Helmut Echternach
Helmut Friedbert Richard Siegfried Echternach (born March 20, 1907 in Waltersdorf (Polish: Pęciszewo), East Prussia ; † February 25, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a pastor , Lutheran theologian ( dogmatist ) and bishop .
Life
Helmut Echternach was born the son of pastor Richard Echternach and his wife Elisabeth (née Spaltowski) and attended high school in Königsberg . He studied Protestant theology , philosophy and Indian philology at the university there from 1925 to 1930 and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1928 and in Protestant theology in 1930 in Greifswald . In 1931 he completed his habilitation in systematic theology and philosophy of religion and was ordained in 1932. From 1932 to 1939 he was pastor in the parish Goddentow - Lanz in the Pomeranian Church .
Echternach did his military service in 1939 and then from 1942 to 1945 and was taken prisoner by the British in 1945 (until 1946). He was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2.148.064).
From October 1946 he became pastor at the Matthäuskirche in Hamburg-Winterhude and in 1947 founded an ecumenical discussion group to promote the dialogue between Catholic, Lutheran and Orthodox Christians. From 1946 he held lectures at the Church Lectureship, which later became the Church of Hamburg University , then from 1954 received a teaching position for systematic theology at the University of Hamburg and in 1957 became pastor at the main church St. Petri .
In 1966 he founded the high church St. Athanasius brotherhood . On October 18 of the same year he was ordained bishop in apostolic succession in Geneva . (Episcopal name Ignatius V). From 1970 Echternach also taught at the Université Européenne in Amsterdam . In 1973 he retired as pastor and died in Hamburg in 1988.
Since 1933 he was married to Margarete (née Benecke). He had four children: in 1934 and 1937 his sons Horst (he was senior church councilor of the EKD) and Jürgen Echternach (he was, among other things, federal chairman of the Junge Union and parliamentary state secretary), and in 1940 and 1949 his daughters Christel (she was a senior student councilor) and Angelika (senior judge) a. D.) born.
References
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Hering: Helmut Echternach. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 415-423.
literature
- Rainer Hering: Helmut Echternach. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 415-423.
Web links
- Literature by and about Helmut Echternach in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Echternach, Helmut |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Echternach, Helmut Friedbert Richard Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor, Protestant theologian (dogmatist) and bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waltersdorf, Heiligenbeil district , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1988 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |