Friedrich Werner (lawyer)

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Friedrich Werner (born September 3, 1897 in Oliva near Danzig , † November 30, 1955 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer and Protestant senior church councilor . The supporter of the German Christians is considered one of the main opponents of the Confessing Church .

Live and act

Evangelischer Oberkirchenrat - Service building of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union in Berlin

Werner passed his Abitur in Danzig . In 1915 he volunteered for military service and fought during the First World War as a squire , later as a lieutenant and company commander , for which he was decorated with the Iron Cross and the Badge of Wounds.

After the war Werner studied history , economics , finance and law in Marburg and Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1922 on an economics topic from the University of Jena . From 1923 to 1927 he was trainee lawyer , 1927/28 general assessor and assistant judge at the Berlin Regional Court . In 1928 he became a district court attorney and was elected as a board member of the Berlin Bar Association.

In 1930 he joined the NSDAP . He was SA storm leader and head of the legal department of the NSKK for Greater Berlin.

In 1933 Werner became a consultant for canon law in the Reich leadership of the German Christians . After EOK President Hermann Kapler resigned at the end of June 1933, August Jäger , Prussian State Commissioner for Church Affairs, appointed Werner as acting President of the Old Prussian Evangelical Upper Church Council (EOK) in Berlin. On 5th / 6th The General Synod of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , made up of a majority of German Christian synodals (hence the so-called “brown”), met and elected Werner as its President and thus chairman of the Church Senate, the highest Old Prussian governing body.

In these functions he called for the reorganization of the old Prussian church according to the " Führer principle " and became one of the main opponents of the Confessing Church (BK), which was forming as an opposition . For a time Werner was a member of the Spiritual Ministry of the German Evangelical Church . In April 1939 he signed a declaration in which Hitler was described as the continuer and finisher of the Lutheran Reformation .

In the same year Werner co-founded the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life and became one of its employees. Werner was drafted into the Wehrmacht from 1941 until the end of the war .

After the liberation from National Socialism , he was relieved of his church offices, but through a lawsuit against the Evangelical Church of the Union , as the Old Prussian Church was called since December 1953, his rights as a civil servant were compensated for life through financial compensation. He worked as a lawyer in Düsseldorf.

Fonts

  • Heart, do not hesitate! Voices of hope from gloomy days of German history . Edited and introduced by Friedrich Werner. CA Tancré, Naumburg / Saale 1921, DNB 363056912
  • 40 years of the Evangelical Union in East Prussia . East u. West Prussian main association of the Evangelical Federation, Königsberg 1930, DNB 578316625
  • Officials and denominations . Evangelical Union, Königsberg i. Pr., 1931, DNB 578316617

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary on the Third Reich: who was what before and after 1945? . S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 670.
  2. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer : We went astray: the guilt of the church under the swastika, according to the confession of the "Darmstadt Word" of 1947 . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7609-1144-7 , p. 151.
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and senior church councilor
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Oliva
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1955
Place of death Dusseldorf