Johannes Reinhard

This article deals with the politician and theologian Johannes Reinhard. For the printer Johannes Reinhard see Hans Grüninger ; for other people see Johann Reinhard and Johannes Reinhardt .

Johannes Richard Reinhard (born September 13, 1870 in Loschwitz near Dresden , † February 26, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and theologian.

education

Johannes Reinhard was the son of a chemist and factory director and graduated from high school in Dresden. He graduated from there on March 23, 1889 and then did his military service in the Leib-Grenadier- Regiment No. 100 in 1889/90 . He ended his military service as Vice Sergeant in the Reserve .

From 1890 to 1894 he studied theology and philosophy at the universities in Erlangen and Leipzig . On March 9, 1894, he passed the first theological examination and began his vicariate at the Evangelical Lutheran Mission House in Leipzig . The second exam followed on June 1, 1896. There he received the Ammon'schen Foundation Prize for his work in the same year. He received his doctorate in 1905 as Lic. Theol. and in 1907 Dr. phil.

Theological career

From 1894 to 1898 he worked as a scientific teacher ( senior teacher ) at the Royal High School in Leipzig and in 1898 he was assigned the pastor's office in Sachsendorf near Wurzen / Saxony. From 1904 to 1912 he worked again as a senior teacher and from 1906 as a professor at the Princely School in Grimma . In 1912 he switched to the second attempt as pastor of the St. Johannis Church in Hamburg-Harvestehude . There he worked in this position continuously until 1947.

He was a clear opponent of the German Christians and therefore had to live with protests from the NSDAP. But he was not opposed to National Socialism, but rather stood behind it. For example, in 1940 he wrote a war-friendly, anti-English article in the Hamburg church newspaper ( Zum Maßkampf ). In the article Adolf Hitler is stylized as the "executor of a painful fate he did not intend" and the English attitude was described as "applied Judaism".

From 1925 to 1933 he was a member of the church council (church leadership) and the synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state , and from 1940 to 1945 he was representative of the regional bishop Franz Tügel . In 1935 he followed an appointment to the Church Disciplinary Court and in 1940 had been appointed to the Disciplinary Chamber as representative of the spiritual assessor.

After the end of the Second World War, he successfully campaigned for the establishment of a theological faculty and the creation of a mission science chair in Hamburg. To achieve this, he relied primarily on his contact with Senator Heinrich Landahl . On May 19, 1954, he was made an honorary senator by the University of Hamburg . A year later, the Faculty of Theology also made him its first honorary doctorate .

politics

During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the extremely nationalist and anti-Semitic Pan - German Association and in 1921 appeared as a keynote speaker at the right-wing radical young teachers' association Baldur . He was also a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP) and appeared as a speaker at meetings.

After the end of the Nazi regime , Johannes Reinhard was elected to the CDU state executive on August 15, 1946, and in 1960 he was appointed honorary chairman of his party.

He was appointed to the Appointed Citizenship in 1946 by the British occupying power as a representative of the Evangelical Church . Initially belonging to the non-party faction , he joined the CDU faction in June 1946 with the group around Mayor Rudolf Petersen . On October 13, 1946, he entered the first freely elected Hamburg parliament since 1933 for the CDU and remained its member until 1953. During this time he took over the post of senior president from 1946 to 1949.

He was also a deputy of the school authorities, chairman of the committee for the school law and after his term of office from 1953 to 1963 a member of the constitutional court .

Honors

• 1926 Great Cross of the Russian Red Cross
• 1954 Honorary Senator of the University of Hamburg
• 1955 honorary doctorate from the theological faculty
• 1955 Silver medal for faithful work in the service of the people
• 1960 the Bugenhagen medal of the regional church for his 90th birthday
• 1960 Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Rainer Hering:  Reinhard, Johannes Richard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 1537-1542.
• Erich Lüth (editor): The Hamburg citizenship 1946–1971. Hamburg 1971.
• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : From “Working Group” to Big City Party - 40 Years of the Christian Democratic Union in Hamburg (1945–1985). State Political Society Hamburg, Hamburg 1985, p. 263.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quote from bautz.de (see web link)
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