Kurt Deissner

Kurt Deißner (born April 10, 1888 in Frohse ; † November 6, 1942 in Greifswald ) was a Lutheran theologian and university professor.

Kurt Deißner, the son of a steam mill owner, attended high schools in Magdeburg and Stendal and then studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , Greifswald and Marburg . While studying in Greifswald, he was a member of the 1906 Schwarzenburg Bund - connection Sedinia . He passed the theological exams, married the Pomeranian captain's daughter Johanna Müller and was a nurse and hospital chaplain in Greifswald during the First World War.

In April 1919 he became associate professor and in 1926 full professor for the New Testament in Greifswald. Deißner belonged to the German National People's Party and was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . Deißner entered the Old Prussian Church Senate in 1933 and became a member of the Provincial Brotherhood Council at the Confessional Synod in Stettin in May 1934 .

At a memorial ceremony in June 1943, Ernst Lohmeyer particularly emphasized Deißner's "anti-ethnic Jesus image".

Works (selection)

• Resurrection hope and pneumatic thought with Paul . Leipzig 1912
• Paul and Seneca . Gütersloh 1917
• Paul and the mysticism of his time . Leipzig 1918
• The uniqueness of the person of Jesus . Leipzig 1919
• The Volkish image of Christ . Berlin 1925
• The ideal of the stoic sage . Greifswald 1930
• Authority and Freedom in Ancient Christianity . Greifswald 1931

literature

• Eckhard Oberdörfer: Kurt Deissner - The rector of the 475th anniversary of the University of Greifswald . In: Baltic Studies NF Vol. 81, Marburg 1995; Pp. 84-93.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 61 No. 511.
2. ↑ Article about Lohmeyer on evangelischer- Resistance.de

predecessor	Office	successor
Gustav Braun	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1931/32	Wilhelm Meisner