Viktor Glondys

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Viktor Glondys (born December 7, 1882 in Bielsko-Biała , Silesia , † October 28, 1949 in Sibiu , Transylvania ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania .

Life

Glondys was the son of the Catholic master baker Joseph Glondys (1834-1906) and his wife Johanna, who raised a total of five children. His father Joseph felt more like a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian state than a member of the German people. From 1889 to 1893 Glondys attended the German elementary school in Biala and from 1894 to 1901 the humanistic grammar school in Bielitz (Silesia). Then he studied philosophy in Graz . He became more and more alienated from the Roman Catholic Church, instead he found access to Martin Luther's doctrine of justification and its significance for the Protestant faith. For this reason he converted to the Evangelical Church in 1903. He studied Protestant Lutheran theology in Vienna and Marburg (Lahn) and passed his exams in Vienna. In 1907 he became vicar in Eisenau ( Bukowina ), where he worked to support the pastor of Jakobeny . In 1909 he was elected vicar in Chernivtsi and in 1911 the city pastor. In addition , he received his doctorate in philosophy in Graz in 1917 and completed his habilitation in 1919 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Chernivtsi . In 1922 he became parish priest in Kronstadt , in 1930 episcopal vicar and in November 1932 bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania.

As early as 1931, in a sermon on the parable of the Good Samaritan, he spoke out against the racist alienation by the representatives of a national theology within his church and the Transylvanian-Saxon nationality . The universal love command of Jesus applies

"Just as for Chinese and Negroes as for Jews and Westerners, just as in the time of Jesus as today and at all times."

During his tenure, Glondys had to defend himself against multiple attacks by ethnic and anti-Semitic forces. One of the most fanatical representatives was the pastor of Birk , Friedrich Benesch . In 1936/1937 there was impeachment proceedings against this pastor by the consistory of the Evangelical Church under Bishop Viktor Glondys because of Benesch's National Socialist political activities. In 1939 Benesch applied to join the SS , whereupon he was listed as an "SS applicant" until his application was withdrawn. He later left the Evangelical Church and switched to anthroposophy . He became a priest and teacher of the Christian community .

Representatives of Nazi ideology in the church forced Glondys into retirement in February 1941 . Regardless of this, he continued his theological work in the Luther Academy of Sibiu . However, when the internal political situation in Romania changed dramatically as a result of the revolt of anti-Nazi forces against the Antonescu regime, he returned to his episcopal office on August 23, 1944 and retired in 1945, but resumed lecturing at the Luther Academy. Glondys represented the Evangelical Church AB in Romania in the Lutheran World Federation and in the Gustav-Adolf-Werk . He was the founder and leader of the working group of the German Evangelical Churches in Southeast Europe and a member of the Senate of the Luther Academy in Sondershausen .

Viktor Glondys was married to the Councilor daughter Alice Mayer and had with her son Kurt.

Fonts

  • About components and projections of sensation . Self-published, Chernivtsi 1919.
  • Introduction to the theory of knowledge . W. Braumüller, Vienna 1923.
  • Our Christmas faith . Honterus printing house and publishing house of the Protestant regional church A. B. in Romania, Hermannstadt o. J.
  • On the problem of Christian belief in God. An attempt to overcome intellectual barriers to belief . Krafft & Drotleff, Sibiu 1929.
  • Eucken's "truth content of religion" and the current crisis in Protestant theology . In: Die Tatwelt , vol. 6 (1930), issue 1, pp. 11-16.
  • Loss of religion and popular decline . 1930.
  • The problem of religious determinism . Honterus printing and publishing house of the Evangelical regional church A. B. in Romania, Hermannstadt [around 1930].
  • The teaching content of the Augsburg Confession . Honterus printing and publishing house of the Evangelical regional church A. B. in Romania, Hermannstadt [around 1930].
  • What do the Transylvanian Saxons owe their church? [around 1931].
  • Popular missionary tasks of our church . Honterus printing and publishing house of the Evangelical Regional Church A. B. in Romania, Hermannstadt 1931.
  • For everlasting reason . Krafft & Drotleff, Hermannstadt 1933.
  • Inaugural sermon on the occasion of its solemn introduction on May 29, 1933 . Honterus printing and publishing house of the Evangelical Regional Church A. B. in Romania, Hermannstadt 1933.
  • Tasks of world Protestantism. 2 presentations given at the conference of the World Protestant Federation and the International Federation for Internal Mission and Diakonia in Podiebrady in 1936 . Sibiu 1936.
  • Tasks of our popular church structure . Honterus printing house and publishing house of the Protestant regional church A. B. in Romania, Sibiu [around 1936].
  • Opening address for the 36th regional church assembly . In: Kirchliche Blätter , Hermannstadt, year 1938, no.27.
  • Revelation and Weltanschauung (series Protestantism. Evidence of the Present) . Evangelical Union, Berlin 1939.
  • The historical and religious claim of the Pauline message of Christ's death and resurrection . Töpelmann, Berlin 1939.
  • Diary. Records from 1933 to 1949 . Edited by Johann Böhm and Dieter Braeg, edited by Johann Böhm. Publishing house of the working group for the history and culture of the German settlement areas in south-east Europe (AGK-Verlag), Dinklage 1997, ISBN 3-928389-12-2 .

Honors

The Theological Faculty of the University of Wroclaw awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1930 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Gschwendtner: History of Eisenau , accessed on March 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ quoted from Andreas Möckel: The political scandal surrounding the Honterus school in 1933 . In: Zeitschrift für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde , ISSN  0344-3418 , Vol. 33 (2011), Issue 1, pp. 51-62.
  3. ↑ After his application, Benesch described himself as "having joined the SS in July 1939", but was listed in the files as an "SS applicant" without membership. Protocol on the withdrawal of the application for membership, commentary and other sources in Hans Werner Schroeder: Friedrich Benesch. Leben und Werk 1907–1991 , 2007, pp. 421–430
  4. ^ Michael Eggert: Friedrich Benesch . ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) The egoists; accessed on November 21, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Glondys, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, bishop of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielsko-Biała
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1949
Place of death Sibiu