Rabatz to Rauschebart.

In the Great Depression discover new student Karl Marx. In Trier wants Asta of the university even after the Ur-Communists nominate. The university management considers them nothing, the Junge Union is outraged righteous - a strange deep controversy in the West.

 

On the campus of the University of Trier, Karl Marx is in vogue. On T-shirts bear the portrait of the students rauschebärtigen philosophers, surrounded by the words "Karl Marx University of Trier.

So far, the university without a name that means simply University of Trier. But the General Student Committee (Asta) wants to change that propagates and the baptism in the name of Marx. It is still the most famous son of the city, before Schlager bard Guildo horn. This notion is not met anywhere in enthusiasm. Between supporters and opponents is turbulent bickering erupted.

Especially as a souvenir when students were the Marx T-shirts very popular, says Asta member Florian Kaiser. Also cups and pens with the image of born 1818 in Trier, there are philosophers. In December, the parliament of the university students a decision to rename the university taken. The law is irrelevant, the Asta trades but still has time on its letterhead as "Asta the Karl Marx University. From the University of pipe would be writing this letter is ignored, however, says student representatives Kaiser, at least "officially".

Junge Union fears for the CVs

While students from the sphere of the Left Party
Marx Lesekreise up for Dirk Louy, the district chairman of the Junge Union (JU), the call for the renaming of a nuisance. He called it "incomprehensible and unacceptable", it was a "historical ignorance." That he had also written to the University Leadership. Sure, Louy admits that Marx was one of the most important scientists of the century vorvergangenen "been. With the call for the university to name after him, imagine the Asta but "voluntarily in the traditions of a democratic dictatorship."

The JU-chief sees a "serious danger" that "would have to accept future employers, the University will glorifies a communist dictatorship." Louy also refers to the University of Leipzig, 1953 from the GDR regime in Karl-Marx-University "was renamed, but this name in 1991 has passed.

Defend against such accusations, the proponents of renaming Asta in the "historical figure Karl Marx" in a five replica as "most citizens of the city of Trier. The later crimes of communist states were not attributed to Marx, but went on ideologically motivated "narrowing and reinterpretations" of his thoughts. Who the reasoning of the Junge Union folge, donors have many names of public institutions proscriptions in "falsified contexts and Zwangsideologisierungen" were used, the opposite Asta and cites as examples of Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Even with the Trierer Hadern Charly

Even University President Peter Schwenkmezger has turned into the debate: The live discussion in a more or less regular intervals, always on, he saw "no reason to change the name of the University of Trier to change." Anyway, this would be the responsibility of the state government concerned.

Trier is certainly not the only city in which it occasionally misunderstandings by the name of the cartridge
Universities and schools. The serious alternative was for example in Munster to Wilhelm II as a patron, in Oldenburg to Carl von Ossietzky in Dusseldorf and at Heinrich Heine and at schools around
Nazis names as sponsors. But the guerrilla student fun mixed with the University of Duisburg wanted students to nominate Horst Schimanski, the University of Kiel after Hans Albers and the University of Augsburg after Jim Knopf.

At the Trierer population renaming debate according to estimates by Beatrix Bouvier, director of the local Karl Marx Museum, largely over: "It is for the citizens of no more than a newspaper." Yet for many schwinge probably also the memory of "the Umbennungspraxis in the GDR, from Chemnitz to Karl-Marx-Stadt and back again."

In Leipzig, the Asta a relief dust

Ever certifies the museum director to focus a more ambivalent relationship to the famous son of the city. "For a long time was the relationship to the Trier Karl Marx is not just heartfelt," says Bouvier. Today it is "increasingly laid."

A relaxed-ironic relation to Marx, the philosopher, former Bishop Reinhard Marx of Trier. His last autumn published book on questions of economic order and social justice of the church titled man suddenly inspired by the classic name of his cousin "Das Kapital".

The University of Leipzig, the GDR times indeed as the thinker with the Rauschebart called, has
their elongated Marx dispute settlement last October. University of Leipzig in disputed East German civil rights and the relief on "Karl Marx and the revolutionary nature and weltverändernde his teachings," the GDR times on the facade of the former Karl Marx University emblazoned. After some back and forth was the 33-ton, 14 meters wide bronze sculpture in the autumn then on the campus of Sport Leipziger Uni landed.

Maybe if you had the time to simply Trumm Asta the University of Trier offer - and the problem of Marx in Leipzig so elegantly from East to West disposed of.