Hermann Riess

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Hermann Samuel Riess (also Rieß ; born September 7, 1914 in Stuttgart ; † August 18, 1990 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and theologian. He served as prelate in Ulm from 1962 to 1969 and in Stuttgart from 1969 to 1990.

Life

Riess was a son of pastor Hermann Riess. Between 1929 and 1933 he attended the Evangelical Seminars in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren and, after graduating from high school in 1933, began studying theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . At the same time he joined the SA , but was expelled from the SA in 1936 during a guest semester at the University of Rostock because of his increasing opposition. After the first theological exam in Tübingen and ordination in 1939, he began his vicariate , but was soon called up for military service. Seriously wounded during the war against the Soviet Union in 1942, he was able to return to Germany and take his second theological exam in 1943. He was then appointed parish administrator in Rötenberg , but was soon drafted again. He was only able to resume his pastoral office in November 1945 after returning from captivity.

In 1947 he got a job as a repetitionist at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen , but the next year he took over the management of the men's work at the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . His office was in Stuttgart, where he was also in charge of organizing the 1952 Evangelical Church Congress . From 1957 to 1962 he was the first pastor of the newly founded parish of Korntal . In 1962 he was elected prelate (regional bishop) of the Ulm Prelature and in the same year took over the chairmanship of the main group of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk of his regional church. In 1969 he moved to the management of the Stuttgart Prelature , which he held until his retirement in 1980. From 1979 to 1988 he was also President of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk of the Evangelical Church in Germany.

In addition to his commitment to the Gustav-Adolf-Werk, Riess was active in other honorary posts, for example from 1954 to 1962 as a member of the Württemberg regional synod and from 1965 to 1989 as chairman of the board of directors of the Evangelical Deaconess Sisterhood in Herrenberg . He also wrote interpretations of New Testament writings for lay people. As a member of the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress (1964–1983), he tried to mediate with the confessional movement No other gospel .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Epistles of Philemon, Titus and 2. Timothy. Kreuz, Stuttgart 1956.
  • The two letters to Thessalonians. Quell, Stuttgart 1960.
  • (as editor :) Hope lives in love. 150 years of the Gustav Adolf factory. Publishing house of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk, Kassel 1982.

literature

  • Hermann Söhner: Departure to a new country. Hermann Rieß - a life of commitment and diversity. Gesangbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2004. ISBN 3-931895-23-8 .
  • Gisa Bauer: Evangelical Movement and Evangelical Church in the Federal Republic of Germany. History of a fundamental conflict (1945 to 1989). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-64-755770-0 , passim, esp.p. 772.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After Gisa Bauer: Evangelical Movement and Evangelical Church in the Federal Republic of Germany , p. 772; likewise Karin Oehlmann: Faith and the present. The development of church political networks in Württemberg around 1968. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016, ISBN 978-3-64-755777-9 , p. 452; according to other information in Korntal or Esslingen am Neckar .
  2. ^ Gisa Bauer: Evangelical Movement and Evangelical Church in the Federal Republic of Germany. History of a fundamental conflict (1945 to 1989). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, p. 612f.
personal data
SURNAME Riess, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riess, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and prelate (regional bishop)
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1990
Place of death unsure: Stuttgart