Hellmut Traub

Hellmut Traub (born July 13, 1904 in Dortmund , † August 3, 1994 in Bietigheim-Bissingen ) was a German Reformed theologian .

Life

Hellmut Traub was a son of the pastor Gottfried Traub and his wife Elma, nee. Heinersdorff (1876-1941). From 1923 he first studied law and economics in Berlin, but from 1930 Protestant theology in Tübingen and from 1931 in Bonn, where Karl Barth had a particular influence on him. In 1934 he passed the first theological exam before the examination board of the Confessing Church ; In 1937 the second theological exam and ordination by Otto Dibelius followed . His pastoral work in Fürstenwalde / Spree and Potsdam and as a lecturer in the catechetical seminar of the Gossner Mission in Berlin-Friedenau was interrupted several times by bans on speaking and stays in prison and concentration camps (three months in Dachau in 1935 ). In 1940 he was called up for military service and, although he refused to take the oath on the Fiihrer , was able to do office work in Berlin and support the work of Bureau Grüber .

After fleeing Berlin, Traub worked as a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein in Glinde from autumn 1945 , and from 1946 also in the Gadeland internment camp near Neumünster. In September 1948 he gave up his pastor's post in Hamburg-Volksdorf , which he held from January 1947. He moved to Stuttgart and worked in the editorial of the of Gerhard Kittel reasoned and Gerhard Friedrich continuing Theological dictionary of the New Testament . After he had campaigned for the previously independent Evangelical Reformed congregation in Stuttgart to join the Evangelical Reformed Church in Northwest Germany (today the Evangelical Reformed Church (Landeskirche) ), Traub took over a pastor's position in the congregation in 1957 1969 held. He and his wife retired in Bietigheim.

As a New Testament scholar, Traub was conservative and dealt critically with Rudolf Bultmann's program of demythologizing. In addition to several articles for the Theological Dictionary for the New Testament and the Biblical-Theological Concise Dictionary for the Luther Bible , he also wrote countless sermon meditations for the Göttingen Sermon Meditations and the series Herr, open my lips . In terms of social policy, however, Traub remained opposition and had been involved in the peace movement since the 1950s. Under the influence of Gustav Heinemann , he joined the All-German People's Party and later the SPD . In 1975 the theological faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen awarded Traub an honorary doctorate .

With his wife Aenne geb. Schümer (1904–1982), Traub had a son, Andreas Traub (* 1949). His brother Hans Traub (1901–1943) was a German newspaper and film scholar.

Fonts (selection)

• Comments and questions on New Testament hermeneutics and the problem of demythologizing. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen 1952.
• Message and story. Contributions to the question of the witness and the witness (= Theological Studies 41). TVZ, Zollikon-Zurich 1954.
• The sermon of the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Three sermons with an introductory account of the preparation for the sermon (= Theological Existence Today , New Part 43). Kaiser, Munich 1954.
• “Undaunted at the time or at the wrong time”. Observations of a preacher, witness and teacher on contemporary church history. Edited by Hans-Georg Ulrichs. Wuppertal 1997.

literature

• Hans-Georg Ulrichs:  Traub, Hellmut. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 424-432.
• Hellmut Traub (1904–1994): Register of the papers of the University of Tübingen , Vol. 3, arr. by Iris Biesinger. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003.
• Norbert Reck: Remembrance in the land of the perpetrators . Lecture 2003.
• Friedrich Künzel / Ruth Pabst (ed.): I want to tell you quickly that I'm alive, dearest. Helmut Gollwitzer, Eva Bildt. Letters from the war 1940–1945. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57381-1 , pp. 33, 36, 37, 44, 71, 72, 79, 107, 135, 140, 167, 230, 235, 240, 248, 276, 278, 307, 310, 311 (entries on Hellmut and Gottfried Traub).
• Jeanette Toussaint: I am the red rag for Potsdam. Anni von Gottberg and the Confessing Church. Potsdam 2011, ISBN 3-931329-17-8 , pp. 92, 95, 97, 101 (on his work in Potsdam).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bautz and list of bequests, see literature.