Hermann Hoffmann (theologian)

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Hermann Hoffmann (born July 14, 1878 in Glogau , † February 12, 1972 in Leipzig ) was a German Roman Catholic priest and theologian .

Life

From 1908 to 1927 he was a teacher at the Matthias Gymnasium in Breslau . He got involved with the Catholic youth movement in Silesia and became one of the founders of the Quickborn working group . During the First World War he worked as a volunteer military chaplain in France and returned as a pacifist. He joined the International Union of Reconciliation and thereby became one of the first Catholic representatives in the early ecumenical movement . Later he was also a member of the Peace Association of German Catholics .

From 1927 to 1948 he was a priest in Breslau. As a historian, he dealt with the Silesian Jesuit colleges and founded the journal Archive for Silesian Church History . During the Nazi era, he campaigned for Jews. From 1948 to 1972 he was a pastor in Leipzig . The University of Würzburg awarded him an honorary theological doctorate in 1958 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Church and Peace. From the Peace Church to the Peace World . Vienna 1933, OCLC 45033266 .
  • In the service of peace. Memories of a Catholic European . Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-8062-0041-6 .

literature

  • Walter Leander: He knew God and the world. A portrait of Hermann Hoffmann's life. 1878-1972 . Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-7462-0554-9 .
  • Evelyne A. Adenauer: Book exchange 1941. The Catholic priest Hermann Hoffmann and the Jewish teacher Willy Cohn . In: Archives for Silesian Church History 65 (2007), pp. 279–283, ISSN  0066-6491 .
  • Evelyne A. Adenauer: Hermann Hoffmann as an ecumenist in the Weimar Republic . In: Archives for Silesian Church History 65 (2007), pp. 269–278, ISSN  0066-6491 .
  • Evelyne A. Adenauer: “In the eleventh hour”, Hermann Hoffmann and his commitment to German-Polish understanding and ecumenism in the interwar period . Münster 2008, ISBN 3-402-10176-9 .
  • Evelyne A. Adenauer: Życie i działalność Hermanna Hoffmanna - przykład porozumienia polsko-niemieckiego . In: Gregor Ploch, Jerzy Myszor , Christine Kucinski (eds.): The ethnic-national identity of the inhabitants of Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia / Tożsamość etniczno-narodowa mieszkańców Górnego Śląska i Śląska Cieszyńskiego . Münster 2008, pp. 133-140, ISBN 978-83-60071-13-7 .
  • Evelyne A. Adenauer: Unter der Linde - The Catholic priest Hermann Hoffmann as co-initiator of the Catholic youth movement "Quickborn" . In: Archives for Silesian Church History 77 (2019), pp. 229–260, ISSN  0066-6491 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1972
Place of death Leipzig