Wolfgang Marcus

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Wolfgang Marcus (born October 15, 1927 in Görlitz ; † August 9, 2016 in Ravensburg ) was a German university professor and politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

After primary school, Wolfgang Marcus attended a grammar school in Dresden , where he passed his Abitur in 1946. During the time of National Socialism , he was subjected to reprisals because of his non-Aryan descent according to the racial laws and was expelled from school in 1943. Immediately after graduating from high school, he was arrested for his commitment to the Junge Union . He managed to escape to the west. Between 1946 and 1952 he studied philosophy , Catholic theology , pedagogy , German and history in Paderborn , Munich and Bonn . In 1951 he was in Munich with a dissertation on the Tertullianinterpretation Dr. phil is doing his doctorate. From 1952 to 1954 Marcus headed the church radio of the RIAS and worked as a religion teacher in West Berlin .

Between 1954 and 1956 he was trainee lawyer in Oberhausen and Recklinghausen and then from 1956 to 1960 he was a student assistant in Recklinghausen. From 1960 to 1990 he was professor of philosophy at the Weingarten University of Education . In the summer of 1990 he moved to Dresden. From autumn 1990, Marcus was visiting professor for philosophy at the TU Dresden and the PH Dresden .

He was a Roman Catholic, married since 1954 and has five children. In 1990 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany and on March 19, 2002 the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony . In 2016 he received the citizen medal of the city of Weingarten.

politics

From 1945 until his escape in May 1946, Wolfgang Marcus was a member of the Saxon CDU . Between 1971 and 1990 he was a city ​​councilor in Weingarten and a district councilor in the Ravensburg district, as well as an honorary alderman and parliamentary group leader of the SPD. In 1972, Marcus ran as a Bundestag candidate for the SPD in the Lake Constance area. Later he was district chairman of the SPD in Ravensburg . After moving to Dresden, he was a direct candidate for the SPD for the constituency of Pirna II.

In October 1990, Marcus moved into the Saxon state parliament via the state list of the SPD Saxony in place of the candidate Anke Fuchs , who had waived her mandate. He was a member of the state parliament for an electoral term until 1994. There he was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on School, Youth and Sport and a member of the Committee on Science and Universities.

Publications / Festschrift

  • Analogia Oikonomiae or Oikonomia as the central historiological concept of early Christian philosophy: A contribution to the Tertullian interpretation. Munich, 1951, DNB 480902194 (Dissertation University of Munich, Philosophical Faculty, March 19, 1951, 181 pages),
  • Subordinatianism as a historiological phenomenon: A contribution to our knowledge of the emergence of early Christian theology and culture with special consideration of the terms Oikonomia and Theologia. Munich: Hueber 1963
  • (Ed.): School as a Freedom Project: Thoughts on the St. Benno-Gymnasium Dresden , published on behalf of the Catholic School Works St. Benno eV Benno-Verlag, Leipzig, 1996, ISBN 3-7462-1194-8 .
  • Heinrich Wiedemann, Mike Schmeitzner: Courage for freedom: a life full of projects; Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Wolfgang Marcus . Lit, Berlin / Münster, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0797-9 .
  • Mike Schmeitzner: In the shadow of the FDJ: the “Junge Union” in Saxony 1945 - 1950 (= Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism: Reports and Studies 47). With an autobiographical essay by Wolfgang Marcus. V and R Unipress, Göttingen, 2004, ISBN 3-89971-201-3 .

supporting documents

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Möckel: SPD mourns Wolfgang Marcus . Sächsische Zeitung , August 11, 2016, accessed on August 13, 2016.
    Nicolai Kapitz: Lifetime work of a restless person     . Schwäbische Zeitung , August 11, 2016, accessed on August 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ Citizen's Medal : Weingarten's award for special commitment . Website of the city of Weingarten, accessed on August 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Marcus, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2016
Place of death Ravensburg