Gerhard Heinzelmann

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Gerhard Otto Heinzelmann (born June 10, 1884 in Coswig (Anhalt) , † December 21, 1951 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian , professor and rector of the University of Basel (Switzerland).

Life

Heinzelmann graduated from high school in Bernburg in 1902 and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Tübingen , Halle , Berlin and Halle again. After the theological exams, which Heinzelmann again took in Dessau , he worked from 1907 to 1910 as an inspector at the theological student foundation at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In Tübingen , Halle and Göttingen he became a member of the Wingolf associations there . In 1918 he also became a member of the friendly Schwizerhüsli Basel association .

In 1910 Heinzelmann was awarded the licentiature of theology for a thesis on the work of Wilhelm Wundt , and in the same year he qualified as a professor in the New Testament. After a few brief positions in Göttingen, he was appointed associate professor in Basel in 1914 . Before he accepted this position, he worked briefly as a nurse in the German army in 1914, as the army saw it as his patriotic duty to make a contribution. However, from autumn 1914 to 1916 he was on leave from the army in order to be able to fulfill his teaching duties in Basel. Since he felt that he had not done his duty, Heinzelmann worked as a hospital pastor in Courland , Lithuania and Berlin in 1917, but was ordered back to Basel in August 1917. There he was appointed full professor in 1918 and rector in 1927. In 1929 he took over the chair for dogmatics and the New Testament at the theological faculty of the University of Halle . He held this until his death in 1951.

Heinzelmann was the only member of the board of trustees to head the Tholuckkonvikt during the war and was one of the last members of the Spirituskreis before it fell victim to the forced dissolution. In the time of National Socialism Heinzelmann was a supporting member of the SS .

Heinzelmann, who had been chairman of the provincial Saxon branch of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein since 1931 , also took over the presidency of the central association in 1944.

After the end of the war he became a member of the CDU in 1946 .

Publications

  • The concept of the soul and the idea of ​​immortality in Wilhelm Wundt JDB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1910 (licentiate thesis)
  • Animism and Religion: A Study of the Religious Psychology of the Primitive Folk . C. Bertelsmann, Göttingen 1913.
  • The position of religion in modern intellectual life . Publishing house d. Basel Mission Bookshop, Basel 1919.
  • The way to the self . Orange Publishing House, 1922.
  • Church community and national community . H. Beyer, 1926.
  • Schleiermacher's teaching about the church . Max Niemeyer, 1934.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007. p. 41.
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , pp. 130-131.
predecessor Office successor
Hans Gerber (legal scholar) President of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein
1944–1951 		Franz Lau
personal data
SURNAME Heinzelmann, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinzelmann, Gerhard Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, professor and rector of the University of Basel (Switzerland)
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Coswig (Anhalt)
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1951
Place of death Halle (Saale)