Oskar Wagner (theologian)

Oskar Wagner (born May 21, 1906 in Hartfeld near Lemberg , † December 18, 1989 in Munich ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Life

The teacher's son Oskar Wagner graduated from the Staatsgymnasium in Stryj with distinction , before he devoted himself to the studies of Protestant theology and philosophy in Vienna and Marburg from 1924 to 1928, and then to Eastern European history in Vienna. Wagner - he was subsequently to 1931 in Vienna as a vicar - in 1930 when Hans Berger About the work The Union of Brest (1596) in the light of the Polish state idea doctorate .

On February 1, 1932, the only 25-year-old Oskar Wagner was appointed regional synod pastor of the Evangelical Uniate Church in Polish Upper Silesia , a synodal association with the status of an old Prussian church province (1923-1937) and seat in Katowice . On February 7, 1932, he was in the Church of the Resurrection of the Church President Voss Herrmann ordained . After Herrmann Voß's death in 1938, he was appointed church president, but was expelled in the same year, after which he worked for a year as a consultant for Upper Silesia at the consistory in Wroclaw before he was drafted into military service.

After returning from American captivity , Wagner was a substitute pastor in Middle Franconia and from 1950 until his retirement in 1971 he was pastor of the Matthäus congregation in Munich . Wagner was in charge of the "Evangelical Craftsmen's Association of 1848" , was a board member of the Silesian Church Congress, co-founder of the Institute for Protestant Church History in Vienna and co-editor of the magazine "Kyrio" . In 1986, Wagner's collected essays appeared under the title Between, Völkern, States and Churches. On the history of the Protestants in East Central Europe .

Awards

• 1967 Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1970 Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit
• 1972 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1981 Medal " Munich shines "

literature

• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 285, 285.
• Christian Weise, Oskar Wagner (theologian). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 151-159.

Web links

• Biography of Oskar Wagner in the Ostdeutsche Biographie ( Memento from July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )