Walter Brocker

Walter Bröcker (born July 19, 1902 in Itzehoe ; † August 3, 1992 in Kiel ) was a German philosopher and professor in Rostock and Kiel.

The son of factory director Walter Carl Bröcker (? -1944) graduated from high school in Itzehoe in 1920 and studied philosophy, history, economics and physics at the universities of Hamburg, Freiburg, Marburg and Berlin from 1920 to 1933. His doctorate as Dr. phil. took place in Marburg in 1928 with Martin Heidegger with Kant's work "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment". Attempt of a phenomenological interpretation and critique of IT of the “critique of judgment”. The habilitation took place in 1934 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau with the work on Aristotle as well as with Heidegger, whose assistant he was. From 1933 to 1935 Bröcker was a member of the SA . From 1937 to 1940 he taught as a lecturer at the University of Freiburg. After the beginning of the Second World War , he served briefly in the Wehrmacht in 1939 in a construction company and a construction replacement battalion. From 1940 to 1941 he was professor of philosophy on behalf of the University of Rostock , from 1941 to 1948 as a full professor, from 1941 to 1948 director of the institute and from 1942 to 1945 dean. He was only briefly dismissed by the Soviets in 1945 due to his membership in the NSDAP since 1940. After that he became an SED candidate before 1948 after allegedly turning an anti-fascist turn in the world war.

Due to his great interest in the original philosophical texts from ancient Greece, he worked intensively in Rostock with the classical philologist Hans Diller , who had taught there since 1935 and who brought Walter Bröcker to the University of Kiel as a full professor of philosophy in 1948 , where he held up to has taught philosophy during his retirement. His most important student was Kurt Huebner .

Bröcker was married to the Heidegger student Käte Bröcker-Oltmanns (* September 20, 1906, † January 2, 1999) and had seven children; Hinrich and Caroline became lawyers, Bernhard became physicists, Theodor mathematicians, as well as Ludwig , Martin medical doctors and Johannes economists.

Works (selection)

• Aristoteles, Frankfurt am Main 1935, 5th edition 1987.
• Confrontations with Hegel, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
• What comes as seen by Nietzsche and Hölderlin, Pfullingen 1963.
• Dialectics, positivism, mythology, Frankfurt am Main 1958.
• Formal, transcendental and speculative logic, Frankfurt am Main 1962.
• with Heinrich Buhr : Zur Theologie des Geistes, Pfullingen 1960.
• Plato's Talks, Frankfurt am Main 1964, 5th edition 1999.
• The history of philosophy before Socrates, Frankfurt am Main 1965, 2nd edition 1986.
• The God of Sophocles, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
• Hölderlin's peace celebration, explained in terms of its origins, Frankfurt am Main 1960.
• In the vortex of nihilism, Kiel 1951.
• Kant on metaphysics and experience, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
• Materials on the history of philosophy, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
• with Bröcker-Oltmanns, Käte (ed.): Martin Heidegger: Phenomenological interpretations of Aristotle. Introduction to phenomenological research, Frankfurt am Main 1985.
• Platonism without Socrates. A lecture on Plotinus, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
• Poetic theology, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
• Theology of the Iliad, Frankfurt am Main 1975.

literature

• Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich, 2 vol., Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002 ISBN 978-3-050-03647-2 (especially pp. 815-817).

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Bröcker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Walter Bröcker in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium