Herbert Trebs

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Herbert Trebs (born July 16, 1925 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German Protestant university professor for ecumenism and church history , a former functionary of the GDR CDU and an unofficial employee of the GDR state security .

Life

Trebs studied Protestant theology . From 1951 to 1954 and from 1960 to 1963 he was an aspirant at the Martin Luther University Halle / Saale , 1964–1966 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . With a dissertation on "Ecumenical thinking and the ecumenical idea in Leonhard Ragaz " he became a doctor of theology doctorate . In 1967 Trebs was appointed professor of ecumenism at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which he held until 1990.

In 1950 he signed up as a secret employee for the State Security, and in July 1954 he signed up for the second time as a secret informator .

Trebs worked since 1960 in the so-called "Institut Wandlitz", a conspiratorial object of the state security in Berlin-Pankow for the evaluation and disinformation of church sources, and reported as IM Anton.

Trebs was a member of the GDR CDU from 1947 to 1989 and was the successor to the main board of his party in the late 1950s. From 1954 to 1964 he was department head and editor for cultural and church politics in the editorial office of the Neue Zeit . He was a member of the Peace Council of the GDR and was active in journalism and lectures for the “peace education” of the young generation. He positioned himself against pacifist positions within church circles and accused them of a lack of political responsibility in the systemic conflict between the NATO and the Warsaw Pact states . From 1963 to 1976 he was a member of the People's Chamber . In 1967, as a member of the CDU, he was a member of the commission that worked out a new constitution for the GDR . In 1991 he retired. In 1985 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Trebs is married to the visual artist Beatrix Trebs and has three sons and a daughter.

According to Ehrhart Neubert , he belonged to a group of "unrestrained opportunist theologians" who weakened the resistance to the totalitarian violence of the SED regime by participating in the attacks on the young communities . Pastor Michael Pflug, on the other hand, estimates that without Trebs, who protected his students in front of his students, studying would not have been possible without political pressure.

Works

  • Karl Barth . Berlin: Union-Verl., 1986, 1st edition of the Rework
  • Testimony and contemporaneity, Berlin: Union-Verl. VOB, 1968
  • Martin Luther today. Berlin: Union-Verl. VOB, 1967
  • Karl Barth. Berlin: Union Verl. VOB, 1966
  • Contributions to the interpretation of Teilhard de Chardin : The human being in the cosmos. Olof Klohr . - Berlin: Union Verl. VOB, [1966]
  • Emil Fuchs . Berlin: VOB Union Verl., 1965
  • The reflection of social reality in the Kingdom of God theology of the early Leonhard Ragaz <1909–1922>, Leipzig, 1963
  • Booklets from Burgscheidungen / 23rd Socialist Cultural Revolution and Christian Faith [1959]
  • Christians say yes to socialism. [Berlin]: National Councilor d. National Front d. democratic Germany, [19] 58

As editor:

Reviews:

  • Rosemarie Schuder : The Enlightened or The Image of Poor Lazarus in Münster in Westphalia - also called the terror of love by the less fearful, 1968 Berlin Union-Verlag, in: Evangelisches Pfarrerblatt, 1969, No. 7, pp. 188-191

Audiovisual media:

  • Inventory catalog of CDs and DVDs for research and teaching: Martin Luther [1517–1527]. A production of the television of the GDR 1983. Five parts, each 90 minutes, total approx. 450 minutes. Script : Hans Kohlus , director: Kurt Veth , leading actor: Ulrich Thein , consultant: Gerhard Brendler (AdW; historian), Herbert Trebs (Humboldt University, theologian)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Lepp: Taboo of Unity ?. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-55743-3 , p. 621. limited preview in Google book search
  2. ↑ Martin Görner: The Church as a Problem of the SED. 1997, p. 212.
  3. ↑ peer-pasternack.de (PDF).
  4. ^ Clemens Vollnhals : The church political department of the Ministry for State Security. The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic, Department of Education and Research, 1997, p. 12 f.
  5. ^ Clemens Vollnhals: The Church Policy of the SED and State Security. Ch. Links Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-86153-122-7 , p. 89. Limited preview in the Google book search
  6. ^ Construction Soldiers Congress 2004 - Congress results. (No longer available online.) In: havemann-gesellschaft.de. December 20, 1965, archived from the original on December 31, 2014 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.havemann-gesellschaft.de
  7. ^ History. (PDF).
  8. ↑ New times . May 2, 1985, p. 2.
  9. ^ Ehrhart Neubert : History of the opposition in the GDR 1949–1989. Ch. Links Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-86153-163-0 , p. 78. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  10. ^ Hans-Martin Krusche: Pastor in the GDR: Conversations about Church and Politics. Berlin 2002, p. 385 (interview with Michael Pflug ).
  11. ^ Faculty of Theology (special area) Prof. Dr. Helmut Obst ( Memento from April 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: theologie.uni-halle.de
  12. ↑ Friedenauer Antiquariat - search & order used books online. (No longer available online.) In: friedenau.com. Archived from the original on December 31, 2014 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friedenau.com
  13. ^ Project historical novel: database. In: uibk.ac.at. Accessed December 31, 2014 .
  14. ↑ CD ROM collection. In: fu-berlin.de. April 27, 1930, accessed December 31, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Trebs, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and politician (CDU), MdV, unofficial employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)