Robert Zoske

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Robert M. Zoske

Robert M. Zoske (* 1952 in Hohenwestedt ) is a German Protestant pastor and historian of the White Rose .

Zoske completed a business apprenticeship as well as a Bible school and graduated from high school on the second educational path before studying Protestant theology at the universities of Tübingen, Göttingen, Munich and Kiel. From 1986 to 2017 he was pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany , most recently in Hamburg. From 2007 to 2011 he and his wife shared the parish of the German evangelical community in Antwerp. He lives in Hamburg.

In 2014 he did his doctorate at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg on Hans Scholl and his religious motivation. He published his biography in 2018. As part of his research, Zoske also found previously neglected religious poems by Scholl from the period from 1937 to 1939. He used the extensive estate of Hans Scholl's sister, Inge Aicher-Scholl at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.

He also made radio and text contributions on art and religion.

Fonts (selection)

  • Flight tests - radio devotions and texts , Rosengarten near Hamburg, Steinmann 2008, ISBN 978-3-927043-27-5 .
  • Longing for the Light - On the Religious Development by Hans Scholl - Unpublished Poems, Letters and Texts , Munich, Herbert Utz Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-8316-4321-9 .
  • Be a flame! Hans Scholl and the White Rose - A Biography , Munich: CH Beck 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-70025-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thorsten Jacobi : In the sign of Europe and the ecumenical movement. Evangelical Church of the German language in the province of Antwerp. Pro Business, Berlin 2017, p. 154.
  2. ↑ Thorsten Jacobi: In the sign of Europe and the ecumenical movement. Evangelical Church of the German language in the province of Antwerp. Pro Business, Berlin 2017, pp. 154–158.
personal data
SURNAME Zoske, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zoske, Robert M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and historian of the White Rose
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenwestedt