Robert Steigerwald

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Robert Steigerwald (born March 24, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 30, 2016 in Eschborn ) was a German party functionary of the DKP and a Marxist philosopher .

Life

From 1943 to 1945 Steigerwald did Reich labor service and military service as a pilot in the Air Force . After 1948 he studied history, German and philosophy. At the same time he was a youth radio editor at Radio Frankfurt and a radio play author. He was co-founder and chairman of the SPD- affiliated youth organization Die Falken , and from 1945 to 1948 an SPD member and an SPD functionary. In February 1948 he joined the KPD and was then dismissed from the radio. Steigerwald decided to study for two years at the SED party college in Kleinmachnow ; there he was then a teacher of philosophy.

In 1951 Steigerwald returned to the Federal Republic of Germany . He worked as a functionary of the Social Democratic Action (SDA), an organization initiated and financed by the KPD, in which deputy communists and social democrats who were excluded from the SPD worked. In 1953 Steigerwald was arrested, in 1956 brought to court with other functionaries of the SDA, which has meanwhile been banned as a communist cover organization , for endangering the state (§ 84 of the Criminal Code ). Criminal panel of the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe sentenced to three and a half years in prison. After his release he worked in the illegal central committee of the KPD. In 1968 he received his doctorate at Manfred Buhr Dr. phil. with the work of Herbert Marcuse's third way .

After the DKP was founded in 1968, Steigerwald was a member of its party executive and was head of the theory and Marxist education department. He was chairman of the Association of Marxist Educational Communities of the FRG (MAB) and long-time editor-in-chief of the Marxist papers . Later he was a member of the editorial team along with Willi Gerns and others. In the Hessian state elections in 1983 and 1987 , he ran in the constituency of Main-Taunus I , where he received 0.2% of the valid votes.

Steigerwald was one of the theoretical thought leaders of the DKP. He was honorary chairman of the Marx-Engels-Foundation eV in Wuppertal , member of the scientific advisory board of the education community SALZ eV and author of numerous papers and books. He lived in Eschborn.

In his obituary, Manuel Kellner recalls the Leverkusen dialogue between various leftist movements that Robert Steigerwald supported.

Fonts

  • Herbert Marcuse's third way. (Dissertation, German Academy of Sciences, Berlin), Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1969.
  • Bourgeois philosophy and revisionism in imperialist Germany . Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-88012-546-5
  • Protest Movement: Issues and Similarities. Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-88012-644-5 .
  • Introduction to Marxist Philosophy. 5th, revised edition, Edition Marxistische Blätter, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-88501-059-3 .
  • Are we slaves to nature? Conservatism's Claim on Biology. Edition Marxistische Blätter, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-88501-079-8 .
  • Materialistic philosophy. An introduction for young people. 6th, revised and expanded edition, Neue-Impulse-Verlag, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-910080-06-5 .
  • Farewell to materialism? On the anti-criticism of today's criticism of materialism GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz 1999, ISBN 3-89819-012-9 .
  • Communist standpoints and issues. GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz 2002, ISBN 3-89819-131-1 .
  • Postmodernism is a new melody to old text . In: Hermann Kopp and Werner Seppmann (eds.): Failed modernity? On the ideological criticism of postmodernism . Neue-Impulse Verlag, Essen, 2002 Download as an e-book
  • Below, where bourgeois life ...: about philosophy and philosophers. (Mixed writings in three volumes), Kulturmaschinen Edition Philosophie, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940274-10-6 .
  • The crux of the matter. About literature and philosophy. (Mixed writings in three volumes), Kulturmaschinen Edition Philosophie, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940274-11-3 .
  • It doesn't say so in the history book. Essays on socialist and bourgeois politics. (Mixed writings in three volumes), Kulturmaschinen Edition Philosophie, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940274-12-0 .
  • Real and constructed Marxism problems. Culture machines, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940274-33-5 .
  • Together with Ekkehard Lieberam and Manuel Kellner (eds.): Reform and Revolution. Laika-Verlag , Hamburg 2013.
  • With Hegel, Marx and Lenin beyond Marx. Kulturmaschinen, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-940274-57-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The DKP mourns the loss of Robert Steigerwald , press release of the DKP party executive, July 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ Robert Steigerwald , obituary on buchmarkt.de, July 1, 2016, accessed on July 2, 2016
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Buschfort: Secret Guardians of the Constitution. From the Düsseldorf information center to the first protection of the constitution in the Federal Republic (1947–1961) . Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, p. 119; Angelika Lehndorff-Felsko, Fritz Rische: The KPD prohibition process 1954 to 1956. How it came about, its course, the consequences . Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt / M. 1981, pp. 179f.
  4. ↑ Always ready to learn - Erinnungen an Robert Steigerwald, Sozialistische Zeitung 9 / September 2016, p. 21
personal data
SURNAME Steigerwald, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (SPD, KPD, DKP), Marxist philosopher and professor at the SED party college
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2016
Place of death Eschborn