Fritz Erik Hoevels

Life

Hoevels, son of the Frankfurt doctor Fritz Werner Hoevels, visited the Leibniz-Gymnasium in Frankfurt-Hochst and studied since 1966, first Latin and German at the University of Freiburg. At the beginning of his studies Hoevels joined the SDS and was soon as its "official traveling far and wide" active. After a student action that had a criminal complaint to the Rector result to Hoevels apologized for this and asked for the withdrawal of the display, which isolated him from the SDS.

After graduating, he found no scientific employment began in 1975 and a second degree (Psychology) "bread study", from which he graduated in 1980 with a diploma. In parallel, he graduated in 1977 with a thesis on fairy tales and magic in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius of Madaura and dealt intensively with the Freudian psychoanalysis. Hoevels then settled as a practicing psychoanalyst in Freiburg / Br. down. In 1983 he founded the journal system Ucs, which describes itself as "the only magazine in the authentic tradition of Sigmund Freud".

Hoevels also emerged as a political journalist - as a publisher, author and editor of numerous books and regular contributions in the magazine he founded heretics letters. He was the initiator of the Freiburg Marxist-Reichistischen initiative, which temporarily put a representative on the local city council as a colorful list of Freiburg and was renamed as the Federal Government against adaptation and Red forum. Hoevels itself, and this significantly influenced by him were organizations with numerous events, publications and leaflets on controversial issues to the public, including AIDS, overpopulation, leaving the church, Church of Scientology, Republicans, Saddam Hussein, North Korea. They often represented thereby a position (IBKA), joined themselves with related groups, such as the International Federation of Religious and Atheists sharp rejection. criticized are the IBKA not only substantive aspects, but also the "expectation of salvation religious sects "who Hoevels and his followers and tried to awaken the public. Hoevels sees the history of ideas in the tradition of the materialist explanation. The most important for him thinkers Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky as representatives of Marxism, and both Sigmund Freud as the founder of psychoanalysis and the excommunicated by Freud from psychoanalysis, Wilhelm Reich.