Martin Kiunke

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Martin Kiunke (born August 27, 1898 in Breslau ; † April 13, 1983 ) was a Lutheran theologian, pastor and university professor.

Life

Kiunke studied theology at the seminary of the Old Lutheran Church in Breslau and Erlangen and passed his first theological exam in 1923. After he had passed his second theological exam in 1925, he took over the pastoral office of the old Lutheran congregation in Greater Justin . From May 1930 he was pastor in Liegnitz . Parallel to his work in the congregation, he received his doctorate in 1939 under Hermann Sasse in Erlangen with a thesis on Johann Gottfried Scheibel as a licentiate in theology. During the war, Kiunke was a councilor in the Oberkirchenkollegium (OKK). In 1944 he succeeded Gottfried Nagel as a full-time church councilor. However, he was only introduced into his office as a church council in 1946 in a roundabout way. In 1948 he was appointed lecturer in church history at the Lutheran Theological College in Oberursel . In addition to the church councils Walther Günther and Matthias Schulz , he was involved in the unification efforts of his church with the other Lutheran confessional churches . On the other hand, Kiunke also advocated maintaining contact with the Lutheran regional churches belonging to the VELKD and the Lutheran World Federation , which brought him into serious disputes with his free-church faculty colleague Wilhelm Oesch . In addition, there was a conflict in the Old Lutheran Church in the 1950s about whether his appointment to the Council of Churches was legal. The mixture of both conflicts led to Kiunke stepping down from his chair in 1954, leaving the Old Lutheran Church and becoming a pastor in the Hanoverian regional church . He served this church until his retirement. a. from 1954 to 1960 as a pastor at the Kreuzkirche in Bremerhaven and from 1960 to 1965 as an island pastor on Juist .

Martin Kiunke was married to Elisabeth, b. Ziemer. Between 1928 and 1934 they had five children.

Fonts

  • Lutheran youth in the spirit of the present . Breslau (no year).
  • From fighting times for fighting times. History of the origins of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Liegnitz, evaluated for an understanding of the church's present . Wroclaw 1934.
  • The religion of blood - the salvation of our people? Wroclaw 1934.
  • What is the national church? Wroclaw 1935.
  • Johann Gottfried Scheibel and his struggle for the church of the Lutheran Reformation . Liegnitz 1941 (Göttingen ² 1985).
  • On the draft constitution of the Evangelical Church in Germany . An assessment from the standpoint of the Lutheran Church . Frankfurt / Main 1948.
  • ... until he comes . Mötzingen 1973.

literature

  • Hans Kirsten : Unity in faith and teaching. The Path of the Lutheran Free Churches in Germany after the War, Volume 1: The Teaching Cleansing 1945–1949 . Groß Oesingen 1980.
  • Jorg Christian Salzmann : Martin Kiunke , in: Faculty of the Lutheran Theological University of Oberursel (ed.): Lutheran Theological University of Oberursel 1948–1998. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary . Oberursel 1998, pp. 85-87.

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personal data
SURNAME Kiunke, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian, pastor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1983