Ulrich Schröter (theologian)

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Ulrich Schröter (born June 15, 1939 in Berlin ; † May 24, 2018 there ) was a German Protestant theologian and author.

Life

Ulrich Schröter was a grandson of the German land reformer Adolf Damaschke . He grew up in Sperenberg near Zossen and from 1945 in East Berlin . From 1949 he attended the Evangelical Gymnasium (to the gray monastery) in West Berlin and passed his Abitur there in 1958. He then studied theology at the Ostberliner Sprachenkonvikt and the Westberliner Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin , at the Catechetical Oberseminar (KOS) in Naumburg (Saale) and one semester in Heidelberg and was ordained in 1966. From 1964 he was a tutor and assistant at KOS, and received his doctorate in 1971 (qualification procedure) with the presentation and examination of new work on the Hebrew verbal system. 1969–1983 he taught as a lecturer in Hebrew and the Old Testament at KOS, and from 1973 to 1977 he was also a student pastor of the Protestant student community in Naumburg.

1978–1983 he was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church of the Union . 1983–1991 he was appointed head of training ( Konsistorialrat , later Oberkonsistorialrat ) in the Evangelical Consistory Berlin-Brandenburg (East area) and in 1990 was part-time coordinator of the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) .

From 1991 he headed the Evangelical Office as a representative of the Evangelical Churches in the states of Berlin and Brandenburg. In 1999 he retired. 2000–2005 he was chairman of the Working Group for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History (today Association for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History).

Awards

  • 2017: Horst Dähn Prize of the Berlin Institute for Comparative State-Church Research (for his special achievements in coming to terms with recent history, especially the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg)

Publications

Hebrew Studies

  • Presentation and examination of new work on the Hebrew verbal system. Naumburg (Saale) 1969 [typewritten] (= scientific qualification thesis, recognized as a dissertation in 1990).
  • Biblical Hebrew. Text-oriented textbook. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-95490-134-0 .
  • Biblical Hebrew. Key vocabulary. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-95490-249-1 .

Hymnology

  • "You, Lord, I want to surrender to you". Bible and hymn book in Mendelssohn's Paulus. In: Archives for Musicology. Vol. 64, 2007, pp. 35-55.
  • “Hear, Israel”. The Bible in Mendelssohn's Elias. In: Archives for Musicology. Vol. 66, 2009, pp. 17-53.
  • A wealth of variations in the Christian song treasure trove. "Lord God, you know my days". In: Yearbook for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History. Vol. 67, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88981-257-5 , pp. 213-235.
  • Lord, teach me that ... my life has a purpose. Thoughts on Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem. In: Christian Ammer (Ed.): Paths to the goal. Evangelical Research Academy , Hannover 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816328-1-1 , pp. 96–153.

GDR history

  • The state security in the church area. A difficult chapter in GDR church history. In: Yearbook for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History. Vol. 70, 2015, ISBN 978-3-88981-411-1 , pp. 291-306.

together with others:

  • David Gill , Ulrich Schröter: The Ministry for State Security. Anatomy of the Mielke Empire. Rowohlt, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-87134-017-8 ; as paperback: ( rororo 9369) Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-499-19369-9 .
  • Dieter Mechtel, Ulrich Schröter (ed.): Two conversation. Contributions to dealing with the Stasi past or contributions to dealing with the state security past. No. 1–31, Fata Morgana Verlag, Berlin 1991–1995.
  • Ulrich Schröter, Helmut Zeddies (Ed.): Thinking about it. On the way of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR. Joint work of Evangelical Journalism, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-921766-77-4 .
  • Dieter Mechtel, Ulrich Schröter (ed.): Contributions to dealing with the state security past. Documentation of a discussion in the magazine "Zwie-Talk" between 1991 and 1995. Trafo-Verlag Weist, Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-89626-094-9 .
  • Dieter Mechtel, Ulrich Schröter (Ed.): Contributions to the topic of state security and the church. Documentation of a discussion in the journal "Zwie-Talk" between 1991 and 1995. Trafo-Verlag Weist, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-89626-093-2 .
  • Uwe-Peter Heidingsfeld, Ulrich Schröter: "Master". The MfS preliminary file of Thuringian Bishop Werner Leich reflected in his notes. Idea, Wetzlar 1996.
  • Ulrich Schröter, Harald Schultze (ed.): In the shadow of the cathedral. Theological training in Naumburg 1949-1993. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-374-03048-4 .
  • Ulrich Schröter (Ed. In collaboration with Hans Otto Bräutigam , Karl-Heinrich Lütcke and Gerburg Thunig-Nittner): Manfred Stolpe . Advice & design. Companions remember. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-88981-424-1 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ https://www.bundesstiftung-aufteilung.de/aktuelles-1230,735,9.html
  2. ↑ Christmas letter of December 20, 2017: http://www.staat-kirche-forschung.de/deutsch/Nachrichten/Nachrichten.html
  3. ↑ The co-authors Georg Böhm and Fritz Peter decided not to mention them in the title due to political reasons, but signed the foreword to the paperback edition.
personal data
SURNAME Schröter, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2018
Place of death Berlin