRG + GDR). Edition 1969/70, vol. 2: Universities of Heidelberg - Würzburg, Munich: Consultverlag 1970, p. 1423.
33. ↑ Thilo v. Uslar: At night when the police came. Inventory - large-scale raid in Munich municipalities, in: Zeit Online October 3, 1969 [4] . See also Benno Heussen: Interesting times. Reports from the inner world of law, Stuttgart: Richard Boorberg Verlag 2013, p. 29.
34. ↑ Night and fog action against Munich citizens. Strong police forces broke into private apartments in: Neues Deutschland. Socialist daily newspaper September 25, 1969, p. 7.
35. ↑ On July 29, 1971, Völker had received notification of the positive decision of the Faculty Council and on that day wrote to Hugo Kuhn in detail, including his intention to take up the position in Berlin in the 1972 summer semester, which was not possible for organizational reasons .
36. ↑ Dittmann completed his habilitation in 1969 at the University of Hamburg on “The stylization of the self as an art principle. For self-portrayal in German poetry of the late Middle Ages ”.
37. ↑ See the obituary by Gerhard Bauer: Memory means we think further. On the death of Professor Ulf Schramm [5] .
38. ↑ The American Germanist Peter Uwe Hohendahl cites Eberhard Lämmert's contribution Germanistik - a German science to the Suhrkamp volume of the same name in 1967 (6th edition 1980) and the method criticism of German studies (1970) by Gansberg / Völker as examples of the experiment in German studies to "come to terms with the fascist contamination of the subject". Peter Uwe Hohendahl: German Studies: History and Location of American German Studies, in: Petra Boden, Volker Dainat (Eds.), Atta Troll is still dancing. Self-inspections of literary German studies in the 20th century, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1998, pp. 317–334, here p. 317.
39. ↑ Völker was co-author of the institute's publication Reformierte Altgermanistik (1972). Cf. Gerd Simon: Principles of scientific study planning using the example of German linguistics, Tübingen: Center for University Didactics of the University of Tübingen 1976, p. 143 (the online version is available at the Internet address http://digitale-objekte.hbz-nrw.de /storage2/2018/03/26/file_5/7606261.pdf ).
40. ↑ The background to the event was the following institute publication: Wolfgang Dittmann, Hubertus Fischer, Irmela von der Lühe, Werner Röcke, Klaus Tuch, Paul Gerhard Völker, Sabine Zurmühl: Basics of the genesis, development and theory of feudalism, [typed] Berlin, winter semester 1971 / 72.
41. ↑ According to the Bremen application, an essay of the same name was planned, but did not materialize. See Sabine Koloch: Paul-Gerhard Völker's application to the University of Bremen. Chronological sequence of events 1976-1979 according to file 2 / BK no. 1863 of the Bremen University Archives (July 6, 2018) [6] .
42. ↑ The essays “Early Bourgeois Revolution?” And “On the Controversy about the 12 Articles” got stuck in the planning stage. They were intended for the anthology of the German Peasant War, edited by Walter Raitz . Historical analyzes and studies on reception (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1976).
43. ^ Methodenkritik der Germanistik, 1970, p. 40.
44. ↑ Also: ROTZEG = Red Cell German Studies. The red cells emerged from the basic groups.
45. ↑ BUA 2 / BK no. 1863.
46. ↑ As can be seen in the course catalogs of the Free University of Berlin, Völker was at the Munich address “Ungerer Str. 86 III. bei Möhl, 8000 Munich 40 "(initially without the addition" bei Möhl "). So also Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists, issue 16, Berlin: de Gruyter 1992, [Bd.] SZ, p. 3877.
47. ↑ Source: http://protest-muenchen.sub-bavaria.de/artikel/3728 . See there the website http://protest-muenchen.sub-bavaria.de/artikel/331 .
48. ↑ During the same period of time, the “Kreuznach University Concept” was adopted by the Federal Assistant Conference (October 10–11, 1968). Cf. Andreas Keller: Bibliography University in Democracy - Democracy in University. Milestones in the university reform debate since the sixties, URL: http://www.hopo-www.de/literatur/bib-demokratie.html#SDS .
