This paper explores the contribution of early social phenomenologists working in the 1920s and 1930s in Germany to charisma theory. Specifically, I focus on the works of Gerda Walther, Herman Schmalenbach and Aron Gurwitsch, whose work is now being re-appreciated in the field of social philosophy. Living in the interbellum German-speaking space, these authors were keenly interested in the issue of charismatic authority and leadership introduced into the social sciences by Max Weber, with whom they engaged in an indirect intellectual dialogue. I argue that their phenomenological background equipped them well to understand the intricacies of the experiential and emotional dimension of charisma, and that their insights remain valid even a century after they have been first published.

本文探讨了 1920 年代和 1930 年代在德国工作的早期社会现象学家对魅力理论的贡献。具体来说，我关注 Gerda Walther、Herman Schmalenbach 和 Aron Gurwitsch 的作品，他们的作品现在正在社会哲学领域重新受到重视。这些作者生活在战间德语区，他们对马克斯·韦伯引入社会科学的魅力权威和领导力问题非常感兴趣，并与他们进行了间接的智力对话。我认为他们的现象学背景使他们能够很好地理解魅力的经验和情感维度的复杂性，并且他们的见解即使在他们首次发表一个世纪后仍然有效。