Karl Winter (theologian)

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Karl August Ludwig Winter , also Carl Winter (born December 17, 1882 in Petershagen near Minden , † February 18, 1967 in Gütersloh ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Karl Winter was pastor in Wanne-Eickel before he became director of the Protestant seminary in Soest on October 1, 1924 , where he worked until May 1, 1936.
Conservative- Lutheran embossed, he joined mid-1933 the German-Christian spectrum of which Hitler and the anti-Semitic Nazi racial ideology adhered and referred to compatible with Nazi ideology values of a "positive-male" defined Christianity. In 1934 Winter entered the church struggle between the Confessing Church and German Christians for dominance in the nearby Soest parish of St. Thomä , which was led by Rev. Koch, a professing Christian. He was second chairman of the Soest DC group "Reichskirchengemeinde Soest", which was constituted on August 24, 1935. Karl Winter was considered an influential DC propagandist in Soest, who "went through the rural parishes of the Soest Synod and recruited German Christians". At meetings he was able to rely on "delegations from the SA , the Nazi women's group, the BDM and the HJ ", which were organized as an audience. He rejected discussions after DC events in the parishes on the grounds that "there are basically no discussions at National Socialist meetings". Under his directorate, the seminary was particularly popular since 1934 with the minority of Westphalian candidates for theology who were close to the DC.

From May 1936 to 1957 he was superintendent in Loitz (Demmin district) in Western Pomerania. Then he moved to Gütersloh, where he was also buried.

Services

In 1945 the city of Loitz was spared massive destruction through his initiative. There is a memorial plaque for Karl Winter on the rectory built in 1785 in Loitz at Marktstrasse 166.

family

His daughter Annemarie Winter, born on March 15, 1912 in Wanne-Eickel, was one of the first female pastors. She looked after the community in Sageritz . In 1945 she died as a forced laborer in a camp in Siberia .

His son Friedrich Winter, b. 1927, is a Protestant theologian. He was a student pastor in Greifswald, lecturer in practical theology, provost of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg (East region). Until his retirement he was president of the EKU church chancellery (GDR area). He is the author of numerous practical theological and contemporary history publications. Among other things, he wrote a biography of his sister Annemarie and a biography of the theologian Friedrich Schauer , who was the successor to his father Karl Winter in the Soest seminary.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbook for Westphalian Church History, Volumes 75–76, Bethel 1982.
  2. ↑ Olaf Blaschke : "If there is any time in history, ours is a man's time." Denominational gender attributions in National Socialism . In: Manfred Gailus, Armin Nolzen (Hrsg.): Disputed Volksgemeinschaft. Belief, Denomination and Religion in National Socialism . Göttingen 2011, pp. 34–65.
  3. ^ Karlfriedrich Schikora: We want to live and die by the gospel. History of the church districts of Soest and Arnsberg. From the beginnings of Christian church planting until today . Bielefeld 2011, pp. 314-324, p. 315
  4. ↑ German Gender Book, Vol. 193, p. 40
  5. ↑ Friedrich Winter: "I don't know the way either". The life of Vicar Annemarie Winter (1912–1945) . Leipzig 2005.
  6. ^ Friedrich Winter: Friedrich Schauer (1891-1958). Pastor - confessor - Christian in resistance . Berlin 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winter, Karl August Ludwig (full name); Winter, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and pastor (DC)
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Petershagen near Minden
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1967
Place of death Gutersloh