Walter Broken Broom

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Walter Besenbruch (born December 25, 1907 in Barmen ; † June 23, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German philosopher , university professor and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Besenbruch, the son of a bandmaker , began studying history and philosophy in Berlin and Kiel in 1929 after graduating from high school , which he broke off in 1932 for lack of money. In 1930 he joined the KPD and began to be politically active. Besenbruch was involved in various anti-fascist actions and was arrested several times from 1932 and sentenced to short prison terms. After 1933 he worked, among other things, as political leader of the KPD in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1935 he was sentenced to twelve years in prison for “preparation for high treason ” . Besenbruch was initially interned in the Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel prison , then in the concentration camps Moorlager Emsland and Mauthausen concentration camps until he was liberated in 1945 .

From 1945 to 1947 Besenbruch was by the Soviet occupation authorities as police chief of Merseburg used. In 1948 he began a scientific traineeship at the Martin Luther University Halle (Saale) with Walter Markov and completed a lectureship at the SED party college "Karl Marx" in 1949/50 . From 1950 to 1953 he was the chief editor of the SED magazine Einheit and at the same time had lectureships for dialectical and historical materialism at the Humboldt University (HU) Berlin .

In 1953 Besenbruch became professor of perception with a teaching position for philosophical aesthetics at the HU Berlin and received his doctorate in 1956 with the work “On the problem of the typical in art” . In 1956/57 broom breakage came about for the first time because of critical publications on the XX. Party congress of the CPSU and the revelations there of Stalin's crimes in conflict with the party and state leadership of the GDR . From 1959 until his retirement for health reasons in 1964, he was nevertheless a professor with a teaching position for aesthetics and cultural policy at the HU Berlin. During these years Besenbruch was the teacher of the later philosopher and GDR regime critic Rudolf Bahro , who called him “a moral authority”, and the later regime critic Wolf Biermann was one of his students. In 1973, Besenbruch retired and died in 2003.

In 1965 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1983 in gold.

Works

  • To the problem of the typical in art . Weimar 1956.
  • Dialectics and Aesthetics . Institute for Applied Art, Berlin 1958 (as editor).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Besenbruch in the database of the VVN-BdA Berlin-Köpenick
  2. ↑ Iron Curtain, cold time In: Die Zeit, October 21, 1999
  3. ^ Walter Besenbruch in the Rheinische Geschichte portal, article by Helmut Müller-Enbergs
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 7, 1965, p. 4
  5. ^ Neue Zeit , March 5, 1983, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Broken broom, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2003
Place of death Berlin