Hermann Strathmann

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Hermann Strathmann

Hermann Strathmann (born August 30, 1882 in Opherdicke , † November 19, 1966 in Erlangen ) was a German theologian and politician ( DNVP , CSVD , CSU ).

Live and act

Empire (1882 to 1919)

Hermann Strathmann was born the son of a pastor in Opherdicke in the Hörde district. He attended elementary school until he was twelve. After that, he received initial high school education through private tuition. From 1895 to 1901, according to the Reichstag handbook, he attended the royal Prussian state school near Naumburg an der Saale , which means Schulpforta . He then studied theology in Tübingen , Halle and Bonn . Strathmann took his theological exams at Easter 1905 and 1907 in Münster. After two years at the von Bodelschwingh Institute in Bethel near Bielefeld, Strathmann received his doctorate in Bonn in 1908. Equipped with the theological teaching license (lic. Theol), Strathmann became a private lecturer at the University of Bonn and inspector at the royal theological monastery there. In 1915 he became an associate professor in Heidelberg, and in 1916 a full professor in Rostock. In 1918 he finally moved to Erlangen , where he took over the chair for the New Testament . Another focus of his research was early Christianity .

From 1915 to 1918 Strathmann took part in the First World War as a chaplain in Russia and France with an interruption of eight months .

Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933)

After the war, Strathmann took part in the founding of the Bavarian Central Party in December 1918 , which in 1920 became part of the German National People's Party (DNVP). Politically, he longed to return to the old government. He especially admired the idea of ​​a Holy Evangelical Empire of the German Nation of his great role model Adolf Stoecker .

In 1919 Strathmann became a member of the Bavarian State Parliament , to which he was a member until his election to the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in June 1920 . After Strathmann was re-elected in the elections of May 1924 , December 1924 and May 1928 , he belonged to the German parliament for almost ten years as a representative of constituency 29 and 26 (Franconia) before he temporarily resigned from the Reichstag in September 1930 . Already in July 1930 Strathmann had converted to the People's Service (Evangelical Movement) , whose parliamentary group he also joined. The reason for Strathmann's break with the DNVP was in particular his skepticism towards the person and the politics of its chairman Alfred Hugenberg . Strathmann had already toyed with the idea of ​​parting with the DNVP for a while, but he shrank away from it despite the “[unbearable] atmosphere of mistrust” in the DNVP faction, because he feared a fragmentation of the political right and of the The prospects of success for new parties doubted. After a four-month absence from parliament between September 1930 and January 1931, Strathmann managed to return to the Reichstag on January 30, 1931 in the replacement procedure for Hermann Kling , who resigned on January 16, and which he now belonged to until the July 1932 election . After a renewed phase as a non-parliamentarian from July to November, he was finally able to return to the Reichstag on the occasion of the Reichstag election in November 1932 on the Reich election proposal of the People's Service. This, his last mandate, ended after the election in March 1933 .

Period of National Socialism (1933 to 1945)

In 1931 Strathmann published the brochure National Socialist Weltanschauung? , in which he expressed the view that the racial views of National Socialism were incompatible with the Christian faith. Regardless of this, Strathmann was largely positive about National Socialism after 1933. He only continued to take offense at the regime's church and religious policy. Accordingly, he showed sympathy for the Confessing Church without actually belonging to it.

During the Nazi era , Strathmann continued his teaching activities in Erlangen unhindered despite some hostility in the period of upheaval in 1933/34. In addition, he now intensified his journalistic activities: In July 1935 Strathmann became the responsible co-editor of the Theologische Blätter , in which he was responsible for the content and editorial design of the section “From Science and Life”. Strathmann was also active in the editorial team of the Franconian Courier , from which he left in 1939 after conflicts with the publisher, Julius Streicher . In 1940 Strathmann finally joined the NSDAP .

Post-war period (1945 to 1966)

After the war, Strathmann initially continued his work in Erlangen unhindered. On January 31, 1947, he was dismissed as a university professor by the American military government, as Schlemmer states "although not because he was a member of the NSDAP or any other Nazi organization". His rehabilitation took place just a year later. In the first post-war years, Strathmann became politically active in the Christian Social Union (CSU), for which he sat in the Bavarian state parliament from 1946 to 1950 and in which he belonged to the wing around Josef Müller . In the CSU state executive he represented the Protestant Christians in the CSU.

