Wilhelm Raimund Beyer

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Wilhelm Raimund Beyer (born May 2, 1902 in Nuremberg ; † October 6, 1990 ) was a German lawyer , legal philosopher , Hegel researcher and founder of the International Hegel Society .

Life

Beyer was born on May 2, 1902 in Nuremberg, the son of a lawyer. Through his visit to the humanistic Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg , which Hegel had headed as rector from 1808-1816, he got his ties to Hegel at an early age. He studied in Erlangen and Rostock and received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1924 with a thesis on the development concept in bill of exchange and check law . In 1928 the assessor exam followed in Munich.

After the end of the war he was in contact with Joseph E. Drexel and worked for the publishing group "Nürnberger Presse" founded by him as chief legal advisor. He published a number of legal philosophical essays, was strongly criticized against National Socialism , felt a connection with Marxism-Leninism and, in these Cold War years, demanded that human rights be observed, especially in the West. In 1955 he founded the International Hegel Society. Beyer was its chairman until 1982 and over several decades led to a great international response. From 1982 until his death in 1990 he was honorary chairman of the company.

In 1974 he refused Jürgen Habermas participation in the Moscow Hegel Congress at Lomonossow University .

Most recently he lived in Nuremberg, Berlin (East) and Salzburg. His estate is kept in the Federal Archives in Koblenz. In July 2002, when Wilhelm Raimund Beyer would have turned one hundred years old, the Centro di Studi Filosofici S. Abbondio held an international symposium on legal philosophy in his honor.

Fonts

  • Hegel pictures. Critique of the Hegel Interpretations , 2nd edition 1967.
  • The sins of the Frankfurt School. A contribution to the critique of critical theory . Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1971, 165 pp.
  • Between Phenomenology and Logic , Pahl-Rugenstein; 1974
  • Systems theory under the grip of Marxism , Hain; 1976
  • Thinking and Concern. Hegel essays (edited by Manfred Buhr ), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1977
  • The old politician Hegel , 1982
  • Hegel. The triumph of the new law , Vsa Verlag; 1983
  • Current references to Hegelian themes. With unknown Hegel texts on the theory of colors , Bodenheim: Athenaeum Verlag, 1985
  • Materialism, Science and Worldview in Progress , ed. according to with: Helmut Arnaszus, Kurt Bayertz , Hans Jörg Sandkühler , PAHL-RUGENSTEIN; 1985
  • Return undesirable . Joseph Drexel's “Journey to Mauthausen” and the Ernst Niekisch resistance group. Ed .: Wilhelm Raimund Beyer. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1978, 331 S., ISBN 3-421-01846-4 (A literary document of the inhuman)
  • Stalingrad. Below, where life was concrete , Bodenheim: Athenaeum Verlag, 1987
  • Buccaneers in Hegelian climes , Frankfurt: Vervuert, 1988
  • Manfred Buhr / Joseph E. Drexel / Werner Jakusch (eds.): Wilhelm Raimund Beyer . A bibliography. With an appendix: WR Beyer “From the History of the International Hegel Society”. 2nd Edition. Vienna, Munich, Zurich. Europaverlag, 1967, 1972, 78 p .; 3., added u. again expanded edition, 1982, 136 pages, ISBN 3-203-50793-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "You will not be able to be silent". An exchange of letters between Jürgen Habermas and Wilhelm Raimund Beyer. In: DIE ZEIT of September 13, 1974, p. 22. [From the archive at ZEIT ONLINE: http://www.zeit.de/1974/38/sie-haben-nicht-schweigen-koennen ]
  2. ^ Günter Platzdasch: The trip to Moscow did not take place. In: Medium. June 19, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Wilhelm Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and legal philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1990