Theodor Haering

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Signature of Theodor Haering, part of a dedication in a copy of his last book, dated Christmas 1963
Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Theodor Lorenz Haering , also Theodor Haering (born April 22, 1884 in Stuttgart , † June 15, 1964 in Tübingen ) was a German philosopher and writer and professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen .

Life

Theodor Haering was the son of the Protestant theologian and university professor Theodor von Haering and brother of the historian Hermann Haering . He first studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen and passed the first theological exam there in 1906. He belonged to the Evangelical Monastery of Tübingen . After a short vicariate , he took leave of absence to study philosophy in Berlin in 1907/08. On the Tubingen dissertation in 1910 when Erich Adickes (via the Duisburg'schen followed Kant estate), after renewed studies in Bonn (1911-12), where he of the experimental psychologists Oswald Külpe was impressed with his Tübingen Habilitation at Adickes (1912) about Psychology the rating .

From 1919 in Tübingen Haering became a university professor, first as an associate professor of philosophy. After Adicke's death in 1928, he was appointed to his chair for historical and systematic philosophy.

During the National Socialist era, Theodor Haering was a leading member of the Nazi Lecturer Association and from 1937 a member of the NSDAP , with which he had already sympathized. He understood philosophy as a spiritual racial science (that is the title of a lecture from 1939) and wrote as early as 1935: "Alongside the racial principle there is the leader principle". During the Second World War he took part in the Nazi project war deployment of the humanities . Because of his involvement in the Nazi regime, the university judicial chamber classified him as a “fellow traveler” in 1948, and he lost his civil rights and his professorship for three years. His retirement took place in 1951 at the same time as his rehabilitation and reinstatement under the 131 Act. Even after the war, he held onto anti-democratic convictions.

In addition to philosophical works, he also wrote local history and literary works. For many years he was chairman of the Tübingen Museum Society and was a member of the Tübingen municipal council for the Free Voters' Association from 1953. When he left in November 1957, he became an honorary citizen of Tübingen . In return, he bequeathed his villa ( Neckarhalde 31) to the city of Tübingen , which is now called Theodor-Haering-Haus and houses part of the city collections as well as rooms for artistic and museum-educational offers. In 1959 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit. On June 17, 2013, Tübingen's honorary citizenship was revoked by a municipal council resolution.

His estate and his private library are in the University Library of Tübingen .

Works

  • About the Duisburg's Kant bequest and Kant's criticism around 1775 , dissertation, University of Tübingen 1910.
  • The materialization of the mind . Mohr, Tübingen 1919.
  • Studies on the psychology of evaluation (on an experimental basis) with special consideration of methodological questions . W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1920 (habilitation thesis Universität Tübinger 1912).
  • The structure of world history . Mohr, Tübingen 1921.
  • Philosophy of science . Rösl & Co., Munich 1923.
  • Hegel. His will and his work. A chronological history of the development of Hegel's thoughts and language . 2 volumes, Leipzig a. Berlin, 1929–1938.
  • Talk to Alt-Tübingen . 1934.
  • "The moon roars through the Neckar valley ...". A romantic walk through Tübingen at night, along with all sorts of useful and entertaining reflections on God and the world / space and time / nature and spirit / and in particular on people among each other. Wunderlich, Tübingen 1935 [many new editions, including 1949 with minor changes].
    • Revised new edition: Stephan Kaiser (Ed.), Wunderlich, Tübingen 1977; Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1985 and 1988.
  • Speak for the mind . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1935.
  • Cusanus - Paracelsus - Böhme. A contribution to the spiritual genealogy of our day . In: “Journal for German Cultural Philosophy”, 2, 1935/36, p. 1ff.
  • What is German Philosophy? . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1936.
  • Hegel's doctrine of state and law . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1940.
  • The smile of Herr Liebeneiner . Heilbronn 1940.
  • Albert the German . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941.
  • Fichte, Schelling, Hegel . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941.
  • Promise and doom of the German kind . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941. (Lecture, Nov. 5, 1940)
  • as editor: The German in German Philosophy . Stuttgart 1941.
  • German and European philosophy . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1943
  • Death and the Maiden . Reclam, Leipzig 1943.
  • Swabian mirror . Oertel & Spörer, Reutlingen 1949.
  • What is life . In: "Journal for Philosophical Research", 1950.
  • On Gehlen's anthropology . In: "Journal for Philosophical Research", 1952.
  • Haering salad , Reutlingen 1953.
  • Novalis as a philosopher , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1954.
  • Philosophy of understanding. Attempt of a systematic-epistemological foundation of all knowledge . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1963

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 217.
  2. ^ Quote from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 217.
  3. ↑ Manfred Hantke: Prof. Theodor Haering most likely recommended himself as an honorary citizen. Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated December 22, 2008, last accessed September 8, 2013
  4. ↑ It is very likely that he proposed himself for honorary citizenship in an anonymous letter. See Manfred Hantke: Prof. Theodor Haering most likely recommended himself as an honorary citizen. Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated December 22, 2008
  5. ↑ Honorary citizenship revoked - majority against Scheef, Haering, Hindenburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated June 17, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tagblatt.de  
  6. ↑ Federal Archives, Central Database of Legacies. Retrieved September 11, 2019.

literature

  • Walther Gerhardt:  Haering, Theodor Lorenz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 449 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hubert Kiesewetter: From Hegel to Hitler . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1974.
  • Benigna Schönhagen : Tübingen under the swastika . 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0838-7
  • Manfred Hantke: The philosopher as a “fellow traveler”. Theodor Haering: “A Führer came! The Führer came! ” . In: Benigna Schönhagen (Ed.): National Socialism in Tübingen. Gone and forgotten. Exhibition catalog . 1992, ISBN 3-910090-02-8 , pp. 179-185
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . 2003
  • R. Weible: Tübingen Linke Liste applies for the Haering House to be renamed . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt . February 9, 2005 (also online )
  • Manfred Hantke: About the “reachte ond real people's community”. The story of the “Speech on Alt-Tübingen” from 1934 by Professor Theodor Haering . In: Tübinger Blätter . Volume 93, 2006/2007, pp. 45–51
  • Hermann Bausinger: "... a reached people's community". How the Tübingen philosopher Theodor Haering makes common with the people. In: Bernd Jürgen Warneken (Ed.): Volksfreunde. Historical variants of social engagement, Kulturamt, Tübingen 2007 (Tübinger Catalogs, Volume 103), pp. 93-105, ISBN 978-3-932512-38-4 .
  • Patricia Gebhart: The Theodor Haering case. History of an honorary citizen of Tübingen. Dealing with the Nazi past in Tübingen , Tübingen 2008.
  • Patricia Gebhart: A citizen worthy of all honor? The Theodor Haering case , In: Hans-Otto Binder u. a. (Ed.), From the brown shirt to the white vest? On dealing with the past in Tübingen after 1945 (Kleine Tübinger Schriften 28), Tübingen 2011, 102–128.

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personal data
SURNAME Haering, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haering, Theodor Lorenz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1964
Place of death Tübingen