Martin Stallmann

Martin Stallmann (born August 13, 1903 in Börninghausen ; † January 29, 1980 in Göttingen ) was a German Protestant theologian and religious educator .

Stallmann studied Protestant theology , a. a. in Rostock (summer semester 1922) and began in 1929 as a parish administrator in Grevenbrück and Finnentrop , then as a pastor in Dortmund from 1934. He was compulsorily on leave in 1936/37 and in 1937 he was again pastor in West Kilver . In the meantime he was theological unskilled worker with Wilhelm Zoellner in the Reich Church Committee . From 1941 to 1945 he did military service. Stallmann became professor for practical theology and religious education from 1948 at the Lüneburg University of Education and from 1961 to 1968 at the PH Göttingen.

In 1958, Stallmann criticized the previous Evangelical instruction (e.g. Ilse Peters ) as being naive and called for hermeneutics and biblical criticism for religious instruction . He also advocated a lower weight of biblical texts there.

Fonts

• The Church and Satan . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1935
• The Church's Creed , 1936
• Christianity and School , 1958
• The Christianity of the "Christian School" , 1968
• Protestant religious education , 1968

literature

• Edith Stallmann: Martin Stallmann. Parish between the republic and the leadership state. On the prehistory of the church struggle in Westphalia , Bielefeld 1989.
• Edith Stallmann: Martin Stallmann. A Westphalian pastor in the church fight (1934-1948) , Bielefeld 1996.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal