The Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft
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The Internationale Hegelgesellschaft e.V. (International Hegel Society) claims to be Germany's oldest surviving Hegel Society. It was founded 1953 in Nürnberg by Wilhelm Raimund Beyer (1902-1990).
Mr. Beyer's efforts were supported by the City of Nürnberg in its celebration of the facts that Hegel taught in Nürnberg and that Hegel's wife, Marie Tucher, was the daughter of a well-known Nürnberg family.
Mr. Beyer was a Nürnberg citizen and also a Marxist, and this tended to shift his society away from Hegel's theological position towards a more left-wing position among scholars in the East bloc and in the West. According to Kai Froeb, a German advocate of Hegel studies on the Internet for over 15 years, the "Internationale Hegelgesellschaft e.V." remains interested portraying Hegel as radical.
The society currently supports over a thousand members from its Berlin headquarters. The results of their meetings are published in the "Hegel Jahrbuch" (Hegel Yearbook) which is available at Akademie Verlag, Berlin for 99DM each.
