Helmut Schelsky
30 years ago, on 24th of February 1984 Helmut Schelsky died in Münster at the age of 71, a sociologist, he studied philosophy , German , history and history of art, since 1932 a member of the SA, since 1933 of National Socialist Union of Students ( NSDStB ), and since 1937 the NSDAP; as ( since 1940 ) Arnold Gehlen's assistant, and then Hans Freyers', he co-founded along with them the so called Leipzig School , opposing the neo-Marxist School of Frankfurt, after the war (from 1949) a professor of sociology in Hamburg, later in Münster and Dortmund, the founder of the interdisciplinary research center in Rheda called the "German Princeton"; classified as a mainstream “technekratic conservative" (not "technocratic" but drawing attention to the phenomenon of impersonal domination of technology); a critic of the "priestly" power of intellectuals seeking to discredit the moral authority of the state, especially within the "therapeutic" psychological elite "of the new class" within it.
prof. Jacek Bartyzel
translated by Arek Jakubczyk
Kategoria: Reactionary Diary
