Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze

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Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze

Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (born June 14, 1885 in Görlitz ; † July 11, 1969 in Soest ) was a German Protestant theologian , social pedagogue , social ethicist and is considered a pioneer of the peace movement .

Life

After attending several grammar schools, Siegmund-Schultze studied philosophy and theology in Breslau and Magdeburg . In 1908 he became secretary of the church committee for the maintenance of friendly relations between Great Britain and Germany and later secretary of the Christian World Student Union for social work and foreigners mission. In 1911 he and his wife founded the “ Social Working Community Berlin-East ” (SAG for short), a neighborhood aid and settlement project in one of the poorest districts of Berlin at the Schlesischer Bahnhof.

Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze
The grave of Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze in the family grave at Osthofenfriedhof Soest.

At the World Church Conference in Constance from August 1st to 3rd, 1914, he was secretary and co-founder of the World Association for Friendship Work of Churches . During the First World War he organized the prison chaplaincy for the English and the German POW aid. Through his contacts with the Quakers and the International Union of Reconciliation , he and Elisabeth Rotten set up Quaker meals for school children in Berlin . At Siegmund-Schultze's instigation, the city of Berlin set up Germany's first youth welfare office in 1917, and he became its first director in the hungry winter of 1917/18.

In October 1918 the co-founder of the ecumenical movement , Archbishop Nathan Söderblom , invited him to a guest lecture on “The Social Renewal of Christianity and the Unity of the Church” at Uppsala University . In 1925, Siegmund-Schultze took over the professorship for youth studies and youth welfare at the University of Berlin , which was later expanded to include the subjects of social education and social ethics .

In the spring of 1933 the office of the social working group was closed. Siegmund-Schultze, as secretary of the World Association for Friendship Work of the Churches, campaigned for an “International Aid Committee for German (Protestant, Catholic and Mosaic) emigrants of Jewish descent”. Already in the first months of 1933 he won domestic and foreign positions for this, but shortly before the opening scheduled for July 1, 1933, the Gestapo arrested Siegmund-Schultze. The Gestapo escorted him to the Swiss border with the charge that he had “helped Jews in 93 cases” and worked on “comprehensive plans to save all of German Jewry”. Through Walter Cramer he was in contact with the resistance group around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler . The German official church did not continue Siegmund-Schultze's ecumenical work, but Siegmund-Schultze kept up the connection to friends like Hermann Maas , Max Diestel and Dietrich Bonhoeffer . Until 1946, Siegmund-Schultze was a student pastor in Switzerland and worked as a visiting lecturer abroad and at the same time continued to work in refugee aid.

Siegmund-Schultze turned down a call from the Berlin University, which he received in 1946 and which offered him the chair of social education and social ethics as a full professor, because he considered it impossible to continue the work of the social working group in the Soviet sector. Instead, he took over the professorship for social education and social ethics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1948 he founded the youth welfare school in Dortmund, which he ran until 1954. In 1959 he founded the Ecumenical Archive in Soest, which was later taken over by the Evangelical Central Archive of the EKD in Berlin. Siegmund-Schultze was on friendly terms with Albert Schweitzer . He was the editor of the Ecumenical Yearbook .

Siegmund-Schultze campaigned vehemently against rearmament and for the right to conscientious objection as stipulated in the Basic Law . He was a founding member in 1957 and chairman of the KDV central office until 1959 .

Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze sponsorship award

The Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze sponsorship award is named after him and has already received several organizations. This price for non-violent action has been awarded at irregular intervals since 1994 by the Evangelical Working Group on Conscientious Objection and Peace (EAK). The objectives of the award ceremony and the prerequisites for the award winners are:

  • Reminder "of the peace and socio-ethical work of the Protestant theologian Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (1885–1969)",
  • Detection of "good deeds in peace-making",
  • "Draw attention to initiatives and people who practice resistance against violence and encourage peace-making".

It is awarded when the prize money of 6,000 euros has been raised through donations. The " firebird " is the symbol of the award . The winners were:

Fonts

  • Ecumenical Yearbook 1934–1935 , Zurich and Leipzig 1936
  • Ecumenical Yearbook 1936–1937 , Zurich and Leipzig 1939
  • (Ed.): Ekklesia. A collection of self-portraits by the Christian churches . 10 volumes, Leopold Klotz Verlag, Gotha 1934–1941

literature

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Christoph Sachße: Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze, the "Social Working Group" and the civil social reform in Germany . In: E. Jürgen Krauß, Michael Möller, Richard Münchmeier (eds.): Social work between economization and self-determination , 2007 p. 231ff.
  2. ↑ Eberhard Röhm: Dying for Peace. Securing evidence: Hermann Stöhr (1898–1940) and the ecumenical peace movement . 1985 Stuttgart chap. 5-8 mwN.
  3. ^ A b Karl Heinz Voigt: Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze . BBKL Vol. XXIV (2005) Col. 1349-1366
  4. ↑ Eberhard Röhm, Jörg Thierfelder: Juden-Christen-Deutsche. Volume 1: 1933-1935. Marginalized . 1990 Stuttgart p. 316ff.
  5. ↑ Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze: The basic right of conscientious objection to military service. In: Hans Gressel (Ed.): Our task in a peaceful world. Ten years of friendship home in Bückeburg , Minden 1958.
  6. ^ Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze sponsorship award . In: EAK . May 28, 2015 ( eak-online.de [accessed August 17, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Peace Service EIRENE receives Evangelical Peace Prize 2018. Accessed on August 17, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Siegmund-Schultze, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, social pedagogue and social ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1969
Place of death Soest