Gerhard Kehnscherper

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Gerhard Carl Martin Kehnscherper (born November 16, 1903 in Bromberg ; † August 4, 1988 in Greifswald ) was a German Protestant theologian and writer.

Life

In 1920 Kehnscherper was a member of the resident army in Danzig . He studied Protestant theology at the universities of Berlin and Tübingen. In Berlin he became a member of the Association of German Students . In 1927 he did his doctorate in Berlin under Reinhold Seeberg with the dissertation God and divine revelation in the dialectical theology of Karl Barth .

After a time in Brazil , where his son Günther Kehnscherper was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1929, he was pastor in Zechlin from 1929 to 1934 . During this time he joined the NSDAP in 1933 and became a member of the Association of National Socialist Pastors. In 1935, Kehnscherper was denied unity and party discipline through his critical Rosenberg work Mythos des Blutes? (see below) excluded from the NSDAP. Nonetheless, he confessed his unconditional loyalty and adherence to the Führer and remained a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

From 1934 to 1946 he was a member of the board of the Evangelical Diakonieverein in Berlin-Zehlendorf . In addition, he worked as a writer in his spare time.

After returning from captivity and briefly working as a travel pastor, he became pastor in Bad Freienwalde in 1946 . He held this office until 1951. From February 1950 he was an appointed member of the National Council of the National Front (GDR) . Because of a series of articles in which he sharply attacked West German church representatives in line with the church policy of the SED , the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg opened disciplinary proceedings against him in 1953 , which ended with his removal from the pastoral service and the loss of his ordination rights. After that he was a state-employed preacher and lecturer for church history at the general science faculty of the Pädagogische Hochschule Potsdam until 1958 . At this university he received his doctorate in 1955 with the thesis The position of the old Christian church on slavery . In the same year he joined the GDR CDU .

In 1958, Kehnscherper was appointed Professor of Applied Theology combined with a teaching position at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . In 1962 he was appointed professor with a full teaching assignment, and in 1967 he was appointed professor with a chair. From 1967 until his retirement in 1969 he was also vice dean of the theological faculty.

For the CDU he was a member of the Potsdam district assembly from 1954 to 1958 and then in Rostock until 1968 . He was also a member of the German Peace Council and thus a " peace pastor " - this was how those who worked with the SED were called in church circles until the 1970s. Since its inception, he has also worked in the Christian Peace Conference .

Works (selection)

  • Myth of the Blood? Jesus Christ! A discussion of the Nordic religious movement , Potsdam, Stiftungsverlag, undated [1935]
  • German Faith , Potsdam 1935
  • I am baptized - a Christian doctrine, Witten, Westdeutscher Lutherverlag GmbH, 1939
  • Your child and holy baptism , Berlin, 1939
  • The position of the Bible and the old Christian church on slavery, a biblical and ecclesiastical study from the Old Testament prophets to the end of the Roman Empire , Halle, Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1957
  • The reoccupation of the Moscow Patriarchate , Berlin, 1957

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Zirlewagen: Biographies of the clubs German Students: Volume 1 - Members AL. BoD 2014 ISBN 978-3-7357-2288-1 , p. 406
  2. ↑ Christian Halbrock: Evangelical Pastors of the Church Berlin-Brandenburg 1945-1961: Official Autonomy in the Guardian State? Berlin: Lukas 2004, also diss. Humboldt University 2003, ISBN 9783936872187 , pp. 117f and 198f.
  3. ↑ Ehrhart Neubert: History of the Opposition in the GDR 1949–1989 p. 96
personal data
SURNAME Kehnscherper, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kehnscherper, Gerhard Carl Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1988
Place of death Greifswald