Paul Luchtenberg

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Paul Luchtenberg

Paul Luchtenberg (born June 3, 1890 in Burscheid ; † April 7, 1973 ibid) was a German cultural scientist, educator and politician of the FDP as well as Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia .

job

Paul Luchtenberg first attended a teacher training college in Gummersbach , graduated from high school in 1912 and studied philosophy and education in Bonn and Münster . During his studies he became a member of AMV Makaria Bonn . After completing a doctorate in philosophy with Erich Becher , he began his legal clerkship to become a grammar school teacher in 1917. Until 1923 he stayed in school in Remscheid . In addition, he completed his habilitation in Cologne in 1920 , where he was one of Max Scheler's listeners , whose material ethics of values he wanted to implement in educational practice. He took over his first professorship in 1923 at the University of State and Economics in Detmold . From 1925 to 1931 he was first associate, then full professor for education , philosophy and psychology at the Technical University of Darmstadt and from 1931 full professor for the same subjects at the Technical University of Dresden , where he also headed the Pedagogical Institute for teacher training.

As a democrat, he was the target of attacks by the Nazi student union even before 1933 . In 1936 he was dismissed (with a delay to Victor Klemperer and Richard Seyfert, among others ) due to the law to restore the civil service after he had been protected for a long time by the Saxon Minister of Education, Wilhelm Hartnacke .

politics

Until 1945 Luchtenberg did not belong to any party. After the war he was a co-founder of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia . He was an assessor in the FDP federal executive committee from 1951 to 1958.

Luchtenberg belonged to the German Bundestag from October 30, 1950, when he moved up for the FDP state chairman Friedrich Middelhauve , until the end of the first legislative period and again from September 18, 1954, when he moved up for the North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Willi Weyer , until April 9, 1956. After the coalition change of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia from the CDU to the SPD , which led to the split-off of the "Ministerial Wing" at the federal level and the establishment of the Free People's Party (FVP), he was Minister of Education in his home country from February 28, 1956 to July 1958.

As the state minister of culture, Luchtenberg campaigned for the creation of a “ federal ministry of culture ” in order to be able to break up the very strongly denominational cultural policy, especially of the states of Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate . The Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Culture, Adolf Süsterhenn, was one of the sharpest critics of these plans, while the Hessian Minister Arno Hennig supported them.

Foundation work

From 1961 to 1970 Luchtenberg was chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation , after having been deputy chairman since 1958. From 1970 until his death he was honorary chairman of the foundation. In 1962 he established the Paul Luchtenberg Foundation , the purpose of which is to promote culture in his hometown of Burscheid. The House of Art in Burscheid is also his foundation.

Documents about Luchtenberg's work for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation are in the Archives of Liberalism in Gummersbach .

honors and awards

Works

  • Antinomies of Education , Langensalza 1923.
  • Kant's teaching , Detmold 1924.
  • Burscheid - evidence of his past 1175–1815 , Leverkusen 1941.
  • Contributions to the question of the “unskilled” , Bielefeld 1955.
  • Castle Burg an der Wupper , Ratingen 1957.
  • Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter , 2 volumes, Cologne 1959.
  • Change and mandate of liberal cultural policy , Bonn 1960.
  • Artistic equipment and weapons of the late Middle Ages , Burg Castle 1960.
  • Present tasks in adult education. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Richard Freudenberg , together with Walter Erbe , Cologne 1962.
  • The sculptor Ernst Kunst . Attempt to interpret his work , Durach 1962.
  • Johannes Löh and the Enlightenment in the Bergisches Land , Cologne 1965.
  • History of German Liberalism , Cologne 1966.
  • Walter Wohlfeld. On the way from the object to the essence , Durach 1967.
  • The risk of coming of age. Contributions to the self-image of liberalism , Neustadt / Aisch 1970.

See also

Steinhoff cabinet

literature

  • Cultural policy and image of man. Festschrift for Paul Luchtenberg , Neustadt / Aisch 1965.
  • Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003647-8 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Luchtenberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 81.
  2. ^ Carsten Doerfert: The Prince Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences - Attempt and failure of a university in Detmold (1916–1924) . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2016, p. 158 .
  3. ^ Paul Luchtenberg: Change and mandate of liberal cultural policy. Bonn undated (1960), p. 6 f.
personal data
SURNAME Luchtenberg, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag and educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Burscheid
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1973
Place of death Burscheid