Rudolf Grob

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Rudolf Grob (born April 26, 1890 Diepoldsau , † May 13, 1982 in Ober meilen ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and director of a mental institution.

Life

Rudolf Grob was the son of the pastor of the same name Rudolf Grob and his wife Johanna Julia (née Schenkel).

He enrolled at the University of Basel in 1910 and began studying theology, which he finished in 1913 at the University of Marburg . After completing his studies, he initially worked as a vicar .

From 1914 to 1953 he was director of the Swiss Institute for Epileptics in Zurich and as such, thanks to a donation from Louis Dapples on June 1, 1919, he initiated a boys' home with workshops, which resulted in the youth home, Donation Dapples , which opened in 1923 .

In 1937 he founded a living community in Greifensee under the name of the Swiss Reformed Diakonenhaus , which was medically cared for by the Institute for Epileptics. Prospective deacons and men with disabilities lived together in this house .

Rudolf Grob was married to Helene Pauline (née Cech).

Political and ecclesiastical work

In 1928, Rudolf Grob was, together with Jean-Marie Musy , co-founder of the Swiss Association for Economic Solidarity , whose objective was "against class struggle and unilateral interest politics" and aimed at professionalizing political lobbying in the service of the private sector and at populist mobilization against the Social and tax state targeted.

He was a staunch opponent of socialist and trade union efforts and from 1933 to 1936 he was a member and employee of the federal chairmanship for the people and homeland as well as the spokesman for the young Swiss Reformed, who were in opposition to the supporters of Karl Barth . The Young Reformed also campaigned for the distribution of the Heidelberg Catechism , which they reissued in 1929 and which was taken over by Zwingli-Verlag in 1934 and in 1941 in the 26th – 30th centuries. A thousand appeared, but in the canton of Zurich , according to church council reports, only 14 pastors used this catechism in 1930.

Rudolf Grob was one of the first to sign (second signature) the submission of the two hundred to the Federal Council of November 15, 1940, in which, out of consideration for the expectations of National Socialist Germany, demanded the elimination of the editors-in-chief of leading Swiss bourgeois newspapers and the expulsion of the League of Nations from Switzerland were.

After the war, he was heavily criticized for his attitude as an "adjustor", also for his statements in the Reformed Swiss newspaper and in the Friday newspaper for the Reformed Swiss people (1937/1938). His involvement in entering the two hundred also led to an internal church conflict, the climax of which culminated in a motion for exclusion from the Zurich Church Synod in March 1946 , which was rejected, although he was not re-elected in 1947.

Writing

In books and articles in the Reformed Swiss newspaper and in the Friday newspaper, Rudolf Grob called for the reformed Swiss people to renew the old values ​​of the Confederation and, as a sympathizer of National Socialism, polemicized against the dangers of materialism and Marxism .

Fonts (selection)

  • Letters about Calvin. Zurich 1918.
  • Renewal or Restoration of the Past? Verlag der Reformierte Schweizer Zeitung, Elberfeld Buchhandlung des Erziehungsverein, Basel 1926.
  • Theses on the social work of the church. Reformed Swiss Newspaper, Zurich 1928.
  • The way to down-to-earth culture: five lectures, held at events of the farmer's cultural committee of the Zurich agricultural organizations. Bollmann Dr, Zurich 1931.
  • The Christian and the social question. Bookshop of the Evangelical Society, Bern 1932.
  • The Confederation - a venture of faith. Vita nova Verlag, Lucerne 1934.
  • Study booklet of work. Publishing house of the Reformed Swiss Newspaper, Zurich 1934.
  • Between Marxism and Fascism: for the freedom of the Confederation. Reutimann, Zurich 1934.
  • The church struggle in Germany: a brief history of the church turmoil in Germany from 1933 to summer 1937. Zwingli Verlag, Zurich 1937.
  • with Emil Brunner , Hermann Grossmann: Our commitment to Jesus Christ. Zwingli-Verlag, Zurich 1938.
  • Building a community Basic features of a reformed social ethic. Zwingli-Verlag, Zurich 1940.
  • To the youth of tomorrow, to the gentlemen of yesterday. Leemann, Zurich 1941.
  • Catchphrase or belief. Rascher Verlag, Zurich 1944.
  • Facts Against Claims Of Dr. nat. oec. Arthur Frey from the Evangelical Press Service in Zurich. Zurich 1946.
  • Introduction to the Gospel of Mark. Zwingli Verlag, Zurich 1965.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ detail. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ Dapples donation to the youth home. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  3. ^ Diakonenhaus Greifensee: About us. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  4. ^ Chantal Kaiser: Federal Councilor Jean-Marie Musy, 1919–1934 . Saint-Paul, 1999, ISBN 978-3-7278-1202-6 ( google.de [accessed January 13, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Jakob Tanner: History of Switzerland in the 20th century . CH Beck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68366-4 ( google.de [accessed on January 13, 2020]).
  6. ^ Emil J. Walter: The middle class in motion. In: Rote Revue: socialist monthly, No. 12, issue 11.1932, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  7. ^ J. Staehelin: On the "Roman and Heidelberg Catechism". In: Apologetisches Blätter No. 6. March 27, 1944, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ JA Abele and others: Enter the two hundred . Diplomatic documents of Switzerland, November 15, 1940 ( dodis.ch [accessed on January 13, 2020]).
  9. ↑ On the history of the Synodal Association. September 14, 2012, accessed January 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Grob, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and director of a sanatorium
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Diepoldsau
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1982
Place of death Upper miles