Werner Petersmann

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Werner Petersmann (born January 2, 1901 in Dortmund-Aplerbeck , † May 17, 1988 in Hanover ) was a German theologian , Protestant pastor , expellee politician and Bundestag top candidate of the NPD Lower Saxony . He was a member of the Evangelical Emergency Community in Germany .

Life

Petersmann was born in Westphalia and studied theology. After his ordination as a pastor, he held a pastor's office in Breslau . Petermann became a doctor of theology doctorate . In the 1930s he joined the German Christians and represented ethnic and anti-Semitic positions. In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life .

After 1945 Petersmann founded the Evangelical Refugee Welfare Service in Hanover . Since 1950 he has been a refugee pastor for the Mühlenberg assembly camp . There he had a simple wooden cross erected “as a sign of faith and hope that Christ is also present abroad and in need”. He took the cross with him to St. Luke's Church, where it hangs on the old church tower as a “refugee cross”. Petersmann became pastor of the Lukaskirche in Hanover in 1953 and founded the so-called "Eastern divine services" here, which were supposed to give the refugees from the eastern regions a spiritual home. During a stay in the USA he became a professor at the theological college of the Evangelical and Reformed Church , the offshoot of the German Union Churches . 

In the 1960s, Petersmann joined the NPD, for which he was a candidate in the 1969 Bundestag election at number 1 on the Lower Saxony state list. As chairman of the regional convention of the dispersed Protestant Eastern Churches, he made use of other opportunities. He founded and led the “Barsinghausen Talks”, in which problems in the European East were discussed with speakers from abroad and then published. On October 31, 1970, at a lecture in Würzburg, he supported the " Aktion Resistance ", one of the largest fascist alliances after 1945. In doing so, he polemicized against the validity of the Stuttgart confession of guilt . His attack was based on two allegations:

The indictment culminated in the thesis that the confession "produced the debt masochism ... It is the basis for the atoning waiver thinking that political effect to this day and especially today." Against the trend, the Stuttgart Declaration "exalt" called Petermann to energetic Resistance on. 

Fonts

  • The "cultic" sense of earth and people. Klotz, Gotha 1934
  • The holy cause of the German Christians! Cuboid, Breslau 1934
  • Breakthrough and enforcement of our “holy cause.” In: Positive Christianity in Church and Kingdom; Winter, Gnadenfrei 1936
  • With D. Zoellner against D. Zänker. Where is Luther's Church going? ; Documents on recent church history, Focus Silesia 2; Merciless 1936
  • Fridricus (sic!) And the Church - in the light of “Positive Christianity.” Winter, Gnadenfrei 1936
  • The Encyclical of the West. In: Positive Christianity. Journal of the Reich Movement German Christians; August 1, 1937
  • Man and machine. Bonn University Book Printing Company, Bonn 1937
  • The eternal meaning. Bonn University Book Printing Company, Bonn 1940
  • "De-Judaization" itself of Luther research on the question of Luther's position on the Jews. Scheur, Bonn 1940 3
  • The question of Germany in a holistic view. Lecture on "Day of German Unity" at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Hanover. A contribution to reflection over 20 years later - and what now? Bergstadtverlag Korn, Munich 1965

As co-author and editor

  • Werner Petersmann, Theodor Pauls: “De-Judaization” even of Luther research on the question of Luther's position on the Jews! Bonn University Book Printing Company, Bonn 1940
  • Adalbert Hudak: The Prague Peace Conference. Church and communist total state in encounter ; Epilogue and edition; Bergstadtverlag Korn, Munich 1964
  • Alexander Evertz, Werner Petersmann, Helmuth Fechner: Revision of the memorandum. A request to the Protestant Church (= in the center of the discussion, Volume 7.) blick + bild Verlag für Politische Bildung , Velbert / Kettwig 1966

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical outline see: Responsibility for the Church: Stenographic records and transcripts from Regional Bishop Hans Meiser 1933–1955, Vol. 3: 1937, AKZG A 17, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-525-55765-5 [1]
  2. ^ Horst Bethke: 50 years of Eastern worship services in the Lukas Church in Hanover ; in: Danzig-Westpreußischer Kirchenbrief 199 (2003), or Eastern Church Information July 2003
  3. ↑ Arnulf Baumann: The meaning and development of the Eastern worship services ; in: Contributions to East German Church History 6 (2004); ISBN 3-9808538-1-0 ; P. 148f. (PDF; 4.4 MB)
  4. ^ Gay West: Nazi Evangelicals
  5. ^ Protestant press service (Epd). Documentation No. 50/1970, p. 41; Quotes from Armin Boyens: The Stuttgart confession of guilt of October 19, 1945 - origin and meaning ; in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 19 (1971), pp. 374–397; here p. 374 (PDF; 6.1 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Petersmann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and expellee politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1988
Place of death Hanover