Alfred Dedo Müller

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Alfred Dedo Müller (born January 12, 1890 in Hauptmannsgrün , † August 4, 1972 in Leipzig ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university professor for practical theology .

Life

After obtaining his university entrance qualification, Müller studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Leipzig, Marburg , Berlin and Zurich . In 1913 he received his doctorate as a licentiate in theology. In 1917 he was ordained pastor and found his first pastor's position in Ziegra near Döbeln. Then he moved to the parish of Leipzig- Connewitz . Theologically and spiritually he was close to the " Berneuchen " and was accepted as a brother in the Michaelsbruderschaft . At the same time he was moved by admiration for the group of religious socialists around Leonhard Ragaz . In 1924 the doctorate to Dr. phil. at the University of Leipzig. The thesis was entitled: "The sociological and religious-philosophical foundation of civic education at FW Foerster ". Michael Böhme writes in the "Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon":

“ His fundamental openness to new insights in psychology, sociology and anthropology is based on the deep desire to find access to the people and questions of his time. M. turned against any privatization of Christianity and narrowness in theological thinking. "

In the 1920s he became a member of the International Union of Reconciliation , whose chairman of the German branch he became in 1925 and his close friend Waldus Nestler the secretary.

In 1930 he was appointed full professor for practical theology in Leipzig and at the same time became the first university preacher and director of the St. Pauli Predigerkolleg . He held his poimenical seminars until 1969. As the first university preacher, Müller was also responsible for the services in the Pauline Church . It is reported that he and students saved the church from destruction by extinguishing and removing incendiary bombs on the night of December 4, 1943. After the war he campaigned for the preservation and further use of the university church for worship services, which was blown up in 1968 on the orders of the SED.

In the 1930s he was not free from sympathy for the Nazi ideology . Especially in his ethics , published in 1937, he showed a spiritual closeness to certain ethnic ideas, but without becoming a member of the NSDAP . Theo A. Boer wrote about this in an essay in 2006 and in a study from 2008 called this phase in Müller's life “minutes of a tragedy”.

Müller's particular merit as a teacher of practical theology is to have broadened the pastors' view of psychology and to have opened the way for empirically oriented pastoral care training with professional psychological support. His pastoral teaching is characterized by its openness to a large number of new psychological approaches of the time.

Since 1945 Müller was a member of the GDR CDU . He has been a member of the Christian Peace Conference since it was founded.

Fonts

  • The sociological and religious-philosophical foundation of civic education in Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Diss. (Leipzig) 1924
  • Religion and Everyday Life, Berlin 1927 (1924)
  • The possibility of a Protestant church, in: Paul Tillich (ed.): Protestantism as criticism and design, Darmstadt 1929, pp. 145–175
  • You earth hear! Berlin 1930 (19344)
  • The fight for the Reich, Frankfurt / M. 1935
  • Ethics, Berlin 1937
  • Luther's Catechism and Us, Frankfurt / M. 1939
  • The Church and those who have been removed from the church , in: Walter Schadeberg (Ed.): The pastoral and missionary work of the Church, Leipzig 1941, pp. 80–109
  • The study of practical theology, in: Heinrich Frick (Ed.): Introduction to the study of Protestant theology, Gießen 1947 (19482), pp. 132–168
  • Music as a problem in the design of Lutheran services, Leipzig 1947
  • Prometheus or Christ ? Leipzig 1948 (new 1961²)
  • Outline of practical theology, Gütersloh 1950 (Berlin / East 1954)
  • Seminar training for pastoral care, in: ThLZ 75, 1950, pp. 299–306 (abridged reprint in: Friedrich Wintzer (Ed.): Seelsorge, Munich 1988, pp. 119–124)
  • The cognitive function of faith, Berlin 1952; Practical Theology, in: Martin Doerne (Ed.): Grundriß des Theologiestudiums, Vol. III, Gütersloh 1952, pp. 114–189 (Berlin / Ost 1954, pp. 116–189)
  • The way out, Berlin 1953
  • The system of practical theology and the needs of church practice, in: ThLZ 79, 1954, pp. 513-520 (reprinted in: Praktische Theologie, Darmstadt 1972, pp. 337-348, ways of research 264)
  • The spiritual upheaval in contemporary psychotherapy and its fundamental and practical significance for pastoral care, in: Eucharisterion, Athens 1958, pp. 293-312
  • The language as a problem of practical theology, in: Wilhelm Schneemelcher (ed.): The problem of language in theology and church, Berlin 1959, pp 85-111
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer's principle of secular interpretation and proclamation of the gospel , in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 86, 1961, pp. 721–744
  • Demonic Reality and Trinity , Gütersloh 1963
  • Ecumenism and Church Life Order, in: Konfession und Ökumene, Berlin 1964, pp. 354–372
  • The reform of theology studies , in: Pastoral care as a life aid. Festschrift for Walter Uhsadel , Heidelberg 1965, pp. 69–82
  • Can pastoral care be taught? in: Research and experience in pastoral care. Festschrift for Otto Haendler , Göttingen 1967, pp. 71–79 (reprinted in: Friedrich Wintzer (Ed.): Seelsorge, Munich 1983, pp. 125–133)
  • Human existence and reality of God, in: Reality of the Middle, Festschrift for August Vetter , Freiburg 1968, pp. 609–625.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Böhme:  MÜLLER, Alfred Dedo. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1056-1059.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ Waldus Nestler's biography
  3. ^ History of the University Church , accessed December 16, 2009
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  5. ^ Theo A. Boer: Alfred Dedo Müller's ethics. Between radicalism and conformity . In: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte  19 (2006), pp. 389–413.
  6. ^ Theo A. Boer: Minutes of a tragedy. Alfred Dedo Müller and National Socialism 1933–1936. In: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 22 (2008), pp. 373–391

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Alfred Dedo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Captain Green
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1972
Place of death Leipzig