Johann Wilhelm Schmidt-Japing

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Johann Wilhelm Schmidt-Japing (born March 13, 1886 in Dahlhausen (Radevormwald) , † January 8, 1960 in Braunschweig ) was a German theologian and university professor.

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Schmidt-Japing studied theology and was ordained pastor in the Rhenish Church . He received his doctorate in theology. In 1920 he was appointed as the first student pastor by the Rhenish Provincial Synod (Evangelical Church) as "Head of the Evangelical Church Student Service at the Rhenish Universities" (Bonn, Cologne, Aachen).

Schmidt-Japing founded the first associations of Protestant academics and united them to form a Reich Association.

In accordance with his German-Christian convictions, he joined the SA in 1933 and became a squad leader. Schmidt-Japing gave a lecture on Christianity and new Germanic religions at the Evangelical City Academy in Bochum . In the first years of the Nazi era, this evangelical academy, initiated and supported by the German Christians, was part of the public image in the city. In 1935 he was appointed professor of systematic theology and social ethics at the theological faculty in Bonn as the successor to Karl Barth . On January 1, 1937, he signed an appeal in the magazine Junge Kirche , with which he wanted to campaign "for the National Socialist people becoming on the basis of blood and soil". In 1937 Schmidt-Japing joined the NSDAP .

At the end of 1941 he was listed on a list of new employees of the German Christian Eisenach Institute for the Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . His removal from office in 1945 was converted into a retirement in 1953.

Publications

  • Right and wrong of anthroposophy. Two lectures ; Goettingen, 1922.
  • The significance of the person of Jesus in the thinking of the young Hegel ; Goettingen 1924.
  • Lotse's philosophy of religion in its development. Depicted in connection with Lotze's overall philosophical view ; Goettingen 1925.
  • The Christological Views of Dialectical Theology ; Gütersloh 1925.
  • The Christology of German Theology ; 1927.
  • Church and Reality. Festival dedicated to President DW Wolff on the occasion of his 60th birthday ; 1930.
  • Johannes Meinhold † ; in: Akademische Blätter 52 (1937/1938), p. 111.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Hering: Church and University ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fachpublikation.de
  2. ^ Günter Brakelmann : The Evangelical City Academy Bochum. Prehistory and history up to 1993 ( Memento from April 22, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 547.
  4. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 547.
  5. ^ New employees , in: Association announcements No. 5/6, December 15, 1941, p. 133
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Japing, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dahlhausen (Radevormwald)
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1960
Place of death Braunschweig