Karl Lohmann (theologian)

Karl Lohmann (born June 30, 1878 in Rüggeberg, a district of today's Ennepetal ; † April 15, 1945 in a bomb attack in Magdeburg ) was a German Protestant theologian and from 1931 to 1933 General Superintendent of the Old Prussian Church Province of Saxony .

Life

Lohmann, son of a pastor, worked in Iserlohn from 1906 after studying in Erlangen , Greifswald and Halle (Saale) . In 1917 he became pastor and in 1928 superintendent in Essen . Appointed general superintendent of the Halle-Wittenberg district in 1931, Lohmann was to be transferred to the ecclesiastical province of Westphalia in October 1933 by the Prussian regional bishop Ludwig Müller . Lohmann refused and, at his own request, received a leave of absence in 1934 in order to be able to take over the management of the Reichsfrauenhilfe in Potsdam. In January 1935, however, he returned to his post as general superintendent in Magdeburg. After the departure of Bishop Friedrich Peter , Lohmann took over the spiritual direction of the church province of Saxony in 1937, and in 1940 the newly created office of spiritual conductor in the consistory. In addition, from 1941 until his death, he was the first cathedral preacher at Magdeburg Cathedral .

The University of Halle awarded Lohmann an honorary doctorate in theology in 1931 .

Web links

• Hans Seehase: Karl Lohmann (theologian) in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon ; Status: February 28, 2005, accessed April 22, 2015

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Schöttler	General superintendent (3rd office) of the Old Prussian Church Province of Saxony 1931–1933	none ( German-Christian repression: general superintendent replaced by bishop )