Karl Bernhard Ritter

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Karl Bernhard Ritter (born March 17, 1890 in Hessisch Lichtenau , † August 15, 1968 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German Protestant theologian and politician ( DNVP ). He was one of the founders of the Berneuchen movement and wrote numerous writings on a structured, church-based spirituality .

Life

Ritter was born on March 17, 1890 in Hessisch Lichtenau as the son of the Protestant pastor Gottfried Theodor Ritter and his wife. He was a brother of the historian Gerhard Ritter (1888–1967) and the orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892–1971). After attending school, in 1909 he began studying Protestant theology and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg , Halle and Erlangen . During his studies he became a member of the Hallenser Wingolf . He finished his studies in 1912 with a doctorate to become Dr. phil. He then worked as a teacher at a cadet institute . At the beginning of the First World War he married the pastor's daughter Margarete Hachtmann. The couple had five children. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . During the war he was used as a soldier at the front.

Ritter had been a pastor in Berlin since 1919 and was a founding member of the Young German Confederation in the same year . From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian constitutional assembly and was then elected to the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1924. In 1922 he helped found the Berneuchen movement.

In 1925, Ritter moved to the University Church of Marburg . Here in 1931 he was one of the founders of the Michael Brotherhood with Wilhelm Stählin and Carl Happich and became its first leader ( elder ). In addition, he was active in the high church and liturgical movement , he was also a member of the Masonic Lodge Zum Flammenden Schwert in Darmstadt, which belongs to the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany . After the National Socialists had withdrawn student pastoral care from him in 1934, he joined the Confessing Church . At the end of May 1934 he took part in the Barmen Confessing Synod, at which the Barmen Theological Declaration was adopted.

During the Second World War he stayed in Vienna . Together with his brother Gerhard he was present at the first meeting of the Reich Brotherhood Council after the end of the war from August 21 to 24, 1945 in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen .

As pastor of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck , Ritter became a councilor in 1946 and dean of the Marburg-Stadt parish in 1952 . Like his confreres Wilhelm Stählin and Herbert Goltzen , Ritter firmly refused to introduce the ordination of women in his church in 1962 . In 2007 in Kassel-Bad Wilhelmshöhe the Foundation for the Promotion of Worship Service - Karl Bernhard Ritter Foundation , which awards the Worship Prize every year .

Honors

Publications

  • About the origin of a critical philosophy of religion in Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' . Gütersloh 1913
  • Volkstum and German future . Berlin 1920
  • From the German state . Hamburg 1922
  • The communion of saints . Hamburg 1924
  • The game of the great supper . Frankfurt / M. 1924
  • The Brandenburg Cathedral Game by the Son of Man . Frankfurt / M. 1925
  • The Lord's Prayer . Hamburg 1925
  • Kingdom of God and the idea of ​​the state . Wolfratshausen 1926
  • On the Christian status of celibacy . Berlin-Dahlem 1926
  • From the one who comes . Schwerin 1926
  • The prayer of the times of day . Kassel 3/1929
  • The prayer . Schwerin 1930
  • The altar . Schwerin 1930
  • Worship and sermon . Schwerin 1930
  • Sacrament and worship . Schwerin 1930
  • Leisure time and church . Schwerin 1930
  • Divine service for the 30th anniversary of the death of King Gustav Adolf on September 16, 1932 . Göttingen 1932
  • New Year's devotion . Göttingen 1932
  • Litany and hymn of praise . Kassel 1934
  • Parish prayers . Kassel 3/1936
  • Church prayers in wartime . Kassel 1939
  • Transformation of life . Kassel 1940
  • We have a hope . Kassel 1940
  • Prayer booklet for confirmands . Kassel 1940
  • Some urgent questions and concerns about the current situation and task of the Protestant Church . Marburg 1945
  • Speech for St. John's Day 1945 . (oA) 1945
  • The liturgy as a way of life for the Church . Kassel 1946
  • For the future of the church . Kassel 1947
  • About meditation as a means of human education . Kassel 1947
  • The future of the Lord . Kassel 1947
  • Do not leave your fortress! Hamburg 1947
  • In the name of Jesus . Kassel 1947
  • Son of God and Mary . Kassel 1948
  • Drive to the Bosphorus . Gütersloh 1949
  • Andreas. The story of a change . Gütersloh 1949
  • From the future of Christianity . Kassel 1949
  • Holy celebration . Kassel 1950
  • The year of the church . Kassel 2/1951
  • Daily prayer . Kassel 2/1957
  • The vestibule . Kassel 1959
  • The Eucharistic Celebration . Kassel 1961
  • The confirmation hour . Kassel 1961
  • Every day . Kassel 1963
  • Church and Reality . Kassel 1971

Ritter wrote numerous articles for Quatember magazine .

estate

Part of Karl Bernhard Ritter's estate is kept as a deposit in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg (inventory 340 Ritter b).

literature

  • Michael Hederich: Karl Bernhard Ritter. Reformer - fighter - pastor. A picture of life . Kassel 2010 ISBN 978-3-89477-876-7
  • Wolfgang Fenske: Innerung and Ahmung. Meditation and Liturgy in Hermetic Theology Karl Bernhard Ritters , Frankfurt am Main 2009 ISBN 9783869210094
  • Michael Matthiesen: Karl Bernhard Ritter , in: RGG , 4th edition, Vol. 7, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2004, Sp. 540

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stephan Goldschmidt: The young Karl Bernhard Ritter. Marburg, 2018. ( Download information on the website of the Foundation for the Promotion of Worship Services - Karl Bernhard Ritter Foundation)
  2. ↑ Paragrana. International journal for historical anthropology published by the interdisciplinary center for historical anthropology. Free University of Berlin. Volume 22. 2013. Issue 2. Editors Almut-Barbara Renger and Christoph Wulf. Academy publishing house. P. 59.
  3. ↑ To the box of the flaming sword
  4. ↑ Karl Bernhard Ritter: Women's ordination. In: Quatember. 1963, accessed January 22, 2018 .
  5. ^ Karl Bernhard Ritter Foundation
  6. ↑ Ritter's essays in Quatember available online
  7. ↑ Overview of the holdings “Familienarchiv Ritter; 1834–1967 “  (HStAM inventory 340 Ritter b). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), status: 2003, accessed on July 3, 2011.
  8. ^ Envelope with portrait photo of the knight

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personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Karl Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and politician ( DNVP )
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hessian Lichtenau
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 1968
Place of death Königstein im Taunus