Editing Martin Heidegger (section)

== Personal life ==
Heidegger married Elfride Petri on 21 March 1917 in a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] ceremony officiated by his friend {{Interlanguage link|Engelbert Krebs|de|lt=Engelbert Krebs}}, and a week later in a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] ceremony in the presence of her parents.{{sfn|Heidegger|2009|page=xxxvi}} Their first son, Jörg, was born in 1919.{{sfn|Schalow|Denker|2010|page=135}} Elfride then gave birth to {{Interlanguage link|Hermann Heidegger|de|lt=Hermann}} in August 1920. Heidegger knew that he was not Hermann's biological father, but raised him as his son. Hermann's biological father, who became godfather to his son, was family friend and doctor Friedel Caesar. Hermann was told of this at the age of 14; Hermann grew up to become a historian and would later serve as the executor of Heidegger's will.{{sfn|Cammann|Soboczynski|2014}}  In the same year that he married his wife, Heidegger began a decades-long correspondence with her friend [[Elisabeth Blochmann]]. Their letters are suggestive from the beginning, and it is certain they were romantically involved in the summer of 1929.{{sfn|Safranski|1998|pages=85-88, 108-81}} Blochmann was [[Jewish]], which raises questions in light of [[Martin Heidegger and Nazism|Heidegger's later membership in the Nazi Party]].{{sfn|Inwood|2019|loc=chapter 10}}

Heidegger had an active social life and interacted with numerous influential philosophers and academics. During his career he established close relationships [[Karl Jaspers]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Krell |first=David Farrell |date=1978-01-01 |title=The Heidegger-Jaspers Relationship |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00071773.1978.11006528 |journal=Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology |language=EN |doi=10.1080/00071773.1978.11006528#:~:text=during%20the%201920s%20the%20heideggers,of%20his%20study%20of%20luther. |issn=0007-1773}}</ref> [[Hans-Georg Gadamer]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=article |url=https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2025/01/16/two-giants-of-20th-century-philosophy-correspond/#:~:text=I%20discovered%20the%20depth%20and,and%20the%20state%20of%20Europe. |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=nouvelles.umontreal.ca |language=en}}</ref> and [[Hannah Arendt]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Popova |first=Maria |date=2016-04-25 |title=The Remarkable Love Letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger |url=https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/25/hannah-arendt-martin-heidegger-love-letters/#:~:text=When%20she%20was%20a%2019-year-old%20university%20student,,Martin%20Heidegger%20(September%2026,%201889%E2%80%93May%2026,%201976).&text=Even%20as%20Heidegger%20emboldens%20Arendt%20to%20go,his%20need%20for%20their%20love%20to%20persevere: |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=The Marginalian |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger |url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300072549/hannah-arendtmartin-heidegger/#:~:text=Arendt%20and%20Heidegger%20met%20in,complexities%20of%20the%20human%20psyche. |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=Yale University Press |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Corey |first=Joshua |date=2021-05-13 |title=How Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s Relationship Can Inform Our Current Crises |url=https://lithub.com/how-hannah-arendt-and-martin-heideggers-relationship-can-inform-our-current-crises/#:~:text=How%20right%20you%20are%20that,of%20the%20Rights%20of%20Man.%E2%80%9D |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}</ref> He was a friend of political theorist [[Carl Schmitt]] whom he served with on the [[Academy for German Law]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Donado |first=Juan Carlos |date=2012-08-09 |title=Heidegger's Letter to Schmitt |url=https://www.telospress.com/heideggers-letter-to-schmitt/?srsltid=AfmBOoqJH7Ux4EaNgBCDbGOY5poONae3MNwq1ya-KkIfqhEaNA0Wa4ks |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=Telos Press |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Richard Wolin (CUNY): “Law Under Lawlessness: Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, and the Academy of German Law (1934-1942)” {{!}} University Center for Human Values |url=https://uchv.princeton.edu/events/richard-wolin-cuny-%E2%80%9Claw-under-lawlessness-heidegger-carl-schmitt-and-academy-german-law-1934 |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=uchv.princeton.edu |language=en}}</ref> 

=== Death ===
[[File:Grab Heidegger.JPG|thumb|upright|Heidegger's grave in Meßkirch]]Heidegger died on 26 May 1976 in [[Freiburg]].<ref name="yrt1" /><ref name="yrt2" /> A few months before his death, he met with Bernhard Welte, a Catholic priest, Freiburg University professor and earlier correspondent. The exact nature of their conversation is not known, but what is known is that it included talk of Heidegger's relationship to the Catholic Church and subsequent Christian burial at which the priest officiated. Heidegger was buried in the Meßkirch cemetery.{{sfn|Lambert|2007|pages=157–69}}{{sfn|Safranski|1998|page=432}}{{sfn|Fiske|1976}}