Rosemarie Müller-Streisand

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Rosemarie Müller-Streisand (born August 11, 1923 in Berlin ; † June 26, 2020 there ) was a German Protestant theologian , church historian and university professor . In 1963 she became a professor, and in 1969 she became a professor of church history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1983 she retired.

Life

Rosemarie Müller-Streisand's father, Hugo Streisand, who came from a Jewish family, founded and ran a scientific bookstore and antiquarian bookstore with a focus on scientific socialism in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . Almost all of her paternal relatives were murdered by the Nazis. Her brother was the historian Joachim Streisand , who shaped her Marxist understanding of German history. She passed her Abitur in 1942 and then did her compulsory year as a domestic help until 1944 . In 1944/45 she worked as a laboratory assistant in Manfred von Ardenne's research laboratory . After the war she began studying Protestant theology at the Church University in Berlin-Zehlendorf , the University of Bonn and the University of Göttingen in 1945 . In 1952 Müller-Streisand passed her faculty examination, followed by a doctorate in Göttingen in 1953 with Ernst Wolf and Hermann Dörries with a thesis on theology and church politics with Jakob Andreae until 1568. On the prehistory of the Konkordienwerk. Then she moved to the GDR. In 1959 she completed her habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the thesis The Negative Theology of Young Luther in its Critical Significance for the Church, and then became a lecturer in church history. She was appointed professor with a teaching assignment in 1963, in September 1965 Müller-Streisand became a professor with a full teaching assignment, and in 1969 she was finally given a chair for church history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1983 she retired. She did research primarily on the history of Protestantism in the early modern period .

Müller-Streisand was married to the theologian Hanfried Müller and together with him published the Weißensee papers , which were close to the SED . She supported the communist platform of the party Die Linke and called the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR , which led to the end of the SED dictatorship, as a “counterrevolution” and warned against a capitalist restoration.

On behalf of the central GDR censorship authority , the publishing house and book trade head office of the Ministry of Culture, by 1990 it had prepared around 300 of the total of 3,000 reports on book projects of the Evangelical Publishing House . She was mainly responsible for the area of ​​systematic theology. Their evaluation prevented, among other things, the publication of a volume with a text by Richard Schröder . The remuneration for the reviews was partially declared as "editing fees".

Fonts

  • Luther's path from the Reformation to the Restoration. The church-critical theology of early Luther and the foundations of its change . Niemeyer, Halle 1964

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Rosemarie Müller-Streisand
  2. ↑ Hanfried Müller: Experiences - memories - thoughts. On the history of the church and society in Germany since 1945. GNN Verlag, Schkeuditz 2010, ISBN 978-3-89819-314-6 , pp. 40–41.
  3. ↑ Hartmut Ludwig, Eberhard Röhm. Baptized Evangelical - persecuted as "Jews" . Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, p. 337.
  4. ↑ Weißenseer Blätter 5/1989, p. 59; 1/1990, p. 11; and others more
  5. ↑ http://wolf-kroetke.de/vortraege/ansicht/eintrag/72.html
  6. ^ Church: "The gates wide" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1996 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Streisand, Rosemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2020
Place of death Berlin