Ernst Stracke

Ernst Stracke (born January 31, 1894 in Emden , † October 8, 1963 in Tübingen ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Stracke first went to the Imperial Navy and became an officer in the First World War . Then he studied history and Slavic studies , but switched to Protestant theology. He did his doctorate under Hans von Schubert and completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1924. His writing traces the development of Martin Luther as a reformer . In 1928 he became an associate professor for church history at the Protestant Theological Faculty at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . In March 1933 he signed the declaration of 300 university lecturers for Adolf Hitler . Because of difficulties in his faculty, he strove for a professorship for “German Piety” and ran the project of a “Germanic-German Faith History”. In the Philosophical Faculty, an "Aryan seminar" was installed under the Indologist Jakob Wilhelm Hauer , from which the temporary employee Stracke, however, distanced himself from 1943 because of his unchristian orientation. He was suspended from duty on July 7, 1945. In 1956 he was retired, retired in 1961, 1952–1962 he was a lecturer in the history of the Eastern Churches .

Fonts

• Luther's great self-testimony in 1545 about his development as a reformer, viewed from a historical-critical point of view , SVRG, Leipzig 1926

literature

• Horst Junginger : From philological to folk religious studies. The subject of religious studies at the University of Tübingen from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the Third Reich (= Contubernium. Volume 51). Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, p. 230 ISBN 3-515-07432-5
• Benigna Schönhagen: Tübingen under the swastika: a university town in the time of National Socialism , Theiss, 1991
• Obituary in: Attempto: Nachrichten für die Freunde der Tübingen University, issues 10–24, 1963, p. 67