Rudolf Todt

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Rudolf Immanuel Traugott Todt (* 19th February 1839 in Mödlich (Prignitz); † 14. October 1887 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a Protestant pastor in the Mark Brandenburg , which deals with the scientific socialism dealt and this from the New Testament ago for declared entitled. He also published pamphlets under the pseudonym Rudolf Mors .

Life

Barenthin village church

Rudolf Todt was the son of a pastor and studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Halle and Berlin. He became a private tutor and took up a pastor's position in Barenthin (Ostprignitz) in 1867 . In 1880 he became a pastor in Brandenburg an der Havel and was superintendent there from 1885 to 1887.

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During his time as a country pastor, Todt studied the writings of Karl Marx and Ferdinand Lassalle, among others . From 1872 he published individual articles on this subject. In 1877 his main work "Radical German Socialism and Christian Society" appeared.

Todt based his book on a tripartite division, which at the time was often attributed to August Bebel , but which, as Todt correctly stated, actually came from Carl Boruttau . Socialism strives: "In the state field, republicanism , in the economic-social field, communism , in the religious field, atheism ."

Gerhard Besier characterizes Todt's main work as follows: The author develops a Christian social ethic based on the Marxist analysis of society and the New Testament. He represented a Christian socialism that came close to radical socialism in many ways. "He considered his atheistic ideas to be accidental ."

In 1877 Todt was one of the founders of the “Central Association for Social Reform on a Religious and Constitutional-Monarchist Basis” and was the editor of the simultaneously newly published magazine “Der Staats-Socialist”. The association and magazine only existed until 1882. The “Central Association” shows the ambivalence of Todt's socialism. In the social analysis he dared to take radical positions, with regard to the implementation of reforms he remained "fixated on the Prussian-German authoritarian state."

publication

  • Radical German Socialism and Christian Society . Wittenberg 1877. ( digitized version )

literature

  • Martin Seils : The importance of Rudolf Todt for the encounter between the Protestant Church and socialism. In: ... and asked about Jesus. Contributions from theology, church and history. Festschrift for Ernst Barnikol on his 70th birthday. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1964, pp. 228–250.
  • Günter Brakelmann : Church and Socialism in the 19th Century. The analysis of socialism and communism in Johann Hinrich Wichern and Rudolf Todt , Witten 1966.
  • Johannes Kandel : Prussian social conservatism at the end of the 19th century. Pastor Rudolf Todt's examination of socialism in the conflict between church and political camps , Bonn 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Investigations on an agricultural association on the question: what should and what can the social democrats , Rathenow 1874. What Count Eulenberg and Prince Bismarck said to the country about social democracy , Rathenow 1876.
  2. ↑ Sebastian Prüfer: Socialism instead of religion. German Social Democracy before the Religious Question 1863–1890 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, p. 40 f.
  3. ↑ Rudolf Todt: The radical German socialism and the Christian society , p. 51.
  4. ^ Gerhard Besier: Church, Politics and Society in the 19th Century. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, p. 32.
  5. ↑ Traugott Jähnichen , Norbert Friedrich : History of social ideas in German Protestantism . In: Helga Grebing (Hrsg.): History of social ideas in Germany. 2nd edition Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 867–1103, here p. 933
personal data
SURNAME Todt, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Todt, Rudolf Immanuel Traugott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor in the Mark Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödlich (Prignitz)
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1887
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel