Georg Traar

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Georg Traar (born July 5, 1899 in Neusach / Weißensee ( Carinthia ); † September 4, 1980 in Purkersdorf ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran youth pastor and superintendent .

Live and act

After obtaining his university entrance qualification, Traar studied Protestant theology . After that, he was in the Vicariate of the Austrian Church AB adopted and after passing the Second Theological exam to the priest ordained . Even as a theology student he felt obliged to work with young people, for whom he set up the “ Crusaders ” association - a forerunner of what would later become the Evangelical Youth Organization . For the first time in 1927, through his initiative as a youth pastor, an " Evangelical Week " was held at the University of Vienna , with which the Protestant students were brought closer to questions of faith in an academic manner. These events organized by the Bildungswerk also reflected the behavior of Austrian Protestantism in the country during the period of the corporate state and the subsequent Nazi period .

From 1926 Traar participated in the Evangelical Alliance in Vienna . In the post-war period he was the leading figure alongside the Baptist preacher Arnold Köster . A lecture given at an alliance meeting is reproduced in detail in the minutes: Traar spoke on March 6, 1944 about “God's rule in the world”.

Already during the Second World War , Traar founded the Evangelical Relief Organization , which performed an important diaconal function even after the liberation from National Socialism . Almost on his own and against all kinds of resistance, he succeeded in rebuilding the Protestant school on Karlsplatz after 1945 .

In 1946, Traar was elected superintendent of the Diocese of Vienna - an office he held for a quarter of a century. He was particularly interested in the press and broadcasting. He was the chairman of the press association until 1977. He also cared about ecumenical relations with other churches, which he actively promoted. In 1961 he took part in the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly of the Christian Peace Conference in Prague . He welcomed and looked after numerous ecumenical guests, as the greeting on the 50th anniversary of the “ Sweden Mission for Israel ” in Vienna (1972) makes visible.

Grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery
Memorial plaque for Georg Traar (Vienna, Dorotheergasse 18, Lutheran City Church)

Traar was buried in an honorary grave in the Protestant cemetery at Vienna's central cemetery.

Fonts

  • Church in Conversation (1974). Lectures of the Evangelical Week. 1974
  • A cloud of witnesses. Evangelical Press Association in Austria, Vienna 1967
  • Special postage stamp 450 years: beginning of the Reformation . Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, [Vienna] 1967
  • Church in Conversation (1964/65). Lectures of the Evangelical Week. [1966]
  • Heinrich Hauck: Church history for Protestant religious instruction at lower middle schools and secondary schools in Austria. Evangelical Press Association in Austria, Vienna [1964], 2nd edition. New through., Arr. u. added by Georg Traar
  • Church in Conversation (1963). Worldwide horizons. 1964
  • The Protestant Church in Austria. Evang. Press connection in Austria, Vienna [1963], 2nd, presumably edition.
  • Witnesses of faith from Austria. Gustav-Adolf-Werk, [Kassel, around 1962]
  • About freedom and justice. Evang. Press association in Austria, Vienna [1957]
  • Special stamp series in favor of the reconstruction of the Evangelical School, Vienna-Karlsplatz, Austrian State Printing Office, [Vienna] [19] 53
  • The little catechism of Doctor Martin Luther . Evangelical Press Association in Austria, [Vienna] 1952
  • Youth and word. Evangelical Youth Parish Office, Vienna

Speeches and essays

  • Erasmus Tschernembl , the noble fighter for the gospel. In: Belief and Home, 1976
  • Messenger of Christ - Quarterly letter of the Swedish Mission for Israel, anniversary edition "50 Years of the Swedish Mission in Vienna", 1972

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Evangelical Week ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer (Ed.): Evangelical Alliance in Vienna from the First Republic to the Nazi era (1920-45). Edition of the meeting minutes and programs (= studies on the history of Christian movements of the Reformation tradition in Austria; 2). VKW, Bonn 2010, pp. 89-91 (based on Mt 13: 31-33, parables of mustard seed and sourdough).
  3. ↑ Evangelical Cemetery: Traar ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Greeting Traar
personal data
SURNAME Traar, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pastor
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Neusach, Weissensee
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1980
Place of death Purkersdorf