Erich Grauheding

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Erich Grauheding (born February 10, 1911 in Essen , † July 12, 2000 in Speyer ) was a German lawyer and from 1964 to 1975 president of the regional church office in Kiel .

Life

Erich Grauheding was the only son of the administrative director Richard Grauheding (1876–1940) and his wife Juliane, geb. Heinrichs. He attended the Helmholtz grammar school in Essen until his Abitur in 1930 and studied law , first at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and from the summer of 1932 at the University of Cologne . In 1934 he passed the legal traineeship before the Cologne Higher Regional Court , in the same year he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD.

He initially worked as a court assessor in Essen. In 1938 he joined the Church of the Old Prussian Union as a legal assistant at the Consistory in Stettin . In 1939 he was transferred to the consistory of the church province of Saxony in Magdeburg as an assessor and was appointed consistorial councilor in 1941. From 1942 to 1945 he did military service and was a prisoner of war , during this time there were plans in 1943 to take over in the Reich Ministry of Education under appeal as a Reich civil servant. In 1946 he returned to the Magdeburg church administration.

Grauheding's official seat in Berlin in 1956

From 1952 he was senior lawyer at the (East) Berlin office of the EKD church chancellery in Bischofsstraße in the Marienviertel . Together with Provost Heinrich Grüber , the General Plenipotentiary of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) at the Council of Ministers of the GDR , Grauheding was often a representative of the EKD in church matters in the GDR, for example in negotiations with Otto Nuschke on December 14, 1955 and August 6 1956. He was editor-in-chief and from 1957 license holder of the east edition of the EKD gazette and negotiated the instructions for prison chaplains in the GDR.

In 1958 he went to the west and came to the regional church office of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant regional church) in Speyer . During his term of office, the State Church Treaty between the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Evangelical Churches in Rhineland-Palatinate on November 3, 1962 was concluded.

The church leadership of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Schleswig-Holstein appointed him as the successor to Oskar Epha as President of the Regional Church Office in Kiel on November 1, 1964 . In 1975 he retired. His successor was Horst Göldner, head of the church chancellery of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck , in the course of preparations for the establishment of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church .

From 1966 to 1972 Erich Grauheding was a member of the EKD Synod.

Works

  • The surcharge in enforcement. Diss. Iur. Cologne 1935
  • The Mainz State Church Treaty. In: ZevKR 10 (1963), pp. 143-172

literature

  • Ulrich Scheuner: The service in the church administration. Lecture on the centenary of the regional church office in Kiel with an introductory address by Erich Grauheding. Kiel: Lutherische Verlagsgesellschaft 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the curriculum vitae in the diss.
  2. ^ Files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Reconstruction of a lost stock. Volume 2: Regesten . de Gruyter, Berlin 1983, ISBN 978-3-598-30262-6 , p. 965.
  3. ↑ Horst Dähn: Confrontation or Cooperation? The relationship between state and church in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–1980. Opladen 1982, p. 59; Gerhard Fischer: Otto Nuschke. Union, Berlin 1983, p. 144 (with photo); Claudia Lepp: Unity taboo? The East-West Community of Protestant Christians and the division of Germany (1945 to 1969) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-55743-4 , p. 240.
  4. ↑ Jens Bulisch: Evangelical press in the GDR: "The signs of the times" (1947-1990) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-55744-2 , p. 260.
  5. ↑ Andreas Beckmann, Regina Kusch: God in Bautzen. The prison pastoral care in the GDR. Links, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-86153-066-4 , p. 253.
personal data
SURNAME Grauheding, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and President of the Regional Church Office in Kiel (1964–1975)
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2000
Place of death Speyer