Erich Knabe

Erich Karl Knabe (born May 21, 1882 in Böhrigen ; † April 24, 1940 in Moritzburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Knabe's mother was the daughter of the textile manufacturer and short-term member of the state parliament Friedrich Gottlob Lehmann , in whose house Knabe was born and spent his childhood. After graduating from the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig in 1902 , he studied Protestant theology in Tübingen, Leipzig and Besançon until 1906 . In 1908 he passed the second theological exam and took up a position as an assistant chaplain in Leipzig-Gohlis . He received his first pastor's position in 1910 in Wendischrottmannsdorf near Zwickau. In 1915 he became a state clergyman in Hubertusburg / Wermsdorf, and in 1921 in the Royal Saxon Sanatorium and Nursing Homein Arnsdorf . In 1928 he moved to the state sanatorium and nursing home in Leipzig-Dosen . He published several books and essays in which he tried to make the findings of psychiatry fruitful for pastoral care .

Knabe had been a member of the NSDAP since February 1932 and was also a German Christian . In 1934/35 he published publications to support the forced sterilizations carried out on the basis of the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring . From November 1935 he worked in the regional church committee set up to pacify church political conflicts. In 1936 he resigned from the German Christians and returned to the church service as rector of the Moritzburg deaconry . He now turned against the National Socialist "euthanasia program" both in public lectures and in personal visits to party officials . Because of his commitment, he was summoned by the Gestapo on April 22, 1940 and died two days later of complications from pneumonia.

family

Since 1911 the boy was born with the pastor's daughter Helene (Lena). Rust married. The forest scientist and Green politician Wilhelm Knabe is one of his nine children . One of his grandchildren is the historian Hubertus Knabe .

Fonts (selection)

• The sexual question and the pastor. Railway, Schwerin 1926.
• Psychiatry and Pastoral Care. A word from practice for practice. Railway, Schwerin 1929.

literature

• Eberhard Keil: The Sachswerk saga 1914–1945. An industrial story from Böhrigen, Chemnitz and all over the world. Marbach 2006, ISBN 978-3-934136-07-6 ,
• Konstantin Herrmann: Changes: Erich Knabe. In: Konstantin Hermann, Gerhard Lindemann (Ed.): Between Christ Cross and Swastika. Biographies of theologians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony. Pp. 19-33.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Knabe in the bibliographic database WorldCat