Hans Wilhelm Schmidt

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Hans Wilhelm Schmidt (born February 11, 1903 in Munich , † November 14, 1991 in Riemerling ) was a German theologian , Protestant pastor and university professor .

Life

Schmidt studied Protestant theology after graduating from high school . A short time later he was appointed parish priest ordained . He was particularly interested in the subject of the New Testament , in which he received his doctorate . Early on he approached populist - nationalist positions. In 1927 he received a lectureship at the Theological College of Bethel near Bielefeld . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP .

In 1934 he was appointed professor for New Testament theology in Münster , combined with a teaching position for systematic theology . A year later he moved to Bonn . Schmidt campaigned for the “ National Socialist People's Incarnation on the Basis of Blood and Soil ”. In 1939 he received an offer at the University of Vienna . In the same year he declared his collaboration with the institute for the research and elimination of the Jewish influence on the German church life of the German Christians .

After the liberation from National Socialism he was relieved of his duties as a “Reichsdeutscher”, but his expulsion from Austria was temporarily suspended through an intervention by Vice Chancellor Adolf Schärf . During a lecture he was arrested by Soviet soldiers in the summer semester and left Vienna in autumn 1947.

Schmidt went back to the rectory and looked after parishes in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria . He received a professorship again at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Schmidt was accepted into the Order of St. John as a Knight of Honor in 1954, appointed Knight of Law in 1957 and Commander of Honor in 1973. In 1961 he drafted the new rule of the order, which was introduced in 1964.

Works

Articles and monographs

  • Time and eternity. The final requirements of dialectical theology , Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1927 DNB 570622425 (Theological dissertation University of Greifswald 1927, XI, 47 pages, 8 °).
  • The Kingdom of God in Kant , 1928
  • Changes in Latest Theology , 1928
  • The Christ question. Contribution to a Christian philosophy of history , Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann 1929
  • The first and the last things , in: Yearbook of the Theological School Bethel , Volume 1, 1930, pp. 177-237.
  • The concept of person in the doctrine of the Trinity , in: Yearbook of the Theological School Bethel , Volume 4, 1933
  • The question of God in contemporary theological thinking , 1934
  • Christianity and Paganism. A question of national religiosity for our theology , Münster: Gutenberg-Druckerei 1934
  • Political and Religious Belief , 1937
  • Freedom and Predestination in History , 1939
  • Incarnation of God , 1942
  • Religious Reality , 1943
  • Christianity without Christ , 1943
  • Suffering and the question of God , 1944
  • Philosophy and Theology , 1944
  • The cross of Christ with Paul , 1951
  • Cur Deus Homo , 1951
  • The Holy Spirit in Paul's theology , 1953
  • Paul's letter to the Romans. (= Theological Hand Commentary on the New Testament, Volume VI) . Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1963.

Contribution and co-author

  • The blue Bible - What a Christian needs from the Holy Scriptures . Verlag für Gemeindepädagogik 1975 (Hans-Georg Lubkoll wrote the commentary text of the Old Testament, Josef Hainz that of the New Testament . Advice from Odilo Lechner Scientific advice: Josef Scharbert (AT), Hans Wilhelm Schmidt (NT)).

Estates

  • Schmidt, Hans Wilhelm, D .; Theology professor, pastor; 1903-1991; 1.4 m; 56 AU

literature

  • Martin Berger, Matthias Geist: National Socialist Career and Lutheran Revelation Positivism. Hans Wilhelm Schmidt (1903-1991) . In: Karl Schwarz, Falk Wagner (ed.): Changing times and stability. Contributions to the history of the Protestant theological faculty in Vienna 1821–1996 (= series of publications of the University Archives , University of Vienna , Volume 10), WUV-Universitäts-Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85114-314-0 , pp. 353–389.
  • Gottfried Michaelis: Hans Wilhelm Schmidt , in: ders .: The Vischer case. A chapter of the church struggle, Bielefeld: Luther-Verlag 1994, pp. 140-183; in this:
    • Bibliography (p. 175 f.)
  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger (eds.), Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006, p. 221.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt / Main 2003, p. 545.
  2. ↑ Hans-Paul Höpfner: The University of Bonn in the Third Reich, Academic Biographies under National Socialist Rule (= Academica Bonnensia , Volume 12), Bouvier, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-416-02904-6 .
  3. ↑ Young Church 3 (1935) 772.
  4. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray . Cologne 1987.
  5. ^ Roman Pfefferle, Hans Pfefferle: Glimpflich denazisiert, the professorships of the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years, with professor portraits (= University of Vienna , archive: writings of the archives of the University of Vienna , volume 18), V & R Unipress, Göttingen / Vienna University Press, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0275-5 / ISBN 978-3-8470-0275-8 (online edition as e-book , chargeable), p. 346
  6. ↑ Gottfried Michaelis: The Vischer case ... , 1994, p. 177 ff.
  7. ↑ Legacies in the regional church archive, page 5. (PDF 232kb) Regional church archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, accessed on March 2, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Hans Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, Protestant pastor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1991
Place of death Riemerling