Adolf Riege

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Adolf Riege (born February 27, 1906 in Hameln , † June 9, 1994 in Lübeck ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school in his home town of Hameln, Riege studied theology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . There he became a member of the Holzminda fraternity in 1924 . From 1927 to 1928 he attended the Protestant theological seminar in Tübingen and then returned to Göttingen to take his theological exam in 1929. After being in Hanover on September 15, 1931 ordained had been, he was until 1933 vicar and curate in Hannover as personal assistant at Bishop August Marahrens and until 1934 curate in Farge in the former district Blumenthal before in October 1935 as preacher to the Lübeck Dom was appointed. Riege was a member of the NSDAP , belonged to the German Christians and worked at the institute for research and elimination of the Jewish influence on German church life . He married in Lübeck in 1935. This marriage resulted in two children.

During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941 , but declined to train as an officer for professional reasons. In 1946 he returned from British captivity.

In the Soviet occupation zone , his work Rassisches Christianentum im New Testament ( Hauschild , Bremen 1937) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

From 1946 to 1955 he worked as a pastor in Nusse , a rural community near Lübeck, which today includes the Nusse Church and the Behlendorf Village Church . He then took over the St. Gertrud congregation in Lübeck and in 1960 became senior pastor at the Federal Border Guard North, where he stayed until his retirement in 1975. He died in Lübeck in 1994.

Honors

Publications

  • Racial Christianity in the New Testament. Bremen 1937.

literature

  • Kurt Meier: The Protestant Church Struggle. Göttingen 1984, pp. 387-388.
  • Obituary in: Hans-Hermann Rudolph (Ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity of Holzminda Göttingen. Volume 1994, pp. 80-82.
  • Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. Volume 128, Neumünster 2003, p. 243.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 396.
  2. ↑ Law and Ordinance Gazette of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church. 1994 No. 8. Kiel 1994, p. 159.
  3. ^ Gerhard Paul and Miriam Gillis-Carlebach : Menorah and swastika. Neumünster 1998, p. 543.
  4. ↑ Annette Göhres; Stephan Linck; Joachim Liß-Walther (Ed.): When Jesus became 'Aryan'. Church, Christians, Jews in Northern Elbe 1933–1945. The exhibition in Kiel. Bremen 2003, p. 178.
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-r.html
personal data
SURNAME Riege, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1994
Place of death Lübeck