Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hermann Mathias Görgen

After graduating from grammar school in Saarlouis, Hermann Mathias Görgen studied theology, philosophy, education, history and canon law at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 1933. He received his doctorate in 1933 with the dissertation "Contributions to the history of the ethical movement and its significance for the development of Friedrich Wilhelm Förster's philosophical and pedagogical views up to 1904", which marked the beginning of his academic career.

From 1933 to 1935, he initially worked as an assistant to Friedrich Wilhelm Förster in Bonn. During this time, he was already active as a journalist in the Catholic opposition. In 1935, he fled from the National Socialists to Austria and became an assistant at the Research Institute for German Intellectual History in Salzburg until 1938. Here he cataloged the estate of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. His appointment, allegedly in 1938, as a full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Salzburg, which was still being founded, is controversial.

Immediately after the annexation of Austria, Hermann Mathias Görgen fled to Czechoslovakia and from there to Switzerland. Here, with the support of the Vatican, he organized the flight of emigrants to Brazil and emigrated there himself in 1941, where he continued his teaching activities.

After 1950, he returned to Germany, became Director General of Saarländischer Rundfunk and a member of the German Bundestag from 1957 to 1961.