Eberhard Stammler

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Eberhard Stammler (born August 14, 1915 in Ulm ; † January 9, 2004 in Stuttgart ) was a German Protestant theologian , journalist and publicist . He was considered a pioneer of the Protestant press in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Stammler was born in Ulm in 1915 as the son of a businessman and his wife. According to his memoirs, he grew up in a bourgeois and national environment. His father's company, who died early, collapsed in 1928; the family suffered from the Great Depression . Already in 1931 - even before the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists - Stammler became a member of the Hitler Youth (HJ) at the age of sixteen . He also resigned from the church . The Golden HJ Badge of Honor, initially awarded because of his early membership, was removed from him by the Gestapo after his studies in the course of his change of mind . During his school and university days he was a member of the NSDAP from 1933 to 1938/39 ; from 1933 he was also a member of the SA . By his own admission, his departure from the party was motivated by religion; he later regretted the advanced point in time of his rethinking.

After high school at Humboldt High School , a grammar school in his home town, he turned to Christianity and studied from 1934 to 1938 Protestant Theology at the University of Tübingen . He stayed in the Evangelisches Stift study house . At the Protestant Theological Faculty he was active as a student council leader, chief officer for science and technical education and Competition Manager Reichsberufswettkampf competition of German students. He organized an event with the Protestant regional bishop Theophil Wurm and the deputy Gauleiter Friedrich Schmidt . He was also a member of a Christian student association that had been declared illegal, which the NS student union took as an opportunity to initiate an expulsion procedure after completing his studies. After taking the first theological exam in 1938, he completed the vicariate in Boll near Oberndorf. Subsequently he worked as pastor of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg until 1947 . Although he had not reversed his resignation from the church with civil effect, this can be assumed to be implied according to the case law. In 1941 he was able to pastor in Blaubeuren ordained to be.

From 1941 to 1945 he was drafted for military service in the paratrooper troops of the Wehrmacht Air Force . He fought on the western and eastern fronts in World War II . Most recently he held the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. From April to autumn 1945 he was a US prisoner of war in the Palatinate. In a prisoner-of-war camp for officers, he met the journalist Christoph Freiherr von Imhoff , with whom he later became active in Bad Boll.

From 1947 to 1949 he was a founding member and theological editor of the Sunday paper in Hamburg, which today operates under the name Chrismon . From 1949 to 1952 he was a brief youth pastor in Stuttgart. From 1952 to 1964 he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the evangelical youth magazine Young Voice in Stuttgart, which emerged from the DAS. In 1957/58 he also studied sociology in Heidelberg. In 1964/65 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Christ und Welt . For example, he was responsible for the departure of Armin Mohler . He then worked as a freelance journalist and research assistant at the Institute for Christian Social Studies at the University of Tübingen. From 1970 to 1983 he was Günter Heidtmann's successor as editor-in-chief of the Stuttgart monthly magazine Evangelische Comments , which was a predecessor of Zeitzeichen .

In 1950 he became chairman of the press committee of the German Evangelical Church Congress (DEKT). In the same year he was one of the founders of the Christian Press Academy in Bad Boll. From 1950 to 1955 he was press officer of the Working Group of Evangelical Youth in Germany (AGEJD) and editor of the in-house Evangelical Youth Information . From 1956 to 1958 he was deputy chairman and 1958 chairman of the youth policy committee of the AGEJD. From 1957 to 1971 he was chairman of the self-regulation of the illustrated magazines , which was dissolved in the period from 1964 to 1966. In addition, he was deputy chairman of the community work of Protestant journalism , member of the board of trustees of the Evangelical Press Service , chairman of the Evangelical Press Association for Württemberg, chairman of the journalistic working group of DEKT, founding member of the working group Securing Peace and member of the PEN Club (from 1976).

From 1958 to 1972 he was a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) until he resigned from it due to his party's Ostpolitik . During the time of his party membership, he was involved in the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU, where in 1969, together with Peter Egen and Eberhard Amelung, he revived the publication organ Evangelical Responsibility . From 1958 to 1978 he was a founding member and from 1963 to 1968 the spokesman of the advisory board for questions relating to internal leadership for the Federal Defense Ministers Kai-Uwe von Hassel and Gerhard Schröder (both CDU). In vain did the SPD stand up for Stammler as defense commissioner in 1964 ; instead, the less independent CDU member of the Bundestag, Matthias Hoogen, was elected to office. In 1977 Stammler was one of the signatories of the founding declaration of the Gustav Heinemann Initiative .

