Reinhold Seeberg

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Reinhold Seeberg

Reinhold Seeberg (born March 24 . Jul / 5. April  1859 greg. In Pörrafer ( Livonia ); † 23. October 1935 in Ahrenshoop ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Seeberg attended the classical grammar school in Reval from 1870 to 1878 and studied theology at the University of Dorpat from 1878 , where he was a member of the Corps Neobaltia from 1883 in Berlin, Leipzig and Erlangen, like his brother Alfred Seeberg . In 1884 he became a private lecturer in systematic theology in Dorpat, and in 1884 he became a religious teacher at the local school for girls. In 1889 he received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty and was appointed full professor for New Testament exegesis and church history, from 1894 for systematic theology at the University of Erlangen . In 1898 he moved to the University of Berlin as a full professor of systematic theology , where he taught until 1927. Here he was also Dietrich Bonhoeffer's doctoral supervisor . 1900/01 and 1905/06 he was dean of the theological faculty. In 1908 he became President of the Church Social Association. In 1910 he was appointed secret consistorial councilor. In 1903 he became an honorary member of the Berliner and in 1922 of the Dorpater Wingolf.

During the First World War Seeberg was used to hold courses for the field chaplains in various theaters of war. In 1915 he was the initiator of the Seeberg address , which demanded a victory peace as a war goal and received the signature of many German university professors. In 1917 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . After the war he joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In 1918/1919 he became rector of the University of Berlin. On November 9, 1918, the university was declared closed by a socialist student council and Rector Seeberg and other professors were briefly appointed. As rector, Seeberg u. a. the memorial for the fallen of the Berlin University, whose Latin inscription Invictis victi victuri ("The undefeated, the conquered, who will win") was a barely veiled call for revenge for the German defeat in the First World War. As president from 1923 to 1931 he headed the Central Committee for Inner Mission of the Evangelical Church in Germany. He was a co-founder and first president of the International Conference on Internal Mission and Diakonia. In 1927 he was released from his official duties, but continued teaching at the university and founded the Institute for Social Ethics at the University of Berlin in 1927.

In addition to an honorary theological doctorate from the University of Dorpat, he also received the title of Dr. phil. hc from the University of Erlangen (1910), Dr. jur. hc from the University of Breslau (1911) and Dr. med. hc from the University of Halle (1919).

Reinhold Seeberg married Amanda (Alla) Schneider on December 30, 1886. They had three children: Erich (born 1888) and the twins Maria and Martha (born 1889). His brother Alfred Seeberg (1863–1915) and his son Erich Seeberg (1888–1945) were also theologians.

Reinhold Seeberg was considered an exponent of the positive church direction and an opponent of Ernst Troeltsch and Adolf von Harnack . Anti-liberal tones and anti-Semitism based on race theory were increasingly mixed into his radical criticism of modernity. As the first academic theologian, he took up the thesis that Jesus was an Aryan. He has gained fame with his dogma history, which is essentially based on a concept of voluntarism in the tradition of Augustine and Duns Scotus .

Works

  • On the history of the concept of the church , Mag.-Diss.
  • Concept of the Christian Church , 1885
  • Do we need a new dogma? , 1892
  • The Apology of Aristides examined and restored , 1893
  • Textbook of the history of dogma , 4 volumes, 1895–1920
  • Conscience and Conscience Formation , 1896
  • The Church and the Social Question , 1897
  • Melanchthon's Place in the History of the Church and Science , 1897
  • The Doctrine of Penance of Duns Scotus , 1898
  • On the threshold of the 20th century , 1900
  • The Theology of Duns Scotus , 1900
  • Outline of the history of dogma , 1901
  • The Basic Truths of the Christian Religion , 1902
  • The Church of Germany in the 19th Century , 1903
  • Luther and Lutheranism in the Latest Catholic Illumination , 1904
  • The Last Supper in the New Testament , 1905
  • The Church-Social Idea and the Tasks of Theology in the Present , 1907
  • Revelation and Inspiration , 1908
  • Sensuality and Morality , 1909
  • Church, means of grace and gifts of grace , 1910
  • System of Ethics , 1911
  • Nearness and Omnipresence of God , 1911;
  • Origin of Faith in Christ , 1914
  • “Seeberg address” , June 20, 1915
  • What shall we do? , 1915
  • History, War and Soul , 1916
  • Conservation and multiplication of the people , Verlag von Karl Curtius, Berlin 1916.
  • Eternal life , 1920
  • Christianity and Idealism , 1921
  • Understanding the Current Crisis in European Spiritual Culture , 1923
  • Christian dogmatics , 2 volumes 1924/1925
  • with Martin Faßbender and Wilhelm Kahl : The way to public health: Reichstag rally of the working group for public health on May 2, 1926 , Berlin, working group for public health, 1926
  • History and God , 1928
  • Is Christian Social Ethics Scientifically Possible? , 1930

