Friedrich Schöll

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Gottlieb Friedrich Immanuel Schöll (* December 12, 1874 in Blaubeuren , † February 10, 1967 in Bad Wildbad ) was a supporter of the life reform and the national movement as well as a member of the German faith movement and the NSDAP .

Life

Schöll came from an old Pietist family . He was the first child of the supervisor Jakob Schöll and the housewife Johanna Schöll and had a sister two years younger than him. For economic reasons he could not become a pastor, as his parents wanted him to do, but decided to become a teacher. In 1889 he entered the Protestant teacher training college in Nürtingen . In 1893 Schöll took up his first job in Weitersteusslingen , but took leave of absence as early as 1895/96 to work as a private tutor. In 1896 he worked at the elementary school in Obertürkheim and was also preparing for the realteacher examination, which he passed in early 1899. From 1900 he was used in the school service in Esslingen am Neckar .

In 1903 he suffered a physical and mental breakdown under the self-imposed workload, as he wanted to take the high school diploma in order to be able to teach in the higher classes of a high school. The treatment of the Ulm natural doctor Alfred Pfleiderer made Schöll a staunch supporter of life reform. In 1904 Schöll became the main teacher at the Schwenningen secondary school and in 1905 married Maria Klein, the daughter of the senior teacher from Stuttgart.

His encounters with Christoph Schrempf , Moritz von Egidy , Pastor Gottfried Schwarz and Hugo Wegener inspired him for free religious ideas at the turn of the century. "In addition to educational work (German language teaching), the following 25 years focused more on the fight against alcoholism, life reform (first attempts with whole grain bread, courses for non-alcoholic juices, vegetarianism ) and ethnic and social work."

In 1921 he founded the Vogelhof settlement (with agriculture, gardening, fruit growing) and in 1926 the Hellaufschule . In these the three basic goals of religious education , life reform and national socialism should be realized. The ideas of Paul de Lagarde and Pastor Karl Strünckmann played a major role, it was about an "Aryan-Christian community". As early as 1923, it was also about building a wind turbine . Problems arose a. because of polygamy , which Hans Reichart propagated.

Schöll maintained close relationships with Wilhelm Hauer and his German religious movement and had been in contact with the free Protestant pastor Rudolf Walbaum since 1940 . Schöll was a representative of pantheism .

In 1947 Schöll joined the religious community of Free Protestants , in whose Unitarian ideas he believed he recognized the beliefs he had already lived at the Vogelhof. His idea of ​​the essential identity of the divine and the human (“I am God”) found only limited approval within the community.

Schöll founded the state community of Baden-Württemberg, which was renamed the German Unitarian Religious Community in 1950 . In the two years as the first head of the "Spiritual Council" of the German Unitarian Religious Community, which was created in 1955, he coined the "guiding principles" first developed in 1957. But the growing tendencies within the religious community, "which emphasized the religious less than the ideological", depressed him very much. In 1960 he resigned from all his offices "because the religious and philosophical differences could not be overcome".

Works

  • Aims and tasks of the German Association for People's Nutrition . Mimir, Stuttgart 1917.
  • True Christianity as a German popular belief: 80 sentences against the unbelief of the "Christians" as a wake-up call to the whole people . Siegfried Verlag, Stuttgart 1921.
  • From belief in life as the essence of German Christianity . Siegfried-Verlag, Stuttgart 1925.
  • The structure of the school system in the Volkish State . Siegfried-Verlag, Stuttgart 1928.
  • German view of life and lifestyle - seen from the reality of the Vogelhof . Siegfried Verlag Dr. Schöll, Vogelhof 1931.
  • Nordic affirmation of life or Christian belief in redemption . Röth, Eisenach 1935.
  • Rural education home and school settlement in the Third Reich: The final. Realization of the demands of Fichte and Lagarde . Röth, Eisenach 1936.
  • Education and Settlement: Report on d. ten years of existence d. Schulsiedlg Vogelhof . Röth, Eisenach 1936.
  • God's return to his reality . 1952.
  • Schiller's religion and the religious future of our German people . German Unitarian state community, Hamburg 1954.
  • Thoughts on the Unitarian worldview: At the same time a philosophical and religious view of the all-unity . German Unitarian religious community, Kassel 1955.
  • A new interpretation of the Gospel of John: The meaning of being human . Balzer, Stuttgart 1964.
  • God-nature in myth and fairy tale . Self-published by Friedrich Schöll, Wildbad 1969.

literature

Christoph Knüppel: Friedrich Schöll: "Vogelhof school settlement" - life reform as "eradication of all that is alien". In Manfred Bosch , Ulrich Gaier, Wolfgang Rapp, Peter Schneider, Wolfgang Schürle (eds.): Schwabenspiegel - literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1800–1950. On behalf of the Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke, Biberach / Riß 2006, ISBN 3-937184-05-8 , pp. 731–764.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ehinger local newspaper
  2. ↑ faith and fact, 12/1974, p 325
  3. ↑ U. Lens: Back o man to mother earth. Rural communes in Germany 1890-1933 , Munich 1983, pp. 199–220
  4. ↑ faith and act 12/1974, p 335
  5. ↑ faith and fact, 12/1974, S. 325f
  6. ↑ German Unitarian Religious Community (Ed.): What do you actually believe? The German Unitarians - a free religious community . Hamburg / Ravensburg 2000, pp. 173,234
  7. ↑ faith and fact, 12/1974, p 328
personal data
SURNAME Schöll, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöll, Gottlieb Friedrich Immanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Unitarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Blaubeuren , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1967
Place of death Bad Wildbad , Germany