Kurt Scharf
Evangelischer Kirchentag
, Berlin 1961Kurt Scharf (October 21, 1902 – March 28, 1990) was a German
Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg
.
Life
Kurt Scharf was born in
Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union in Sachsenhausen, a locality of Oranienburg and as such had occasional opportunities to tend to the inmates of the homonymous concentration camp
there.
As
Humboldt University
.
From 1966 to 1976 he was the elected bishop of the
Schlachtensee
hospital in Berlin.
Scharf contributed to the Ostdenkschrift of the EKD, the first recognition (in 1965) by a significant German organisation of the
Baader-Meinhof Group
.
He was a Christian pacifist and opposed the production and placement of nuclear weapons on German soil.[1]
Bibliography
- Vom Herrengeheimnis der Wahrheit (On the Lord's Secret of the Truth) - Festschrift for Heinrich Vogel, 1962
- Für ein politisches Gewissen der Kirche (For a Political Conscience of the Church) (ed. W. Erk), 1972
- Streit mit der Macht, (Argument with Power), 1983
- Widerstehen und Versöhnen. Rückblicke und Ausblicke (Resistance and Reconciliation. Reviews and Prospects) (ed. Jo Krummacher), 1987; 2nd edition 1988
Further reading
- Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann: Kurt Scharf. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1992.
- Werner Raupp: Scharf, Kurt Franz Wilhelm. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Vol. 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005 (ISBN 3-428-11203-2), p. 569 f. (with genealogy and selected bibliogr.).
References
- ISBN 9781845458089.
External links
- (in German) Literature by and about Kurt Scharf
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