Paul Philippi

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Paul Philippi (born November 21, 1923 in Kronstadt ; † July 27, 2018 in Sibiu ) was a Romanian-German practical theologian and politician . Since 1998 he has been honorary chairman of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (DFDR).

Live and act

Philippi passed his matriculation examination in 1942 at the Johannes-Honterus-Gymnasium in Kronstadt. In 1943 he joined the Waffen SS . After his release from captivity , he studied theology at the University of Erlangen from 1947 to 1952 . Until the late 1970s, Philippi lived mainly in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he had been working at the Diaconal Science Institute at Heidelberg University from 1954 . In 1957 he received his doctorate with Paul Althaus with the thesis Last Supper and Reality of the Congregation and in 1963 at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the subject of the preliminary stages of the modern deaconess office (1789-1848) as elements for its understanding and criticism - a motivational investigation into the nature of the Motherhouse diakonia for practical theology qualified as a professor. Philippi worked together with the nurses' school at Heidelberg University and their school administrators Olga von Lersner and Antje Grauhan . Joint excursions in the footsteps of Johann Friedrich Oberlin led to Strasbourg and Waldersbach . From 1971 to 1986 Philippi, succeeding Herbert Krimm , headed the Diaconal Science Institute as full professor at Heidelberg University. His successor in this position was Theodor Strohm.

In 1974 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the United Protestant Theological Institute in Cluj . From 1979 to 1981 Philippi first acted as a visiting professor, from 1983 until his retirement in 1994 as a full professor at the Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu.

From 1992 to 1998 he was chairman of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (DFDR), which he co-founded at the end of 1989. He was an outspoken opponent of the ransom of Romanian Germans .

Honors

  • Since 1998 honorary chairman of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (DFDR).

Publications (selection)

As an author
  • The parish as a way of life. A Transylvanian-Saxon reflection. Aid Committee of the Transylvanian Saxons , Munich 1959.
  • Transylvanian-Saxon Gustav Adolf spirit ? A presentation. Aid Committee of the Transylvanian Saxons , Munich 1962.
  • The church in Hamburg's social history up to the end of the Reformation century. Typescript, Heidelberg 1970.
  • Diakonia between parish and community. Tape copy of a lecture Diakonisches Werk Pfälzische Landeskirche April 14, 1970 in Kirchheimbolanden, Speyer 1970.
  • Ce însemna acum 700 de ani noțiunea se hospital? In: Sibiul Medical. Vol. 3, No. 2, 1992, pp. 13-16.
  • Speeches - greetings - thoughts - letters - statements. In: Additions. Forum of the Ev. Friends of Transylvania. 19/20. Sibiu 1996.
  • Church and Politics. Transylvanian anamneses and diagnoses from five decades. Hora, Sibiu 2006.
  • Remembered Weißkirch. In: German Yearbook for Romania (with the support of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania DFDR). Honterus, Hermannstadt / Sibiu 2014, pp. 158–163.
  • Transylvania. Short history of the region. The Hungarian and German minorities. Schiller Publishing House, Hermannstadt / Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-944529-80-6 .
As editor
  • with Theodor Strohm : Theologie der Diakonie. Learning processes in the area of ​​tension between Lutheran tradition and socio-political upheavals. A European exchange of research (= publications by the Diakonie Wissenschaftliches Institut at Heidelberg University. Volume 1). Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-920431-99-5 .

literature

Festschriften
  • Theodor Schober (Ed.): Cross-border Diakonie. Paul Philippi on his 60th birthday. Festschrift Paul Philippi. In connection with Herbert Krimm and Gerhard Möckel. Verlagwerk der Diakonie, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-923110-15-4 .
  • Diakonisches Werk der EKD (Hrsg.): Ein Grenzgänger. Paul Philippi on his 65th birthday. Festschrift Paul Philippi. Diaconal work of the EKD, Stuttgart 1988.
  • Matti Järvelainen: Community in love. Diakonia as a manifestation of life and essence of the church in the understanding of Paul Philippi (= diaconal studies. Volume 1). Paul Philippi on his 70th birthday on November 21, 1993. Diaconal Science Institute at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-929919-01-X (with Philippi's farewell lecture on the social dimension of Lutheran ecclesiology ).
  • Hermann Pitters (ed.): Thinking and serving. Theological and historical essays as a gift to Prof. Dr. Paul Philippi on his 65th birthday (= Transsylvanica ). Working group for Transylvanian cultural studies. 2., through Edition. Hora, Hermannstadt / Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 973-8226-27-9 .
  • Richard Schuller: The Transylvanian-Saxon Pastor A cultural history (= writings on the geography of Transylvania. Vol. 27). As a celebratory gift for Paul Philippi on his 80th birthday on behalf of the working group for Transylvanian cultural studies, ed. and with an insert and reg. vers. by Ulrich A. Wien. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-412-10203-2 (reprint of the edition: Verlag der Markusdr., Schäßburg 1930).
  • Jürgen Albert (ed.): Concept and shape. On the principles of diakonia. Lectures at the symposium on the 90th birthday of Paul Philippi (= publications of the Diakoniewwissenschaftliches Institut at the University of Heidelberg. Volume 57). Edited by Jürgen Albert. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-374-05199-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A murit Paul Philippi, preşedintele de onoare al Forumului German, un teolog cu trecut nazist. In: mesageruldesibiu.ro. July 28, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018 (Romanian).
  2. ↑ Paul Philippi obituary. In: FAZ . August 1, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ Paul Milata : Between Hitler, Stalin and Antonescu. Romanian Germans in the Waffen SS. 2nd, revised edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2009, p. 340 ( preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Paul Philippi: The preliminary stages of the modern deaconess office (1789–1848) as elements for its understanding and criticism. An investigation into the history of the motive on the nature of the motherhouse diakonia. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1966, DNB 457803347 (Zugl .: Heidelberg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1963).
  5. ^ Rhein Neckar WIKI: Theodor Strohm. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ Marco Kauffmann Bossart: For sale: Romanian Germans. In: NZZ. December 20, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Philippi, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian theologian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2018
Place of death Sibiu