Georg Wehrung (theologian)

Georg Wehrung (born October 6, 1880 in Dorlisheim , † January 20, 1959 in Tübingen ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Wehrung was born as the son of a Lutheran primary school teacher in Dorlisheim in Lower Alsace and was strongly influenced by Lutheran piety in his youth. From 1897 he first attended grammar school in Weißenburg , then in Buchsweiler . After graduating from high school in the summer of 1899, he studied Protestant theology in Strasbourg . Already in his first semester he became a member of the Wingolf Association Argentina to Strasbourg. He completed his theology studies in the fall of 1904 by taking a university exam. He then studied philosophy for one semester each in Berlin and Jena. In 1906 he became head of the Kollegium Wilhelmitanum in Strasbourg as the successor to Albert Schweitzer , which enabled him to continue his philosophical studies.

In 1913 he accepted a pastor's post in Hunawihr . In November 1915 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Strasbourg. In April 1920 he became full professor for systematic theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. In the same year he also became a member of the Munster Wingolf. In the summer semester of 1927 he moved to the theological faculty of the University of Halle and in the summer semester of 1931 to Tübingen . In 1946 he was dismissed against his will, but taught until 1953. In the post-war period, he stood up for the early peace movement at the side of Martin Niemöller .

The soprano and university professor Herrad Wehrung was his daughter.

Fonts

• Schleiermacher's dialectic . JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1920
• The social thought in Protestantism . E. Obertüschens Buchh., Münster i. W. 1922
• Authority and Freedom in Protestantism . E. Obertüschens Buchh., Münster i. W. 1922
• Schleiermacher in the time of his becoming . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1927
• Protestant spirit . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1928
• History and belief . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1933
• Christianity and Germanness . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1937
• Church according to the Protestant understanding . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1947
• World and empire . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1952
• Myth and Dogma . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1952

literature

• Hermann Diem : Georg Wehrung in memoriam . In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 56 (1959), pp. 186–200.
• Matthias Wolfes : Protestant Theology and Modern World. de Gruyter, Berlin 1999.
• Matthias Wolfes:  Defense, Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1516-1542.
• Werner Raupp : Art .: Wehrung, Gottfried Georg, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), Vol. 27, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2020, pp. 565–566.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Wehrung in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Georg Wehrung in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis