Klaus Scholder

Klaus Scholder (born January 12, 1930 in Erlangen , † April 10, 1985 in Tübingen ) was a Protestant theologian and professor of church history at the University of Tübingen .

Life and work

Klaus was the son of the Erlangen professor of inorganic chemistry Rudolf Scholder (1896–1973). After graduating from high school, he studied German and theology at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen and at the University of Göttingen . After receiving his doctorate and ordination as a Protestant pastor, he worked for the FDP parliamentary group from 1956 to 1958 . In 1958 he entered the service of the Württemberg regional church and was initially parish administrator in Bad Überkingen ; in 1959 he moved to the Evangelical monastery in Tübingen. After his habilitation , he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Tübingen, where he was given a chair for church regulations in 1968. In 1987, Joachim Mehlhausen became his successor .

His main focus was the church struggle , about which he wrote the first two volumes of the standard work “The Churches and the Third Reich”, which is still in use today.

Gerhard Besier and Jörg Thierfelder are among his students .

From 1982 to 1985 Scholder was deputy chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and from 1967 to 1982 a member of the board of trustees. In 1961 he was the founder and member of the first board of the Society for Freedom - Friends and Supporters of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . From 1959 to 1985 he was co-editor of the magazine "liberal" .

Tübingen city cemetery

Political party

Scholder joined the FDP / DVP in 1954 , influenced by Karl Georg Pfleiderer . He was significantly involved in the cultural and religious policy statements of the "Berlin Program" of the FDP of 1957. At the end of the 1960s he was briefly chairman of the FDP / DVP district association in Tübingen.

Works

• The realization of the imaginative in Jean Paul's novels . Diss., Tübingen 1956.
• The problem of political responsibility in our recent history . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1959.
• Origins and Problems of Biblical Criticism in the 17th Century . Kaiser, Munich 1966 (also: Habil.-Schrift, Tübingen 1965).
• The churches and the Third Reich. Vol. 1: Prehistory and Time of Illusions, 1918–1934 . Propylaea, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-550-07339-9 .
• Karl Georg Pfleiderer: The liberal district administrator, politician and diplomat . Reinhold Maier Foundation, Stuttgart 1979.
• The Wednesday company. Protocols from intellectual Germany 1932–1944. Severin and Siedler, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88680-030-X .
• The churches and the Third Reich. Vol. 2: The year of disillusionment, 1934 . Propylaea, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88680-139-X .
• The churches between republic and tyranny. Collected essays . Edited by Karl Otmar von Aretin and Gerhard Besier. Unabridged and corrected edition of the first edition published in 1988. Ullstein, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-548-33148-3 .

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Graf :  Scholder, Klaus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 440 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hildegard Hamm-Brücher : Memories of a Christian, Liberal and South German Democrat. Klaus Scholder commemorating , in: Liberal , vol. 1987, issue 2, pp. 97-103.
• Lothar Bily :  Klaus Scholder. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 670-673.
• Mark Edward Ruff: A Polemic. Klaus Scholder and the churches in the “Third Reich” , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History 7 (2010), pp. 479–483.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Scholder in the catalog of the German National Library