Friedrich Kreppel

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Friedrich Kreppel (born June 19, 1903 in Nuremberg ; † June 23, 1992 ) was a German Protestant theologian and educator.

Life

The pastor's son attended grammar school in Nuremberg and Munich until he graduated from high school in 1923. Then he studied theology with Friedrich Brunstäd , passed the state examination in theology, turned to pedagogy and received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1927 with a dissertation on the philosophy of religion.

Since 1913 Kreppel belonged to the Wandervogel , founded the local group Munich-Nord and the Gau Bavaria in 1920 and belonged to the federal administration 1921/22. From 1923 to 1933 he belonged to the Reichsstand. Fellowship of German wandering birds . He was one of the few to warn against the Langemarck myth in autumn 1923 . Kreppel was appointed as a teacher at the college for teacher training in Weilburg and headed it from 1934 until it was hired in 1941. “At that time, under pressure from the party, many HfL directors had the position for Protestant theology orphaned. Kreppel was not ready to compromise on questions of Christianity. "

After 1945 Kreppel became managing director of the aid organization of the Evangelical Church of Hesse-Nassau . In 1947 he founded the Free German Circle with Hans-Joachim Schoeps and Werner Kindt at the Altenberg Monastery near Wetzlar . Schoeps, Hans-Joachim von Merkatz ( German Party ) and Kreppel drafted a neo-monarchist manifesto in 1954 and planned a people's union for monarchy .

Fonts

  • Max Scheler's philosophy of religion. Munich 1927.
  • Confederation, profession and science: Conversations with the zeitgeist - testimony and report. A documentation. dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • (Ed.) Teaching assignment and testimony of faith: Lectures at a conference of Protestant church leaderships and educational universities. Beltz, Weinheim 1961.

literature

  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 451–452 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Karl Dienst : Church - School - Religious Education: Investigation following the EKHN's church struggle documentation. LIT, Münster 2009.
  • Barbara Stambolis , Jürgen Reulecke : 100 Years of the Hoher Meissner (1913–2013). Sources on the history of the youth movement. Göttingen 2015, ISBN 9783847103332 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Schulz: Good luck and much blessings: Explorations around a canon, p. 72 .
  2. ^ Eugen Steinruck: Memories of the earlier teacher training in Weilburg and Gießen. Justus Liebig University, Institute for Didactics of Mathematics, Giessen 1982, p. 17.
  3. ^ Spiegel , March 3, 1954 .
personal data
SURNAME Kreppel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1992