Erich Stange

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Erich Stange (born March 23, 1888 in Schwepnitz , † March 12, 1972 in Kassel ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , Reichswart of the Evangelical Young Men’s Association and one of the founders of telephone pastoral care in Germany.

Life

After attending grammar school in Zittau , Stange studied Protestant theology in Leipzig, Berlin and Greifswald , continuing a family tradition. In 1913 he took over the pastor's post in Pulsnitz , from where he moved to a pastor's post in Leipzig in 1917 . Also in Leipzig, he received his doctorate in 1914 on Die Eigenart der Johannine Production: A Contribution to the Critique of the Newer Source Separation Hypotheses and Characteristics of the Johannine Psyche . From 1917 he was also editor of the magazine Pastoral-Blätter for sermons, pastoral care and church instruction .

In 1921 he took over the office of Reichswarts in the Reich Association of Protestant Young Men’s Associations , today's YMCA Association in Germany ; at the same time he became secretary of the World Council for Practical Christianity . 1927 awarded him the theological faculty of the University of Konigsberg , the honorary doctorate .

In 1933, Stange joined the NSDAP . In May 1933 he was appointed Reichsführer of the Evangelical Youth in Germany in the Youth Leader Council of the Youth Leader of the German Empire . He lost this position again in December 1933 when he protested against the forced transfer of the Protestant youth to the Hitler Youth . In 1934 he was expelled from the NSDAP.

During and after the Second World War , Stange continued his work for the Reich Association of Protestant Young Men’s Associations; In 1950 he also took over a pastor's position in Kassel, where the headquarters of the Reich Association had been located since 1921. In 1954 he resigned from the service of the Reich Association of Protestant Young Men.

On February 11, 1957, Stange founded the first Protestant telephone counseling facility in Germany based on the English model , after the first telephone counseling center on German soil had been established a year earlier in Berlin by the doctor, psychotherapist and pastor Klaus Thomas .

In 1996, the Dr.-Erich-Stange-Haus of the Christian Association Oberlichtenau in Pulsnitz was named after Stange .

The theologian Carl Stange was his brother.

Works (selection)

  • The peculiarity of Johannine production. A contribution to the criticism of the newer source decision hypotheses and to the characteristics of the Johannine psyche (dissertation; Dresden 1915)
  • Pauline travel plans (Gütersloh 1918)
  • The broadcast. Words to a Christian young team in Germany (Lindhorst 1923; later under the title Calls to a Christian young team in Germany )
  • The coming church. Thoughts on the future within our German Protestant churches (Dresden 1924)
  • The slogans travel to India. Diary of a trip to India and Palestine (Dresden 1937)
  • The Corinthians (Stuttgart 1948)
  • Report on a life's work in the service of the young generation (autobiography; Kassel 1957)
  • I was looking for the brother. Ecumenical travel reports (Konstanz 1957)
  • To be handed in personally. Conversations with young people (Konstanz 1957)
  • Telephone counseling (Kassel 1961)

As editor

  • From the brother human. A guide for young men-to-be (Halle (Saale) 1924)
  • Contemporary religious studies in self-portrayals (5 volumes, Leipzig 1925–1929)
  • Handbook for the Evangelical Young Men Work in Germany (3 volumes, Wuppertal-Barmen 1927–1931)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Siekmann:  Stange, Erich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1355-1367.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism . tape 2 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen and Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-525-55730-2 , pp. 1071 .
  3. ↑ Martina Patenge: Sometimes difficult - but indispensable! Telephone counseling, a service for people in crisis . In: Bernhard Nacke (Ed.): Orientation and Innovation. Contributions of the Church to State and Society. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-32251-8 , p. 640 ( online [PDF]). online ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telefonseelsorge-neuss.de
  4. ↑ Youth Center West Lusatia. In: Christlicher Verein Oberlichtenau eV On CV-Oberlichtenau.de, accessed on August 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Stange, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwepnitz
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1972
Place of death kassel