Walter Schultz

Walther Schultz ( born August 20, 1900 Court Tressow in Greve mills; † 26 June 1957 Schnackenburgallee ) was bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg in Schwerin.

Life

After studying Protestant theology and ordination Schultz was pastor in Badendiek at Güstrow in Mecklenburg. After joining the Nazi Party, the German Christians pursued the goal to sponsor him in line offices of the provincial church.

1933 Schultz became the leader of the National Socialist German pastors and equipped with the newly created office of a national church leader of Mecklenburg. On November 12, 1933, he declared himself spokesman for the Mecklenburg Church of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state: "We evangelical Mecklenburg want ... are unreservedly to our Chancellor and leader." The following year, he could - by displacing the previous incumbent Henry Rendtorff - be bishop of the Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg; with not even 33 years he was probably the youngest bishop in the history of the evangelical churches.

His term leadership in the time of National Socialism was controversial, but he was able to hold in his office. In 1939, he told his staff at the Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish influence on the German church life. The Church Office of the German Evangelical Church asked with the approval of the August 31, 1939, launched clergy Trust Council, the next Schultz Friedrich Werner ( Church Office ), Bishop August Marahrens (Hannover), Oberkonsistorialrat John Hymmen ( Old Prussian Union ) and Otto Weber (Reformed Church, Göttingen ) belonged to the country's churches, to ensure that members of the congregation of Jewish origin, stayed away from the church life.

After the war, Schultz was arrested and interned by the British occupation forces. In 1948 he was dismissed from the service of the Church of Mecklenburg.

In 1950, Schultz was given the task to parish official assistance at St. Dionysius Church community Fallingbostel in the Lüneburg Heath. As there a new parish was erected for this task, Schultz had to leave the church and took in Schnackenburgallee on the Elbe, a parish church, which he held until his death.