Martin Rade

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Paul Martin Rade (born April 4, 1857 in Rennersdorf ; † April 9, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Protestant theologian and left-liberal politician ( NSV , FSV , FVP , DDP ).

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Martin Rade attended grammar schools in Bautzen and Zittau and studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . After being employed as a private tutor, he became pastor in Schönbach in Upper Lusatia and from 1892 to 1899 in Frankfurt am Main at the Paulskirche .

In 1899 Rade received a professorship for Protestant theology at the University of Marburg . From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the German Democratic Party of the Prussian Constitutional Assembly .

As a university lecturer and publicist, Rade had a great impact on contemporary theology. He is considered to be a main representative of cultural Protestantism .

In 1886/87 Rade published the first year of the journal Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gemeindeblatt for the educated members of the Protestant churches from the publisher Friedrich Wilhelm Grunow in Leipzig . Co-editors and collaborators were other students and supporters of the Göttingen theologian Albrecht Ritschl . From the following year 1888/89 the magazine appeared under the name Die Christliche Welt .

The Christian World appeared in 55 volumes up to the war-related termination in May 1941, last edited by Hermann Mulert . Since 1922 it was published in Leipzig by the Gotha publisher Leopold Klotz (1878–1956), who had taken over the magazine from Rade a year earlier.

Martin Rade had been married to Dora Naumann (1868–1945), a sister of the left-liberal party leader Friedrich Naumann , since 1889 . His son Gottfried (1891–1987) also became a theologian, but then worked full-time for the DDP in the constituencies of Hessen-Nassau and Dresden and emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 , where he served as pastor for many years.

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Further literature

  • Jörn-Peter Leppien: Martin Rade and German-Danish relations 1909–1929. A contribution to historical peace research and the problem of nationalism . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1981 (Sources and Research on the History of Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 77), ISBN 3-529-02177-6 .
  • Axel Meißner: Martin Rades “Christian World” and Armenia. Building blocks for an international ethics of Protestantism (= studies on oriental church history. Volume 22). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2010, ISBN 3-825-86281-X .
  • Anne Christine Nagel : Martin Rade - theologian and politician of social liberalism. A political biography (= Religious Cultures of Modern Age. Volume 4). Kaiser, Gütersloh 1996, ISBN 3-579-02603-8 .
  • Johannes Rathje : The world of free Protestantism. A contribution to the German-Protestant intellectual history. Depicted in the life and work of Martin Rade. Klotz, Stuttgart 1952.

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  1. ↑ Cf. Finding aid on the Gottfried Rade holdings in the Archive of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , Gummersbach , N 116.
personal data
SURNAME Rade, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rade, Paul Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennersdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1940
Place of death Frankfurt am Main