Reinhold Krause

Reinhold Krause (born October 22, 1893 in Berlin ; † April 24, 1980 in Konstanz ) was a German religious educator and a racist and anti-Semitic representative and chairman of the German Christians in Greater Berlin .

Life

Reinhold Krause grew up in the Berlin workers' district of Prenzlauer Berg . His father was a printer, his mother died when Krause was nine years old. He attended the Bismarck Realschule in Berlin-Mitte , which he left in 1911 without a degree. During the First World War he volunteered, was deployed on the Eastern Front for a few months , but then, due to injury, spent the greater part of the war at the then newly created military position at the Foreign Office, which took pictures and films for propaganda purposes. After he had passed the Abitur at the second attempt, he began to study for teaching at secondary schools at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in late 1917, which he completed with a dissertation in 1920. During this time he developed a close relationship with the Germanist Gustav Roethe . After a short membership in the DNVP , Krause became involved in the Bund für Deutsche Kirche , an association of intellectuals founded in 1921, which was a German, i. H. Wanted to create a "Church liberated from everything Jewish".

Title page of the reprint of the infamous Sportpalast speech

Krause became known through a speech at the meeting of German Christians in the Berlin Sportpalast on November 13, 1933. In front of about 20,000 enthusiastic listeners, he spread a bluntly anti-Semitic , neo-pagan ideology of German Christianity. To great applause, Krause swore that German Christianity was turning away from its Jewish roots. The speech, which was broadcast on the radio, led to a wave of withdrawals from members of the German Christians in the following weeks .

After the end of the Second World War, Krause's writings Was ist Herrlehre? (Faith Movement German People's Church, Berlin 1933), speech by the district chairman of the faith movement “German Christians” in Greater Berlin Dr. Krause (Faith Movement of the German People's Church, Berlin 1933), The "Krause Fall" and its consequences (self-published, Berlin 1933), Against the Jewry of Souls (Heim, Leipzig 1935), Education for young people based on German belief in God (Sigrune Publishing House, Erfurt 1939) and Soll mein Kind attend religious education at school? (Wolfsangel-Verlag, Dresden 1939) placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet zone of occupation .

At the end of the Second World War, Krause was interned in the special camps in Landsberg / Warthe and Buchenwald and only released in 1950. In the subsequent denazification procedures , he was classified as less burdened, and he in Konstanz - as again - there he was taken after his release teacher could act.

literature

• Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? . S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
• Klaus Scholder: The Churches and the Third Reich, Vol. 1: Prehistory and Time of Illusion 1918–1934 . Econ-Ullstein-List, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-612-26730-2 .
• Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein:  Krause, Reinhold. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 968-974.
• Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein (ed. And commentary): “One people, one empire, one faith.” The memoirs of the DC Sports Palace speaker Dr. Reinhold Krause. Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-355-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold Krause in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ An excerpt from the speech is documented and commented on in: Jochen Birkenmeier, Michael Weise: Erforschung und Elimination. The church “Entjudungsinstitut” 1939–1945. Accompanying volume for the exhibition. Lutherhaus Eisenach Foundation, Eisenach 2019, p. 28.
2. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out . Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1946, transcript letter K, pages 203-239, accessed on October 12, 2017.
   German Administration for Popular Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone, list of literature to be sorted out . Second addendum . Deutscher Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1948, accessed on October 12, 2017.
3. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? , Frankfurt / Main 2003, p. 336
4. ^ Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein:  Krause, Reinhold. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 968-974.