Hermann Werdermann

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Hermann Werdermann (born June 12, 1888 in Friedersdorf (Spree) ; † August 9, 1954 in Bad Soden im Taunus) was a German theologian and university professor for religious studies and religious education .

Life

Werdermann was influenced by German nationality from his parents' home . After attending the Latin secondary school in Halle (Saale), he studied Protestant theology in Halle (Saale) and Strasbourg . After passing his exams he became an educator at the Naumburg Cadet House. After that he was study inspector at the Preachers' Seminar in Soest . In 1913 he received a licentiate in theology.

As a volunteer of the First World War , he was in 1914 Flanders wounded. He then became a military pastor in Gniezno. In 1916 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy in Erlangen with a thesis on pedagogy and religious instruction by August Hermann Francke . Later he held other parish offices in Gransee , Löwenberg and Berlin . He completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1923 for practical theology . In 1925 he worked for a semester at the Eden Theological College in St. Louis / USA as a professor, about which he wrote a book. In 1929 he became associate professor for religious studies at the Pedagogical Academy in Hanover . In 1930 he received an honorary doctorate from the Berlin Theological Faculty . After the closure of the Pedagogical Academy in 1932, he worked as a pastor at the Stephansstift Hannover, in 1933 he took over a professorship for religious studies and religious education at the college for teacher training in Dortmund instead of the dismissed Ilse Peters .

On May 1, 1933, he joined the National Socialist Teachers' Association and in November of the same year the SA . Since 1933 he was also an active member of the Reichsbund der Kinderreich and published several books and writings on this basis. In 1934, like most civil servants, he had taken the oath on Adolf Hitler . At the Reformation Festival in 1935, Werdermann gave a lecture at the HfL Dortmund on the subject of "Luther and Hitler", which was printed in 1937. He said that Luther and Hitler were significant examples of positive, practical and personal Christianity. In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP and, according to his own statements, was also an employee of the Racial Political Office in Dortmund. In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . From 1942 to 1945 he was full professor for practical theology in Rostock .

He was committed to the goals of the German Christians , although he had spoken out against the removal of religious education from the school timetable and thus temporarily aroused displeasure in party circles. After 1945 Werdermann took over various pastoral representations in Hanau , Göttingen and Witten . In 1949 he retired due to illness, but continued to publish.

Fonts

  • Martin Luther and Adolf Hitler . Merciless: Winter 1936
  • Religious educational training letters . Leipzig: Klinkhardt 1936
  • The claim to totality of the National Socialist worldview and the claim to absoluteness of Christianity . Bonn: Bonn University's printing press 1937

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://bs.cyty.com/kirche-von-unten/archiv/kvu103/luthit.htm
  2. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray . Cologne 1987, p. 151.
personal data
SURNAME Werdermann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedersdorf
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1954
Place of death Bad Soden am Taunus