Thomas Breit

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Thomas Breit (born March 16, 1880 in Ansbach , † November 18, 1966 in Augsburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Career

Breit attended a humanistic grammar school and studied mathematics and Protestant theology in Erlangen and Greifswald from 1898 . His first pastoral care stations took him to the parish orphanage in Windsbach , the hospital church in Nördlingen and Baldingen . In 1905 he came to the Lukas parish in Munich as an assistant chaplain , and between 1908 and 1925 he held the pastor's position in St. Ulrich in Augsburg. During the First World War he worked as a field chaplain.

From 1925 Breit was dean in Hof and in 1933 was appointed senior church councilor in the Evangelical Lutheran regional church council in Munich. After his leave of absence for other tasks in October 1934, he was a representative of the Lutheran regional churches at the Confessing Church until 1938 , was a member of the Reich Brotherhood Council and, at the end of May 1934, was involved in the preparation of the Barmen Theological Declaration in advance of the first Barmen Confession Synod . He was retired in April 1945.

After the end of the Second World War, he took over the management of the Martin Luther Association in 1947 . From its foundation in December 1947 to December 31, 1959, he was a member of the Bavarian Senate as a representative of the religious communities . In the first few years of this ARD broadcast, he also appeared as a spokesman for Das Wort zum Sonntag .

The physician Reinhard Breit and the theologian Dieter Breit are his grandchildren.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Words of Christ. Twelve sermons . Goettingen 1913
  • as editor: Reformation yesterday and today. Munich 1930
  • Why religion? , Nuremberg 1930
  • with Friedrich Langenfaß : Community development in the Protestant church. Munich 1930
  • Confessional church regiment , Munich 1936 (Confessing Church; 45 = 5th row)
  • as publisher: Yearbook of the Martin Luther Bund 1948 . Munich 1948
  • Collection of field sermons in the regional church archive in Nuremberg

literature

  • Gertraud Grünzinger:  Thomas Breit . In: Religion Past and Present (RGG). 4th edition. Volume 1, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1998, Sp. 1743-1744.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Special edition of the messages of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria on the occasion of 80 years of the Barmer Theological Declaration , bayern-evangelisch.de, special edition I / 2014 69th year.
  2. ↑ See speakers since 1954 .
personal data
SURNAME Broad, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1966
Place of death augsburg