Heinrich Frick

Heinrich Frick (born November 2, 1893 in Darmstadt , † December 31, 1952 in Marburg an der Lahn ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

From 1919 Heinrich Frick was a private lecturer in religious studies and mission studies at the TH Darmstadt . In 1921 he completed his habilitation at the University of Gießen and became an associate professor there in 1924. From 1927 Frick was professor of systematic theology and religious studies in Marburg and director of the local religious history collection . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a supporting member of the SS in 1933 and joined the National Socialist Teachers' Association , the National Socialist People's Welfare and the Reich Air Protection Association . 1934/35 initially vice dean, he was dean of the Marburg theological faculty from 1937 to 1945 . On his initiative, the Hessian Scholarship Institution , whose Ephorus he had been since 1937, moved to Marburg Castle in 1946 . In 1947 he became university rector . In the same year he took over the management of the general association of German evangelical mission conferences and became a member of the German Evangelical Mission. Frick was also the chairman of the Hessian Mission Conference. From 1930 to 1932 he was a member of the German State Party (DStP).

Publications

• Nationality and internationality of the Christian mission. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1917.
• The evangelical mission. Origin, history, goal (= library of culture and history. Vol. 26, ZDB -ID 541504-4 ). Schroeder, Bonn et al. 1922.
• Religious currents of the present. The sacred and the form (= science and education. Individual representations from all areas of knowledge. Vol. 187, ZDB -ID 971817-5 ). Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1923.
• The Kingdom of God in American and German theology of the present (= lectures of the Theological Conference in Giessen. Volume 43, ZDB -ID 568884-x ). Töpelmann, Giessen 1926.
• Germany within the religious world situation Verlag Alfred Töpelmann, Berlin 1936.
• Religious world crisis of the present. In: The world in progress. Common books of knowledge and research of the present. Row 1, Vol. 10, 1937, ZDB -ID 552610-3 , pp. 17-116.

literature

• Otto Eberhard : Bridge builder from Katheder to the world and now. Heinrich Frick. In: Deutsches Pfarrerblatt. Vol. 47, No. 4, 1943.
• Angelika Königseder: Walter de Gruyter - A science publisher under National Socialism. Tübingen 2016.
• Anne Christine Nagel (ed.): The Philipps University of Marburg in National Socialism. Documents on their history (= Pallas Athene. Vol. 1 = Academia Marburgensis. Vol. 7). Edited by Anne Christine Nagel and Ulrich Sieg . Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07653-0 .
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Heinrich Frick. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 123.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5785, p. 394 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer 16048). Updated edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 166.