literature

  • Günter Brakelmann : Protestant War Theology in the First World War: Reinhold Seeberg as theologian of German imperialism , 1974.
  • Stefan Dietzel: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?isbn-978-3-86395-146-7 Reinhold Seeberg as an ethicist of social Protestantism. The "Christian Ethics" in the context of their time , Göttingen 2013.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Reinhold Seeberg , in: Profiles of Lutheranism. Biographies on the 20th century (Ed. Wolf-Dieter Hauschild), Gütersloh 1998, 617–676.
  • Thomas Kaufmann:  Seeberg, Reinhold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 135 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Thomas Kaufmann : The Harnacks and the Seebergs. “National Protestant Mentalities” in the mirror of second families of theologians , in: National Protestant Mentalities. Contours, developments and upheavals in a worldview, ed. by Manfred Gailus and Hartmut Lehmann , Göttingen 2005, pp. 165–222.
  • Bruno von Lingen, Georg von Rieder: Album Neobaltorum 1879-1956 , o. O. 1956, p. 38f.
  • Christian Nottmeier: Theology and Politics in the First German Democracy: Adolf von Harnack and Reinhold Seeberg. In: Hans-Rosenberg-Gedächtnispreis 2006 of the Heinrich-August-Winkler-und-Dörte-Winkler-Foundation in the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Edited by Dieter Dowe , Bonn 2006, pp. 19–57.
  • Richard Cumming: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's concept of the cor curvum in se: a critique of Bonhoeffer's polemic with Reinhold Seeberg in Act and Being . In: Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Journal of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York 62 (2010), No. 3-4, pp. 116-133.
  • Traugott Jähnichen :  Seeberg, Reinhold. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1307-1310.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Wikisource: Reinhold Seeberg  - Sources and full texts

proof

  1. ↑ Wingolfsblätter 2015, p. 251: Complete directory of Wingolf Lichtenberg 1991
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 222.
  3. ↑ Reinhold Seeberg. Rector of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin 1918/19. Retrieved July 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Norman Rönz: In times of political trench warfare. The Berlin University in the Weimar Republic. In: Berlin history . History and culture magazine. Announcements of the Association for the History of Berlin eV 112th year, January. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-944594-42-2 , pp. 23-27 .
  5. ↑ see picture no. 00109459 bpk picture agency
  6. ↑ Michael Grüttner u. a., The Berlin University between the World Wars 1918-1945, Berlin 2012 (History of the University of Unter den Linden, Vol. 2), pp. 51 ff. and 152 ff.
  7. ^ Article "Culture II" In: Gerhard Krause, Gerhard Müller (ed.): Theologische Realenzyklopädie, Volume 20, Walter de Gruyter, 1990, ISBN 3-11-012655-9 , p. 197.
  8. ↑ Martin Leutzsch: The Myth of the Aryan Jesus (abstract of the presentation at the symposium “Theology and Coming to terms with the Past II. French Catholicism - German Protestantism 1930-1950” from January 12 to 14, 2007).
  9. ↑ Jan Rohls: Protestant Theology of Modern Times: The 20th Century, Mohr Siebeck, 1997, ISBN 3-16-146644-6 , p. 106.
personal data
SURNAME Seeberg, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Pörrafer
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1935
Place of death Ahrenshoop