Eugene Mattiat

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Eugen Mattiat (born April 28, 1901 in Cologne , † October 1, 1976 in Göttingen ) was a Protestant theologian and folklorist.

Life

Mattiat studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and Göttingen from 1920 to 1924 and was ordained on April 19, 1926. He was a member of the Heidelberger , Göttinger and Tübinger Wingolf . He took up his first position as an assistant pastor in Hamburg . In 1927 he became assistant pastor in Bad Lauterberg , and in 1928 pastor in Kerstlingerode . He supported the Nazi movement early on, becoming a member of the NSDAP on October 1, 1931 (membership number 677.146). Mattiat promoted reading Hitler's “Mein Kampf” and openly represented racist and anti-Semitic positions. He became a spy for the SD . He became regional leader of the German Christians and in 1933 appointed regional church council in the regional church office in Hanover .

From 1934 to 1937 Mattiat was a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Education . On July 1, 1935, he was appointed full professor for practical theology at the University of Berlin and appointed director of the theological seminar without having obtained a doctorate or habilitation . As a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Education, he was released from teaching duties. In 1937 Mattiat became a member of the SS (membership number 290.057), in which he achieved the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1940 . After joining the SS, he left the church a year later. In 1938 he left the Reich Ministry of Education and was appointed professor of folklore at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen without consulting the faculty . From 1939 he was the local head of the Nazi lecturers' association. He is considered one of the founders of folklore at the university there. During the Second World War he served as a reserve officer in the Wehrmacht , most recently as a first lieutenant in the reserve.

Arrested in May 1945, Mattiat was detained until March 1948. After re-entering the Evangelical Church, he was able to return to the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . He became pastor in Zellerfeld in 1952 and pastor in Dorste in 1960 . He was retired on August 1, 1966.

literature

Publications

  • Do you even know National Socialism? As a Christian, can you be a National Socialist? (1930).
  • The Church has a call to hear! (1933).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Imgart (ed.): Directory of members of the Wingolfs . Wolfratshausen 1930, p. 48.
  2. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Göttingen 2007. p. 45.
  3. ↑ Othmar Plöckinger: History of a Book: Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf". 1922-1945. Munich 2011, p. 261.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 395.
  5. ↑ Hartmut Ludwig: The Berlin Theological Faculty 1933 to 1945 . In: Rüdiger vom Bruch (ed.): The Berlin University in the Nazi era . Volume 2, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 108
  6. ↑ Michael Grüttner, Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 115.
  7. ^ Rolf Wilhelm Brednich , Volkskunde - the völkisch science of blood and soil, in: Heinrich Becker u. a. (Ed.), The University of Göttingen under National Socialism, 2. Erw. Edition, Munich 1998, p. 492 ff.
  8. ↑ Michael Grüttner, Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 115.
  9. ↑ Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover 16/1976, p. 159.
personal data
SURNAME Mattiat, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1976
Place of death Goettingen