Gerhard Hilbert

Gerhard Hilbert (born November 9, 1868 in Leipzig ; † May 16, 1936 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian .

Life

Hilbert's father was a bank director in Leipzig. He attended the Thomas School in Leipzig . He then studied theology at the University of Leipzig and the University of Erlangen .

In 1893 he became a private teacher at Bärenstein Castle . From 1894 he was a preacher at the St. Pauli monastery church . In 1896 he became court preacher in Annaberg and in 1901 a deacon of the Luther Church in Leipzig . In 1910 he held the office of pastor and in 1910 the first pastor of the Annenkirche in Dresden . In 1912 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig and in 1913 a full professor of practical theology at the University of Rostock . In the same year he became a member of the consistory of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg .

In 1914, Hilbert said about the outbreak of the First World War : “We go into battle with a clear conscience!” He also wrote: “The war wants to make our people a pious people again! ... What the church has been fighting for for decades in vain despite all the tension - the war was able to do it, or rather the God who speaks powerfully to us all through the war. ... The war must also be a blessing for us! "

In 1925 he became pastor of the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig and at the same time city ​​superintendent .

He rejected the current of German Christians and was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1935.

Works (selection)

• Nietzsche's gentlemen's morality and the morality of Christianity , Leipzig 1910.
• Modern goals of will , Leipzig 1911.
• Replacement for Christianity! , Leipzig 1913.
• The Church and the Female Youth , Schwerin 1915.
• The world war and God's world government , Schwerin 1916.
• How do I get a gracious god? , Berlin 1918.
• Against the rule of the cult sermon. A word on the agenda reform , Leipzig 1924.
• The pastor as a people's missionary , Schwerin 1925.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hilbert, Gerhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 841-842.
• Erich Beyreuther :  Hilbert, Gerhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 117 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Hilbert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Gerhard Hilbert in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Gerhard Hilbert in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium