Willy Moog

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Wilhelm Moog (born January 22, 1888 in Neuengronau , † October 24, 1935 in Braunschweig ) was a German philosopher , classical philologist and reformed teacher .

Life

Willy Moog, son of the teacher Emil Moog, spent his childhood in Griesheim near Darmstadt and went to high school in Darmstadt again. From 1906 to 1909 he studied Classical Philology, German Philology and Philosophy in Berlin, Munich and Gießen and, inspired by Georg Simmel's lectures in Berlin, devoted himself intensively to the philosophy of Neo-Kantianism . He received his doctorate in 1909 under Karl Groos at the home university of Gießen on a literary psychological topic. After completing his doctorate, he taught at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium and the New Gymnasium in Darmstadt . During this time he wrote a. a. a bigger job on Homer . In 1913 he took a leave of absence from teaching for the purpose of his habilitation and carried out research of a philosophical nature in Berlin and worked as a teacher at a secondary school for girls. Moog did his involuntary military service from 1915 to 1918 in the border surveillance station Alexandrowo / Aleksandrowo near Thorn (probably no combat contact).

From 1919 (habilitation) he worked at the University of Greifswald , initially as a private lecturer , from 1922 as an associate professor of philosophy. In the autumn of 1924 Moog was appointed full professor for philosophy and education at the Technical University of Braunschweig . 1927–1930 Moog was Dean of the newly established Department of Cultural Studies at the Braunschweig Technical University. His best-known book, Hegel and the Hegelian School , was written in 1930, received internationally and translated into Spanish by José Gaos in 1931. Moog's book on Kant's views on war and peace , published in 1917 but completed in 1915, shows a pacifist attitude.

Moog's professional situation as a philosophy professor in Braunschweig changed when the Braunschweig Prime Minister Dietrich Klagges (NSDAP) instructed Rector Horrmann to suspend Moog and to open criminal proceedings for breach of official dignity aimed at dismissing him from university. Moog had a mistress who denounced him in a letter to Klagges. With the opening of criminal proceedings, Moog committed suicide on October 24, 1935. The TH Braunschweig only filled his chair again in 1952 (with Hermann Glockner ).

As his personal file can be seen, Moog was never a member of the Nazi party, but had professional necessary memberships in Nazi associations: since June 1, 1933, he was a member of the National Socialist Teachers Federal , since July 1, 1933 member of the NSDAP victim ring , since October 11, 1933 of the National Socialist Cultural Association and the Reich Association of German Writers, newly founded by Goebbels. In addition, he had been a supporting member of the SS since May 1, 1934 . N. Karafyllis (2015) has demonstrated his passive resistance to the Nazi regime in teaching and research. a. with the refusal to examine only "German" philosophers and to burn the books of Jewish authors. In his editorial work he was considered philosemitic. In 1933 he published the volumes of Gustav Kafka and Richard Hönigswald in his book series "History of Philosophy in Longitudinal Sections" , which shortly thereafter were forcibly retired.

meaning

Moog was mainly concerned with the history of philosophy and the philosophy of education and, together with Max Fresisen-Köhler, was one of the editors of the standard work Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie , founded by Friedrich Ueberweg (Volume 18th Century, 12th Edition, 1924). In the years 1917–1920 he devoted himself intensively to the psychologism dispute and dealt with logic and epistemology (cf. his habilitation thesis from 1919, published by Verlag Max Niemeyer 1920). His thorough research on German idealism is also important .

Works (selection)

  • Nature and I in Goethe's Lyrik (1909), dissertation, published Darmstadt: E. Röther.
  • Kant's Views on War and Peace (1917)
  • Logic, Psychology and Psychologism (1919), habilitation thesis, published Leipzig: Niemeyer 1920.
  • Philosophy (research reports, ed. V. K. Hönn) (1921), Gotha: Perthes.
  • Philosophical and educational currents of the present in their context (1926)
  • History of Pedagogy in 3 Volumes (1928–1933, only Vol. 2 and 3 published)
  • Hegel and the Hegel School (1930), translated into Spanish by José Gaos in 1931 , published in Madrid.
  • The life of the philosophers (1932)
  • Modern Education from the 18th Century to the Present (1933)

literature

  • Uwe Lammers: Back to the world of the living. The fascinating, unknown life of the philosopher Willy Moog in: Bergwinkel-Bote 56th Home Book of the Schlüchtern district (2004)
  • Uwe Lammers: Two strange companions. Immanuel Kant and Wilhelm Moog (2005) ( PDF file in the Internet portal on history in Braunschweig )
  • Nicole C. Karafyllis : Willy Moog (1888-1935) A Philosopher's Life. Karl Alber, Freiburg / Br. Jan. 2015, ISBN 978-3-495-48697-9 .
  • Nicole C. Karafyllis (ed.): 90 years of Braunschweig philosophy. Foundations by Willy Moog and insights into his life as a philosopher . Braunschweig, Feb. 2016 (digital as pdf via the digital library of the TU Braunschweig)
  • Nicole C. Karafyllis: "A Brunswick Returns: The Philosophy Professor Willy Moog (1888-1935)", in: Yearbook of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 2015. Braunschweig: Cramer 2016, pp. 13–40.
  • Nicole C. Karafyllis: The philosophers Herman Schmalenbach and Willy Moog and their work at the technical universities in Hanover and Braunschweig. With a sideways glance at Schmalenbach's Leibniz . Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag. Nov 2016
  • Helmut Schneider:  Moog, Willy (Wilhelm). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 67 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Nicole C. Karafyllis: Willy Moog (1888-1935): Ein Philosophenleben. Freiburg 2015, chap. 3.4 (pp. 540-560). Peter Hoeres, The War of the Philosophers, Paderborn: Schöningh 2004, also assigns Moog to the pacifist-minded forces
  2. ↑ See the personal file in the archive of the University Library of the TU Braunschweig: Willy Moog file B 7: 387.
personal data
SURNAME Moog, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moog, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, classical philologist and reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuengronau
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1935
Place of death Braunschweig