Friedrich Schauer (pastor)

Alwin Friedrich Schauer (born April 17, 1891 in Schirgiswalde ; † January 14, 1958 in Hermannsburg near Celle) was a theologian and neo-orientalist, from 1947 to 1950 he was the first director of the Evangelical Academy of Baden in Bad Herrenalb.

Life and work

After completing high school and high school in 1910 in Dresden , Schauer studied theology and neo-oriental philology in Leipzig and Göttingen from 1910 to 1914 .

From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, from December 1, 1915 as a lieutenant in the reserve, most recently as an interpreter for Turkish and Persian. As early as April 1915 in the town of La Ville aux Bois, Champagne , he lost his left eye from a gunshot wound while mending a wire shed. During the First World War, Schauer acted as a vacancy representative at the St. Thomä parish in Soest .

After the end of the war, he worked for the Evangelical-Lutheran Central Association for Mission over Israel in Leipzig from 1919 to 1920. On August 18, 1920 he married Helga von Harling, with whom he had three sons; two of them fell in World War II. On August 10, 1920, he received his doctorate in Leipzig. phil. presented with the dissertation The Turkish poet Mehmed Akif after his "Safahat" .

In 1920 Schauer began his first job as a pastor in Molthainen (East Prussia), which he held until 1929. 1929–1933 he was a provincial youth pastor of Pomerania in Stettin . As a member of the Michael Brotherhood belonging to the Berneuchen movement , he actively participated in the resistance against the Third Reich. In 1933 Schauer joined the first protest movement, the Young Reformation movement against the German Christians. He became the leader of this movement in Pomerania, and a little later he also became the country leader of the so-called Pastor Emergency League . Schauer's “inner-church location” can be described as spiritual and spiritual rather than the spectrum of church political groups. In 1934 he became a pastor in Pütte in Western Pomerania , and for political reasons he was soon to be transferred to the East Prussian Popelken (1938 to 1946: Markthausen) in the Labiau district.After the transfer was declared invalid in early 1935, he was able to continue in Pütte until 1937 stay. Schauer worked on the brother council of the Confessing Church in Pomerania, but withdrew from the church struggle in 1936 because of theological differences with Dietrich Bonhoeffer . From 1937 to 1946 he was the director of the Predigerseminar Soest , which was destroyed by a bombing on December 5, 1944.

During the Second World War, Schauer was an officer from 1939 to 1945 and served in Oslo / Norway from 1940. He was the adjutant of the later Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Theodor Steltzer . Like Steltzer, who was arrested by the Gestapo on August 1, 1944, Schauer was on the side of the resistance against National Socialism in Norway. The Norwegian Resistance, known as the "Home Front" (Hjemmefronten), particularly praised his participation in the liberation of Alexander Johnson from the Grini concentration camp in April 1944. Johnson, then head of the Christian student movement and later bishop in Hamar, is considered one of the most important people in the Resistance in the Norwegian Church. After he was forced to leave as an officer, Schauer managed to escape to Sweden in April 1945 and sought asylum there. Until the end of November 1946 he lived as a political refugee in Sigtuna (Sweden).

After his return to Germany in 1947, Schauer initially worked at the Luther Church in Karlsruhe's Oststadt . In 1947 he was appointed the first director of the Baden Evangelical Academy in Bad Herrenalb. In 1950, however, he had to give up work at the academy because of long-standing differences of opinion with the regional bishop Julius Bender . Until his retirement in 1954 he was pastor in Mühlbach (Eppingen) in Baden .

The city of Soest honored Schauer by naming the Friedrich-Schauer-Weg after him.

Publications

• Friedrich Schauer: home evenings with the young team ; Wuppertal-Barmen: Eichenkreuz-Verlag, 1931
• Friedrich Schauer / Wilhelm Stählin: Spiritual discipline ; Kassel: Johannes Stauda-Verlag, 1937
• Friedrich Schauer: The Protestant Academy of the Baden regional church in Herrenalb (Black Forest) ; Stuttgart: Quell-Verlag, 1948
• Friedrich Schauer (ed.): What is it about hell? Documents on the Norwegian church dispute ; Stuttgart: Evangelisches Verlagswerk, 1956

literature

• Theological real encyclopedia edited by Horst Balz , Walter de Gruyter, 1976, ISBN 9783110154351 .
• Evangelical Academy Baden (ed.): Whoever speaks, loves. 50 years of the Evangelical Academy Baden. Review and perspectives ; Karlsruhe: Protestant Academy Baden, 1997; ISBN 3-89674-500-X
• Margot Käßmann (ed.): God wants to see action. Christian resistance against Hitler. A reading book ; Munich: CH Beck Verlag 2013; ISBN 978-3406644535
• Werner Klän: The Protestant Church in Pomerania in Republic and Dictatorship: History and Design of a Prussian Church Province, 1914–1945 ; Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau, 1995; ISBN 9783412041953
• Ulrich Rottschäfer: 100 years of the seminary in Westphalia 1892–1992 ; Bielefeld: Luther-Verlag, 1992; ISBN 3-7858-0342-7
• Friedrich Winter: Bishop Karl von Scheven (1882-1954). A Pomeranian parish life in four times ; 2010; ISBN 978-3-88981-281-0
• Friedrich Winter: Friedrich Schauer (1891-1958). Pastor - Confessor - Christ in Resistance ; Berlin: Wichern, 2011; ISBN 978-3-88981-326-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Schauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait photo (around 1950)