Hellmut Bandt

Hellmut Bandt (born September 23, 1917 in Berlin , † May 19, 1976 in Greifswald ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and professor of systematic theology .

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After graduating from university, Bandt studied Protestant theology at the University of Berlin . In 1937 he was one of the group of theology students in Berlin who were expelled from the university for advocating the Confessing Church . After submitting his doctoral thesis on the systematic theological issue of God's concealment at Martin Luther in 1955 he became the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin to the doctor Protestant theology doctorate . In 1958 he received a professorship with a teaching position for systematic theology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . In 1962 he held courses there with full teaching assignments. For more than 20 years until his untimely death, he helped shape the spirit of the theological faculty there . Greifswald theologians write in a historical summary on their website:

Bandt began as a Luther interpreter (Luther's doctrine of the hidden God , Berlin 1957). Encouraged by Dietrich Bonhoeffer's demand for a “non-religious interpretation” of the Bible , he later endeavored to develop a theology that reached people, especially under the conditions of the GDR. Bandt was close to the church brotherhoods , i.e. the left wing of the Confessing Church . In this respect, political commitment was indispensable for him, which motivated him to work in the Weißensee working group . Bandt was instrumental in ensuring that distance and freedom from the SED policy were maintained in the faculty even under difficult conditions (Confidence and responsibility. Theology in conversation with questioning contemporaries, Berlin 1980).

That concluded u. a. also that he advocated unarmed service by Christians for the construction soldiers .

He was a member of the Weißenseer working group , the church brotherhood in Berlin-Brandenburg, and defended the practice of youth consecration .

Hellmut Bandt had been a member of the Christian Peace Conference since 1960 and was elected to the working bodies of the 2nd All-Christian Peace Assembly in Prague in 1964.

His son Uli is pastor of a congregation in Bremen.

Works

• Confidence and Responsibility , Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1980, 1st ed.
• Luther's doctrine of the hidden God , Berlin: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1958
• Luther's doctrine of the hidden God , o. O., [1955]

literature

• Irmfried Garbe, Tilman Beyrich, Thomas Willi (eds.): Greifswalder theological profiles . Building blocks for the history of theology at the University of Greifswald. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-631-55537-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hartmut Ludwig: Studied theology in Berlin 1937 , in: Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz , Carsten Nicolaisen (ed.): Theological faculties in National Socialism. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1993 (AKIZ B 18), pp. 303-316, here p. 313
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Gerhard Besier , Stephan Wolf (ed.): 'Pastors, Christians and Catholics'. The Ministry for State Security of the former GDR and the churches, Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1991, ISBN 3-7887-1416-6
5. ↑ http://www.remberti.de/upload/daten/remberti_nachrichten/13_03.pdf#page=6  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature about Hellmut Bandt in the state bibliography MV