Rudolf Walbaum
Rudolf Walbaum (born December 4, 1869 in Egestorf ; † April 6, 1948 in Alzey ) was a Protestant theologian and founder of the German Unitarian religious community .
biography
Walbaum, son of a pastor, spent his youth in Egestorf. He studied Protestant theology in Leipzig, Greifswald and Göttingen. From 1897 he worked as pastor of the Lutheran regional church in Hanover, was reprimanded for liberal statements and in 1900 transferred to a rural community in the Harz Mountains. After he entered the service of the Protestant movement in Austria and Bohemia from 1901 and was pastor in Wiener Neustadt and Haida , he finally found himself with the Rhineland-Hessian Free Protestants and in 1909 took over the pastor's position in Alzey . From 1912 he was also a preacher for the Free Religious Community of Worms.
Walbaum took part in the congress of liberal theologians of the World Congress for Free Christianity and Religious Progress in Berlin in 1910 , where he made contact with American Unitarians. From 1911 he published the magazine Der Freiprotestant with the subtitle German-Unitarian papers .
In 1915 Walbaum published his essay Was ist Unitarismus , which brought him together with Clemens Taesler and his free religious community in Frankfurt. The collaboration with Taesler resulted in the establishment of the German Unitarian Union in 1927 .
Before 1933, Walbaum joined the League of Köngener of Wilhelm Hauer and was actively involved in the preparations for the establishment of the "Association German Faith Movement". Walbaum became Hauer's companion in the German religious movement . In 1934 he and the Mainz pastor Georg Pick belonged to the “Free Religious Community of Germany”. V. ".
After the war, Walbaum did intensive pastoral care and development work from 1945 to 1947, especially in refugee and prison camps. In the Hohenasperg internment camp for National Socialist officials, Walbaum met Herbert Böhme . Together with him, he organized a meeting in September 1947 on the Klüt near Hameln , which is considered to be the birth of the German Unitarian religious community.
Works
- Religious Unitarianism. Kulturaufbau Verlag, Stuttgart, 1947
literature
- Stephan Kalk: Article by Rudolf Walbaum. In: Lexicon of Freeligious Persons, Rohrbach 1997, p. 172.
- Uwe Puschner / Clemens Vollnhals (ed.): The ethnic-religious movement in National Socialism: A history of relationships and conflicts , Göttingen 2012 ISBN 978-3-647369969 google-books preview
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Nanko: The German Faith Movement: A Historical and Sociological Investigation. Diagonal-Verlag, 1993, pp. 301, 115, 120
- ↑ Ulrich Nanko: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer and the early history of the Free Academy. In: Rainer Smiling and Jörg Thierfelder (Eds.): The Evangelical Württemberg between World War and Reconstruction. Stuttgart 1995, p. 225
- ↑ German Unitarian Religious Community (ed.): What do you actually think? 2000, p. 224
- ↑ Ulrich Nanko: Religious group formation of former German believers after 1945. In: Hubert Cancik, Uwe Puschner (ed.): Antisemitismus, Paganismus, Völkische Religion. Munich 2004, p. 126
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walbaum, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and founder of the German Unitarian religious community |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Egestorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1948 |
| Place of death | Alzey |