Stammler, a Protestant, was married from 1941 and the father of three children. His son Dieter Stammler (* 1942) is a media lawyer.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Protestants without a church . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1960.
  • English translation by Jack A. Worthington: Churchless Protestants . Westminster Press, Philadelphia 1964.
  • Conspiracy for democracy . Ehrenwirth, Munich 1966.
  • with Kurt Sontheimer , Hans Heigert : Longing for the Nation ?. 3 pleadings . Juventa Verlag, Munich 1966.
  • (Ed.): The Protestant imperative. Festschrift for Eberhard Müller on his 60th birthday . Furche-Verlag, Hamburg 1966.
  • with Walter Dirks (ed.): Why do I stay in the church ?. Contemporary answers . Manz, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7863-0132-8 .
  • (Ed.): Who is actually a person? . Kösel, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-466-25655-0 .
  • Church at the end of our century. Weather conditions, wishes, risks . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-87173-513-2 .
  • with Hans Norbert Janowski (ed.): What's wrong with German theology ?. Reply to an inquiry . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart u. a. 1978, ISBN 3-7831-0533-1 .
  • (Ed.): Securing Peace. A Christian commitment . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart u. a. 1980, ISBN 3-7831-0620-6 .
  • Church without a people ?. Christians at the end of the millennium . Pendo, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-85842-226-6 .
  • with Hartmut Bühl (ed.): Controversy about peace. Discussion about power and morals . Bernard and Graefe, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7637-6226-4 .

Autobiographical:

  • National Socialism from a biographical perspective (part 2) . In: Volker Rittberger (Ed.): 1933, how the republic succumbed to dictatorship . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-17-007907-7 , pp. 178-186.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Eberhard Stammler: The National Socialism from a Life-History Perspective (Part 2) . In: Volker Rittberger (Ed.): 1933, how the republic succumbed to dictatorship . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-17-007907-7 , pp. 178-186.
  2. ↑ Cf. Georg May : The re-entry into a religious community . In: Wilhelm Rees (Ed.): Law in Church and State. Joseph Listl on his 75th birthday (= canonical studies and texts . Vol. 48). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-428-11673-9 , pp. 185–204, here: pp. 192 f.
  3. ↑ Frank Nägler : The wanted soldier and his change. Personnel armament and internal leadership in the years of establishment of the Bundeswehr 1956 to 1964/65 (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany . Vol. 9). A publication by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-58815-6 , p. 411.
  4. ↑ Eberhard Müller : Resistance and Understanding. 50 years of experience in church and society 1933–1983 . Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-7668-0851-6 , p. 94; see. to interview with Eberhard Stammler on 16 January 2001 . In: Dietrich Hub : The Protestant Press in Württemberg in the years from 1933 to 1948 (= edition of the community sheet ). Evangelical Community Press , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-920207-21-6 , pp. 225-230.
  5. ↑ Michael Schibilsky , Roland Rosenstock : Journalism as a Profession . In: Frank-Michael Kuhlemann , Hans-Walter Schmuhl (ed.): Profession and religion in the 19th and 20th centuries (= denomination and society . Vol. 26). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-017621-8 , pp. 277-294, here: 288.
  6. ^ Peter Hoeres : Foreign policy and the public. Mass media, opinion polls and arcane politics in German-American relations from Erhard to Brandt (= studies on international history. Volume 32). Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-72358-8 , p. 102.
  7. ↑ See Gerhard Gronauer: The State of Israel in West German Protestantism. Perceptions in church and journalism from 1948 to 1972 (= work on contemporary church history . Series B. Representations . Vol. 57). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-55772-3 , p. 50.
  8. ↑ Albrecht Martin , Gottfried Mehnert , Christian Meißner : The Evangelical Working Group of the CDU, CSU 1952–2012. Becoming, working and willing (= evangelical responsibility yesterday and today . No. 2). EAK, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037436-4 , p. 62.
  9. ↑ Rudolf J. Schlaffer : The Wehrbeauftragte 1951 to 1985. Out of concern for the soldier (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany . Vol. 5). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58025-9 , p. 265.
  10. ↑ Thomas Blanke , Jürgen Seifert , Eugen Kogon : Discussion on the Russell Tribunal "on the situation of human rights in the Federal Republic of Germany" . In: Kritische Justiz , 11 (1978) 2, pp. 170–177, here: p. 177.
personal data
SURNAME Stammler, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2004
Place of death Stuttgart