Otto Scheel

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Otto Scheel (born March 7, 1876 in Tondern , North Schleswig ; † November 13, 1954 in Kiel ) was a German theologian, regional historian and university professor.

Life

From the summer semester of 1895, Scheel studied Protestant theology at the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1897 he moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (CAU). He became a member of the Association of German Students in Kiel . He passed the two ecclesiastical exams and became Lic. Theol. PhD.

In 1901 - at the age of 25 - he qualified as a professor in systematic theology . In 1906 he was appointed associate professor for church history at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . Here he became honorary philistine of the Tübingen Wingolf in 1913 .

On April 1, 1924, he took over the newly created chair for Schleswig-Holstein regional history, Reformation history and Nordic history in Kiel. From 1925 to 1927 he was chairman of the Association of German Universities . From March 5 to April 27, 1933 Otto Scheel was rector of the CAU. In 1945 he was retired. From 1931 to 1946 he was chairman of the Association for the History of the Reformation .

During the First World War, Scheel had temporarily worked as a hospital pastor and in Department III b . At the same time he published a biography of Martin Luther , with which he underpinned his reputation as one of the leading church historians. Scheel was involved in liberal Protestantism and was a member of the German People's Party during the Weimar Republic . In Kiel he operated "State history as political history". After their victory in the Reichstag election in March 1933 , he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in May 1933 . He increasingly wrote popular scientific writings with folk rhetoric. He put his decidedly anti-Western interpretation of Luther unconditionally at the service of National Socialist historical policy. Also involved in science policy, in 1938 he took over the Kiel Institute for National and Regional Research and the German Scientific Institute in Copenhagen (1941–1943).

Works

  • Augustine's view of Christ's person and work. Taking into account their various stages of development and their position in the history of dogma , Mohr, Tübingen 1901.
  • The dogmatic treatment of the doctrine of baptism in modern positive theology, Mohr, Tübingen 1906.
  • The Church in early Christianity. With a glimpse of the present, Mohr, Tübingen 1912.
  • Denmark and us, Kloeres, Tübingen 1915.
  • Martin Luther. From Catholicism to the Reformation, two volumes, Mohr, Tübingen 1916/1917 (new edition 1921/1930).
  • A trip to vote in the first zone of North Schleswig , Mohr, Tübingen 1920.
  • The young Dahlmann , Shepherd, Breslau 1926 (publications of the Schleswig-Holstein University Society, Volume 4).
  • with Michael Doeberl , Wilhelm Schlink , Hans Sperl , Eduard Spranger , Hans Bitter and Paul Frank (eds.): Das akademische Deutschland . 4 volumes, 1 register volume by Alfred Bienengräber. CA Weller Verlag, Berlin 1931.
  • Evangelium Kirche und Volk with Luther , Heinsius, Leipzig 1934 (writings of the Association for Reformation History, Volume 156).
  • Bismarck's will to Germany in the peace treaties in 1866 , Hirt, Breslau 1934 (publications of the Schleswig-Holstein University Society , Volume 44).
  • Early history up to 1100 , Wachholtz, Neumünster 1936 (History of Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 2.1).
  • The Vikings. Departure of the North , Hohenstaufen-Verlag, Stuttgart 1938.
  • Rise and fall of the English sea and world power, Verl. Heimat und Erbe, Flensburg 1940.
  • Dannewerk and Düppel on a political and strategic background , Verl. Heimat und Erbe, Flensburg 1940.

literature

  • Rudolf Bülck (Ed.): Festgabe, Professor D. Dr. Otto Scheel offered on his 75th birthday on March 7, 1951, Hansen, Preetz 1950 (with bibliography).
  • Harald Thurau (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Otto Scheel. Contributions to German and Nordic history; [on her 75th birthday.] , Ibbeken, Schleswig 1952.
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Vol. 6). Synchron, Wissenschaftsverlag der Authors, Heidelberg 2004, p. 146.
  • Karl-Heinz Fix: Otto Scheel (1876–1954). The forgotten second or first chairman (1918–1946). In: Luise Schorn-Schütte (Ed.): 125 years of the Association for Reformation History (= writings of the Association for Reformation History. Vol. 200). Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-05764-4 , pp. 60-99.
  • Oliver Auge , Martin Göllnitz: State history magazines and university state history: The example of Schleswig-Holstein (1924-2008) , in: Thomas Küster (ed.): Media of limited space. State and regional history magazines in the 19th and 20th centuries (= research on regional history. Vol. 73). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2013, ISBN 3-506-77730-0 , pp. 69-125.
  • Carsten Mish: Otto Scheel (1876–1954). A biographical study on Luther research, regional historiography and German-Danish relations . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 194.
  2. Augustine's view of Christ's person and work: taking into account their various stages of development and their position in the history of dogma .
  3. Oliver Auge, Martin Göllnitz: Landesgeschichtliche Zeitschriften und University Landesgeschichte: The example of Schleswig-Holstein (1924-2008). In: Thomas Küster (Ed.): Media of limited space. National and regional historical journals in the 19th and 20th centuries. Paderborn u. a. 2013, pp. 69–125, here: pp. 73f.
  4. Rector's speeches (HKM)
  5. Oliver Auge, Martin Göllnitz: Landesgeschichtliche Zeitschriften und University Landesgeschichte: The example of Schleswig-Holstein (1924-2008). In: Thomas Küster (Ed.): Media of limited space. National and regional historical journals in the 19th and 20th centuries. Paderborn u. a. 2013, pp. 69–125, here: pp. 74f.
  6. Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war the muses are not silent". The German Scientific Institutes in World War II (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 169). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X , pp. 183-210.