Friedrich Karl Schumann

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Friedrich Karl Schumann (born June 15, 1886 in Messkirch ; † May 21, 1960 in Münster ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor .

Life

The son of a pastor attended high schools in Wertheim and Lörrach. After graduating from high school in 1903, he studied theology and philosophy in Basel, Berlin, Greifswald and Heidelberg; he took the final exams in Karlsruhe in 1908. After his military service in 1909/10, Schumann was city vicar in Mannheim and began his dissertation on Religion and Reality . With her he was in 1913 at the University of Greifswald in John Rehmke Dr. phil. PhD. From 1914 to 1924 Schumann worked as a pastor in Triberg in the Black Forest. During the First World War he was a field division pastor, awarded the Iron Cross. In 1923 Schumann received his doctorate from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen as Dr. theologiae. After his habilitation at this university in the following year, he was initially a private lecturer. From 1928 he taught at the University of Tübingen as an associate professor. In 1929 he received a call to the University of Giessen and finally taught systematic and practical theology from 1932 as a full professor in Halle .

In the spring of 1933 Friedrich Karl Schumann became a member of the NSDAP and the German Christians . From July to November 1933 he was a member of the so-called “Temporary Management of the DEK” (German Evangelical Church) and in this function was involved in the drafting of a new constitution for the Evangelical Church in Germany. On November 11, 1933, he was one of the speakers alongside Martin Heidegger , Wilhelm Pinder and Ferdinand Sauerbruch at the event on the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities and colleges . Under the impression of the so-called "Sportpalast rally" of the German Christians on November 13, 1933, Schumann turned away from the German Christians again and took a position that mediated between the Confessing Church and the German Christians.

In 1945 Schumann was dismissed at the instigation of the Soviet occupation forces, but denazified in 1946. In 1945/46 he was a member of the "Provisional Spiritual Management of the Church Province of Saxony" and headed the theological office as a state pastor in the Magdeburg Consistory . In 1947 the theologian was appointed head of the newly founded Evangelical Research Academy Christophorusstift in Hemer, Westphalia. At the same time, he taught from 1951 as an honorary professor, later as a so-called exempt full professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, where he retired in 1955.

Schumann was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology (Dr. theol. Hc) by the Universities of Basel (1929) and Debrecen (1938) and since 1955 has been part of the “Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ” established by the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Karl Arnold Westphalia ”, which later became the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften , and since 1958 the board of trustees of the research center of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST) in Heidelberg. As an author, the theologian wrote several books on the doctrine of justification , the church's understanding of ministry and myth and technology .

Friedrich Karl Schumann was married to Else Schumann, born in 1913. Ehrich (1889–1972) from Basel / CH. From this marriage three sons were born. His youngest son Johannes-Peter Schumann (1928–2006) also became a theologian and from 1977 to 1992 held the leading spiritual office as superintendent in the evangelical church district of Vlotho (official seat in Bad Oeynhausen).

Fonts (selection)

  • The idea of ​​God and the decay of modernity . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1929.
  • About church and teaching. Collected essays and lectures . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1936.
  • To overcome secularism in science (= faith and research , 1). Freizeiten-Verlag, Gladbeck 1949.
  • Word and Reality. A contribution to the question of demythologizing the New Testament message ( writings of the theological convention of the Augsburg Confession ). Lutheran publishing house, Berlin 1951.
  • as publisher in connection with Wilhelm Menn & Wilhelm Schüßler : Europe in a Protestant view . Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1953.
  • as ed. with Hans Dombois : Secular and ecclesiastical marriage. Contributions to the question of the right to marry (= faith and research , 6). Freizeiten-Verlag, Gladbeck 1953.
  • Word and shape. Collected essays . Luther-Verlag, Witten 1956.
  • Myth and technology . West German publishing house, Cologne / Opladen 1958.
  • Reformation and Roman Catholic understanding of justification. Fragments of a postponed lecture . Lutheran Publishing House, Berlin 1969.
  • Word and Reality. Collected essays and smaller writings , ed. by Karl Heinrich Rengstorf and Dieter Schumann. Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Berlin / Hamburg 1971. ISBN 3785903804

literature

  • Henrik Eberle : The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2002, p. 282. ISBN 3-89812-150-X
  • Jan Rohls, Protestant Theology of Modern Times, Vol. 2: The 20th Century. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1997, p. 289 and 389. ISBN 978-3161466441
  • Eckhard Lessing, History of German-speaking Protestant Theology from Albrecht Ritschl to the Present, Vol. 2: 1918–1945. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, pp. 71–75. ISBN 978-3525569542

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Friedrich Karl Schumann in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on March 27, 2009)
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 570.
  3. ↑ Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949. Organs - Associations - Offices - Persons, Vol. 1: Überregionalaleeinrichtungen, Göttingen 2010, p. 141
  4. ↑ see web links
  5. ^ Confession of professors at German universities and colleges, o. O. 1933, p. 25f .; Kurt Nowak , Protestant University Theology and “National Revolution”. A contribution to the history of science of the “Third Reich”, in Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz / Carsten Nicolaisen (eds.), Theological Faculties in National Socialism, Göttingen 1993, p. 109
  6. ↑ Klaus Scholder , The Churches and the Third Reich, Vol. 1: Prehistory and Time of Illusions 1918-1934, Frankfurt / Main a. a. 1977, pp. 703f .; Marianne Taatz, The Theological Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg under National Socialism, in: Hallische Contributions to Contemporary History Issue 13, Halle 2003, p. 43; Siegfried Heinzelmann, Friedrich Karl Schumann †, in: Wingolfsblätter, 80 (1960), pp. 128–130
  7. ^ Reports of the Magdeburg church leadership on the meetings of the Provincial Synod 1946-1989, ed. by Harald Schultze, Göttingen 2005, pp. 41, 629, 713
  8. ^ Heads of research on the Rhine and Ruhr. The members of the working group for research of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. With a foreword by Fritz Steinhoff, Dortmund 1959
  9. ↑ http://www.fest-heidelberg.de/index.php.leitung-der-fest/Kuratorium
  10. ↑ List of publications (until 1956), in: Friedrich Karl Schumann, Wort und Gestalt, Witten 1956, pp. 393–400
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Friedrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Messkirch
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1960
Place of death Muenster