Helmut Kramer (theologian)

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Helmut Kramer (born July 7, 1910 in Manchester , England ; † May 6, 2011 in Stuttgart ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor , church councilor and author of books on religious education.

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Helmut Kramer comes from the family of a Protestant pastor. After he had obtained his university entrance qualification , he studied Protestant theology in Halle and Tübingen . In Tübingen he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia . After his preparatory time in the vicariate , he was ordained pastor on February 23, 1937 . After several decades of service as parish priest, he was appointed superintendent of Gotha on February 1, 1964 . In 1976 he retired and was appointed to the church council.

Kramer worked for many years in the Weimar working group , which organized rapprochement with the SED state and was specifically influenced by a leadership group of unofficial employees of the GDR state security . Kramer was the spokesman for his leadership group.

Kramer was a member of the Christian Peace Conference , at the 1st and 2nd All-Christian Peace Meetings in Prague in 1961 and 1964, respectively .

Together with Walter Grundmann , he published several textbooks on catechetical work with children and young people.

Works

  • May I be his own , Berlin: Evangelische Verl. Anst., 1963
  • May I be his own , Stuttgart: Klotz, 1963
  • You Belong to God: Manual for Catechism Lessons According to Martin Luther's Small Catechism / With Coll. by ... ed. by Walter Grundmann u. Helmut Kramer, Berlin. (T. 1.). 1st - 3rd main piece, 1960; (T. 2.). 4th and 5th main part, didactic part of the office of the keys and of the confession : Evang. Verl.-Anst. Berlin 1961

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. 1967, master roll no. 776.
  2. ↑ http://www.lutherhaus-eisenach.de/scripts/angebote/1981/?startpos=6500 ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ Clemens Vollnhals : Oberkirchenrat Gerhard Lotz and the Ministry for State Security. On the IM file “Karl” , in: ... and beyond Barmen: Studies on contemporary church history; Festschrift for Carsten Nicolaisen on April 4, 1994; for the Evangelical Working Group for Contemporary Church History
  4. ↑ Thüringer Pfarrer-Taschenbuch 1974, ed. Regional Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia, EVA Berlin 1974, p. 290
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , England
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2011
Place of death Stuttgart