Wilhelm Bauer (Councilor)

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Wilhelm Bauer (born December 1, 1889 in Kahla ; † March 3, 1969 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran church councilor .

Life

After taking the Abitur examination, Bauer studied pedagogy and philosophy . After several years of teaching, he was appointed to the faculty . He put a dissertation in front on an issue of philosophy and became a doctor of philosophy doctorate . In the early 1930s he entered the service of the Thuringian Evangelical Church and became director of the church news and press office in Eisenach . In the book “Celebrations of German Christians” published by him in 1935, authors such as Adolf Hitler had a say in addition to quotations from the Bible . At the same time he worked as editor of the magazine "Deutsche Frömmigkeit", in which the positions of the German Christians were represented. In one of their editions he stated: “We are National Socialists. The National Socialism means us the restoration of a truly popular order at the bottom of the eternal laws of our blood and our home planet. "In 1939, he explained his collaboration on the Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life . At the beginning of the 1940s he became deputy head of studies at the Thuringian preacher's seminary . After the liberation from National Socialism , Bauer lived in the Federal Republic of Germany , continued to publish there and died in a town in the Free State of Bavaria .

Fonts

  • Prayers for the German house / [Wilhelm Bauer]. People's Service d. Thür. Evangelical Church [, Postfach 139], Eisenach 1934, DNB 572158572
  • Ceremonies of German Christians / Wilhelm Bauer, Verl. Dt. Christians, Weimar 1935, DNB 572158564
  • In the upheaval of times / Wilhelm Bauer. Verl. German Christians, Weimar 1935, DNB 572158610 , DNB 572158602
  • Nature and task of a German parish / Wilhelm Bauer. Verl. [Church Movement ] German Christians, Weimar 1937, DNB 578816385
  • German culture from 1830 to 1870 / Wilhelm Bauer. Athenaion, Potsdam 1937, DNB 450264165 , DNB 579146383
  • We are a thousand and are one: a selection / poems v. Wilhelm Bauer [among others]. Verl. German Christians, Weimar 1938, DNB 363094857
  • Welfare faith: a contribution to the internal defense of our people / Wilhelm Bauer. Amthorsche Verlbh., Leipzig 1939, DNB 572158599 , DNB 572158580

literature

  • Oliver Arnhold: “De-Judgment” - Church in the Abyss. Vol. I: The Thuringian Church Movement German Christians 1928–1939 ( ISBN 978-3-938435-00-7 ), Vol. II: The “Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life” 1939–1945 ( ISBN 978-3-938435-01-4 ), Studies on Church and Israel, Volume 25/1 and Volume 25/2, Institute Church and Judaism at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 2010.
  • Oliver Arnhold : National Socialist Christianity in Class. Religious educational concepts by Wilhelm Bauer as part of his work for the "Church Movement German Christians", in: "Thüringer Gratwanderungen", contributions to the seventy-five year history of the Protestant regional church of Thuringia, ed. v. Thomas A. Seidel, Ev. Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 1998, pp. 143–160.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Stegmann: The church struggle in the Thuringian Evangelical Church: 1933–1945; a chapter of Thuringian church history . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin / Wartburg-Verlag Kessler, Jena, 1984, DNB 850416930 , p. 77.
  2. ↑ German Piety No. 10, 1938.
  3. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We have gone astray: the guilt of the church under the swastika, according to the confession of the “Darmstadt Word” from 1947 . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne, 1987, ISBN 978-3-7609-1144-1 , p. 150.
  4. ↑ Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary on the Third Reich: who was what before and after 1945? . S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main, 2003, ISBN 978-3-10-039309-8 , p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran Council of Churches
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Kahla
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1969