Wilhelm Brachmann
Wilhelm Brachmann (born July 19, 1900 in Brieg ; † December 30, 1989 in Munich ) was a German , National Socialist pastor , theologian and religious scholar .
Life
Brachmann was born in 1900 in Brieg, Silesia, as the son of a high school professor. During the First World War , he served in the German Army intelligence service in 1918 .
After the war he studied theology and passed the first in 1923 and the second in 1925. Brachmann worked as a pastor in Hertwigswaldau from 1926 until he became a mission inspector at the German East Asia Mission in 1929 . In 1933 he moved to the East Prussian seminary , where he worked as director of studies.
Brachmann, who had become a member of the NSDAP after the National Socialists came to power , was recalled in 1936 by the Old Prussian Evangelical High Church Council for "reasons of faith", whereupon he became a lecturer at the " Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature ", which was affiliated with the Reich Chamber of Literature .
In the following year he became an employee in the Rosenberg office . Brachmann was commissioned to set up a new " Institute for Religious Studies " for the NSDAP High School , which he headed from 1937.
After the start of World War II Brachmann was established in 1940 with a dissertation on the belief of Ernst Troeltsch doctorate . Since 1942 he has represented the chair for religious studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . At the beginning of 1943, Brachmann was appointed full professor. In addition, he became the editor of the volkish magazine Volk im Werden , which was renamed the magazine for the history of ideas and faith in mid-1943 . Brachmann also appeared as the author of articles for the National Socialist monthly issue.
Together with Otto Huth , who taught at the Imperial University of Strasbourg and was professor in Tübingen after the war, Brachmann mainly stands for the new anti-church orientation in religious studies.
After the war, Brachmann was released as a professor and interned. As part of the denazification, he was classified as a fellow traveler and could not work again in university service.
Later he lived as a professor z.Wv. in Oberheimbach and then in Adolzfurt . Brachmann died in Munich at the end of December 1989.
Publications
- The decision of world Protestantism , Junker und Dünnhaupt Verlag, Berlin, 1937.
- Alfred Rosenberg and his opponents , Hoheneichen-Verlag , Munich, 1938.
- The Chosen People - The Pious England , Franz-Eher-Verlag , Berlin, 1940.
- Ernst Troeltsch's historical worldview , Max Niemeyer Verlag , Halle, 1940.
- Faith and History , Moritz Diesterweg Verlag , 1942
- Humanism, Christianity, Germanness. Studies on German intellectual and religious history , 1944 (the actual publication is uncertain due to the circumstances of the war)
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 366f
Web links
- Entry on Wilhelm Brachmann in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brachmann, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and religious scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brieg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1989 |
| Place of death | Munich |