Hermann Teutsch

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Gustav Hermann Teutsch

Gustav Hermann Teutsch (born November 20, 1876 in Neunkirchen / Baden ; † December 8, 1966 in Lahr / Black Forest ) was a German theologian and politician (DNVP, CSVD, NSDAP).

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The son of a Protestant pastor passed his Abitur in 1895 after attending high schools in Weinheim and Bensheim . Teutsch then studied Protestant theology at the universities of Heidelberg , Erlangen and Greifswald . Teutsch was one of the students of the Greifswald theologians Hermann Cremer and Martin von Nathusius ; politically he tended towards the founder of the Christian Social Party , Adolf Stoecker , whose rejection of liberalism in church and politics he increasingly followed. Teutsch, who belonged to the Wingolf , completed his military service in 1899 and 1900 as a one-year volunteer in the Guard Grenadier Regiment Kaiser Franz in Berlin. In 1906 he married; the marriage produced six sons.

From 1900 Teutsch was vicar in Leutershausen an der Bergstrasse , Lörrach and Pforzheim . In 1905 he was elected pastor of Helmstadt (Baden) . In 1910 he took over his father's pastoral position in Leutershausen on Bergstrasse.

In an effort to anchor the anti-Semitic Berlin movement more firmly in Baden , Teutsch gave lectures in Protestant workers' associations from 1904 . In 1913 he joined the German Conservative Party . During the Weimar Republic , Teutsch initially belonged to the Christian-social wing of the German National People's Party (DNVP). Teutsch became better known through a speech in the summer of 1924 in which he invoked the danger of a Counter-Reformation in view of the increased influence of political Catholicism after the November Revolution. The speech resulted in a complaint from the Archbishop's Ordinariate of Freiburg about disturbing the denominational peace. In 1926 Teutsch became President of the Evangelical People's Federation of Baden (EVB), an amalgamation of the workers' associations now known as Evangelical People's Associations.

In 1928 Teutsch joined the Christian Social People's Service (CSVD) , which appeared in Baden as the Evangelical People's Service (EVD) . In the election to the Baden state parliament in 1929, he moved into parliament as the top candidate of the EVD, where he was group chairman of the three EVD members. He was also the chairman of the EVD regional association. The social democratic newspaper Volksfreund held against Teutsch that he “always confuses the lectern of the state parliament with a pulpit”. From the election in September 1930 he was also a member of the Reichstag in Berlin. In contrast to the other CSVD MPs, Teutsch declined to support the Brüning government . In January 1931 he resigned from the state parliament. After being on leave of absence from the Reichstag for a few weeks due to illness in February, Teutsch renounced his Reichstag mandate on October 12, 1931. Max Schmechel moved up for him in the Reichstag.

Teutsch had already joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in June 1931 . In August he took over the regional leadership of the Nazi pastors' association, whose organization he expanded further. At the same time he often appeared as a party speaker. In December 1931, the President of the Church, Klaus Wurth , banned Teutsch from speaking. Teutsch defended himself by saying that he wanted to bring "the renewing, sanctifying power of the gospel" to National Socialism. In the summer of 1932, the ban on speaking was partially lifted.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Teutsch was active with the German Christians in 1934 and 1935 . From 1935 onwards there were considerable conflicts between Teutsch and the local group leadership and the SA leadership in Leutershausen. In a party court proceedings initiated in September 1936, Teutsch was accused of attacks against the leading party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg , despising the SA, treating Jews in a friendly manner and supporting the community's mayor, who was not a member of the party. Teutsch declared his resignation from the party while the proceedings were still ongoing, probably in April 1937. Bad health due to the conflict, Teutsch was prematurely retired in 1938. In 1939 he moved to the Schutterlindenberghof near Lahr, where he dedicated himself to tending a vineyard and producing firewood well into old age.

literature

  • Günter Opitz: Teutsch, Gustav Hermann. In: Bernd Ottnad (Hrsg.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien. Volume 1, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-17-012207-X , pp. 362-364 ( online ).
  • Friedrich Teutsch: Hermann Teutsch (1876–1966). Pastor in Leutershausen. In: Gerhard Schwinge (Red.): Protestantism and politics. On the political action of Protestant men and women for Baden between 1819 and 1933. Badische Landesbibliothek , Karlsruhe 1996, ISBN 3-88705-042-8 , pp. 246–260.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opitz, Teutsch ; Teutsch, Hermann Teutsch , p. 251.
  2. ^ Opitz, Teutsch ; Teutsch, Hermann Teutsch , p. 254.
  3. ↑ Volksfreund , No. 136, June 16, 1931. Quoted in Teutsch, Hermann Teutsch , p. 250.
  4. ↑ Negotiations of the Reichstag, 5th electoral period, vol. 444, p. 1029 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Joachim Irek: Mannheim in the years 1945 to 1949 . Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-17-007530-6 , p. 116.
  6. ^ Gerhard Kaller: Baden in the Weimar Republic . In: Meinrad Schaab , Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History . Volume 4: Die Länder since 1918. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-91468-4 , pp. 23-72, here p. 68.
  7. ↑ Quoted in Opitz, Teutsch
  8. ^ Teutsch, Hermann Teutsch , pp. 258–260.
  9. ^ Teutsch, Hermann Teutsch , p. 248.
personal data
SURNAME Teutsch, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teutsch, Gustav Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and politician (DNVP, CSVD, NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Baden)
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1966
Place of death Lahr / Black Forest