Siegfried Bräuer

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Siegfried Bräuer (born September 2, 1930 in Oberneuschönberg ; † March 19, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian and historian .

Life

Bräuer studied theology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and then became a Protestant pastor. In 1973 he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD. From 1972 to 1979 Bräuer was Rector of the Saxon Pastoral College in Krummenhennersdorf . In 1980 he moved to Berlin, where he took over the post of director of the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, which he held until 1991. He then worked as a theology consultant at the Berlin branch of the Evangelical Church in Germany until he reached retirement age in 1995.

Bräuer did research on Thomas Müntzer and was a member of the board of the Thomas Müntzer Society in Mühlhausen from 2001 to 2016. In the 1990s, he completed his habilitation on Martin Luther's reception during National Socialism and was then a private lecturer at Humboldt University until 2000 Active in Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

  • Martin Luther from a Marxist perspective from 1945 to the beginning of the eighties. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin [East] 1983.
  • as editor with Clemens Vollnhals : “There is no censorship in the GDR”. The Evangelische Verlagsanstalt and the practice of printing permission 1954–1989. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-374-01583-2 .
  • with Günter Vogler : Thomas Müntzer: Creating new order in the world. A biography . Gütersloh 2016, ISBN 978-3-579-08229-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theologian Siegfried Bräuer died | THE SUNDAY (Saxony). Retrieved March 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bräuer, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberneuschönberg
DATE OF DEATH 19th March 2018
Place of death Berlin