Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze

Friedrich Siegmund- Schultze ( born June 14, 1885 in Görlitz, † July 11, 1969 in Soest ) was a German Protestant theologian, social worker, social ethics and is considered a pioneer of the peace movement.

Life

After visiting several schools Siegmund- Schultze studied in Breslau and Magdeburg philosophy and theology. In 1908 he became secretary of the Churches' Committee for the Care of friendly relations between Britain and Germany and later secretary of the World Student Christian Federation for Social Work and foreigners mission. In 1911 he founded with his wife, the " Social Work Community East Berlin " (short: SAG ), a neighborhood assistance and housing project in one of the poorest districts of Berlin at the Silesian Station.

At the World Conference of Churches in Constance from 1 to 3 August 1914, he was secretary and co-founder of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches. During the First World War, he organized the pastoral care of prisoners English and the German POWs help. Through his contacts with the Quakers and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, he taught with Elisabeth Rotten Quäkerspeisung for the school children in Berlin. On Siegmund- Schultze operate the city of Berlin in 1917 established the first youth office in Germany, its first director in the hunger winter 1917/18 he became.

In October 1918, he invited the co-founder of ecumenism, Archbishop Nathan Soderblom, a guest lecture on "The social renewal of Christianity and the unity of the Church " at the University of Uppsala in. 1925 took over Siegmund- Schultze professor of youth studies and youth welfare at the University of Berlin, which was later expanded to include the subjects of social pedagogy and social ethics.

In the spring of 1933, the Office of Social Work Community has been closed. Siegmund- Schultze sat down as secretary of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches on an "International Relief Committee for German ( Protestant, Catholic and Mosaic ) Emigrants Jewish descent " one. He won in the first few months of 1933, domestic and foreign locations for this, but shortly before the scheduled for the July 1, 1933 opening of the Gestapo arrested Siegmund- Schultze. With the accusation that he had done " helping Jews in 93 cases, " and worked on " comprehensive plan for the rescue of the entire German Jewry ," the Gestapo escorted him to the Swiss border. About Walter Cramer he was in contact with the resistance group led by Carl Friedrich Goerdeler. The German official church not continued Siegmund- Schultze's ecumenical work, but received Siegmund- Schultze connect to friends as Hermann Maas, Max Diestel and Dietrich Bonhoeffer upright. Until 1946 Siegmund- Schultze worked in Switzerland student pastor and as a guest lecturer abroad and worked at the same time continue the refugees.

A reputation given to them in 1946 the University of Berlin, as associate professor offered him the Chair of Social Pedagogy and Social Ethics, refused Siegmund- Schultze, because he thought it impossible to continue the work of the social work community in the Soviet sector. Instead, he became Professor of Social Pedagogy and Social Ethics at the Westfälische Wilhelms - University of Münster. In 1948, he founded the Youth Welfare Sciences in Dortmund, which he headed until 1954. In 1959 he founded the Ecumenical Archive in Soest, which was later taken over by the Central Archives of the Evangelical Church in Berlin. Siegmund- Schultze was on friendly terms with Albert Schweitzer. He was editor of the World Almanac.

Siegmund- Schultze sat down vehemently against rearmament and for anchored in the Basic Law right to conscientious objection ( CO ). He was a founding member in 1957 and until 1959, Chairman of the Central Office KDV.

Friedrich Siegmund- Schultze Award

According to him, the Friedrich Siegmund- Schultze Award is named to have received a number of organizations. This price for nonviolent action has been awarded since 1994 at irregular intervals by the Evangelical Association for Conscientious Objectors and Peace ( EWC). Objectives of the award ceremony and conditions of the award winners are:

  • Memory "of peace and socio-ethical work of the Protestant theologian Friedrich Siegmund- Schultze (1885-1969) ",
  • Detection of " good deeds in terms of peacemaking "
  • " Draw attention to initiatives and people who practice resistance against violence and encourage peace action."

He is then awarded when the prize money of 6,000 euros is met by donations. As a symbol of the price shall be the "Firebird. " Winners were

Writings

  • Ecumenical Yearbook 1934-1935, Zurich and Leipzig 1936
  • Ecumenical Yearbook 1936-1937, Zurich and Leipzig 1939
  • Ekklesia 1934-1935, Leipold Klotz Verlag, Gotha
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