Kurt Schmidt-Clausen
Kurt Schmidt-Clausen (born October 1, 1920 in Hanover ; † January 25, 1993 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian.
Life
Schmidt-Clausen was a son of Wilhelm Schmidt-Clausen and Alwine geb. Wieckert. In 1939 he graduated from the Hindenburg School in Hanover. During the war he began to study Protestant theology at the University of Vienna in 1943/1944 , which he continued in Göttingen from 1946 to 1949, interrupted by a semester abroad at Christ Church College in Oxford . This was followed by the period of vicariate with practical training at the Loccum seminary , the second theological exam and ordination in 1951.
He then became a pastor at the Neustädter Church in Hanover with an additional service assignment at the regional church office . In 1955 he took over a pastor's position at the collegiate church in Wunstorf (until 1961).
After attending the Second World Church Conference in Evanston in 1954 and the Third Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation in Minneapolis in 1957 , he was elected Deputy General Secretary of the LWF in 1959 and General Secretary in 1960 ; he held the office until 1965. In 1961 he completed his theological doctorate in Göttingen , became a member of the Amelungsborn Monastery founded by Christhard Mahrenholz in 1960 and took part in the third World Church Conference in New Delhi . In 1963 the fourth assembly of the LWF followed in Helsinki , in 1968 the fourth world church conference in Uppsala .
In January 1964 he was received by Federal President Heinrich Lübke , Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation Walter Scheel in Bonn and received the Federal Cross of Merit the following year for his international work . In 1965 he resigned as Oberlandeskirchenrat in the church leadership of the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Hanover one. From 1970 until his retirement in 1982 he was state superintendent for the district of Osnabrück .
Schmidt-Clausen was chairman of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony from 1968 to 1986 and abbot of the Amelungsborn monastery from 1971 to 1989 . He was the Evangelical Chairman of the Evangelical Catholic Regional Commission for Northern Germany, Chairman of the State Working Committee for Church Service in the Working World and Chairman of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Osnabrück.
Kurt Schmidt-Clausen was born with Erika. Rokahr married. They had a son and a daughter.
Honors
- 1965: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
Works
- Anticipated unity. The establishment of the Diocese of Jerusalem in 1841 , Berlin and Hamburg in 1965
- From the Lutheran World Convention to the Lutheran World Federation. History of the Lutheran World Convention (1923-1947) , Gütersloh 1976
literature
- Dietrich Blaufuss (ed.): Handbuch Deutsche Landeskirchengeschichte , Neustadt an der Aisch 1999, p. 99
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Schmidt-Clausen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography (stiftskirche-wunstorf.de)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt-Clausen, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1993 |
| Place of death | Hanover |