Erich Gräßer

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Erich Ludwig Gräßer (born October 23, 1927 in Schwalbach (Saar) ; † June 2, 2017 in Witten ) was a university professor, Protestant theologian and politician ( animal protection party ).

Life

Gräßer lived in Witten and Bonn . He was married to the high school teacher Ingeborg Gräßer (1930–2010) and had three children. He studied theology in Wuppertal , Tübingen and Marburg . He then worked as a pastor in Rheinbach and Oberhausen from 1956 to 1961 . In 1955 Werner Georg Kümmel received his doctorate with a thesis on The Problem of the Parousia Delay in the Synoptic Gospels and in the Acts of the Apostles, and in 1964 his habilitation with a thesis on Faith in Hebrews .

In 1964, Gräßer was initially a lecturer at the University of Marburg. From 1965 to 1979 he was Professor of the New Testament in Bochum , from 1979 to his retirement in 1993 at the University of Bonn , where he had a special friendship and working group with the Catholic New Testament scholar Helmut Merklein . Merklein's long-time assistant Marlis Gielen dedicated the third and final volume of the Ecumenical Pocket Book Commentary to the 1st Corinthians to him.

Gräßer was President of the Scientific Albert Schweitzer Society, which was dissolved in November 2005. His main research interests were the Letter to the Hebrews , the Lucanian theology (especially the Acts of the Apostles ), the 2nd Corinthians and Albert Schweitzer . In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald .

Commitment to animal welfare and animal rights

His wife was a founding member of the Animal Welfare Party in 1993 , later until May 2005 the North Rhine-Westphalian state chairman of the Animal Welfare Party and at times a member of the federal board. Erich Gräßer also joined the party. Until her death in September 2010, his wife was a co-founder of the board of trustees of the Hans-Rönn-Stiftung - Menschen für Tiere , Düsseldorf and - as far as is known - the first Kirchentag Mensch und Tier 2010 in Dortmund with the Church and Animals campaign (AKUT ) initiated and funded. For his party he competed in elections several times, including the 2002 federal election , in which he was the top candidate on the North Rhine-Westphalian state list. In the North Rhine-Westphalian state elections on May 14, 2000 , he ran in the constituency Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis III . A total of 626 votes or 1.4% fell on him. In the North Rhine-Westphalian state elections on May 22, 2005 , he was also the top candidate and also ran in the constituency of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II . There he got 830 votes, which corresponded to 1.4%.

Gräßer was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Environment and the Board of Trustees of the Hans Rönn Foundation. He saw animal welfare as a "Christian duty". He saw Albert Schweitzer as his role model. On July 29, 2007, he and his wife were awarded the Franziskus Prize by the Church and Animals Campaign (AKUT) in the Protestant Church in Witten-Bommern. The reason for this was their merit in giving animals space within theology .

Bibliography (selection)

  • Faith in the Letter to the Hebrews . Elwert, Marburg 1965, ISBN 3-86087-116-1 .
  • with August Strobel and Robert C. Tannehill : Jesus in Nazareth . De Gruyter, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-11-004004-2 .
  • The expectation of Jesus . KBW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-460-03611-7 .
  • Albert Schweitzer as a theologian . Mohr, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-16-142351-8 .
  • The old covenant in the new. Exegetical Studies in the New Testament. Mohr, Tübingen 1985, ISBN 3-16-144939-8 .
  • To the Hebrews . Benziger, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-545-23130-5 .
  • as editor : Albert Schweitzer . Reverence for life. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54155-0 .
  • Research on the Acts of the Apostles . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147592-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b bundeswahlleiter.de: Candidates for the Federal Parliament election 2002 - State list proposals - State of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento from November 2, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c openpr.de: Franziskus award . Retrieved May 7, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b zeitenwende-online.de: ZeitenWENDE edition 3/2010 No. 40 . Retrieved May 7, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c http://albert-schweitzer-stiftung.de/: Wissenschaftsbeirat . Retrieved May 7, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b randomhouse.de: Erich Gräßer . Retrieved May 7, 2015 .
  6. ↑ www.uni-greifswald.de
  7. ↑ wahlen.nrw.de: State election on May 14, 2000 in North Rhine-Westphalia - district election proposals ( memento of October 18, 2000 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ alt.wahlresults.nrw.de: Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz - Die Tierschutzpartei - Landesreserveliste . Retrieved May 7, 2015 .
  9. ↑ enkreis.de: Wahlkreis 106 - Results 2005 . Archived from the original on May 19, 2012 ; accessed on May 7, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Gräßer, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gräßer, Erich Ludwig Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, theologian and politician (Die Tierschutzpartei)
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwalbach (Saar)
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 2017
Place of death Witten