Karl Euler (theologian)

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Karl Euler (born May 25, 1873 in Landau in the Palatinate , † August 24, 1960 in Gießen ) was a German theologian and senior consistorial councilor .

Life

After studying Protestant theology , he became a pastor and in 1926 senior consistorial councilor of the Rhenish church province . In this office he was involved in the interweaving of church youth organizations such as the YMCA with the voluntary labor service , which was transferred to the Reich Labor Service in 1935 . Although not a member of the NSDAP , he participated in the anti-Semitic motivated exclusion of so-called “non-Aryan” pastors from church service. In 1933, for example, he reported to the Old Prussian Evangelical High Church Council about the Cologne hospital pastor Ernst Flatow , a Jew who had converted to Protestantism and whom the Rhenish Church wanted to release: “In its appearance and in its essence, Flatow has those features in itself that are striking from the the people are seen as belonging to the Jewish race , that employment in a community is impossible. ”The released pastor Flatow finally died after his deportation in the Warsaw ghetto. After the disempowerment of the previous Rhenish church leadership in 1945, Euler remained on leave as a church official before retiring in October 1946. In his retirement, Euler wrote writings on legends of the early church saints.

Works

  • Contributions to the Reformation history of the city of Frankfurt a. M., in: AFGK 28, 1907, pp. 157-210
  • Franz Carolus (i.e. Franz Karl Euler), St. Antonius von Padua, The Law of God in the Heart, 1946
  • Franz Carolus (ie Franz Karl Euler), St. Klemens Maria Hofbauer, The Apostle v. Vienna, Höchst / Vorarlberg 1946

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ inventory. Evangelical Consistory of the Rhine Province approx. 1826–1948 ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.97 MB); Archive of the Protestant Church in the Rhineland, 1OB 002
  2. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv-ekir.de
  3. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer : Ausgetan from the land of the living - Stories of suffering under the cross and swastika 1983.
  4. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: The Kreuzkapelle and the way the Protestant Church deals with Christians of Jewish origin 1937 to 1945 . Lecture from April 1, 1999. Updated manuscript from February 2008, p. 13 - http://www.kirchengeschichten-im-ns.de/die_kreuzkapelle.pdf
  5. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: Small political church history , Cologne 1991, p. 182, note 104
  6. ↑ Joachim Beckmann : Hope for the Church at this time. Contributions to contemporary church history 1946-1974 , Göttingen 1997, p. 6
  7. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  Antonius von Padua. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 194.  ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
  8. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  Hofbauer, Clemens Maria (baptismal name: Johann). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 943-946.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
personal data
SURNAME Euler, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and senior consistorial councilor
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1960
Place of death to water