Erwin Brauer

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Erwin Brauer (born October 29, 1896 in Plauen , today in Dresden ; † December 19, 1946 in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald ) was a German Higher Regional Church Council and a member of the German Christians .

Life

Brauer took part in the First World War as a soldier . Since 1919 he studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Jena and became a doctor of philosophy doctorate . During his studies he became a member of the Burgundia Jena armed forces . In 1921 he was ordained pastor and since then has been an assistant pastor or pastor in Nerkewitz . From 1925 he worked at the regional church council of the Thuringian Evangelical Church in Eisenach , where he was appointed to church-wide tasks in 1926. He took care of property disputes between church and school. In 1933 he became a clerk in the "People's Service". In the same year he joined the church movement of the German Christians. Since 1934 he was a church government councilor and was a member of the state church assembly . In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . Since 1943 he was a full-time member of the regional church council of the Thuringian Protestant Church as an Oberlandeskirchenrat. After the liberation from National Socialism he lost his office and was interned by the Soviet military authorities in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald, where he died on December 19, 1946.

Fonts

  • The Ruhr uprising of 1920 / Erwin Brauer. - Berlin: Internat. Arbeiter-Verlag, 1930
  • Gods and places of worship of the Fayums in Greco-Roman times. - o. O., (1924)

literature

  • Erich Stegmann, The Church Struggle in the Thuringian Evangelical Church 1933–1945, Berlin 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Jacob (ed.): Address directory of the German armed forces for 1928/29. Reutlingen, 1928, p. 107.
  2. ↑ Thomas A. Seidel (ed.): Thuringian ridge walks . Leipzig 1998.
  3. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray . Cologne 1987, p. 150.
  4. ↑ List of the dead of the Buchenwald special camp, p. 28; ( Online query of the Book of the Dead , accessed June 7, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Brewer, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1946
Place of death Special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald near Weimar