Karl Dungs

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Karl Dungs (born January 19, 1901 in Sterkrade ; (today Oberhausen ), † September 11, 1972 in Oberwesel ) was a German pastor of the German Christians .

Life

After graduating from high school , Dungs studied Protestant theology like his older brother Heinz Dungs . After serving as a vicar , he was ordained a pastor .

Services

At an early stage, Dungs became an ardent advocate of the völkisch - nationalist ideas of the German Christians and joined the NSDAP, in the interests of which he advocated a merger of the NS state and the Protestant church. He confessed:

“We have never been 'men of the church' and do not want to be in the future either. As 'experts' in the religious field, we are responsible for ensuring that the church system in Germany is redesigned from the spirit and nature of the National Socialist worldview, in accordance with the essence of the faith that supports the political struggle of the Führer. "

From 1933 to 1946 Dungs was pastor in Essen-Kupferdreh without interruption . In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . Dungs lived in the rectory there until 1960, supported by parishioners. In 1960 he got another pastor's position in Schwafheim and worked from 1964 to 1971 in the small community of Manubach near Koblenz, where he also died and was buried.

confrontation

In 2002 a symposium on contemporary church history took place in the house of the Evangelical Church in Essen , in which the role of Dungs was discussed. The Ev. Stadtkirchenverband Essen the documentation The Evangelical Church in Essen against the background of the "National Survey" and national catastrophe from 1930 to 1950 . 

Fonts

  • Evangelical faith and civil service ; Berlin: Verlag des Evangelischen Bund, 1933
  • Western decision, Aryan myth and Christian reality ; Weimar: Verlag Deutscher Christians, 1939

literature

  • Volkmar Wittmütz: Diakonie in Essen before and after the "Third Reich" (1930 to 1950)
  • Holger Weitenhagen: Pastor Karl Dungs - a consistent German Christian in Essen-Kupferdreh
  • Sigrid Lekebusch: Evangelical Christians of Jewish origin in Essen - their lives and their fate
  • Erich Stegmann: The church struggle in the Thuringian Evangelical Church ; Berlin 1984
  • Gerd Laudert: The pastor who never wanted to be a man of the church. About the radical "German Christian" Karl Dungs, who was a conspicuously inconspicuous pastor in Manubach from 1965-71., ISBN 978-3-928022-17-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray , Cologne 1987, p. 150.
  2. ↑ Klaus Matthes: Review by Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945?
  3. ^ Association for research into the church and religious history of the Ruhr area eV: Bibliography II.5: Essen
personal data
SURNAME Dungs, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterkrade
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1972
Place of death Oberwesel