Heinz Erich Eisenhuth

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Heinz Erich Eisenhuth (born May 8, 1903 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 26, 1983 in Pferdsdorf / Werra ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Heinz Erich Eisenhuth studied theology in Rostock , Tübingen and Berlin from 1922 to 1926 and became Lic.theol in 1927. in Berlin. He continued his educational path by studying philosophy in Frankfurt am Main , where he received his doctorate in 1929. phil. From 1927 he was vicar in various rural communities, 1928 city vicar in Frankfurt / Main, 1931 private lecturer in Leipzig , where he became Dr. theol. habil. has been.

In April 1933 Eisenhuth joined the NSDAP .

In 1935 he was given a teaching post in Leipzig for philosophy of religion and social ethics . In 1936 he became a deputy chair for systematic theology in Jena . He joined the Nazi church movement German Christians and became one of its leading representatives. From 1937 to 1945 Eisenhuth was a full professor for systematic theology. From 1939 he also worked in Eisenach at the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . In this function, in 1941, in a racist report on the position of baptized Jews in the Church , he demanded to exclude “Jewish Christians” […] “as enemies of the Reich from any form of worship” and from pastoral care by German pastors. From spring to autumn 1943 he was acting head of the institute.

From autumn 1943 Eisenhuth served voluntarily as a soldier in the Wehrmacht .

After he was dismissed from the university in 1945, he was first provisional in 1946, and later in the main office pastor in Jena- Zwätze . In 1952 he became superintendent in Eisenach . For a few years he headed the Evangelical Academy of Thuringia and was part of the synod .

After waiting on hold in 1967, he retired in 1969.

Works

  • The development of the problem of certainty of belief in Karl Heim . Goettingen 1928
  • The Importance of the Bible to Faith . Association communications of the Institute for Research into the Jewish Influence on German Church Life , No. 2–3, Jena 1940, pp. 49–53
  • On the question of the participation of the Jewish Christians in Christian worship . 1940
  • Church service and church. The ritual space problem of the church in connection with the history of the architectural style and the liturgy . Jena 1953
  • Praise be to your loyalty. Songs of the Church and its Poets . Jena 1956
  • Modern man and his beliefs . Berlin 1963
  • The Christian in the community. Preparation for pastoral service . Berlin 1966

literature

  • Oliver Arnhold: “De-Judgment” - Church in the Abyss. Vol. I: The Thuringian Church Movement German Christians 1928–1939 ( ISBN 978-3-938435-00-7 ), Vol. II: The “Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life” 1939–1945 ( ISBN 978-3-938435-01-4 ), Studies on Church and Israel, Volume 25/1 and Volume 25/2, Institute Church and Judaism at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 2010.
  • Erich Stegmann: The church struggle in the Thuringian Evangelical Church 1933 - 1945. Berlin 1984.
  • Thomas A. Seidel (Ed.): Thuringian ridge walks. Contributions to the 75 year history of the Protestant regional church of Thuringia. Hostels of Christianity. Yearbook for German Church History, special volume 3. Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-374-01699-5 .
  • Hans Prolingheuer : Small political church history. Fifty years of Protestant church struggle from 1919 to 1969. Cologne 1985 ISBN 3-7609-0870-5 .
  • Hans Prolingheuer: “We went astray.” The guilt of the church under the swastika, according to the confession of the Darmstadt word of 1947. Pahl-Rugenstein-Verlag, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7609-1144-7 .
  • Matthias Wolfes :  Heinz Erich Eisenhuth. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 437-451.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Tobias Schüfer: Between the philosophy of religion and the superintendent: On the 100th birthday of Heinz-Erich Eisenhuth. In: Faith and Home. Evangelical weekly newspaper in Central Germany. Edition Thuringia, 19, 2003, published by the regional church council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia, ISSN  0323-8202 p. 7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry by Heinz Erich Eisenhuth in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Heinz-Erich Eisenhuth: On the question of the participation of Jewish Christians in Christian worship. In: Verbandsmitteilungen 5/6 (1941), pp. 125–127.
  3. ↑ Complete quote from Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . 2. actual Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 2005, p. 132.
  4. ↑ Oliver Arnhold: "Entjudung" - Kirche im Abgrund, Vol. 2. The "Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life" 1939–1945 (Studies on Church and Israel 25/2). Berlin 2010, p. 795.
personal data
SURNAME Eisenhuth, Heinz Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1983
Place of death Horse village / Werra