Martin Müller (theologian)

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Martin Müller (born March 24, 1903 in Dessau , Duchy of Anhalt ; † July 9, 1989 there ) was a German Protestant theologian , pastor and church president .

Life

Martin Müller, offspring of a Dessau merchant family , graduated from the humanistic Friedrichsgymnasium in Dessau in 1921 . Afterwards Müller turned to the study of theology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , the University of Leipzig and the Georg August University of Göttingen . Martin Müller, who had been employed in the vicariate in the Bernburg parish since 1924 , passed his second theological exam in Anhalt a year later. In 1926 Martin Müller took on an assistant position at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where he obtained the academic degree of Dr. theol. In the same year Martin Müller was ordained in the Martinskirche in Köthen .

After assignments as an auxiliary preacher and student pastor in Köthen, then as an auxiliary preacher in Dessau, Martin Müller was appointed pastor at the Dessau Johanniskirche in 1929 . In 1933 he was appointed chairman of the pastors' emergency association , and a short time later that of the state brotherhood council of the Confessing Church in Anhalt. In 1943 Martin Müller was called up to the medical service, in the summer of 1945 he returned to Dessau from an American prisoner of war . In the same year Müller received membership in the newly formed regional church council and was appointed pastor at the Christ Church in Ziebigk . In 1961, the Anhalt regional synod elected him as church president and chairman of the regional church council of the Evangelical regional church in Anhalt . Since 1963 Müller provided pastoral care as second pastor at the Dessau Johanniskirche, in 1970 he retired from all his functions due to age. Martin Müller died in the summer of 1989 at the age of 86 in his hometown of Dessau.

literature

  • Annegret Friedrich-Berenbruch, Evangelical Church of Anhalt: Dr. Martin Müller (1903–1989), pastor and church president in Anhalt: on his 100th birthday on March 24, 2003, Dessau, 2003
  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 (= work on contemporary church history, series A, sources , vol. 12) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2006, ISBN 3-5255-5761-2 , p. 181. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, pastor and church president
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau , Duchy of Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1989
Place of death Dessau