Hans Bornhauser

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Hans Bornhäuser (born February 21, 1908 in Uiffingen ; † August 18, 1996 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Bornhäuser grew up in Freiburg, where his father Leopold Bornhäuser was appointed head of the Evangelical Monastery in 1911. He studied Protestant theology in Marburg , Bethel , Tübingen and Erlangen . In Tübingen he received his doctorate in 1933 with a thesis on the mixed natractate for the Feast of Tabernacles . As a student , like his father, he joined the Wingolf Christian student fraternity . He first became a member of the Marburger Wingolf , later of the Tübingen Wingolf . In 1928 he became a founder of the Wingolfs connection Nibelungen zu Tübingen. Later he also became a member of the Freiburg Wingolf , to which he remained closely associated throughout his life.

In 1935 he became a pastor in Maulburg . He joined the Confessing Church and had increasing difficulties with the NSDAP , from which he clearly distanced himself in his sermons. Nevertheless, he explained in later years: "I did not remain silent, but I still sometimes feel depressed that I did not dare to speak as clearly as Paul Schneider and other ministerial brothers who were sent to the concentration camp for this ."

During the war, he first took part in the French campaign as a driver, and then served as a war priest in the northern section of the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 . He was then taken into prison by the Soviets until 1949. According to his own statement, war and imprisonment were important preparations for his later office as prelate .

In 1954 he became district dean in Freiburg, and from 1965 prelate of the southern Baden parish of the Evangelical Church in Baden. In this capacity he achieved a great reputation. Among other things, he supported the protests against the Wyhl nuclear power plant, which were supported by the local pastors at the Kaiserstuhl . He worked hard to find a new relationship to Judaism and a new understanding of the biblical promise for Israel . Right up to his old age he endeavored to critically come to terms with the behavior of the Evangelical Church during National Socialism .

Bornhäuser was one of the speakers for the ARD program Das Wort zum Sonntag .

Fonts

  • (Mišnā / Hebrew and German): The Mishnah / Seder 2nd Moe͏̈d / Tractate 6th Sukkah (Feast of Tabernacles) 1935
  • Neue Calwer Predigthilfen / Vol. 2. / Bd. B. Exaudi until the end of the church year 1980
  • Neue Calwer Predigthilfen / Vol. 4. / Vol. A. Advent to Ascension Day 1981
  • (Tôseftâ) The Tosefta / Seder 2. Moe͏̈d / 3. Sukkah - Yom tob - Rosh Ha-Shana / Transl. And Ex.

literature

  • Gerd Schmoll: Held in God's word. The Evangelical Church Community of Freiburg 1807–2007. Freiburg 2006, p. 229f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Verband Alter Wingolfiten eV (Ed.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum , 17th edition, Lahr / Schwarzwald 1974, p. 100.
  2. ↑ Gerd Schmoll: Held in God's Word. The Evangelical Church Community of Freiburg 1807–2007. Freiburg 2006, p. 229.
  3. ↑ See speakers since 1954 .
personal data
SURNAME Bornhauser, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Uiffingen
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1996
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau