Heinrich Laag

Heinrich Laag (born April 12, 1892 in Boizenburg / Elbe ; † December 21, 1972 in Marburg ) was a Protestant theologian , professor of church history , Christian archaeologist and from 1934 to 1945 administrator of the office of general superintendent for the western district of the Pomeranian Church.

On July 9, 1916, Heinrich Laag, who came from Mecklenburg, was ordained as a clergyman in Berlin . As a military assistant preacher he worked at the Cadet House in Lichterfelde near Berlin and on January 1, 1918, took over his first pastor in Stojentin near Stolp in Western Pomerania . In 1919 he became a licentiate doctorate of theology. In 1922 he moved to Groß Bünzow near Wolgast in Western Pomerania and at the same time became a private lecturer at the University of Greifswald . In 1930 he received his doctorate in theology. From 1931 to 1934 he was the superintendent of the leading clergyman of the Garz / Rügen Synod . He belonged to the German Christians . On May 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP and in June 1933 he was appointed non-official extraordinary professor in Greifswald . He gave the speech on naming the university after Ernst Moritz Arndt . In 1934 he was appointed provost.

During the Third Reich , he was senior consistorial advisor at the consistory of the Pomeranian Province in Stettin and was involved in the management of the Pomeranian Church. From 1934 he managed - as the successor to Walter Kähler , who had been pushed out of office - the office of general superintendent for the West Prengel (Western Pomerania). In 1938 he was the founder and first director of the church music seminar in Stettin-Finkenwalde. In 1945 he fled to West Germany and took over a pastor's office in the Hessian town of Schlüchtern . In 1955 he moved to Caldern .

In 1953 Laag became an honorary professor at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he founded a central office for modern church construction in 1954. From this emerged the Institute for Church Building and Church Art of the Present , which he headed until 1965.

literature

• Inge Auerbach: Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University of Marburg . Volume 2: From 1911 to 1971 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , Volume 15, 2). Elwert, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-7708-0662-X , p. 32 f.
• Henrik Eberle : "A valuable instrument." The University of Greifswald under National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22397-7 , p. 634 f.
• Ulrich Fabricius:  Laag, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 358 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hellmuth Heyden : The evangelical clergy of the former administrative district Stralsund-Insel Rügen. Evangelical Consistory, Greifswald 1956.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Laag in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Heinrich Laag in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Membership number 1.948.239, according to Henrik Eberle: "A valuable instrument." The University of Greifswald under National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22397-7 , p. 635
2. ↑ Henrik Eberle: "A valuable instrument." The University of Greifswald under National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22397-7 , pp. 70f

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Thom	Senior Consistorial Councilor and acting General Superintendent of Pomerania (Westsprengel) 1934–1945	Karl von Scheven