Fritz Schmidt-Clausing

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Fritz Schmidt-Clausing (born October 25, 1902 in Berlin ; † July 12, 1984 there ) was a German theologian , Protestant pastor as well as writer and church historian .

Life

Fritz Georg Hermann Schmidt-Clausing passed his Abitur and was initially a Roman Catholic priest. After his conversion to Protestantism, he studied Protestant theology and philology . He was then ordained a pastor . At an early age he became interested in questions of church history and delved into the peculiarities of the various Christian denominations . In particular, he dealt with the life and work of the reformed theologian Huldrych Zwingli , on whom he published several times. But he was also interested in the position of the denominational churches towards Jewish tradition.

In 1932 Schmidt-Clausing became pastor at the Church of St. Peter and Paul on Nikolskoe in Berlin-Wannsee . There he worked as a “vacationer pastor” and opened the church to the frequent visits of day trippers. During the Nazi era, he confessed to the goals of Nazi rule, in particular to its anti-Semitic paranoia. In 1939, Schmidt-Clausing declared that he was working at the Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life . 

After the Second World War, Schmidt-Clausing led the reconstruction of the community from 1947 to 1962 as a pastor at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche in Berlin . In the ruins of the church, the only remaining bell was made usable again and used to ring the welcome ring for those returning home to Russia until the 1950s . At the beginning of the Cold War , Schmidt-Clausing set a political example and made his community known - right up to the US newsreel, which gratefully took up the topic. 

Fritz Schmidt-Clausing died in a West Berlin nursing home and was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.

Works

  • 100 years of Peter and Paul on Nikolskoe ; Berlin: Koch, 1937
  • Via the ether, evangelical radio speeches ; Bonn: Scheur, 1941
  • Anti-Jewish currents in 19th century German Catholicism; a religious-political investigation ; 1942 (University of Jena, theological faculty, dissertation December 1942)
  • The change of the Catholic Church in its position on the Jewish question ; o. O., o. J.
  • Zwingli as a liturgist - an investigation into the history of liturgy ; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1952
  • The Hansa district. From the Schöneberger meadows to the “city of tomorrow” ; Berlin 1957 2
  • Berlin's “rulers” since 1809. Friedrich von Bärensprung 1832–1834 ; in: Berliner Blätter, the in-house journal of the Reich capital, (1961) 1, pp. 28–29
  • Brief history of the ecumenical councils I – XX for understanding the XXI. ; Berlin: Hayn, 1964
  • Zwingli ; Berlin: de Gruyter, 1965
  • The Wittig case in the light of the Second Vatican Council ; in: Reformatio 15 (1966), pp. 461-475
  • Joseph Wittig's work. Attempt at a psychological and literary historical interpretation ; in: Fritz Schmidt-Clausing (ed.): Faith and Life. Wisdom and prophecies of the servant and scribe of God Joseph Wittig ; Berlin 1959, pp. 105-117
  • The new Zwingli picture. In memory of his initiator ; in: DtPfrBl 68 (1968), p. 162 f.
  • The Corpus Juris Canonici as Zwingli's means of Reformation ; in: ZKG 80 (1969), p. 14
  • The different positions of Luther and Zwingli on the letter of James
  • On the 450th anniversary of the Leipzig disputation ; in: Reformatio 18 (1969), pp. 568-585
  • Zwingli's Zurich Protocol ; ISBN 387476012X .

As a co-author and editor

  • Potsdam ; by Ludwig Sternaux and Fritz Schmidt-Clausing; Berlin: Hayn, 1961

As a speaker

  • Seminar: 50 years of Interbau. The Hansaviertel in Berlin November 27 , 2006 ; in: Fritz Schmidt-Clausing: History of the Hansa district ; Berlin 1957

literature

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Locher: Zwingli as a liturgist. On a work by Fritz Schmidt-Clausing ; in: MuG 9 (1955), pp. 44-47

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In memory of Dr. theol. Fritz Schmidt-Clausing
  2. ↑ Wilfried M. Heidemann: Ev. Church of St. Peter and Paul on Nikolskoe ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-nikolskoe.de
  3. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray ; Cologne 1987.
  4. ↑ Ralph Krüger: Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtnis (E) - Community information  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oekumene24.de  
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Clausing, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1984
Place of death Berlin