Max Adolf Wagenführer

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Max Adolf Wagenführer (born November 1, 1919 in Coburg ; † October 19, 2010 ) was a German Protestant theologian and from 1939 to 1945 assistant at the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life .

Life

Wagenführer, who came from Bavaria, studied Protestant theology at the University of Jena , where he became a student of Walter Grundmann and his assistant. In 1938 he joined the NSDAP . In 1939 he became a full-time employee of the institute, which was founded in Eisenach by eleven Protestant regional churches according to plans by Grundmann at the instigation of relevant groups of German Christians . He led the work on a new catechism under the significant title Germans with God and on a hymn book made entirely of Jews. In July 1940 he was given a New Testament dissertation in Jena as Dr. theol. PhD. From 1943 he was drafted into military service.

After the end of the Second World War , he came to the Luther Church in Cologne-Nippes and was initially accepted into the parish service of the Rhenish Church. In 1949 he was temporarily suspended due to his lack of ordination and switched to school service. In 1953 he returned to the pastoral ministry, was ordained and received an appointment to the newly built Church of the Redeemer in Weidenpesch . From 1970 to 1982 he was pastor in Prien am Chiemsee .

He was married to Ruth, b. Michaelis. The mathematician Ekkehard Wagenführer (* 1944) is a son of the couple.

Fonts

  • The Significance of Christ for the World and the Church: Studies on the Epistles of Colossians and Ephesians. Wigand, Leipzig 1941, plus Jena, Theol. F., Diss., 1941.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth and death as well as spelling (Max Adolf without hyphen) after the obituary , Oberbayerisches Volksblatt of October 22, 2010, accessed on April 12, 2015
  2. ↑ Susannah Heschel: The Theological Faculty of the University of Jena as the "Bastion of National Socialism". In: Uwe Hoßfeld (ed.): “In the service of the people and fatherland”: Jena University during the Nazi era. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-412-16704-2 , p. 180.
  3. ↑ Oliver Arnhold: "Entjudung" - Kirche im Abgrund, vol. 2. The "Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life" 1939–1945 (Studies on Church and Israel 25/2), Berlin 2010, p 475, 537f., 837, 861.
  4. ↑ See Hans Prolingheuer : The church "Entjudungsinstitut" 1939 to 1945 in the Lutherstadt Eisenach.
  5. ↑ Car driver died. , Report from the Oberbayerisches Volksblatt dated November 2, 2010, accessed on April 12, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Car driver, Max Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and assistant at the Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life (1939–1945)
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 2010