Paul-Ludwig Landsberg (Bonn, December 3, 1901 - Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 1944) was a German-Jewish philosopher and student of Max Scheler. He practiced his philosophical anthropology on personalism. He was from home from Jewish, but was baptized Luther on his father's decision immediately after his birth. Under the influence of Max Scheler and Romano Guardini, he would later be converted and become Catholic.
After his middle school in Bonn, Landsberg studied philosophy in Freiburg, where he came into contact with Husserl's phenomenology. Afterwards, he studied in Berlin and eventually studied in Cologne, where he also learned Scheler. In 1928 he became disabled and began shortly thereafter as a lecturer at the University of Bonn. Out of dissatisfaction with the growing support for national socialism, against which he as an early admirer of Karl Marx took early position, he decided to leave Germany four days before the 1933 elections.
Through Switzerland, Landsberg came to Spain where he could teach Barcelona and Santander. However, due to the Spanish civil war he had to leave the country. He found a to the Sorbonne in Paris (1937) some time later. Here he met Max Horkheimer, Nikolaj Berdjaev and the two main figures of the intellectual magazine Esprit, Jean Lacroix and Emmanuel Mounier. Paul Ludwig influences Mounier's reflective philosophy by adding the notion of action that results from his philosophical anthropology.
Landsberg received a fake passport in the name of Paul Richert, a physician from Alsace. Because he was denounced as "German enemy Alsatian" he went on transport to Sachsenhausen, where he died around Pentecost in 1944 due to exhaustion and malnutrition. Landsberg was married to Magdalena Hoffmann since 1933. Working
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