Theodor Dipper

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Theodor Dipper (born January 20, 1903 in Unterheinriet , † August 20, 1969 in Imperia (Liguria) , Italy ) was a German Protestant pastor. He was a co-founder of the Württemberg confessional movement and one of the key organizers of the Württemberg parsonage chain , a transit facility for Jews during the Nazi era .

Life

Dipper came as the son of the Protestant pastor Richard Dipper (1866–1933) and Anna Dipper, née. Fehr (1872–1937), to the world. In 1921 he graduated from the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Blaubeuren and then studied Protestant theology at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen . In 1925 he passed the first theological examination and was then vicar in Ebingen , Heilbronn and Stuttgart . In 1929 the second theological service examination followed. His first pastoral position took him to Würtingen in 1930 .

He had been a member of the Confessing Church since 1934 and headed the Evangelical Congregation Service until 1938. From 1938 he was pastor in Reichenbach an der Fils , was closely connected to the beginnings of the Württemberg confessional movement and was the main initiator of the church struggle . During the same period he founded the Church Theological Working Groups (KTA), which are now active in every church district .

Dipper was the leading co-initiator of the more than 40 quarters of the Württemberg parsonage chain in Reichenbach. a. supported by the Kinderkirch helpers group.

On December 16, 1937, he was banned from speaking. “With your decree you forbade the preaching of the word of God. As a preacher of the word of God, however, this proclamation is commanded to me, ”he is quoted as saying. In 1938 he was sent to the Welzheim protective custody camp for 21 days .

After the Second World War, Dipper was dean of the church districts of Nürtingen (1945–59) and Ludwigsburg (1959–69). In addition, he was chairman of the Württemberg regional brother council, from 1956 also chairman of the brother council of the EKD .

Special

Max and Ines Krakauer , Jews from Berlin, made a register in which they noted down all the names of the people with whom they could go into hiding or received help. In this directory “Max” is given for about 3 weeks and “Ines” for 14 days with the address Reichenbach an der Fils, Pfarrhaus Kirchstrasse 24, Esslingen district (December 21, 1944 - January 15, 1945).

Honors

In 2003 the square in front of the Reichenbacher Mauritiuskirche was renamed Theodor-Dipper-Platz . In 2008, Theodor Dipper and his wife Hildegard were honored by the State of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations . The certificate and medal from Yad Vashem belonging to the award were presented to the relatives in a ceremony on February 4, 2010 in Reichenbach.

literature

  • Max Krakauer: Lights in the Dark. Escape and rescue of a Jewish couple in the Third Reich. Edited by Gerda Riehm and Jörg Thierfelder. Calwer, Stuttgart 2007.
  • Eberhard Röhm , Jörg Thierfelder : Jews-Christians-Germans. Volume 4/1: Destroyed 1941–1945. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2004. ISBN 3-7668-3887-3 .
  • Peter Haigis: You helped Jews. Swabian parsonages in resistance. Edition Gemeindeblatt, Evangelische Gemeindepresse Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-920207-18-6 , pp. 78, 108–111, 182 f.
  • Norbert Haag: “Today I am glad that we did this little back then”: Festschrift for the 100th birthday of Theodor Dipper (1903–1969) . Reichenbach: Evang. General parish, 2003.
  • Joachim Scherrieble : Reichenbach on the Fils under the swastika. Stuttgart, Tübingen 1994.
  • Evangelical freedom and church order. Gift of friend on the occasion of Theodor Dipper's 65th birthday. Stuttgart JF Steinkopf 1968.
  • Theodor Dipper: The Evangelical Confessional Community in Württemberg 1933-1945. A contribution to the history of the church struggle in the Third Reich. Works on the history of the church struggle, Volume 17. Göttingen 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Röhm, Jörg Thierfelder: Juden-Christen-Deutsche. Volume 4/1: Destroyed 1941–1945. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2004. ISBN 3-7668-3887-3 , chapter 10
personal data
SURNAME Dipper, Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and organizer of the Württemberg parsonage chain
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterheinriet
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1969
Place of death Imperia (Liguria) , Italy