Christian-Erdmann Schott

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Christian-Erdmann Schott (born August 13, 1932 in Liegnitz , Lower Silesia Province ; † October 24, 2016 in Mainz ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian . From 1966 to 1997 he was pastor in Mainz-Gonsenheim .

Life

Christian-Erdmann Schott's parents were Bernhard Schott, Protestant pastor in Geischen , and his wife Elisabeth, née. v. Bethe. The theologian Erdmann Schott is the father's older brother. The oak leaf bearer Wilhelm Rudolf von Salisch is an uncle. Christian-Erdmann attended the ancient language Burggymnasium in Opole . The flight verschlug the family to Thuringia .

schools

In April 1945 he came to Leutenberg as a quintan for a few months . As part of the children's area , the humanistic, strongly Catholic State Freiherr von Reichenau-Gymnasium Düsseldorf had his students in local inns. Schott moved to the free boarding school Wickersdorf and in early 1946 to Schulpforta . There he joined the Free German Youth . When his father was able to take over a pastor's position in Magdeburg , Schott came to the Magdeburg High School . At the anti-church arbitrariness of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , he left the FDJ. He decided to study theology and organized prayer before class. After the GDR was founded in October 1949, the political cleansing of traditional schools began. As class representative, he was expelled from school with 12 classmates in the spring of 1950. The church province of Saxony made it possible for him to enter the Steglitz grammar school . Separated from the family, he passed the school leaving examination there in June 1951.

Education

The Berlin Senate financed him and other students from the GDR to study at the Church University of Berlin-Zehlendorf . With a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , he moved to the Georg-August University in Göttingen for the summer semester of 1954 . From the summer semester 1955 to the winter semester 1956/57 he was active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . With a scholarship from the World Council of Churches , he spent a semester at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey (Haute-Savoie). In July 1957 he passed the first theological exam in Göttingen.

Vicar and pastor

Since the GDR did not accept theologians, he could not return to the church province of Saxony as vicar . The Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau took him on in trust for the partner church Church Province of Saxony in the preparatory service. The positions of the vicariate, who took up office on January 1, 1960, were a school, the seminars for preachers in Friedberg (Hessen) and Herborn, and a community internship in Königstein im Taunus . In September 1961, Schott passed the second theological exam in Herborn and Darmstadt.

Since the Berlin Wall made a return to the GDR completely impossible, Schott remained in the Hesse-Nassau church service. He started a new doctoral thesis with Martin Schmidt . At the same time he administered the parish in Eibelshausen , where he was ordained in May 1962 . This was followed by the parishes Wiesbaden heritage home and Mainz-Gonsenheim. 1965 doctorate he in Mainz for Dr. theol. From 1984 to 2006 he was Federal Pastor of the Johanniter Accident Aid . In 1997 he retired as pastor in Gonsenheim.

In 1967 he married Barbara Hofmann, a daughter of Magdeburg Consistorial President Bernhard Hofmann . The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son. On January 9, 2019, he was presented with the Corps Palaiomarchia certificate for the posthumous honor of Bernhard Hofmann.

Honors

Fonts

  • Traces and effects of the Silesian Evangelical Church in post-war Germany . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn , Würzburg 2000. ISBN 978-3870572327 .
  • Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Silesian Cooperative of the Order of St. John . Bergstadtverlag, Würzburg 2003. ISBN 978-3870572594 .
  • Bridges to Poland. Reports from the community of Protestant Silesians . Bergstadtverlag, Würzburg 2003.
  • From Opole to Mainz. Stations - institutions - perspectives (autobiography). Bergstadtverlag, 2007. ISBN 978-3870572907 .
  • Live within limits - overcome limits. On the church history of the 20th century in East-Central Europe. Festschrift for Peter Maser on his 65th birthday . Lit Verlag , Berlin Munster 2008. ISBN 978-3825812652 .
  • Fathers, mothers, companions. Sixty years of the Community of Evangelical Silesians eV; 1950-2010; Life pictures . Bergstadtverlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010.
  • Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg and the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen . In: Sebastian Sigler (ed.): Corps students in the resistance against Hitler . Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-428-14319-1 , pp. 437-449.
  • Who you have time in your hands. Sermons for refugees and expellees from Protestant Silesia 1993–2013 . Bergstadtverlag, Görlitz 2014. ISBN 978-3-87057-337-9 .

editor

  • Yearbook for Silesian Church History

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann-Dieter Müller: Christian-Erdmann Schott: From Opole to Mainz (Diocese of Mainz)
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 142/901
  3. ↑ a b Wolfgang von der Groeben : List of members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen from 1844 to 2006 and of the homeland Saxonia Göttingen 1840 to 1844. Stand on 31 May 2006 . Self-published, Düsseldorf 2006.
  4. ^ Dissertation: The beginnings of German political Catholicism in the historical-political papers and their Protestant reaction .
personal data
SURNAME Schott, Christian-Erdmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz , Lower Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2016
Place of death Mainz