Bruno Theek

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Bruno Theek (born May 20, 1891 in Berlin-Wedding ; † March 22, 1990 in Ludwigslust ) was a German pastor and writer who was known as a pastor for peace and "red priest".

Life

After graduating from Humboldt-Gymnasium in Berlin , Theek studied medicine and theology . In January 1915, drafting into the military interrupted his studies, but a bad cold prevented him from active participation. While he was therefore on a cure in Silesia , Theek passed his first theological exam in the same year. In November he was dismissed by the military as “eligible for garrison use with pension entitlement” . He completed the second theological examination in 1917 and became vicar in Treuenbrietzen . Bruno Theek then worked as a pastor in Brandenburg village parishes and as an assistant preacher in Berlin-Neukölln . From 1918 to 1920 he was pastor in Sauen , where he also passed the high school rector exam.

In 1920 he left his theological office independently and instead took a position in the new welfare and youth welfare office of the city of Berlin. He wrote down his experiences and observations from this activity in the book SOS - Youth on the Cross . He also published in the world stage .

Between 1930 and 1931 he had to resign from all political offices due to serious illness. In order to heal, he was therefore on cures abroad, most recently in Italy . After Theek had to return to Germany, he went to Schwerin so as not to endanger his family. However, there he could not find a job and so Theek did research in the state library . After narrowly escaping arrest by the Gestapo , Bruno Theek fled to Rostock . There he kept in close contact with anti-fascist groups. In 1935 he was taken over as part of a group of four religious socialists (alongside Theek Karl Kleinschmidt , Aurel von Jüchen and Heinrich Schwartze ) in the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Mecklenburg under the German Christian regional bishop Walther Schultz . At first he was briefly vicar in Hohen Wangelin , since October 17, 1935 pastor in Kieth ( Dobbin-Linstow ), in 1938 pastor in Satow and from 1939 pastor at the city ​​church Ludwigslust .

On October 2, 1941, Theek was arrested and transported to the SS headquarters in Schwerin. In December he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp and held until the end of the war. Theek survived. He returned to political life for a short time: as mayor of Ludwigslust in 1945. With Karl Kleinschmidt and Willi Bredel he built up the Kulturbund in Mecklenburg . Theek was pastor of the Ludwigslust city church until 1955 .

Theek was the father of the actress Ingeborg Theek and the uncle of the editor-in-chief of Weltbühne in the 1980s, Peter Theek . He had three other daughters.

Political

In 1911, Theek joined the SPD at the age of twenty . After the outbreak of World War I , he joined the USPD in 1917 and returned to the SPD in 1922. From 1946 to 1951 he was a member of the SED . During the party review in 1951, his membership in the SED was canceled.

Honors

Works

  • SOS - Youth on the Cross. Emergency calls from the urban underworld . 1926 (was on the "List of harmful and undesirable literature" of the National Socialists; editions of which were destroyed in the book burning on May 10, 1933 in Berlin) reissued by BS-Verlag Rostock, ISBN 978-3-89954-022-2
  • Dachau concentration camp. Experience report . 1945
  • Cellar, pulpit and cask. Life report of a contemporary. 1961 ( autobiography )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the website of the city of Ludwigslust ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 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.stadtludwigslust.de
  2. ↑ Bruno Theek: cellar, pulpit and kaschott. Life report of a contemporary. Union Verlag, Berlin 1961. P. 70 ff.
  3. ^ Ulrich Peter: Aurel von Jüchen: (1902–1991); Möhrenbach-Schwerin-Vorkuta-Berlin; a pastor's life in the century of dictatorships. Schwerin: Stock & Stein 2006 ISBN 978-3-937447-28-5 , p. 161
  4. ^ Ulrich Peter: Aurel von Jüchen: (1902–1991); Möhrenbach-Schwerin-Vorkuta-Berlin; a pastor's life in the century of dictatorships. Stock & Stein, Schwerin 2006, ISBN 3-937447-28-8 , p. 162.
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 2, 1986, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Theek, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Wedding
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1990
Place of death Ludwigslust