Hugo Pich

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Hugo Pich (* 1882 ; † unknown) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor , superintendent and member of the German Christians .

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Pich graduated from high school and studied Protestant theology . After serving as a vicar , he was ordained a pastor .

Pich worked as a pastor in a parish in Transylvania and represented the völkisch - nationalist positions of the German Christians. He was appointed superintendent of Schneidemühl .

When Pich retired, he settled in Eisenach . Here he developed the proposal to found his own institution to promote the “de-Judaization” of Christianity as part of Hitler's “world struggle against world Jewry ”. He sent drafts for this in 1937/38 a. a. to Ludwig Müller and Hermann Muhs .

He was one of the founders of the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . As part of the institute, he became the managing director of the working group that set itself the goal of de-Judging the evangelical hymnbook . After Heinz Hunger's draft for military service, Pich took over the management of the institute on June 15, 1940. After Pich left, Hans Ermisch took over the management of the institute's office on May 7, 1943.

In a commemorative pamphlet that Pich published in August 1944, Pich called for an even more thorough “de-Judaization” of the church by eliminating the theology of Paulus (“the Jew Sha-ul”). As a result, even German Christians like Hugo Rönck and Walther Schultz distanced themselves from Pich.

After the end of the war, Pichs became free from Jews - also in faith! placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

Fonts

  • 30 years of love work by the Evangelical Educational Association in Poznan . Evangelical Educational Association, Posen 1927.
  • Free from the Jews - also in faith! . Krafft & Drotleff, Sibiu 1943.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Susannah Heschel: The Aryan Jesus . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2008, p. 78. ISBN 978-0-691-12531-2 .
  2. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray , Cologne 1987, p. 150.
  3. ↑ Thomas A. Seidel (ed.): Thüringer Gratwanderungen , Leipzig 1998, p. 126.
  4. ↑ Oliver Arnhold: "Entjudung" - Kirche im Abgrund, vol. 2. The "Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life" 1939–1945 (Studies on Church and Israel 25/2) , Berlin 2010, p 522f.
  5. ↑ Heschel 2008, p. 146.
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-p.html
personal data
SURNAME Pich, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 1882
DATE OF DEATH after 1944