49. ↑ Available online via the link http://www.mao-projekt.de/BRD/ORG/SDS/SDS-Info/SDS-Info_1969_18.shtml . Illustrated by caricatures for which the publisher is responsible, the same article appeared under the title e.g. Huber in the APO Press special issue SDS asta Munich info 1 . Cf. Anne Rohstock: From “Ordinary University” to “Revolutionary Headquarters”? University reform and university revolts in Bavaria and Hesse 1957-1976, Munich: Oldenbourg 2010, p. 226, note 475.
50. ↑ SDS-Informations 1969, No. 18, pp. 25-38, here p. 34.
51. ↑ Source: http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:528514 .
52. ^ Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich: ED 702/186 (running time 1961-1972). The Easter march movement developed in 1968 “into a socially critical 'campaign for democracy and disarmament' (1968). In doing so, it assumed the dimensions of a mass movement ”. Karl A. Otto : Easter March Movement / Campaign for Democracy and Disarmament. In: Helmut Donat, Karl Holl (ed.): The peace movement. Organized pacifism in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Econ Taschenbuch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, pp. 296-297, here p. 296.
53. ↑ "It [= the APO-Press , published by the Campaign for Democracy and Disarmament] appears weekly and is published on behalf of the editorial collective of Helmut Maringer in the Brigitte Maringer publishing house, based in Munich." Source: http: // www.mao-projekt.de/BRD/BER/VLB/RPK/RPK_1969_005.shtml .
54. ^ APO Press. Information Service for the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition No. 17, 23 September 1968, p. 7.
55. ↑ SDS-Informations 1969, No. 18, pp. 25-38, here p. 25.
56. ↑ Source: http://www.mao-projekt.de/INT/AS/SO/Vietnam_Thieu-Besuch_in_Bonn.shtml .
57. ^ In the editorial of the Marxist Student Newspaper. University newspaper of the AK for the FRG and West Berlin (1, 1974) states: “The MSZ is co-edited by the Red Cells Marburg, the Marxist groups Erlangen / Nuremberg, Würzburg, West Berlin and the Marxist university group Regensburg, which with the appearance of the Marxist student newspaper discontinue their previous newspapers. "
58. ↑ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (ed.): The "Marxist Group" (MG): Ideology, goals and working methods of a communist secret society. Development of the political organization since the "dissolution" 1991, Cologne: Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution 1996.
59. ↑ Dirk Kaesler, Herbert Schnädelbach: Necessary information about the "Marxist group (MG)" (undated). The pamphlet-like pamphlet was distributed at the University of Hamburg in 1984 and used by the MG for its own purposes during the student parliamentary elections (online version of the source on the electronic archive [7] ).
60. ↑ How Völker filled the term “bourgeois society” with content is evident from a supplementary comment on the fourth edition of the Methodenkritik der Germanistik (1973, p. 41): “The assumption of the surface form of capital, competition, the sphere of circulation, etc. of bourgeois society , summarized in the individual with his formal determinacy: to be free, equal and bearer of property, grasps this as still contradicting itself. "
61. ↑ The years 1992-2014 are accessible free of charge via the link http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/anagsp.html . See also the self-deprecating editorial for issue 1, year 1992, available under the link Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
62. ↑ Herbert L. Fertl was working for the press department there at the time when Erika Völker was working for the Munich AStA.
63. ↑ Source: http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/vlgres.html .
64. ↑ See the series “Marxism Lectures” on the YouTube video portal . The blog contradictio.de announces so-called jour fixe (criticism of ideologies, clarification of popular errors, comments on current affairs) as does the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/GegenStandpunkt/events .
65. ^ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Left-wing extremism in Germany. A critical inventory, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2014, p. 127.
66. ↑ Source: http://www.pgv-stiftung.de/pgvs.html . Cf. Meinhard Creydt: The bourgeois materialism and its opponents. Interest politics, autonomy and left-wing thought traps, Hamburg: VSA Verlag 2015, p. 17, note 9.
67. ↑ Source: http://www.pgv-stiftung.de/StB_20100714_113722.pdf .