Hans-Georg Opitz

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Hans-Georg Opitz (born June 1, 1905 in Berlin-Johannisthal ; † July 9, 1941 near Lemberg ) was a German Protestant church historian .

Life

After Opitz had obtained his Abitur in Berlin at the Askanisches Gymnasium , he studied from September 1923 to 1927 first at the local university and later in Marburg and Bonn Protestant theology and oriental languages . On May 8, 1928, he passed the first and on May 1, 1931 the second theological exam in Berlin. On April 1, 1931, he was employed by Hans Lietzmann as a research assistant in the Department of Church History at the university. There he became an employee of the Church Fathers Commission of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and was commissioned to publish the works of Athanasius .

With the work " The Arianische Streit bis zum Jahre 328 " ( The Arian Controversy up to the year 328 ) Opitz received his doctorate in 1932 in order to obtain his habilitation on June 17, 1933 with his " Investigations into the transmission of the writings of Athanasius ". His habilitation thesis was published in 1935. As a private lecturer, Opitz held trial lectures on " Origines and Euseb of Caesarea " and a college on " Church history during the age of the migrations ".

Opitz was a member of the German Christians and the NSDAP (No. 4,356,742).

Despite Lietzmann's support, Opitz was not given a chair in Göttingen (1936), Basel (1937) or Marburg (1938). His academic career was hampered by a conflict between his teacher Hans Lietzmann and his Berlin colleague Erich Seeberg . Although he was regarded as a luminary among the young academics, theologians from the Seeberg school were preferred to him when filling positions.

After he had received a teaching assignment to supplement the vacant chair at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna in 1939, he was appointed "Lecturer of the New Order" on September 23, 1939, and he was appointed full professor on January 6, 1940. Opitz worked at the institute to research and eliminate the Jewish influence on German church life .

On January 8, 1940, he was drafted for military service. He died while doing military service in Lviv.

Fonts

  • The Syrian Corpus Athanasianum : ZNW 33 (1934), 18–31
  • The time sequence of the Arian dispute from the beginning to the year 328 : ibid. 131–159
  • The Vita Constantini of Codex Angelicus 22 : Byz (B) 9 (1934), 535-593
  • Investigations into the transmission of the writings of Athanasius (= Works on Church History 23), 1935

literature

  • Kürschner: 6th edition 1941, II, col. 307
  • Necrologist in: OJ fdEv. Church AuHB in Austria 1941/8, 45
  • ThLZ 66 (1941), Col. 241 f. (H. Lietzmann); - ThBl 20 (1941), col. 252; - ByZ 41 (1941), 288
  • Kurt Aland (ed.): Splendor and decline of the German university. 50 years of German history of science in letters to and from Hans Lietzmann (1892–1942), 1979
  • Rudolf Leeb: On the academic profile of the church historians teaching at the faculty and on the Austrian Protestant historiography. In: Karl Schwarz, Falk Wagner (ed.): Changing times and stability. Contributions to the history of the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Vienna 1821-1996 (= series of publications of the University Archives , University of Vienna ; 10). WUV, Vienna 1997; about Opitz in Vienna pp. 34–37.
  • Karl Schwarz: border castle and bulwark. A report on the Viennese Ev.-theol. Faculty in the years 1938-1945 , in: Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz / Carsten Nicolaisen (eds.): Theological Faculties in National Socialism , 1993, 361–389.
  • Karl Schwarz:  Opitz, Hans-Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1221-1223.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Wikisource: Hans-Georg Opitz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : Viennese Evangelical Professors of Theology in the Mirror of the Gau-Akten. Documentation on Beth, Egli, Entz, Hajek, Hoffmann, Koch, Kühnert, Opitz, Schneider and Wilke , in: Yearbook for the History of Protestantism in Austria 116 (2000/01) 191-225, there 210.
  2. ^ 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. 444.
personal data
SURNAME Opitz, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant church historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Johannisthal
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1941
Place of death near Lemberg