Richard Laabs
Richard Martin Johannes Laabs (born May 12, 1895 in Voigtshagen , Naugard district ; † March 20, 1979 in Hanover ) was a Lutheran theologian and university professor.
Life
Laabs began studying theology in Breslau in 1914 . He had to interrupt this due to military service in World War I, but resumed it immediately after the war. Apart from Breslau, he studied in Rostock , Tübingen and Erlangen . He became a member of the Wingolfs connections in Breslau, Rostock and Erlangen . After his first theological examination, he taught Greek and Hebrew from 1921 as a repetitionist at the theological faculty in Rostock. In 1924 he was ordained and became assistant preacher in the Old Lutheran Church in Berlin. In the same year he received his doctorate from Paul Althaus in Rostock with his thesis "The doctrine of sin among the old Lutheran dogmatists and Albrecht Ritschl ". In 1925 he became pastor of the Luzine community ( Trebnitz district ). From the winter semester of 1932, Laabs also taught at the seminary of the Old Lutheran Church in Breslau, where he took over as director in 1937. In 1945 Laabs became pastor of the old Lutheran congregation in Arnstadt . In 1948 he went to the Lutheran Theological College in Oberursel as a lecturer in Old Testament and dogmatics (with a focus on confessional studies ) .
On September 30, 1925, Laabs married Helene Sellschopp, a daughter of the theologian and educator Adolf Sellschopp . Helene and their two sons, Hans-Joachim and Bernhard, were murdered by marauding Red Army soldiers at the end of World War II when Laabs was unable to be with them due to his work in the state police. Only his daughter Lieselotte († 2019) survived.
literature
- Hans Kirsten : Unity in faith and teaching. The Path of the Lutheran Free Churches in Germany after the War, Volume 1: The Teaching Cleansing 1945–1949 . Groß Oesingen 1980.
- Jorg Christian Salzmann : Richard Laabs , in: Faculty of the Lutheran Theological University of Oberursel (ed.): Lutheran Theological University of Oberursel 1948–1998. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary . Oberursel 1998, pp. 87f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laabs, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laabs, Richard Martin Johannes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lutheran theologian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voigtshagen , Naugard district |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1979 |
| Place of death | Hanover |