Hans Lauerer

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Hans Lauerer (born May 25, 1884 in Regensburg ; † January 20, 1953 in Neuendettelsau ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and rector of the Neuendettelsau deaconess institution .

Live and act

Lauerer studied Protestant theology and received his doctorate in Erlangen with a thesis on Bishop Anselm von Havelberg . From 1918 to 1953 he was rector of the Neuendettelsau deaconess institution.

During his time branches were founded or acquired in Windsbach , Oettingen , Westheim , Lützelbuch , Bad Oy , Engelthal , Nuremberg , Rothenburg and Mainleus . In 1926 he commissioned the architect German Bestelmeyer to convert the church of St. Laurentius, which had become too small .

Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller appointed Lauerer to be Lutheran Minister of the Spirit, but he resigned from this office on December 2, 1933. He did not join the German Christians and did not join the Ansbach Circle , whose members belonged to the National Socialist Evangelical Pastors' Association (NSEP) and were responsible for the Ansbach advice . Nonetheless, he welcomed the seizure of power by Hitler and the National Socialist regime in principle, as long as it did not interfere in church affairs.

During his time as the director of the Neuendettelsau Deaconess Institution, the National Socialists transferred around 1200 patients from the Neudettelsau institutions to other homes and eventually killed them. Lauerer had a certain affinity for the National Socialist "euthanasia" policy and the ideology behind it and was therefore ready to subordinate the imperative of the unconditional protection of human life to this ideology.

Honors

Hans Lauerer House in Neuendettelsau

A building of the Diakonie in Neuendettelsau today bears the name Hans-Lauerer-Haus .

Fonts (selection)

  • The theological views of Bishop Anselm von Havelberg died. 1158: depicted on the basis of the critically viewed writings , Erlangen: Junge & Sohn 1911.
  • Luther's view of baptism , Leipzig: Deichert 1917.
  • “Old” and “new” Gospels ?: a theological pronunciation , Neuendettelsau: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Verein für Innere Mission 1920.
  • From the church: a request for understanding for the church , Neuendettelsau: Verlag der Buchhandlung der Diakonissenanstalt 1924.
  • Pastor Wilhelm Löhe , Neuendettelsau: Verlag der Buchhandlung der Diakonissenanstalt 1926.
  • What does it mean and how does one become a Christian personality in the sense of Lutheranism? , Neuendettelsau, Verlag der Diakonissenanstalt bookstore 1920.
  • To educate means to serve. A contribution to Christian education in the evangelical sense , Neuendettelsau 1926.
  • The Diakonissenanstalt Neuendettelsau: from past and present , Neuendettelsau 1928.
  • I believe in the holy spirit. A brief account of the work of the Holy Spirit . Neuendettelsau 1928.
  • The ideological foundations of the German parties , Neuendettelsau: Freimund-Verlag 1933.
  • Church and State. Protestant teaching (= Confessing Church , volume 11), Munich 1934.
  • In the discipleship and service of Jesus , Neuendettelsau 1938.
  • 100 years of the Neuendettelsau Deaconess Institution 1854–1954 , Neuendettelsau 1954.
  • Year of Salvation anno domini: from sermons and writings by D. Lauerer , collected by Olga Gaebelein, Neuendettelsau 1987.

literature

  • Hermann Dietzfelbinger:  Lauerer, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 706 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hans Rößler: The end of a friendship - Rector D. Hans Lauerer and Pastor Hans Sommerer in the Bavarian church struggle , in: Journal for Bavarian Church History 57 (1988), pp. 73-85.
  • Wilhelm Stählin : From the “old” and “new” Gospels: an open letter to Rector Lic. Lauerer , Nuremberg: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Verein für Innere Mission 1919.

Web links

Commons : Hans Lauerer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stegemann: Rothenburg under the swastika. Euthanasia III: Neuendettelsau care facility under the control of the merciless T4 campaign "Destruction of life unworthy of life" - around 1,200 patients were killed. Information is based on: Alfred Kugelstein: Aktion Gnadentod. Neuendettelsau 1939–1941. in memorabilia and oddities from Middle Franconia. Ein Reader , Delp 1988. Retrieved March 4, 2016
  2. ^ Gerhard Müller, Horst Weigelt, Wolfgang Zorn: Handbook of the history of the Evangelical Church in Bavaria. Volume 2, EOS, 2000. p. 325. ISBN 978-3-8306-7042-1
  3. ↑ Overview plan of the Diakonie Neuendettelsau ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 5, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diakonieneuendettelsau.de
personal data
SURNAME Lauerer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rector of Diakonie Neuendettelsau, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1953
Place of death Neuendettelsau