Martin Honecker was a German philosopher and psychologist.

The son of a businessman, he studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University

University of Bonn

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 in Bonn

Bonn

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 and the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, with, among others, Adolf Dyroff. In 1914 Honecker graduated with a doctorate in the legal philosophy of Alessandro Turamini. He fought in World War I

World War I

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, but was captured by the French and interned in Switzerland.

During his imprisonment he began his work Gegenstandslogik und Denklogik. In 1924 he took over the chair of Josef Geyser in Freiburg as a full professor.

From 1925 to 1929 he was secretary general of the Görres-Stiftung. From 1925 to 1926 he was one of the editors of the quarterly education journal Pädagogik. He also edited the philosophy journals Forschungen zur Geschichte der Philosophie der Neuzeit and Philosophische Handbibliothek. He was doctoral advisor of Roman Catholic theologian Karl Rahner

Karl Rahner

Karl Rahner, SJ was a German Jesuit and theologian who, alongside Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar, is considered one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century...

.

During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

he worked as an Army psychologist at the Generalkommando V in Stuttgart.

Works

• Die Staatsphilosophie des Sebastian Fox Morcillo, 1914
• Das Denken. Versuch einer gemeinverständlichen Gesamtdarstellung, 1925
• Synthesen in der Philosophie der Gegenwart, Festgabe Adolf Dyroff zum 60. Geburtstag. Schroeder, Bonn 1926, mit Erich Feldmann
• Logik. Eine Systematik des logischen Probleme, 1927, 1942
• Gegenstandslogik und Denklogik. Vorschlag zu einer Neugestaltung der Logik., 1928
• Die Probleme der Wertungspsychologie, in: Philosophia Perennis. Abhandlungen zu ihrer *Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Festschrift, Josef Geyser zum 60. Geburtstag. Hrsg. von Fritz-Joachim von Rintelen, Bd. 1, Regensburg 1930
• Jahresbericht der Görres-Gesellschaft 1928/1929, 1930
• Nikolaus von Cues und die griechische Sprache, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1938