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Hermann Schaffs (born December 2, 1883 in Langenstein , † June 2, 1959 in Kassel ) was a German Protestant theologian, professor and government director in Kassel.

The grave of Hermann Schaltet with Bible verse Luke 12, 35 at the Mulang cemetery in Kassel.

Life

The son of a pastor, Schektiven, studied Protestant theology in Halle , Berlin and Tübingen from 1903 . From autumn 1909 to Easter 1910 he was the inspector of the Predigerseminar Soest , afterwards he represented the pastor in Hersfeld, which was vacant due to the death of his father. He trained as a deaf-mute chaplain and worked as a military chaplain during the First World War . During the advance of the French troops, he was repeatedly taken prisoner by the French because he did not want to leave the wounded and dying alone, and was exchanged as a non-combatant. For this, the emperor awarded him the order Pour le Mérite . After the war he became a pastor at the Garrison Church in Kassel, and in 1927 he moved to the Brethren Church there . As a religious socialist , he became a member of the SPD and was involved in the Neuwerk movement . He initiated an adult education center with courses for workers, farmers and students at their Habertshof near Schlüchtern . From 1923 he was co-editor, from 1931 sole editor of the magazine Neuwerk .

From 1930 to 1932 Schaltet was professor for Protestant theology at the Pedagogical Academy in Kassel, then after its closure briefly at the Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund . After the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” in 1933, he was transferred to the Pädagogische Akademie Halle (Saale) , but was already on leave at Whitsun 1933 for political reasons and in 1934 he was retired. However, Schellt did not join the Confessing Church , but supported the mediating forces in the church struggle . From 1936 he worked under Theodor Ellwein in the office of the German Evangelical Church (DEK) in Berlin . In 1938 the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck assigned him the office of pastor in Friedewald near Bad Hersfeld and in 1942 the office of parish administrator of the parish of Kirchbauna , Altenbauna , Rengershausen and Hertingshausen south of Kassel, an office that he held until 1951 after the war when he was already a government director in Kassel.

He had been close friends with Paul Tillich since his studies . He and Tillich first met at Wingolf in Berlin . Tillich followed the older work, of which he wrote: "He was always three years ahead of me", to Tübingen and the Hallenser Wingolf , where the two threw themselves side by side in the dispute of principle between the Wingolf connections. After their time in Halle, the two stayed in contact through regular circulars that were passed on among the Wingolf brothers. After a long time without any contact during the Second World War , Paul Tillich looked for his friend in the uniform of an American major before the end of the war, at the end of April 1945, in Kirchbauna. Later, the friends saw each other again at Tillich's lectures in Marburg . Schaffs and Tillich shared an almost identical attitude to religious socialism, which Tillich tried to systematically underpinned, but Schaffs implemented it in a practical and educational way.

After the end of the war, at the suggestion of Paul Tillich, the American military administration entrusted him with the post of government director in Kassel. He was responsible for the school system in North Hesse. Hermann Schaff was a co-founder of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Kassel in 1953 . In 1952 he co-founded the Hessian Folk High School in Fürsteneck Castle, together with Ministerialratin Johanna Spangenberg and the pedagogue (and later director) Gustav Huhn . In honor of his services, a course room at Fürsteneck Castle is now called Hermann-Schektiven-Raum . The Hermann-Schaff-School in Homberg and the Hermann-Schektiven-Haus , the adult education center in Kassel , are named after him. The latter was initiated and planned by Schabric and inaugurated a few weeks after his death.

On February 7, 1949, the 65-year-old bachelor married the 35-year-old war widow Ursula von Loesch, b. Meyer-Houselle, who brought four girls and two boys into the marriage. In December 1949 he became the father of a daughter and in November 1951 the father of two daughters.

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  1. ↑ Lukas Möller: Hermann creates - educational action and religious attitude. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7815-1918-3 , p. 50.
  2. ↑ Tillich in the commemorative volume on Schaff's 70th birthday, after Paul Tillich - A picture of life in documents p. 28 f., 5th supplementary volume to the collected works of Paul Tillich, Evangelisches Verlagswerk Stuttgart 1980
personal data
SURNAME Makes it, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenstein
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1959
Place of death kassel