Klaus Harms (clergyman)

This article deals with the pastor in Detmold Klaus Harms (1906–1972). For the pastor in Kiel (1778–1855) see Claus Harms .

Klaus Harms (born February 20, 1906 , † May 6, 1972 ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Career

After studying theology and obtaining a doctorate in Greifswald and Tübingen, Harms was a pastor in Gülzow from 1931 to 1945 and a member of the Confessing Church during the Nazi era . After the end of the war, he worked as a refugee pastor in Rotenburg in 1946/47, then from 1947 to 1971 as a pastor in the reformed community of Detmold- West. From 1962 to 1967 he was superintendent .

In addition, he was chairman of the Association of Evangelical Pastors' Associations in Germany . His estate is in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin .

Honors

• 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts (selection)

• Bugenhagen's importance for the church in his homeland . Leer, Rautenberg (1965)
• The Relations of Protestantism with the East: Assumed and Enduring Responsibility. Leer, Rautenberg (1963)
• Preserved and proven heritage . Leer, Rautenberg (1962)
• Jakob Runge : a contribution to the history of the Pomeranian Reformation . Ulm, Verlag Unser Weg (1961)
• Melanchthon's relationship with Pomerania and his influence on the Pomeranian Church . 1960
• D. Johann Bugenhagen . Bechauf (1958)
• The evangelical confession . Bielefeld, Bechauf (1954)
• The religious confession as preparation for the Lord's Supper in the Protestant Church, in history and design . Greifswald, Bamberg 1930 (also Diss. Theol. Greifswald 1930)

literature

• Christa Stache, Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin (ed.): The Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin and its holdings. - Alektor-Verlag, 1992