Humanistic Community of Hesse

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The Humanist Community Hessen ( Hugh ; 2015 free Religious Community country Hessen , FLH ) is a public corporation wrote humanistic philosophical community . The HuGH is the Hessian state association in the Humanist Association of Germany (HVD). As a corporation under public law, it is also allowed to levy culture tax (analogous to church tax ), but does not currently use this option; contributions are levied independently. The membership base consists of agnostics , atheists , free thinkers , free religious , humanists and pantheists . The Humanist Community of Hesse issues the regular subject “Free Religion” with a grade in the school report. In the long term, the subject is to be renamed “Humanistic Life Studies”.

organization

The local communities Egelsbach / Erzhausen / Langen, Gießen / Frankfurt, Langenselbold / Main-Kinzig, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Neu-Isenburg, Krofdorf-Gleiberg / Gießen / Wetzlar and Wiesbaden belong to the Humanistic Community of Hesse.

history

Under the direction of Pastor Leberecht Uhlich , the group of Protestant friends was formed on June 29, 1841 from an association of rationalist Protestant pastors. Because of his emphasis on the light of reason, which was also to be applied to the Holy Scriptures , he was given the nickname " Friends of Light" . Triggered by the lecture "Whether writing, whether spirit" by Gustav Adolf Wislicenus , the Circle of Friends of Light gave up the Protestant principle of writing in favor of the spirit working in people at its Whitsun meeting in 1844. Measures against the rationalist pastors began within a very short time. On October 1, 1844, the Catholic chaplain Johannes Ronge condemned the exhibitions of the so-called Holy Skirt in an open letter to Bishop Wilhelm Arnoldi of Trier . This letter triggered a reform movement away from Rome, which led to the first German-Catholic church planting under Chaplain Johannes Czerski in Schneidemühl . Corresponding congregations were formed in quick succession in the east and south-west of the German states in 1845, so that on March 23, at the suggestion of Robert Blum, a first German Catholic church assembly with 15 congregations took place in Leipzig . On January 19, 1846, under the direction of Pastor Julius Rupp (grandfather of Käthe Kollwitz ), the first free community on the Protestant side was formed in Königsberg ; a year later another followed in Nordhausen under Pastor Eduard Baltzer . In 1848 there were already 250 German-Catholic parishes and 80 light-friends parishes throughout Germany. The attempted unification of the German Catholic and the free Protestant communities to form a religious community of free communities in Leipzig and Köthen was prevented in 1850 by the dissolution of the police. Both in Prussia and in other countries there were massive persecutions of free religious communities over the next eight years.

On July 17, 1859, around 100 remaining congregations in Gotha founded the Federation of Free Religious Congregations in Germany (BFGD) with the principle: Free self-determination in all religious matters. In 1886, 25 free Protestant communities that had formed ten years earlier in Rheinhessen joined the BFGD. The BFGD and the bourgeois Freethinker Association were merged into the Volksbund for Intellectual Freedom in 1924. In order to preserve the old free religious tradition, south-west German congregations formed the Association of Free Religious Congregations in South and West Germany in October.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the offices of the Volksbund were occupied and destroyed by the SA . Communities have been banned or their work hindered. In June 1934 the old name "Bund Freireligiöser Deutschlands" was adopted again at the Bundestag in Leipzig, the 75th anniversary of the Bund was celebrated, and several members of parliament were arrested. On November 20, the free religious communities in Prussia were banned. The Southwest German Association renamed itself “Free Religious Community of Germany” and thus escaped the ban. After further bans outside Prussia and various name changes, the federal government dissolved itself on April 15, 1935.

After the end of the war, Carl Peter declared the Bund to exist again in Leipzig in 1945. A first regional association conference took place under the name Bund Freireligöser Gemeinde eV, Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen. Little by little, formerly forbidden municipalities resumed their work at local and state level. In 1968, parts of the old Southwest Association reunited to form the Association of Free Religious Communities in order to maintain free religious community life.

On June 13, 2015, the state assembly decided to rename the “Humanist Community of Hesse”. A corresponding renaming has already been carried out or is intended in the member communities, but not all communities agree. The renaming, accompanied by a withdrawal from the Federation of Free Religious Congregations in Germany , took place on October 13 of the same year.

On April 28, 2018, the merger of the HuGH with the HVD Landesverband Hessen, founded in 2011 as a registered association, was decided. For this purpose, the state assembly passed a law on integration on March 30, 2019. According to this law, the members of the previous HVD Hessen eV form the new HuGH local community "HVD Gießen / Frankfurt" with retroactive effect from January 1, 2019. The HuGH is the legal successor to the association, which was legally terminated by the incorporation. Since November 2019 the HuGH has been a member of the Humanistic Association of Germany and thus replaced the previous HVD Hessen eV as the Hessian state association

literature

  • Eckhart Pilick: Lexicon of Free Religious Persons , Rohrbach / Pfalz: Peter Guhl, 1997
  • Kampe, Ferdinand: History of the religious movement of the modern times. 4 volumes. Leipzig 1852-1860.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Humanist Community of Hesse: FAQ | HuGH - Humanist Community of Hesse. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Humanist Community of Hesse: Constitution | HuGH - Humanist Community of Hesse. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Andreas Henschel: Humanist community founded. (Report) Renaming of the free religious communities in Hesse. In: Humanistic press service. Volker Panzer, October 13, 2015, p. 1 , accessed October 13, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Humanist Community of Hesse: local communities | HuGH - Humanist Community of Hesse. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hugh - Humanist Community Hesse. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Newsletter | HuGH - Humanist Community of Hesse. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Newsletter | HuGH - Humanist Community of Hesse. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .