Theodor Schaller

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Karl Theodor Schaller (born September 15, 1900 in Dahn ; † April 6, 1993 in Speyer ) was a Protestant theologian and from 1964 to 1969 church president of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant regional church) .

Life and career

Schaller was born the son of a pastor. He grew up first in Dahn and later in Speyer, where his father was a religion teacher at the grammar school, where Schaller passed his Abitur in 1919. He then studied German in Heidelberg and then Protestant theology in Tübingen and Berlin. After completing his studies, Schaller was vicar and pastor in Lambrecht and Homburg (Saar). However, he took several leave of absence and headed the adult education center in Diemerstein near Kaiserslautern.

In 1929, Schaller became a pastor in Wilgartswiesen and also worked at the Landau Preachers' Seminar in the Palatinate , which he took over from 1936. Schaller also worked as a parish priest during the Second World War .

In 1946 he was appointed to the church leadership of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate, where he was appointed senior church councilor in 1948 . In March 1961 he was promoted to deputy to church president Hans Stempel . When he retired in 1964, Schaller ran for his successor and was elected church president on March 16, 1964 by the regional synod .

Schaller was also one of the speakers for the ARD program Das Wort zum Sonntag .

After reaching the age limit in 1969, Schaller retired. The regional synod then elected his previous deputy, Walter Ebrecht, as his successor.

Awards

In February 1953, Schaller received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

literature

  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Person lexicon to German Protestantism. 1919-1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 214.
  • Ulrich Andreas Vienna: Karl Theodor Schaller (1900–1993): Church President 1964–1969 . (= Publications of the Association for Palatinate Church History; 27). In: Friedhelm Hans et al. (Ed.): Palatinate church and synod presidents since 1920 . Speyer 2008, ISBN 978-3-7650-8398-3 , pp. 133-158.

Individual evidence

  1. See speakers since 1954 .