Gottfried Noth

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Gottfried Noth (born January 26, 1905 in Dresden , † May 9, 1971 ibid) was a Lutheran theologian and from 1953 to 1971 regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony .

Live and act

Grave of regional bishop Noth in the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden

Gottfried Noth was born as the son of the vice principal of the Dresden Kreuzschule Lic. Gerhard Noth and his wife Cölestine Hochmuth. One of his brothers was Martin Noth , who was three years his senior and later professor of the Old Testament . After attending school in Dresden, he began studying theology at the universities of Leipzig and Erlangen in 1924 . In Erlangen he received his doctorate in theology in 1930.

In 1930, Gottfried Noth became a Lutheran clergyman ordained . This was followed by activities as an assistant chaplain at the Diakonissenanstalt Dresden , in 1932 as a parish pastor in Zethau in the Erzgebirge and from 1942 at the Trinitatiskirche again in Dresden, where he also became a student pastor.

In the church struggle during the time of National Socialism , Noth was involved as a member of the Saxon Pastors' Emergency Association and in the state brotherhood of the Confessing Church in Saxony. In 1944/45 he was a medical soldier and was briefly a prisoner of war.

After the war he was appointed provisional Oberlandeskirchenrat in the Landeskirchenamt Dresden in 1945 and in 1950 he was head of the department .

In 1953, Gottfried Noth was elected regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony to succeed Hugo Hahn . He held this office until his sudden death. His successor was Johannes Hempel .

On his 60th birthday in 1965, the Lutheran World Federation promised Noth that a church would be built for him. He should determine the location himself, the Swedish Church should implement the project. Various attempts failed until the New Zionskirche in Dresden was finally built posthumously in 1981/1982 .

Gottfried Noth had been married to Hilda Irmtraut (née Schmidt; 1917-2010) from Freiberg in Saxony since 1937 . The theologian Stephan Noth was their son. Noth died in Dresden in 1971 and was buried in the Trinity cemetery.

Other functions

Gottfried Noth held numerous secondary positions, such as:

Honorary doctorates

Works

  • Basics of the theology of Martin Chemnitz , (dissertation), 1930
  • Obedience in Christ. Selected testimonies from sermons, lectures and written statements , Berlin, 1976
  • numerous articles in ecclesiastical and theological journals

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertraud Grünzinger:  Noth, Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 357 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Chronicle. (No longer available online.) Ev.-Luth. Zionskirche Dresden-Südvorstadt, archived from the original on September 18, 2014 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dresden-zionskirche.de

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SURNAME Noth, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1971
Place of death Dresden