Kurt Wiesner

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Kurt Wiesner (born January 13, 1907 in Breslau , † April 16, 1967 in Leipzig ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university professor.

Life

After attending elementary school and grammar school, Wiesner obtained his university entrance qualification , and then studied Protestant theology . After submitting his thesis he became a doctor of theology doctorate . In 1939 he received his ordination. At an early age he became interested in topics from Christian customs and religious songs . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP and received membership no. 1871881. From 1931 to 1932 and then again from 1933 to 1934 he was a member of the SA . He also became a member of the NS-Studentenkampfhilfe and worked as an employee for the magazine "Auf der Wacht" for German Christian beliefs and ethnic character. From 1942 to 1945 he did military service.

After 1945 he became a lecturer at Leipzig University and was parish priest until 1953, then student priest in Jena until 1955 . From 1955 to 1958 he was an aspirant at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . He joined the GDR CDU . When the communist front organization Christian Peace Conference was founded in 1958, he worked on its committees. Another activity was his function as chairman of the working group “Christian circles at the National Council of the National Front”. When the Institute for Sociology of Religion was founded at Karl Marx University , he was given a chair in this subject in 1958 and as a lecturer in systematic theology . He worked u. a. in the question of the extent to which the theory of Marxism also means a question of Christian existence.

The proximity to the ideology of the SED that he held up to him did not prevent him from standing in front of his students in specific situations of tension and protecting them from state attacks. B. when in March 1959 the state should close the rooms of the Evangelical Student Congregation (ESG).

Wiesner died in Leipzig at the age of 60.

Honors

Works

  • Faith in Responsibility, Halle (Saale): Niemeyer VEB, 1968
  • A short biblical history of music, Leipzig: VOB Koehler & Amelang, 1960
  • Notebooks from Burgscheidungen / 28th Albert Schweitzer on his 85th birthday [1960]
  • Christians say no to nuclear armament, [Berlin]: [Nationalrat d. National Front d. democratic Germany], [19] 58
  • Booklets from Burgscheidungen / 2. Ecumenism and World Peace Movement [1958]
  • Who is your God ?, Jena: Wartburg Verl., [1954]
  • On the Faith of Man, Jena: Wartburg Verl., [1950]
  • About the possibility of utilizing popular belief in building a doctrine of the faith, Breslau: Maruschke & Berendt, 1937
  • Paths of Fate, Strasbourg: Heitz & Cie, [1931]
  • A fairy tale game, Stuttgart: Waldorf School Toys & Publishing, 1928
  • Ave Maria / [music ax.]. The 98 Psalm, 1928
  • The law of organization, Mondsee / Oberösterr. : Self-rel.

Essays

  • Theological studies on popular belief. About the possibility of utilizing popular belief in building a doctrine of the faith, Breslau 1937, in: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche. New episode 18 (1937)
  • The Institute for the Sociology of Religion. In: Faith and Conscience. A Protestant Monthly, V, 5, 1959
  • Marxism as a question to the Christian. In: Faith and Conscience. A Protestant Monthly, VIII, 5, 1962
  • Christian existence in the socialist state. From the commemorative publication on the 10th anniversary of the naming of the Karl Marx University Leipzig. A study of the sociology of religion. In: Faith and Conscience. A Protestant Monthly, IX, 1963

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.achgut.com/dadgdx/index.php/dadgd/article/fuenf_beispiele_fuer_den_antifaschismus_der_ddr/
  2. ^ Hagen Findeis, Detlef Pollack: Self-preservation or self-loss, p. 193
  3. ↑ http://www.esg-leipzig.de/geschichte ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Wiesner, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1967
Place of death Leipzig