Alfred Artur Krauskopf

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Alfred Artur Krauskopf (born June 12, 1904 in Uszballen in the Tilsit / Pogegen district, today Tauragė district , Lithuania ; † May 10, 2000 in Epfach ) was a German Protestant pastor and painter .

Life

Krauskopf grew up in the East Prussian Bartoszyce (German: Bartenstein ). From 1923 to 1929 he studied theology and philosophy at the universities in Königsberg , Göttingen and Jena , as well as a semester of Coptic Studies in Göttingen. From 1929 he became friends with the later pediatrician Helga Topp (1907-1994). In July 1929 Krauskopf passed his first theological exam in Jena. This was followed by a visit to the seminary in Eisenach until mid-September 1930 and a short stay in England to study religious psychology. In September 1930 he was ordained in the Thuringian Evangelical Church, whereupon he worked as an assistant preacher in Magdala from September 16, 1930 . He passed his second theological exam in June 1931 in Eisenach. He then obtained his doctorate on April 23, 1932. theol. in Jena. From July 1, 1934, he was pastor in Magdala.

At the “Meeting of German Sociologists” on January 6th and 7th, 1934 in Jena , which served to adapt sociology to the requirements of National Socialism, Krauskopf gave the lecture “The present problems of the sociology of religion”. In it he called for a renewed sociology, the achievements of which should be applied to social and political objectives in order to bring about a quasi-religious anchoring of the new idea of ​​folk in the consciousness of the population.

After the war he was appointed mayor of Magdala by the Allied military government from April to September 1945 .

From August 1958 to February 1959 Krauskopf was involved in a criminal case; he came into custody and was for violating the licensing regulations for physicians sentenced and released to East Berlin; he received a three-day residence permit in Magdala.

For health reasons he was retired on September 1, 1961, at the age of 57. After successfully moving to West Berlin in 1963, he moved to Epfach near Landsberg am Lech in 1971, where he died on May 10, 2000.

Artistic work

In the 1930s Krauskopf occupied himself with painting in addition to his professional ambitions and was a master student and friend of Hugo Gugg at the State University of Fine Arts in Weimar. Krauskopf was with Prof. Dr. Ilse Barbey married, who managed his artistic estate and donated part of the collection to the museum in Eilenburg . Another 40 works were given to the parish of Magdala, where they have been shown to the public in the town church of St. Johannis since May 2013.

Fonts

  • Sigmund Freud's theory of religion. Your psychological foundations and metapsychological evaluation points. Jena 1933. (At the same time: Jena, Theologische Diss., 1932).
  • The religion and the community powers. Contemporary questions of the sociology of religion. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1935.

swell

  • Exhibition flyer of the Magdala parish

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silke van Dyk and Alexandra Schauer: "... that official sociology has failed". On sociology under National Socialism , the history of its coming to terms and the role of the DGS. 2nd Edition. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06636-9 , p. 70.
  2. ↑ LVZ-Online from April 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Krauskopf, Alfred Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, Protestant pastor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Užbaliai , Tauragė district
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2000
Place of death Epfach