Johannes Kübel

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Johannes Georg Kübel (born September 20, 1873 in Neustadt an der Aisch ; † June 14, 1953 in Bubenreuth ) was a German Protestant theologian. He belonged from 1919 to 1933 the leading persons of the Evangelical Church Frankfurt and participated in National Socialism at the church struggle on the part of the Confessing Church and Pastors in opposition to after the leader principle redesigned national church.

Life

Kübel was the son of a Protestant pastor. He grew up in Ansbach , where he attended the humanistic high school. After graduating from high school, he studied theology at the Universities of Erlangen and Halle . In Erlangen he was a member of the student union Uttenruthia in the Schwarzburgbund . From 1896 he worked as a diaspora travel preacher for the Evangelical Church in Bavaria , and from 1899 to 1901 as an assistant chaplain at the Lukaskirche in Munich . From 1901 to 1909 he was a military chaplain in Munich.

In 1909 he took up a pastor's position at the Weißfrauenkirche in Frankfurt am Main , which he held until his retirement in 1938. After serving in the First World War , he became a member of the board of the regional constitutional church assembly in 1919 . In 1925 he became a member of the regional church council . As deputy president of the regional church assembly, the Frankfurt city synod, he became its most important representative after the chairman Richard Schulin . As the editor of the Frankfurt Lectures (since 1907), the Chronicle of the Christian World (1910 to 1917) and the Frankfurter Evangelical weekly newspaper Die Gemeinde (from 1919; later Christian Freedom or Free Christianity ) he was a well-respected publicist.

After the National Socialist seizure of power , the Prussian government under Prime Minister Hermann Göring appointed a state commissioner for the Protestant regional churches . In protest against the merger of the 28 regional churches to form the German Evangelical Church under political pressure , he resigned from the regional church council on June 27th.

On September 12, 1933, the regional church assembly decided to merge the Frankfurt regional church with the Evangelical regional church in Nassau and the Evangelical regional church in Hesse to form the Evangelical regional church Nassau-Hesse . The unified regional church gave itself a church constitution shaped by the leader principle . On February 6, 1934 appointed Reich Bishop Müller with Ernst Ludwig Dietrich a representative of the German Christians for the first Bishop.

Kübel then joined the Pastors' Emergency League and the Confessing Church . He resigned his office as editor of the Frankfurter Evangelischen Wochenblatt, as well as the chairmanship of the Frankfurt Gustav-Adolf-Verein .

After his retirement in 1938, he moved to Nuremberg , where he also took on various offices in the Bavarian Evangelical Lutheran Church. He died on June 14, 1953 in Bubenreuth. His grave is in Nuremberg.

Kübel represented a conservative political stance. As early as 1894 he joined the national-social movement of Friedrich Naumann . He advocated the monarchical state and in 1918 was chairman of the Frankfurt Association of the nationalist German Fatherland Party . After the November Revolution he joined the monarchist German National People's Party (DNVP). In 1929 he resigned from the DNVP and from then on renounced any political involvement. He was critical of the emerging National Socialism even before 1933; in order to distance himself from the SA and to express his solidarity with the traditions of the old Prussian military, he joined the anti-republic steel helmet shortly before the seizure of power .

Kübel's theological and church-political positions were shaped throughout his life by liberal theology . In his memoirs , published in 1973 , he summed up his theological convictions: “In fifty years of theological development I had learned that there are no answers at all to the most burning questions, and I am content with that. Whether the limitation or the infinity of space, whether the bondage or freedom of our actions, whether the origin of evil [...], whether the relationship between the action of God and the cooperation of man [...] - I have come to the certainty that we can't know anything about it. But that doesn't burn my heart. I content myself with the researchable and accept the unsearchable with humility, as a person, Christian and theologian I no longer ask about heaven and earth and comfort myself in the love of Christ, which exceeds all knowledge. "

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SURNAME Bucket, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kübel, Johannes Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Aisch
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1953
Place of death Bubenreuth