Karl Fezer
German theologian
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- Doctorate Theology University of Marburg
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karl Fezer , was a German Lutheran theologian. Biography After his training Fezer was initially a curate in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, then head pastor in Stuttgart and Tübingen. From 1926 to 1959 he was the Professor for Practical Theology at the University of Tübingen. He was Chair of the Protestant Seminary there from 1931 to 1959 while simultaneously Rector of the University from 1933 to 1959. For a short time he was the head of the German Christians movement which sought to institute Nazi racial policies in the German Protestant Church. He petitioned for membership in the Nazi Party in May 1933. In 1933 he assumed leadership of the German Christian Student Union. He served as a delegate to the "Conference to Resolve the Question of the Church" in 1933. He served as the Interim Leader of the German Evangelical Church after the victory of the Nazi-led German Christians in Church elections across Germany. Despite his relationship with Nazism and cooperation with the Nazi-appointed Bishop Theopil Wurm, he sought to preserve the independence of his faculty and seminary from Nazi and German Christian encroachment.
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