Richard Haug

Richard Haug (born March 14, 1908 in Gschwend ; † May 26, 1998 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a Protestant pastor and author .

Life

Richard Haug was born as the youngest child of pastor Karl Haug and his wife Anna, b. Reel, born. In 1912 the family of seven moved to Michelbach an der Bilz , where their father took up a new pastorate. Haug went to school in Michelbach, then to Schwäbisch Hall to the secondary school, then he attended the church seminars in Schöntal and Urach. He had a long friendship with Albrecht Goes , who was of the same age . Together they visited a group of the youth movement, read Hermann Hesse and poems by Rainer Maria Rilke .

After graduating from high school, he studied theology in Tübingen , Berlin and Marburg , where he studied with Rudolf Bultmann . At the age of 22 he passed his first theological examination and was ordained in Michelbach. He worked as vicar in Birkenfeld , Rottweil , Klosterreichenbach , Stuttgart-Cannstatt and Marbach am Neckar . In 1931 he became an assistant to Professor Karl Fezer at the theological faculty of the University of Tübingen , and from 1933 to 1936 he was a repetiteur at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen . In 1936 he left the SA, which he joined in 1933. In 1936 he was appointed to the parish in Rot am See .

During the church struggle , as a member of the Confessing Church, he gave numerous lectures and sermons in congregations. When regional bishop Theophil Wurm was placed under house arrest, Richard Haug drove to Stuttgart with students and held a solidarity rally in front of the bishop's house. Despite threats of punishment, he read from the pulpit the regional bishop's announcement against the ideology lessons set up by the National Socialists. In 1938 he was forbidden to teach religion at school and was interrogated several times.

On August 30, 1939, he and Klara Hutt married in the Stuttgart collegiate church. Klara Haug, who had completed an apprenticeship at the Froebel seminar in Stuttgart, not only supported her husband in church work. During his absence from the war, she provided for the community and illegally gave religious instruction .

In 1940 Richard Haug was drafted into military service as a radio operator, buried in Stalingrad in 1942 and seriously wounded. He was one of the last to be flown out. After stays in the hospital , a new position order followed. In May 1945, Richard Haug deserted to avoid being captured by the Soviets . He walked from Freistadt near Vienna to Rot am See in 14 days , although his foot was injured.

In 1946 he took up a pastor's position in the Evangelical Upper Church Council in Stuttgart . In 1948 he became the priest at the deaconess hospital in Schwäbisch Hall. There the sons Richard (1948) and Johannes (1951) were born. In 1954 he became a pastor in Metzingen .

After his retirement in 1973 he worked in the parish of Enslingen until 1978. The couple retired in Schwäbisch Hall-Steinbach. During this time Richard Haug wrote several theological books, especially on the history of Württemberg Pietism .

Works

• Kingdom of God in Swabia, Metzingen, 1981
• Johann Christoph Blumhardt Gestalt and Message, Metzingen 1985
• Christ and Creation, Stuttgart 1985
• Let your kingdom come - the hope of Christianity with the Swabian fathers, Stuttgart 1987
• Church - Community of Jesus, Stuttgart, 1987
• New life from the spirit, Metzingen 1988
• Johann Albrecht Bengel, in: Our Church under God's Word, Stuttgart 1985
• Balthasar Neumann and Johann Albrecht Bengel, in: Deutsches Pfarrerblatt 87.1987
• Engels Theologie der Weltgeschichte, in: Blätter für Württembergische Kirchengeschichte 88.1988
• Johann Christoph Blumhardt, a soul doctor, in: 2000 years of biblical interpretation, Stuttgart 1990

literature

• Hans König: Gschwender authors. In the Unterm Stein series . Lautern writings. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2005

swell

• State Church Archive Stuttgart
• State Archives Ludwigsburg, holdings EL 902/5 Bü. 2064
• Haller Tagblatt , March 14, 1998
• Memoirs (unpublished)
• Field post letters (unpublished)