Kurt von Wistinghausen

Kurt Roderich Thomas Klas von Wistinghausen (born May 13, 1901 in Reval ; † September 3, 1986 in Filderstadt ) was a German-Baltic nobleman , theologian , writer and publisher .

Life

Kurt Roderich first attended the Knight and Cathedral School in Reval . The family moved to Germany in 1918 and lived in Berlin and Tübingen , where he continued his education in Berlin at the Schiller-Gymnasium , in 1921 he graduated from the Uhland-Gymnasium in Tübingen.

From 1921 he studied art history and German studies at the universities in Tübingen and Breslau and later also religious studies and theology . In Breslau he was a co-founder of the “ Christian Community ” and pastor of this community, which he continued in Stuttgart in 1926 . He initially worked as a pastor and trained in publishing, in 1937 he became managing director of the Freie Geistesleben & Urachhaus publishing house in Stuttgart. In 1941 he was arrested by the Gestapo and banned from working for the following years . In the meantime he worked as a lecturer at Cotta-Verlag in Stuttgart. From 1946 he resumed his pastor in the Christian Community and became head of the re-established Urachhaus publishing house. Since 1960 he has been the editor of the monthly “Die Christengemeinschaft” on religious renewal.

Origin and family

Karl Roderich von Wistinghausen came from the German-Baltic noble family von Wistinghausen , which had been based in Reval since around 1640. His father was the doctor Reinhold Karl Alexander Christian von Wistinghausen (* 1863 in Reval, † 1939 in Berlin), he was married to Dagmar Anna Hedwig von Ramm (* 1865). His younger brother was Almar von Wistinghausen (1904–1989). Kurt Roderich married Elisabeth Steeb (* 1908, † 1985 in Stuttgart).

Works

Books

• At the loom of time. Revealed secrets in the Christian festival of the year , 1988
• The New Confession , 1963
• The New Divine Service - An Introduction to the Ordinance of Man , 1960
• Renewed Baptism. A child baptism August, 1991
• The Hidden Evangelist , 1983
• The New Worship Service: An Introduction to the Ordinance of Man , 1987
• The Renewed Baptism , 1967
• Renewed Baptism , 1967
• Foundation of Marriage , 1963
• The new service , 1965
• The new service , 1960
• The New Confession - Paths to the Credo , 1963
• The New Confession , 1983
• Renewed Baptism. A baptism of children , 1982
• The new service , 1981

with other authors

• with Hermann Beckh: The language of the key in music from Bach to Bruckner with special consideration of Wagner's musical drama , 1937
• with Wolfgang Weirauch and Norbert Deuchert: Anthroposophists in the time of German fascism (Flensburger Hefte), 1991

items

Article in "die Drei" - magazine for anthroposophy in science, art and social life Archive the three :

• Walther Roggenkamp and Hildegard Osten: "Tapestries for the dream song Olav Åsteson", Issue 1, 1970, p. 45
• Christian Morgenstern's estate, issue 10, 1971, p. 488
• Der Brunnen, No. 7, 1982, p. 560
• Erwin Schühle: "Decision for Christianity of the Future", Issue 6, 1969, p. 446
• Eugenetic Occultism in China? Issue 4, 1958, p. 216
• Lyrical Magic Word, No. 6, 1961, p. 376
• Nikolai Berdjajew to Rudolf Steiner. Two letters to Andrej Bjelyj, volume 10, 1980, p. 640
• Emil Bock: "Zeitgenossen-Weggenossen-Wegbereiter", Issue 2, 1960, p. 103

Article in the monthly magazine "Die Christengemeinschaft":

• Kurt von Wistinghausen (Ed.): Friedrich Rittelmeyer to the memory. Extended special print from the monthly “Die Christengemeinschaft” from May 1938. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1938.

literature

• Kurt von Wistinghausen on his 80th birthday , essay, 1981, In: Christengemeinschaft: Die Christengemeinschaft. - 53. 1981. - pp. 144–145, 161–169, article on www.leo-bw.de
• Uwe Werner, anthroposophist in the time of National Socialism (1933-1945) , Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 1999, ISBN 348683102X , 9783486831023 digitized version
• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1417-1418 .

Web links

• Biography of Kurt von Wistinghausen
• von Wistinghausen, Kurt Roderich Thomas Clas (biography)
• Catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe Werner, Anthroposophists in the time of National Socialism (1933-1945) , Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 1999, ISBN 348683102X , [1] , p. 322 f
2. ^ The Christian Community - Journal for Religious Renewal [2]