On June 25, 1947, at the request of the electoral examination committee, the Bavarian state parliament decided by a majority to declare the election of Strathmann and the deputy August Haußleiter invalid. Both men did not fall under the law for the liberation from National Socialism and Militarism , but members of the examination board believed that they could identify militaristic and Nazi ideas in some of the writings of Strathmann and Haußleiter written before 1945. The decision to withdraw his mandate from Strathmann became explosive, as he was one of the most prominent representatives of the Protestant regions of Franconia in the CSU and was almost a symbolic figure for the Protestant Christians in the Bavarian Union Party, so that a vote of no confidence in him was a vote of no confidence in the Franconian - Protestant parts of the CSU had to appear. Strathmann defended himself against the decision by filing a lawsuit with the Bavarian Constitutional Court . In addition, his regional association, the Erlangen regional association, protested against the decision. After a protracted argument, Strathmann left the CSU in 1954 to unsuccessfully found an evangelical party with the German People's Service. In 1956 he co-founded the papers for German and international politics . In February 1958 he was one of the 44 university professors who passed a call to the trade unions to organize a political strike against the nuclear armament of the Federal Republic.

Strathmann's estate is stored today in the Regional Church Archives (LKA) in Nuremberg. It contains eight boxes with lecture manuscripts, files and correspondence.

Fonts

  • Asceticism in the environment of nascent Christianity. Leipzig 1914.
  • History of early Christian asceticism up to the emergence of monasticism in the context of religious history. s. a.
  • Order and work. 1919.
  • The municipal right to vote as a weapon against alcoholism. 1924.
  • Saladin Ludendorff in the fight against the Bible.
  • Is the legal oath still tenable? Leipzig 1928.
  • Gospel and politics. Nuremberg 1930.
  • National Socialist Weltanschauung ?. Nuremberg 1931.
  • Church and Politics. Berlin 1931.
  • Away with the tributes! Berlin 1932.
  • The Origin of the New Testament. Göttingen 1936.
  • How did the New Testament come about? What is it to us A first continuation of Saladin-Ludendorff in the fight against the Bible. Freizeiten-Verlag, Velbert 1937.
  • What does the Revelation of John tell us? Gütersloh 1939.
  • Luther's German Bible. Essen 1940.
  • Trial of the testament. Leipzig 1940.
  • The Church's overconfidence.
  • Spirit and form of the fourth gospel. Göttingen 1946.
  • What is the "revelation" of John in the New Testament supposed to be? Gütersloh 1934.
  • Luther as a warning in public life. Bielefeld 1947.
  • Adam where are you Bielefeld 1947.

literature

  • Otto Hass : Hermann Strathmann. Christian thinking and acting in turbulent times. WVB Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Bamberg 1993, ISBN 3-927392-41-3 (also: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 1993).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alf Mintzel: The CSU. Anatomy of a Conservative Party 1945-1972 , 1975, p. 588.
  2. ↑ Olaf Blaschke : Denominations in Conflict. Germany between 1800 and 1970 , 2002, p. 279.
  3. ^ A b Manfred Kittel: Province between Reich and Republic , 2000, p, 577.
  4. ↑ http://www.reichstagsprotocol.de/Blatt2_wv_bsb00000137_00865.html
  5. ↑ Garc C. Fouse: Erlangen. An American's History of a German Town , 2005, p. 192.
  6. ↑ Andreas Mühlin: Karl Ludwig Schmidt. "and science is life" , 1997, p. 182.
  7. ↑ Michael Klein: West German Protestantism and Political Parties , 2005, p. 174.
  8. ↑ Thomas Schlemmer: Departure, Crisis and Renewal , p. 201.
  9. ^ Heinz Boberach: Contributions to Rhenish State History and Contemporary History , 2001, p. 162.
  10. ↑ Peter Jakob Kock: The Bavarian State Parliament. A chronicle. Published by the Bavarian Parliament. 5th edition. Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2006, p. 39 ( online , PDF; 5.6 MB).
  11. ^ Heinz Boberach: Contributions to Rhenish State History and Contemporary History , 2001, p. 175.
  12. ^ Sheets for German and International Politics 12/2006, p. 1462
  13. ↑ Reinhard Scheerer : Ex oriente pax. A history of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK) , Volume I, BoD Norderstedt 2019, p. 57
personal data
SURNAME Strathmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and politician (DNVP, People's Service, NSDAP, CSU), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Opherdicke in the Hörde district
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1966
Place of death gain