Albrecht Jobst

Wolfgang Albrecht Jobst (born December 8, 1902 in Wilhelminenberg , † December 17, 1945 in Romania ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and folklorist .

Life

Albrecht Jobst was the son of a landowner. He attended a grammar school in Chojna , which he left with the Abitur in 1921. He then studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the University of Greifswald and the University of Berlin . After the two theological exams in 1925 and 1927, he worked as an assistant preacher in Niederlausitz . In 1931 he went to Hamburg , where he took on a pastor's position at the main church of Sankt Michaelis . He received his doctorate in 1932 in Berlin as a licentiate in theology and in 1935 as a Dr. phil. with Otto Lauffer and Andreas Walther at the University of Hamburg. In the doctoral thesis of 1935 he dealt with the Evangelical Church and the people. A contribution to the history of folklore .

In addition to the pastor's position at Sankt Michaelis, Jobst also worked as a pastor at the Hamburg remand prison from 1935 . He also taught at several institutions. From 1935 to 1943 he taught religious folklore at the Germanic Seminar of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hamburg and from 1935 to 1937 he was a prospective religion teacher in the New Testament. In 1937, as part of teacher training, he tried to establish a purely ecclesiastical additional training that would enable pastors to become religious teachers without having to attend university. He also gave religious instruction at the lower and upper prima of the Wichern school . In addition to his activities as a pastor and teacher, Jobst was the editor of the series Studies on Religious Folklore from 1936 , for which he also wrote several articles of his own.

During the time of National Socialism , Jobst, who was considered a staunch National Socialist, joined the German Christians . From 1936 he followed his Thuringian direction, which was considered radical. Like other so-called “Christian folklorists”, Jobst was supported by the SS , who promoted his teaching activities at Hamburg University. At the Second World War Jobst took from 1943 to 1945 as a soldier in part. According to his own statements, he received leave in June 1944, which he claims to have used for a habilitation at the theological faculty of Kiel University . Allegedly a professorship was planned for him there. The university's theological faculty later contradicted this information.

Albrecht Jobst died in Romania a few months after the end of the war.

literature

• Rainer Hering: Jobst, Albrecht . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 181-182 .