Wolfgang Kroug

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Wolfgang Kroug (born March 30, 1890 in Hungerburg near Narwa in the old tsarist empire; † October 13, 1973 in Göttingen ) was a philosopher , educator and psychotherapist .

Life

Kroug grew up as the son of Baltic German parents in St. Petersburg, where his father had a doctor's practice. He spent his childhood and youth in St. Petersburg, where he attended the German humanistic grammar school. Startled by the severe revolt in St. Petersburg (a forerunner of the later revolution of 1917), his parents sent him to Weimar to finish school, where he graduated from the humanistic grammar school. He then studied physics, mathematics and, above all, philosophy with Nicolai Hartmann in Jena and Marburg . His main interest has always been in philosophical questions, especially the categories of what can and cannot.

Kroug was very active in the student youth movement, the Wandervogel, and together with Hans Wix and Knud Ahlborn, he founded the Academic Association (AV) Marburg - an unbeatable student association that wanted to be ideologically neutral as a student educational community.

AV Marburg was the only corporation to refuse to exclude Jewish members after 1933: “The 'Academic Association' is one of the most indisputable and most beautiful successes of the student youth movement. She was one of the first to set the scene and set an example, and is one of the few who have fully proven herself. ” Nicolai Hartmann in the summer of 1925.

During this time, intensive friendships developed with Adolf Reichwein , the reform pedagogue and resistance fighter, to whom he dedicated a detailed obituary in the book “Sein zum Tode”.

He also had a lot of intellectual exchange with Hans Bohnenkamp , especially about his philosophy of can and not, which he worked on all his life without completing it by the time it was published. The manuscript is in the archives of the German youth movement at Ludwigstein Castle . After the collapse of the old tsarist empire and the emergence of the Soviet Union, a return to Russia was impossible. Wolfgang Kroug taught as a high school teacher in Thuringia, Eisenach, and at the same time continued to deal with philosophical questions.

During the Second World War, Kroug was a Russian interpreter. After the war he trained as a child and youth therapist with Fritz Riemann . He settled in Göttingen and developed his own psychotherapeutic method, the Göttingen writing game: the client and therapist sit opposite each other. A large exercise book is pushed back and forth in the question-and-answer game. This happens in a ritual way in absolute silence. This creates a dense atmosphere between therapist and client. From this, the essential neuralgic points can often be formulated more quickly and clearly than in an oral dialogue.

During a stay at the School for Initiatic Therapy in Todtmoos-Rütte (founded by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim and Maria Hippius Countess Dürckheim ) he presented the writing game Maria Hippius, who rated it very positively in the discussion (Maria Hippius, “Mystery and Risk of Becoming Man. ”Writings on Initiatic Therapy, Oratio Verlag, Schaffhausen 2000). There were points of contact between the two therapies. The categories of can and inability in therapeutic work were also the subject of the exchange.

Works

  • Being to Death: Thought and Probation. Images of life in the struggle of members of the Academic Association Marburg who remained; Life and Death of the Unfinished Vol. 2/3; Bad Godesberg: Voggenreiter, 1955.
  • Essays:
    • Being to death with Heidegger and the problems of ability and love; In: Journal for Philosophical Research; in connection with the “General Society for Philosophy in Germany”; Volume VII, Issue 3; Edited by G. Schischkoff, Munich; Pp. 392-415.
    • Some theses on the philosophy of ability, Göttingen 1957.
    • About the ontology of the ability and the primacy of the non-ability. A study on an anthropologically fundamental, indispensable requirement by Erwin Straus; In: Festschrift for Erwin Straus on his 75th birthday, pp. 159–175.
    • Confrontation with the inability of the psyche 1951, no.3.
    • Basic ideas for a philosophy of ability, magazine. f. Philos. Research X, 4, 1956.

literature

  • Gerhard Ziemer and Hans Wolf, wandering birds and free German youth. Voggenreiter Verlag Bad Godesberg 1961.
  • Otto Friedrich Bollnow, On the Spirit of Practice. A return to elementary didactic experiences, 1978, 3rd edition 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Ziemer and Hans Wolf: Wandervogel and free German youth. Voggenreiter Verlag Bad Godesberg 1961, pp. 451–455.
  2. ^ Gerhard Ziemer and Hans Wolf: Wandervogel and free German youth. Voggenreiter Verlag Bad Godesberg 1961, p. 451


personal data
SURNAME Kroug, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kroug, Volodya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Philosopher, educator and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hungerburg near Narva
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1973
Place of death Goettingen