Hans Bogner
Hans Bogner (b. 8 November 1895 in Weißenburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire; d. 28 December 1948 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Allied-occupied Germany) was a German philologist of Classical antiquity and university professor.
Life
After serving in the First World War, he studied Classical Philology at the University of Munich, received his doctorate in 1925 (Dr. phil.), and qualified as a university lecturer in 1933. Bogner belonged to the Hamburg circle around Wilhelm Stapel and is considered part of the Conservative Revolution, which opposed the liberalism and weak parliamentarism of the Weimar Republic. He saw National Socialism as a means of overcoming the shortcomings of the existing system.
On 1 May 1937, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 4,715,379). From 1936 to 1941, Bogner taught as a full professor in Freiburg, and from 1941 to 1944 as a full professor at the Reich University of Strasbourg. After the war, his writings The End of Enlightened Democracy (1932), The Education of the Political Elite (1932) and Plato in the Classroom (1937) were placed on the list of banned literature in the Soviet occupation zone. After the National Socialist era, he was not allowed to return to a university and worked as a teacher of classical languages at the Protestant Seminary in Blaubeuren.
