Arthur von Ungern-Sternberg

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Arthur Karl Konstantin von Ungern-Sternberg (born January 31, 1885 in Korast , Livonia Governorate ; † July 11, 1949 in Gera ) was a German theologian and Evangelical Lutheran superintendent .

Life

Von Ungern-Sternberg studied Protestant theology . In 1917 he was ordained pastor and, as a master of theology, was appointed pastor and later chief pastor of Brüheim . In the 1920s, his was carried Promotion to doctor of theology.

Von Ungern-Sternberg opened up to ethnic and anti-Semitic convictions and joined the church movement of the German Christians and in 1939 became superintendent of Ronneburg (Thuringia) . At the end of 1941 he was included on a list of new employees at the Eisenach Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life . In January 1945 he was one of the Thuringian provosts who urged the DC church president Hugo Rönck to accept the title of bishop . Due to the law on the review of the pastorate and the administration of the Thuringian Protestant Church (cleaning law) of December 12, 1945 Ungern-Sternberg was dismissed from the pastoral service and the title "Superintendent on hold" was withdrawn from him. He was initially employed as a pastor in Ronneburg, and from December 1, 1947 he was officially reinstated as pastor in Niederpöllnitz .

Works

  • The traditional Old Testament scriptural evidence “de Christo” and “de evangelio” in the old church up to the time of Euseb of Caesarea. Hall a. S.: Niemeyer 1913
  • Freedom and reality. Schleiermacher's philosophical path to maturity through German idealism , Gotha 1931
  • Schleiermacher's ethnic message from the time of German renewal , Gotha 1933

literature

  • Bernhard Möller (etc.): Thuringian Pastors' Book , Volume 1: Duchy of Gotha , ed. Society for Thuringian Church History (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1995), p. 679

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New employees , in: Association announcements No. 5/6, December 15, 1941, p. 133
  2. ↑ Thomas A.Seidel (ed.): Thüringer Poised ; Leipzig 1998, p. 185.
  3. ^ Walter Weispfenning: The denazification of the Thuringian Ev. Pastorships after 1945 according to the Cleaning Act (= Writings of the Thuringian Parish Association 1/2018), Quedlinburg 2018, pp. 167–172.
personal data
SURNAME Ungern-Sternberg, Arthur von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ungern-Sternberg, Arthur Karl Konstantin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and Evangelical Lutheran superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Korast , Livonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1949
Place of death Gera