Leopold Temmel

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Leopold Temmel (born December 11, 1913 in Krieglach ; † November 11, 2000 in Gosau ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian . From 1966 to 1980 he was Superintendent of the Evangelical Superintendent of Upper Austria .

Life

Leopold Temmel studied philosophy in Graz and Würzburg from 1931 to 1934 and then Protestant theology in Leipzig , where he passed the exam in 1937. Then he was initially vicar at the seminary at the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig. In 1938 he moved to Ried im Innkreis , where he worked as vicar in the subsidiary there until 1940.

In the same year Leopold Temmel took up his first parish at the Evangelical Parish Church in Gosau . The place Gosau is one of the few communities in Austria that has a Protestant majority. But just a year later he was drafted into military service. At the end of the Second World War he was taken prisoner by the Americans for a short time and then returned to Gosau. In 1950 Temmel received his doctorate from the University of Vienna on Faith and Certainty in Martin Bucer's Theology . From 1953 he worked as a pastor at the Martin Luther Church in Linz .

As the successor to Wilhelm Mensing-Braun , Leopold Temmel was elected Superintendent of the Evangelical Superintendent of Austria in 1966. He was also Vice-President of the Synod and a member of several committees of the Evangelical Church AB. In 1980 Leopold Temmel retired. His successor as superintendent was Herwig Karzel .

Fonts

  • Evangelical in Upper Austria. Career and existence of the Evangelical Church. OLV, Linz 1982, ISBN 3-85214-334-9 .
  • 200 years of the Evangelical Community of Gosau. Festschrift. Evangelical Parish AB Gosau, Gosau 1984.

Awards

See also

literature

  • Alois Zauner (Ed.): Upper Austria. Life pictures on the history of Upper Austria. Upper Austrian Provincial Archives, Linz 1981.

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personal data
SURNAME Temmel, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Krieglach
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2000
Place of death Gosau