Hans Hartmann (theologian)

Hans Reinold Hartmann (born November 5, 1888 in Munich ; † May 17, 1976 ) was a German Protestant pastor and writer.

Life

His father, who came from Alsace, was a professor of Romance languages at Munich University. Hans Hartmann studied philosophy and religious studies, earned the title of Dr. with the work "Art and Religion at Wackenroder, Tieck and Solger" published in 1916. phil. in Erlangen. He had previously obtained a theological license. From 1913 lecture and study trips to 18 European countries. His concern was a peaceful unity of the European peoples.

In 1915 he worked briefly as a pastor in Ketzberg near Solingen and then from 1915 to 1928 in Solingen - Gräfrath . Since 1917 he was a member of the USPD .

At the beginning of 1919 he and Günther Dehn came forward with proposals for the democratic development of the community. In 1919 he called for the Christian Democrat newspaper to form a community of priests and theology professors. Through his appeal in June 1919 in the Christian World (No. 18), the Religious-Social Association in Germany was created , which organized the Tambach Conference (September 22–24, 1919).

He joined the SPD in 1922 and around the same time became a member of the International Union of Reconciliation. Together with Kaspar Mayr and Wilhelm Mensching , he edited the "monthly sheet of the reconciliation union " from 1924. He wrote an introductory text with a preface by Nikolaus Ehlen . At the end of the 1920s he still had the office of the Reconciliation Union in Foche- Solingen.

After the Dutch pastor Hugenholtz, a member of the “Pastors' Association against War and Armament”, invited to an international conference of anti-militarist pastors in Geneva in August 1926. During this conference a “Working Committee of Antimilitarist Pastors” was formed to prepare for a congress in Amsterdam in 1928, to which Hans Hartmann from Germany was elected. At this congress the “ International Association of Antimilitarist Pastors ” was brought into being, and Hans Hartmann founded the German branch in the same year.

Also in 1928 Hartmann was given leave of absence from the rectory, in 1929 he resigned himself and became a writer and radio speaker . He took part in the first meeting for corporate studies of the Ministry of Corporations and in 1930 caught the attention of organizers of corporate foreign propaganda in Germany with his report on Italy in the Frankfurter Zeitung . According to Stambolis, he was close to the folk high school movement .

From 1930 he lived in Wuppertal - Elberfeld . This year he published an article in the magazine Neuwerk entitled The National Socialist Movement , which endeavored to construct similarities between the Protestant Church and National Socialist ideology.

In 1934 he married Annemarie Elisabeth, b. Käthe (* 1898 in Greifswald), who was divorced from the ENT doctor Walter Krisch. They lived with eight children at Eitel-Fritz-Strasse 8 in Berlin.

In the 1930s in particular, he repeatedly dealt with Friedrich Nietzsche .

A long-standing connection with the Max Plancks house enabled him to make contact with scientists and medical professionals. He wrote on questions of medicine and natural research and gave lectures at international congresses. He also wrote countless articles about the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) and its Harnack Principle; from 1934/35 as commissioned work .

He later regretted joining the NSDAP in 1942.

From March 22 to 24, 1948 he was the first editor-in-chief of the NDPD - party newspaper " National-Zeitung " in the Soviet zone of occupation (SBZ). After his Nazi past became known, he was dismissed and replaced by Albrecht Albert .

Publications (selection)

Jesus, the demonic and ethics , Berlin 1919; (2nd, completely redesigned) 1923
The voice of the people , Munich 1920
Translation: William George Wilkins : Labor and Religion in England ; 1923
Nietzsche as redeemer and redeemer , Rudolfstadt 1925
Oswald Spengler and Germany's youth , Rudolfstadt 1925
The young generation in Europe ; 1930
Fascism invades the people. a reflection on the Dopolavoro ; Foreword by G. Renzetti; 1933
Max Planck as a man and a thinker ; 1938
Creator of the new worldview - great physicists of our time ; 1952
The Humboldt Brothers Today: Treatises ; 1968

literature

Biography in the appendix at: Siegfried Neumann: Attitudes and views of Protestant democrats 1918–1933 . Gotha 1982.
Autobiography in: Hans Hartmann: The Humboldt Brothers today: Treatises ; 1968; P. 242.
Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 922.

