Otto Baumgarten

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Otto Baumgarten (born January 29, 1858 in Munich , † March 21, 1934 in Kiel ) was a German Protestant theologian and professor of theology.

Life

The son of the historian Hermann Baumgarten (1825-1893) studied in Strasbourg , Göttingen and Zurich . From 1882 to 1887 he served the church in Baden . He completed his habilitation in Halle in 1888. In the same year he became a preacher for the Friedrichs orphanage in Rummelsburg (from 1920 in Berlin ). In 1890 Baumgarten became a private lecturer in Berlin; in the same year he became a professor in Jena . From 1894 to 1926 Baumgarten worked in Kiel as a university preacher and professor for practical theology . In 1903/04 he was rector of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Baumgarten is one of the leaders of the theological left and one of the pioneers of cultural Protestantism . He was a co-founder of the Evangelical Social Congress and from 1912 to 1925 its chairman. In 1919 he was a member of the German peace delegation ; after 1918 he also worked as a member of the German Democratic Party .

Baumgarten was one of the first Protestant theologians to publicly call for resistance to National Socialism . In his brochure Kreuz und Hakenkreuz (1926) he came to the conclusion: “When correctly interpreted, the symbols cross and swastika are mutually exclusive opposites.” At the same time, he admitted that the displacement of the Jewish from German-Christian religiosity had a certain justification.

Works (selection)

  • Bismarck's position on religion and church - mostly according to his own statements (1900)
  • New tracks. Teaching the Christian Religion in the Spirit of Modern Theology (1903)
  • Present sermons delivered in the Kiel University Hall (1903)
  • Sermon problems. Main questions of today's gospel proclamation (1904)
  • Herder's Life's Work and the Religious Question of the Present (1905)
  • About raising children. Experienced and Thought (1905)
  • Carlyle and Goethe (1906)
  • The personal requirements of the spiritual profession. Public lecture (1910)
  • Old and new from the treasure of the Psalter. Eleven psalm sermons given in the auditorium of Kiel University (1911)
  • Sermons of Jesus given in the Kiel University Hall (1911)
  • My indictment against the Prussian Evangelical Oberkirchenrat (1913)
  • Bismarck's Faith (1915)
  • Politics and Morals (1916)
  • Christianity and World War I (1918)
  • Present Sermons (1903)
  • Educational tasks of the new Germany (1917)
  • Sermons from the Revolutionary Period (1919)
  • The plight of the academic professions after the peace treaty (1919)
  • Building the People's Church (1920)
  • Sermon on the Mount and Contemporary Culture (1921)
  • Practical Morals (1921)
  • Bismarckian Religion (1922)
  • Religious Education in the New Germany (1922)
  • Religious and Church Life in England (1922)
  • The Church's Endangerment of Truthfulness (1925)
  • Cross and Swastika (1926)
  • My life story (1929)
  • Protestant Pastoral Care (1931)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)

Web links

  • Baumgarten in the scholars' directory of Kiel University [1]

literature

personal data
SURNAME Baumgarten, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1934
Place of death Kiel