Georg Wobbermin

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Ernst Gustav Georg Wobbermin (born October 27, 1869 in Stettin , † October 15, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Wobbermin grew up in his hometown Szczecin, where he also attended high school. After graduating from high school, he studied a. a.in Berlin Protestant Theology . His dissertation he put in the subject Systematic Theology ago and became a doctor of theology doctorate . From 1922 he held the chair for systematic theology at the University of Göttingen . He was an associate member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1920 and an external member since 1922. He had been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1929 and a foreign member since 1935 .

Psychological interpretation of religion

Wobbermin's theological draft ( systematic theology according to the psychological method of religion . Three volumes, Leipzig 1913/1922/1925 ) is based on an interpretation of religion that is psychologically oriented. Here he proves to be a follower of Schleiermacher , but he is also influenced by William James . His work The varieties of religious experience he published in a German version under the title The religious experience in its diversity: materials and studies on a psychology and pathology of religious life .

Wobbermin's theological program is, as has been pointed out several times recently, of eminent importance and is currently being continued in many ways by theology, the psychology of religion and the theory of religion. However, this often happens without express reference, as in general an appropriate appraisal of the professional achievement was made very difficult by his political attitude in the 1920s and especially in the time of the Third Reich.

Political attitude

From early on until the end of his life, Wobbermin was an intellectual with an extremely nationalistic mindset. Since the so-called " seizure of power " he supported the Nazi government. He was also one of the signatories of the professors' commitment at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state of November 11, 1933. Wobbermin shared and propagated National Socialist anti-Semitism. In 1939 he declared his willingness to work at the Eisenach Institute to research and eliminate the Jewish influence on German church life .

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  1. ↑ George Wobbermin Member Directory of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 263.
  3. ↑ See Matthias Wolfes, Protestant Theology and Modern World , Berlin / New York 1999, pp. 327–347; the theological historiography even describes Wobbermin as "theologians of the Third Reich" (see p. 327)
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 683.
  5. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer, We went astray , Cologne 1987, p. 151.
personal data
SURNAME Wobbermin, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wobbermin, Ernst Gustav Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1943
Place of death Berlin