Wilhelm Thimme

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Wilhelm Thimme (born January 14, 1879 in Lohe , † January 18, 1966 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university professor. He translated the writings of the church father Augustine and wrote children's and youth literature. In Bad Iburg he was parish pastor from 1911 to 1949 .

Life

Thimme came from a pastor's family. His father Gottfried Thimme was a pastor, as was his grandfather Carl Thimme. His mother Emilie, born in Münchmeyer , was the daughter of a consistorial councilor . Thimme grew up as the eighth child with ten siblings, first in Lohe, from 1887 in Schmedenstedt . Since a scarlet disease infection in childhood he suffered from hearing loss .

Like his siblings, he received home tuition from a private tutor , his father taught Ancient Language , and his eldest sister Marie taught other subjects. From 1893 he attended the Ratsgymnasium Goslar and lived in Goslar with his older brother Friedrich and another pastor's son. In 1897 he passed the Abitur. Because of his good performance, he was exempted from the oral Abitur examination.

Thimme began studying theology at the University of Erlangen and later moved to the Georg-August University of Göttingen . His brother Ludwig Thimme also became a theologian. After graduating, Wilhelm Thimme worked, among other things, as a private tutor until he went to the Erichsburg seminary in 1902 . In 1905 he became an inspector at the Göttingen Theological Monastery . Through his sister Heidelene, who, like his brother Hermann, studied in Göttingen, Thimme got to know the teacher Guste Capelle from Hanover. They got engaged in the fall of 1906 and married in 1908. The son Hans Thimme was born in 1909, Erich the following year, Berthold in 1912, Georg in 1916 and daughter Heidelene in 1920.

Thimme was ordained on October 4, 1907 . Thimme then worked as an assistant preacher in Diemarden . With the dissertation Augustine's spiritual development in the first years after his "conversion": 386–391 he received his doctorate in 1908.

He worked in Fallersleben for three years until in 1911 he became pastor in Flecken Iburg , then in the Iburg district . At that time, the community of the Evangelical Lutheran Castle Church included 350 Protestants from Iburg, Glane and a few families from Glandorf .

The family suffered economic hardship during the period of inflation ; Thimme earned extra income in the payroll at the Rau margarine factory in Hilter .

In 1919 Thimme completed his habilitation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with a thesis on faith and history . In 1921 he was given a teaching position for psychology of religion . The Evangelical Theological Faculty awarded Thimme an honorary doctorate in 1925 . In 1927 he became an unofficial professor , and in 1939 an unplanned professor.

In the time of National Socialism he joined the Confessing Church . He strictly rejected the leadership principle of the German Christians for the Evangelical Lutheran Church and commented on it in 1935 with an article in the magazine for theology and church under the title The leader principle in the Evangelical Church . The Gestapo arrested Thimme because he a Jew had written that he hoped for the time, as this would come back into favor in the pure men. On intercession, Thimme was released after four days.

When after the Second World War the parish in Iburg increased to 1,500 members due to refugees and displaced persons , Thimme received support from an assistant preacher. He did not continue his professorship. He gave up his office as pastor in 1949 because of his hearing loss, but continued to give sermons, most recently in 1965. He kept his residence in Bad Iburg, where his son Berthold was a general practitioner . Thimme devoted himself to the translation of Augustine's works, such as the early theological writings and the Confessions for Artemis Verlag . He wrote fairy tales and stories for his grandchildren, which he published in Bechauf Verlag in Bielefeld, and edited the writings of his sister Magdalene . He kept in touch with the community members in Bad Iburg through pastoral visits until his death.

On January 13, 1966, he fell ill with a stomach bleeding and was taken to the Wittekindshof in Bad Oeynhausen, where his daughter Heidelene worked as a doctor. Thimme died on January 18, 1966 and was buried in the old cemetery in Bad Iburg.

Fonts (selection)

  • Loyalty . Ludwig Bechauf Verlag, Bielefeld 1950
  • Fool or hero? Ludwig Bechauf Verlag, Bielefeld 1950
  • The Lord's glasses . Ludwig Bechauf Verlag, Bielefeld 1950
  • Detours . Ludwig Bechauf Verlag, Bielefeld 1955
  • Play and serious - fairy tales and legends . Ludwig Bechauf Verlag, Bielefeld 1957

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thimme: The leader principle in the Protestant Church  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche , NF 16 (1935), pp. 159–174@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.digizeitschriften.de  
personal data
SURNAME Thimme, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Marklohe
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1966
Place of death Bad Oeynhausen