Hermann Mulert

Hermann Mulert (pseudonym: Euthymius Haas ) (born January 11, 1879 in Niederbobritzsch , † July 22, 1950 in Mügeln ) was a Protestant theologian.

Life

After finishing high school in Freiberg , Mulert studied theology at the Universities of Leipzig and Marburg. From 1901 he worked as a private tutor in Osterburg , from 1903 to 1906 as a private tutor in Leipzig. During this time he was involved as a member of the National Social Association , and later the Liberal Association . In 1910 he joined the Progressive People's Party . He was one of the editors of the 1st edition of the lexicon series Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG), which appeared from 1909 to 1913.

In 1920 he was appointed full professor for systematic theology at Kiel University. Mulert, who had belonged to the DDP since 1918 and to the state party until its dissolution in 1933 , was a member of the Protestant Union, the People's Church Union and the regional synod. In 1935 he applied for dismissal because he could not identify with the goals of the National Socialist government and his removal from the service was already pending.

As editor-in-chief of the Christian World , Mulert tried since 1932 to establish liberal ideas against the increasingly emerging National Socialism. His criticism of the restriction of the rule of law and the discrimination against Jews ultimately led to the magazine being confiscated and banned.

From then on, Mulert supported other opponents of National Socialism financially and withdrew to his hometown when the end of the Second World War was in sight. There he administered the pastoral office, which had been orphaned by the calling of the pastor to military service. During this time he also joined the Quaker movement in Saxony.

After the end of the war, Mulert became politically active in building the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) . He taught at the University of Jena until 1946 and was involved in the reconstruction of the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig in 1948 . The planned return to Kiel no longer came about. As a result of years of overexertion, acutely triggered by an infection, Mulert died on July 22, 1950 in Mügeln near Leipzig in the house of his niece Maria Flux, née Reinmuth.

Works

Mulert is one of the most important authors of liberal Protestantism. Numerous writings on Saxon church history and a large number of theological works and treatises come from him. His main theological works are denominational studies - Christian churches and sects today (Gießen 1927, 3rd edition 1956) and religion, church, theology. Introduction to theology (Giessen 1931). He was also the author of some polemic pamphlets and editor of the writings of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher .

Mulert published several collections of anecdotes under the pseudonym Euthymius Haas .

literature

• Matthias Wolfes : Hermann Mulert. Life picture of a Kiel theologian (1879–1950). Edited by the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History, Neumünster (Wachholtz-Verlag) 2000. ISBN 978-3-529-04050-4 .
• Matthias Wolfes:  Hermann Mulert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 1043-1110.
• Reiner Preul: Hermann Mulert in Kiel. Documentation of a scientific symposium of the theological faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-University on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of death . Kiel 2001.
• Martin Mulert: Hermann Mulert. His life, essence and work . A. Töpelmann, Berlin 1954.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Mulert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography

Footnotes

1. ↑ See the title pages of the first three volumes of the first edition.
2. ↑ Martin Mulert: Hermann Mulert. His life, essence and work . A. Töpelmann, Berlin 1954, p. 22.