Hans Buttler

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Hans Buttler (born October 3, 1894 in Blankenburg , † September 13, 1970 in Lübbecke ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , pastor of the regional church in Braunschweig and opponent of National Socialism .

Life

Hans Buttler was the parish priest in Groß Dahlum near Schöppenstedt in eastern Lower Saxony from 1926 to 1936 and in Alvesse from 1937 to 1959 , now part of the parish of Vechelde near Braunschweig .

Sankt Nicolai in Alvesse , place of work of Hans Buttler 1937–1959

Buttler was initially a member of the national conservative steel helmets . However, even after its dissolution, he did not join the NSDAP or one of its organizations, such as the so-called " German Christians ", but joined the Pastors' Emergency League and the Braunschweig Confessing Church .

In 1938 Buttler was denounced for "subversive statements" and arrested on October 11, 1938 by the Gestapo . On July 8, 1939, he was acquitted by the Braunschweig Special Court , chaired by Karl Höse (1891–1974), of having violated the so-called " Heimtückegesetz ". However, he remained in Gestapo detention because of "endangering the security of the people and the state" and the church leadership suspended him from his service.

Buttler was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Via the Flossenbürg concentration camp , he finally got to the pastors' block of the Dachau concentration camp , where he was released on April 3, 1945.

Work after 1945

Buttler arrived at Alvesse the month of his release. The church leadership immediately lifted his suspension.

When, after the end of the Second World War, the military government of the British occupation zone left the measures to denazify church workers to the regional churches , Hans Buttler was appointed chairman of the denazification commission, the ruling chamber of the Brunswick regional church, in May 1946 . He remained its head until the dissolution of the commission in 1950.

Death and memory

Buttler retired in 1959 and died in Lübbecke, North Rhine-Westphalia , in September 1970 .

In 2008, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of Buttler's arrest, the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Alvesse erected a memorial stone on the south facade of St. Nicolai's Church in memory of the parish priest.

literature

  • Hans Walter Krumwiede : Church history of Lower Saxony . Volume 2: From the German Confederation in 1815 to the founding of the Evangelical Church in Germany in 1948 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-55432-X .
  • Wilhelm Niesel : Church under the word: the struggle of the Confessing Church of the Old Prussian Union 1933-1945 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-55556-3 .
  • Klaus Erich Pollmann : The difficult way into the post-war period . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-55239-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Krumwiede: From the German Confederation in 1815 to the establishment of the Evangelical Church in Germany in 1948 . P. 543.
  2. ↑ Pollmann: The difficult way into the post-war period . P. 147.
  3. ↑ a b Pollmann: The difficult way into the post-war period . P. 48 f.
  4. ^ Clergy in Dachau concentration camp, name B on selige-kzdachau.de
personal data
SURNAME Buttler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor and Nazi opponent
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenburg (Harz)
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1970
Place of death Luebbecke