Wilhelm Thomas (theologian)

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Wilhelm Thomas (born March 30, 1896 in Augsburg , † November 18, 1978 in Hildesheim ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Thomas studied Protestant theology and was ordained in Augsburg on January 15, 1922 . In 1922 he received a position as an assistant pastor in Augsburg, and in 1926 in Marburg-Ockershausen . In Marburg he worked as a volunteer secretary to Karl Bernhard Ritter . In 1930 he became a pastor in Bremke . Ousted from this parish in 1934 as a result of the church struggle, he was given leave of absence to help regional bishop August Marahrens . In 1935 he became a theological assistant in the office of the regional bishop, and in 1943 a pastor at the St. Jakobi Church in Hildesheim.

After the Second World War, Thomas was managing director of the Inner Mission , and from 1948 managing director of the Evangelical Aid Organization . In 1954 he was temporarily on leave to serve at the Office for Community Service. In the same year he became pastor and superintendent in Wunstorf , and in 1957 senior church councilor in the regional church office in Hanover . He retired on July 1, 1961.

Thomas was involved from the beginning in the Berneuchen conference , from which the Berneuchen movement emerged, worked on the Berneuchen book and was one of the founders of the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood with Ludwig Heitmann , Karl Bernhard Ritter and Wilhelm Stählin . From 1930 he was editor of the annual letters and the Sunday letter of the Berneuchen movement.

Since his high school days in Regensburg, influenced by the Wandervogel and later by the youth music movement of the 1920s, he wrote a number of songs and sacred singing games, which he published in Bärenreiter-Verlag . To this day he is best known for his contribution to the rediscovery of the quempas . In 1930, together with Konrad Ameln, he published a collection of old Christmas carols under the title Das Quempas-Heft (Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, artistically designed by Helmuth Uhrig ), which they used to stimulate Quempas singing. In Protestant hymnal (regional editions Lower Saxony-Bremen and Nordelbien) found his paraphrase the day the shine is off the evening song The analysis dag he forgangen of Hans Christensen Sthen .

Works

  • Lively congregation according to the New Testament and according to Luther (Hannover 1954)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Carl von Haebler: History of the Evangelical Michaelsbruderschaft from its beginnings to the general convention in 1967. Edited on behalf of the Evangelical Michaelsbruderschaft, Marburg 1975, p. 171
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1978
Place of death Hildesheim