Hermann Ohland

Hermann Ohland (born May 3, 1888 in Untermaßfeld , † December 16, 1953 in Friedelshausen ) was a German pastor and songwriter of the German Christians .

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Ohland passed his Abitur and then attended a teacher training center. After his legal traineeship , he was an elementary school teacher in Friedelshausen, Hermannsfeld , Stedtlingen and Ellingshausen . 

Ohland joined the NSDAP in 1933. He worked in the National Socialist teachers' association and in the "People's Service" of the Thuringian Church and produced song lyrics in the folkish - nationalistic sense.

In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . He became an active member of its hymn book committee, which worked on the publication of a “de-Judged” church hymn book under the title Great God we praise you . In the Songs of Comradeship section there are 13 songs by Ohland, which were intended “for special celebrations in non-church spaces” and were set to music by Adolf Daum . They were supposed to announce the “historic actions of God in the presence and in the Führer Adolf Hitler ”. Among other things, there was a text that stylized war and death as religious sacrifices. The classification in the corresponding hymn book Heilig Vaterland - Volk vor Gott was indicative of the intention of the German Christians . 

In 1942, after a short course, he was ordained a pastor and administrator of the Cobstädt parish , since 1945 parish administrator in Behrungen because the pastor there was assigned to the Wehrmacht .

In 1946 Ohland lost his office, but was allowed to officiate again as parish vicar in Behrungen since 1948, and since 1952 as pastor in Friedelshausen.

Fonts

• Earth in God's hand. Poems ; Shield row 1; Weimar: Verlag [Church Movement] German Christians, 1936

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Ohland in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thomas A. Seidel: Thuringian ridge hikes ; Leipzig 1998, p. 285.
2. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray ; Cologne 1987; P. 150.
3. ↑ Birgit Gregor: ... freed from Jewish influence: "Great God we praise you" ; in: Thüringer Gratwanderungen, p. 137.
4. ↑ Michael Fischer: Wake up, the voice calls us ( memento of the original from January 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.