Hans Dittmer

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Hans Dittmer (born July 13, 1893 as Johannes Heinrich Gottlieb Dittmer in Norden (East Friesland) , † January 5, 1959 in Simmershausen near Kassel ) was a German theologian and writer .

Life

Hans Dittmer was the son of an elementary school principal . After Dittmer had passed his school leaving examination in 1911 , he studied Protestant theology , German studies , philosophy and oriental languages ​​at the universities in Göttingen , Bonn and Marburg . In 1914 he passed the first theological exam in Hanover and then worked as an auxiliary teacher at the curative education institute founded by Johannes Trüper in Jena . From 1915 Dittmer took part in the First World War as a medic . In 1918 he married a nurse whom he had met in a Kassel hospital ; the marriage produced three daughters. In the same year he passed the second theological exam and then worked as a vicar in the northern Hessian town of Niederlimitebach . From 1919 he had his first pastor in Berge , a district of the Neu-Eichenberg community . In 1929 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena with a dissertation in religious education . In the twenties he made extensive trips in Europe and overseas, which he a. a. to Argentina , Uruguay , Brazil and the Middle East . From 1933 Dittmer was pastor in Simmershausen near Kassel. After the death of his first wife in 1949, he married a second time in 1951; This marriage with a doctor resulted in two sons, including Hans Otfried Dittmer .

In addition to his pastoral profession, Hans Dittmer also worked as a writer . He wrote novels , short stories and poems . His works, of which the novels alone reached a total circulation of more than 400,000 copies, often deal with topics from Dittmer's East Frisian homeland. He also wrote a number of theological specialist and advanced training books, including a work published by Diesterweg , which already considered “sexual-ethical questions” in confirmation classes in 1935, which was rather rare at that time.

Works

  • Vrouw Johanna , Berlin 1919
  • The mother , Heilbronn 1920
  • Annenhof , Leipzig 1922
  • Spring will , Stuttgart 1925
  • The path to silence , Hall-S. 1928
  • Protestant confirmation classes in the light of today's youth psychology and education , Göttingen 1929
  • Religious instruction based on reality and a new education , Weimar 1932
  • A training ship sank in Weimar in 1932
  • Playing with clouds and winds , Berlin 1933
  • From way to destination , Göttingen 1934
  • The two ways and other stories , Göttingen 1935
  • Lively confirmation lessons - with e. Epilogue on sexual-ethical questions in class , Frankfurt 1935
  • In the Fischergassen , Hanover 1935
  • The doctor who left God , Göttingen 1937
  • Insel im Wind , Göttingen 1941
  • The last bullet and other stories , Stuttgart 1948
  • Silke Terbeek , Stuttgart [a. a.] 1949
  • The wind blows where it wants , Stuttgart 1952
  • Earth in Light , Stuttgart 1953
  • The way to Montfort , Stuttgart 1953
  • Hikers on right street , Stuttgart 1954
  • A hand's breadth from God , Stuttgart 1955
  • Fabricius , Stuttgart 1956

Editing

  • About the Eternal in Today , Göttingen
    • 1 (1933)
    • 2 (1934)
    • 3 (1935)
  • From yesterday and today , Göttingen 1936
  • Mission? , Göttingen 1937
  • Experiences and struggles , Göttingen 1938
  • Heinrich Pforr : Heinrich Pforr , Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe 1938
  • About faith and home , Göttingen 1939
  • Eternity in Time , Göttingen 1950
  • The tower cock , Melsungen 1952

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personal data
SURNAME Dittmer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dittmer, Johannes Heinrich Gottlieb (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH North (East Frisia)
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1959
Place of death Simmershausen near Kassel