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Johannes Herz (1952)

Johannes Heinrich Herz (born June 13, 1877 in Oberleutersdorf ; † November 6, 1960 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Johannes Herz, the son of Pastor Paul David Herz († 1911), studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , Marburg (here he joined Martin Rade and began his long-term work with the Christian World ) and Leipzig. In 1903 he became vicar in Waltersdorf near Zittau (Upper Lusatia), in 1904 a deacon (later pastor) in Chemnitz . In 1915 he took up a pastor's position in Leipzig-Gohlis (in the later reconciliation community ), which he held until his retirement in 1954. As a member of the regional synod , he was involved in the reconstruction of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony after the First and Second World War . From 1924 he was a member of the German Evangelical Church Committee , the executive body of the German Evangelical Church Federation , and in 1925 was a member of the German delegation to the Stockholm World Church Conference . In 1947 he received a teaching position for social ethics and the sociology of religion at the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig .

Herz was particularly committed to the Evangelical Social Congress (ESK). Since 1905 local group chairman of the Saxon Evangelical Social Association , he had the main responsibility for the organization of the congresses in Chemnitz in 1910 and in Leipzig in 1918. In 1923 he was elected general secretary, since 1924 he was also editor of the magazine Evangelisch-Sozial . He was a part-time director of the Evangelical Social Institute he founded in 1929. After the resignation of ESK President Walter Simons , Herz himself took over the presidency in 1935, until work had to be stopped in 1942. His attempts to reorganize the ESK after the Second World War were unsuccessful.

Before the First World War, Herz was a member of the Free People's Party (FVp) , for which he ran unsuccessfully for the Saxon state parliament in 1909 . After 1918 he belonged to the German Democratic Party . From 1945 until his death he was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) and temporarily on its central executive committee. After 1950 he became a member of the World Peace Council .

Herz received honorary doctorates from the theological faculties of the University of Jena (1927) and the University of Leipzig (1954) and the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver (1954) and gold (1959).

His son Heinz Herz (1907–1983) was a historian.

Fonts (selection)

As an author
  • Did Jesus Live? An answer to Drews' "Christ Myth". 1913.
  • The tasks of the parishes on the confirmed male youth. Berlin 1914.
  • Seek and you will find. 1915.
  • Protestantism and the social question. In: G. Schenkel (Ed.): The Protestantism of the present. 1926, pp. 338-382.
  • Adolf von Harnack and the Evangelical Social Congress. 1930.
  • German social prophethood. Lecture in the auditorium of the University of Leipzig. 1935.
  • The struggle for peace in the ancient world. In: Scientists fight for peace. 1951, pp. 51-72.
  • The parables of the Gospels Matthew, Mark and Luke in their historical tradition and their religious and moral content. In: Confession to the Church (Festgabe Ernst Sommerlath ). 1960, pp. 52-93.
As editor
  • National and social Christianity. An excerpt from Friedrich Naumann's world of thought. 1935.
  • Evangelical struggle for social community. Fifty Years of the Evangelical Social Congress 1890–1940. Leipzig 1940

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Heart, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herz, Johannes Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberleutersdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1960
Place of death Leipzig