Reinhard Mumm (son)

Reinhard Mumm (born December 24, 1916 in Berlin ; † August 12, 1986 ) was a German theologian.

Life

Reinhard Mumm was born on December 24, 1916 as the third of four children of the pastor and long-time member of the Reichstag Reinhard Mumm (1873–1932) and his wife Elisabeth, née. Kähler (1890–1967) born in Berlin. Even as a high school graduate he belonged to the Confessing Church . After graduating from high school in 1935, he studied theology in Greifswald , Berlin , Marburg and finally in Halle / Saale .

His theological teachers included Hans von Soden (1881–1945, church historian in Marburg since 1924), Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976, New Testament scholar in Marburg since 1921), Julius Schniewind (1883–1948, New Testament scholar in Halle since 1935) and Ernst Wolf (1902–1971, church historian in Halle from 1935 to 1942). He completed his theology studies during the war and his military service as captain in Halle / Saale with a notary exam. In 1944 he married Hildegart Stählin in Pätzig (Neumark), a daughter of Wilhelm Stählin , 1945–1952 Bishop of Oldenburg , from his first marriage to Emmy, geb. Perpetrator. This marriage produced five children.

After the war he joined his father-in-law in Oldenburg as teaching vicar and was given a pastor's post in Rastede in 1946 . He was ordained there on December 27, 1946.

In 1947 and 1948 he took a post as assistant Edmund Schlink (1903-1984, 1946-1971 taxonomists in Heidelberg) true and doctorate with him in 1952 to Dr. theol. with a thesis on the theological and christological justification of law. Afterwards Mumm worked as a pastor in Minden and Soest , where he also held a teaching position at the local seminary . During this time he also worked in the Westphalian regional synod .

In 1967 he was brought to Munich by the Bavarian regional bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger (1908–1984), then chairman of the EKD, as his personal advisor . After completing this task, he took over the second pastor's position at St. Matthäus in Munich on February 1, 1974 , but retired in 1979.

Mumm has been involved in the church in many ways. He worked for many years in the pastoral care and counseling service of the German Evangelical Church Congress , was secretary of the working group of Protestant and Catholic theologians founded in 1946 and a member of the Michael Brotherhood founded in 1931 , of which he headed the Bavarian convent and of which he became the elder in 1977. In 1975 he was elected first chairman of the Lutheran Liturgical Conference in Bavaria on the proposal of the second chairman, Church Councilor Hofmann .

In 1976, Mumm published an essay on the “problem” of homosexuality , in which he spoke out against the general condemnation of homosexuals, but at the same time rejected homosexual acts as incompatible with the Bible and demanded that the church “should separate itself from co-workers who are blunt cultivate homosexual relationships ”.

Reinhard Mumm died on August 12, 1986.

Fonts

• Theological and christological justification of law in contemporary evangelical theology. A study on the problem of Protestant legal theology. Dissertation, Heidelberg 1951.
• Homosexuality - seen biblically. In: Reinhard Mumm, Paul Römhild, Gerhard Naujokat (eds.): From the meaning of sexual partnership - a spiritual guide to the problem of homosexuality. Verlag des Weißen Kreuzes , Kassel-Harleshausen 1976, ISBN 3-87893-009-7 , pp. 109–126.
• Devices, liturgical. II. In contemporary liturgical practice. In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie 12 (1984), pp. 402-404.
• High Church Movement II. High Church Movement in Germany. In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie 15 (1986), pp. 420f.
• (as ed.): Ecumenical prayers. Gladbeck 1969; last edited by Karl Schlemmer after Mumm's death , Regensburg 1991.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard Mumm: Homosexuality - biblically seen. In: Reinhard Mumm, Paul Römhild, Gerhard Naujokat (eds.): From the meaning of sexual partnership - a spiritual guide to the problem of homosexuality. Verlag des Weißen Kreuzes, Kassel-Harleshausen 1976, ISBN 3-87893-009-7 , pp. 109–126.