Web links

Literature by and about Hans Hartmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Hans Hartmann in the German Digital Library
Bernd Sösemann: For historical orientation - contributions by Hans Hartmann

Individual evidence

↑ Kordula Schlösser-Kost, Evangelical Church and Social Issues 1918-1933. the perception of social responsibility by the Rhenish provincial church, 1996, p. 109
^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, The Christian in Society, 1919-1979, 1980, p. 10
↑ Aiga Seywald, “Die” Presse der social movements: 1918-1933, 1994, p. 237
↑ Hans Hartmann, The Reconciliation Alliance. With a foreword by Nikolaus Ehlen. Sonnefeld near Coburg, Neu-Sonnefelder Jugend, undated (around 1927), 20 pp.
↑ Handbook of Public Life, 1929, p. 353
^ Siegfried Heimann / Franz Walter, Religious Socialists and Freethinkers in the Weimar Republic, 1993, p. 198
↑ Kurt Nowak, Evangelical Church and Weimar Republic, 1981, p. 192
↑ Barbara Stambolis, The Myth of the Young Generation. A contribution to the political culture of the Weimar Republic, Diss. Bochum 1982, pp. 103f.
↑ Der Morgen, 7, 1931, p. 306 (addresses of the employees in this issue)
↑ Lukas Möller, Hermann Schektiven - pedagogical action and religious attitude. A Biographical Approach, 2013, p. 104
↑ Article in the estate on kalliope.de
↑ See Hans Hartmann's estate in the archive of the Max Planck Society and in the manuscript department of the Berlin State Library
^ Siegfried Heimann / Franz Walter, Religious Socialists and Freethinkers in the Weimar Republic, 1933, p. 182
↑ Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 2: Lexicon of Organizations and Institutions, Do-It-Yourself Movement - Customs Administration of the GDR (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6349). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16349-7 , p. 720.

personal data
SURNAME	Hartmann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hartmann, Hans Reinhold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	May 17, 1976

[1] Kordula Schlösser-Kost, Evangelical Church and Social Issues 1918-1933. the perception of social responsibility by the Rhenish provincial church, 1996, p. 109

[2] Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, The Christian in Society, 1919-1979, 1980, p. 10

[3] Aiga Seywald, “Die” Presse der social movements: 1918-1933, 1994, p. 237

[4] Hans Hartmann, The Reconciliation Alliance. With a foreword by Nikolaus Ehlen. Sonnefeld near Coburg, Neu-Sonnefelder Jugend, undated (around 1927), 20 pp.

[5] Handbook of Public Life, 1929, p. 353

[6] Siegfried Heimann / Franz Walter, Religious Socialists and Freethinkers in the Weimar Republic, 1993, p. 198

[7] Kurt Nowak, Evangelical Church and Weimar Republic, 1981, p. 192

[8] Barbara Stambolis, The Myth of the Young Generation. A contribution to the political culture of the Weimar Republic, Diss. Bochum 1982, pp. 103f.

[9] Der Morgen, 7, 1931, p. 306 (addresses of the employees in this issue)

[10] Lukas Möller, Hermann Schektiven - pedagogical action and religious attitude. A Biographical Approach, 2013, p. 104

[11] Article in the estate on kalliope.de

[12] See Hans Hartmann's estate in the archive of the Max Planck Society and in the manuscript department of the Berlin State Library

[13] Siegfried Heimann / Franz Walter, Religious Socialists and Freethinkers in the Weimar Republic, 1933, p. 182

[14] Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 2: Lexicon of Organizations and Institutions, Do-It-Yourself Movement - Customs Administration of the GDR (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6349). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16349-7 , p. 720.