Emil Blum

Emil Blum (born December 8, 1894 in Zurich ; † March 11, 1978 at Muri bei Bern ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian who played a leading role in the German Neuwerk movement .

Life

Emil Blum had contact with the religious-social movement around Hermann Kutter and Leonhard Ragaz while studying Protestant theology in Zurich and Basel . In 1919 he became pastor in Aigle VD . In 1922 he moved to the Habertshof settlement near Schlüchtern-Elm ( Hesse ), where he founded a folk high school, which he headed from 1924 to 1931. He then studied pedagogy in Frankfurt am Main (with Carl Mennicke and Paul Tillich ) and Bern. In 1934 he received his doctorate and in the same year took over a pastor's position at the Nydegg Church in Bern. In 1960 he retired.

Leo Tolstoy. His struggle for the meaning of life. Neuwerk-Verlag, Schlüchtern Habertshof 1922.
The Habertshof. Becoming and shaping a folk high school. Neuwerk-Verlag, Kassel 1930.
From the ordinances of the Church. BEG-Verlag, Bern 1944.
The Neuwerk movement 1922-1933. Johannes-Stauda-Verlag, Kassel 1973. ( ISBN 3-7982-0118-8 )
As if it was yesterday. How could I be a pastor in the 20th century? Flamberg-Verlag, Zurich 1973. ( ISBN 3-7179-2127-4 )

Klauspeter Blaser : Blum, Emil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 11, 2002 .
Christian Münch: Blum, Emil. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 38, Bautz, Nordhausen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95948-259-2 , Sp. 238–246.
Antje Vollmer : The Neuwerk movement. A contribution to the history of the youth movement, religious socialism and workers' education. 1919-1935. 1973 (Dissertation, FU Berlin, 1973).