Matthias Schulz (theologian)

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Matthias Georg Siegfried Schulz (born January 13, 1900 in Stettin ; † January 5, 1981 in West Berlin ) was a German Lutheran theologian and church councilor .

Life

After his military service in 1918, Schulz studied theology and initially philosophy in Rostock , Breslau , Erlangen and Leipzig from 1919 to 1923 . His theological teachers included a. Friedrich Hashagen , Hans Preuß , Ludwig Ihmels , Paul Althaus the Elder Ä. , Werner Elert and Erich Schaeder . During his studies he became a member of the Rostocker , Erlanger and Leipziger Wingolf .

He was ordained in 1923 and the following year he accepted his first position as assistant preacher in the Old Lutheran Church in Berlin. In 1924 he moved again as assistant preacher to the Parochie Marienwerder and was appointed pastor (Parochus) there in 1925. In 1929 he came to Düsseldorf as a pastor at the Erlöserkirche , from where he also served the resurrection community in Duisburg . In 1933 he was youth pastor of the Rhenish-Westphalian diocese and from 1933 until 1937 he was federal leader of the Evangelical-Lutheran Youth Union. With his licensed thesis “The Concept of Pastoral Care with Claus Harms and Löhe ” , which he wrote parallel to his normal community work (supervised by Friedrich Ulmer ), Schulz received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1934. From 1935 he was then active as pastor of the western parish of Berlin and the parish of the Holy Cross in Wilmersdorf . He did his new military service from June to October 1940. In 1944 he accepted a position as parish administrator in Jabel .

In 1946 he came into contact with leading personalities of the Old Prussian Union in Berlin . a. to Otto Dibelius , Kurt Scharf and Oskar Söhngen . During this time he was also involved in the doctrinal discussions with the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church , which ended in 1947 with the unification sentences and the establishment of church and communion fellowship. This fulfilled a wish that he had had since he was a student in Leipzig. From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the Church Council of the Old Lutheran Church, as which he represented his church in the Luther Council , as well as head of the Berlin office of the Old Lutheran Upper Church College. From 1948 to 1950 he effectively took over the position of managing director.

When the new East Department of the Upper Church College was established, he took over the position of department head from 1950 to 1961. From 1961 to 1973 he moved to the department of the Oberkirchencollegium Berlin-West as head of the department, while in 1961 he also became superintendent of the West Berlin community. He retired as a pastor in 1970. He resigned from the position of superintendent administrator in 1972 and as a councilor in 1973.

Matthias Schulz was one of the first pastors in the old Lutheran church in 1950, who returned to the old church or old Lutheran custom after the war and wore alb or choir skirt and stole as worship garments when celebrating the altar sacrament on feast days and during the festive periods of the church year.

In 1950, Concordia Seminary in St. Louis awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Fonts

  • Formative forces of time and evangelical preaching . Gütersloh 1932.
  • The concept of pastoral care in Claus Harms and Löhe . Gütersloh 1934.
  • as ed. with Heinrich Willkomm: Daily house devotions . Berlin 1950.
  • Who was jesus Berlin 1956.
  • The Origin of the Gospels . Berlin 1957.
  • The principles of the Prussian Union and the present . Uelzen 1961.
  • The emigration of the Old Lutherans in the 19th century and their ecclesiastical consequences . Mühlheim / Main 1961.
  • The Bible and ancient Assyria . Berlin 1964.
  • The Doctor Luke and the Acts of the Apostles . Berlin 1964.
  • Abraham and his time . Berlin 1964.
  • What i experienced . (Machine-written manuscript of his memoirs, around 1974, in the holdings of the Lutheran Theological College )
  • The New Testament Scriptures. Their origin and their authenticity . Berlin 1977.
  • Gottfried Garbe or the story of a conversion . Groß Oesingen 1979.

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.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Nora Andrea Schulze, responsibility for the church, stenographic notes and transcripts by regional bishop Hans Meiser 1933–1955, volume 3: 1937, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-55765-5 , 2010, Schulz , Matthias Georg Siegfried pp. 1079-1080. Retrieved July 21, 2019
  2. ↑ Hermann Schoenauer (Ed.), Wilhelm Löhe: (1808–1872), His meaning for church and diakonia , Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-020514-7 , Matthias Schulz, “The concept of Pastoral care with Claus Harms and Löhe ” , Gütersloh 1934, p. 195
  3. ↑ Arthur Carl Piepkorn: The liturgical vestments in the Lutheran church since 1555 . Ed .: Jobst Schöne and Ernst Seybold. Oekumenischer Verlag, Lüdenscheid / Lobetal 1987, p. 103 .
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulz, Matthias Georg Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1981
Place of death West Berlin