Joachim Konrad

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Joachim Konrad (born June 1, 1903 in Breslau , † April 15, 1979 in Bonn ) was a German Protestant theologian .

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Konrad was the son of the evangelical pastor Paul Konrad and his wife Hildegard geb. Mewes. After graduating from high school in 1922, he studied theology and philosophy at the universities in Breslau, Göttingen and Marburg. In 1930 he received his doctorate in Lic. Theol. and Dr. phil. He had to give up his habilitation , which he had started at the University of Breslau , for political reasons, as the Nazi system had forbidden him to work as a private lecturer . He emerged as a leading member of the Confessing Church . This led to three arrests by the Gestapo . In 1938 he was banished from his Silesian homeland and a speech ban was imposed on him. In 1939, after the outbreak of the Second World War, he was allowed to return to Wroclaw, where he became pastor at the Elisabeth Church . From 1945 to 1946 was the Protestant city ​​dean of Wroclaw. Together with Ernst Hornig , Canon Joseph Kramer and Joseph Ferche , he had a decisive conversation with the fortress commander Hermann Niehoff on May 4, 1945 , which led to the handover of the fortress on May 6, 1945. He held his pastoral office until 1946; His sermon, delivered on June 30, 1946, is considered the last German-speaking one in Breslau.

Konrad took on an extraordinary professorship in Münster. In 1950 he became a ministerial advisor and university advisor in the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1954 he followed a call from the University of Bonn to a full professorship for practical theology.

Works

  • God or demon
  • Silesian tolerance
  • The apocalyptic mass
  • Fate and God: Studies on the Philosophy and Theology of the Experience of Fate (1947)
  • Call of Home, Silesian Poems (1949)
  • As the last city dean of Wroclaw (1963)
  • The evangelical sermon (1963/66)
  • Social Ethical Issues in the Pulpit (1973)

literature

  • Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon , Volume 1. Laumann-Verlag Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1 , p. 822

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personal data
SURNAME Konrad, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1979
Place of death Bonn