Hans Dittmer
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
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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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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 |