Karl Jaspers Haus

In the location's words:

The Jaspers House has no historical connection to Karl Jaspers and his family other than its location. The villa, built in 1912 for the brickworks owner Carl Julius Dinklage and extensively renovated by EWE, is located in the Dobben district, where Karl Jaspers spent his childhood and youth. The house has had an eventful history: after the Dinklage family, the Oldenburg state became the owner in 1939. From 1940 until the end of the war, the National Socialist Minister President of the Free State of Oldenburg, Georg Joel, lived there with his family - from March 1940 also as the owner. After the war, the house was initially used by the British, later by the state administration and finally by the teacher training institute. It then fell into disrepair until it was purchased by the EWE.

The promotion of Jaspers research in Oldenburg, as outlined above, is primarily due to EWE, in particular the initiative of its Chairman of the Board, Dr. Werner Brinker, who, in discussions with representatives of the Institute of Philosophy, Prof. Johann Kreuzer and Prof. Reinhard Schulz, and the Director of the University Library, Hans-Joachim Wätjen, presented the idea of closely linking the library with Jaspers research via the house and promoting the dissemination of Jaspers' interdisciplinary and stimulating thought by founding a Karl Jaspers Society.

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