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Paul Luchtenberg

Paul Luchtenberg (born 3rd June 1890 in Burscheid; died 7th April 1973 ibid) was a German cultural scientist, teacher and politician for the Free Democratic Party, as well as culture minister for North Rhine-Westphalia.

Career

Paul Luchtenberg first attended a teacher training college in Gummersbach, completed his Abitur in 1912 and went on to study philosophy and education at the University of Bonn and the University of Münster. During his studies he was a member of AMV Makaria Bonn, a musical student society. After a PhD in Philosophy under Erich Becher, he began training to teach at Gymnasien, or grammar schools. He continued teaching in Remscheid until 1923. In addition, he qualified at the University of Cologne in 1920, where he was a student of Max Scheler, whose material value-ethics he wanted to apply in his teaching. He assumed his first professorship in 1923 at the College of Economics and Political Science in Detmold. From 1925 to 1931 he was initially an associate professor and then a full professor of education, philosophy and psychology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, as well as non-tenured professor of the same subjects at the Technical University of Dresden from 1931, where he also led the Pedagogical Institute for teacher training. By 1933 he was already a target of attacks by the National Socialist German Students’ League because he was a democrat. In 1936 he was dismissed (later than many others such as Victor Klemperer and Richard Seyfert) as a result of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, after the Culture Minister for Saxony, Wilhelm Hartnecke, had long been protecting him.