Hugo Rönck

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Hugo Rönck (born April 12, 1908 in Altenburg ; † 1990 ) was a Protestant German pastor and bishop .

Life

Rönck joined the NSDAP in 1925 and was later awarded the Golden Party Badge .

After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology in Göttingen and Jena , was ordained on October 2, 1932 in Denstedt near Weimar and joined the church movement German Christians . In 1936 Rönck was appointed regional youth pastor. From 1939 to 1943 he took part in the Second World War as a Wehrmacht soldier .

In 1943 he succeeded the late Thuringian regional bishop Martin Sasse as president of the regional church council of the Thuringian Evangelical Church . In 1944 he was expelled from the NSDAP. In 1945 he accepted the title of regional bishop "shortly before the American troops marched in". In April 1945 he was urged to resign from office by representatives of the internal church opposition around Moritz Mitzenheim , Erich Hertzsch and Gerhard Kühn and arrested a few days later by US troops. In August 1945, the Thuringian Church dismissed him from church service.

He was later a pastor in Eutin from 1947 to 1976 .

literature

  • Erich Stegmann: The church struggle in the Thuringian Evangelical Church 1933-1945. A chapter of Thuringian church history (= literature of the press office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia ). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin; Wartburg-Verlag Kessler, Jena 1984, DNB 850416930 .
  • Thomas A. Seidel (Ed.): Thuringian ridge walks. Contributions to the seventy-five year history of the Evangelical Church in Thuringia (= hostels of Christianity. Yearbook for German Church History. Special Volume 3). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-374-01699-5 .
  • Folkert Rickers : Rönck, Hugo. In: Norbert Mette , Folkert Rickers (ed.): Lexicon of religious education. 2 vols. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen 2001, ISBN 3-7887-1745-9 , Sp. 1861–1862; 2-volume study edition. with CD-ROM, 2007, here: Vol. 2 L – Z, ISBN 978-3-7887-1798-8 .
  • Hansjörg Buss: The " Kieckbusch Era " (1930–1976): The Eutin Regional Church and the German Christians. In: Information on Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary History (ISHZ). Edited by the working group for research into National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein eV (AKENS), Kiel. Vol. 44 (2004), OCLC 637122097 , pp. 4-29.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert von Hintzenstern :  Mitzenheim, Moritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 592 f. ( Digitized version ). ( Full text with links ).
personal data
SURNAME Rönck, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH 1990