„Ihm wurde die Fähigkeit aberkannt, zu den Prüfungen der Landeskirche in Baden zugelassen zu werden“: Albert Böhler (1908-1990) - Heidelberger Theologiestudent, Religiöser Sozialist und deutscher Emigrant
The young student of theology and religious socialist Albert Böhler of Baden came into conflict with the national socialist state in 1933, after publicly expressing his critical opinion on the state. Although the denunciations by convinced national socialists did not lead to a prison sentence, Böhle...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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2003
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2003, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 185-238 |
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| Summary: | The young student of theology and religious socialist Albert Böhler of Baden came into conflict with the national socialist state in 1933, after publicly expressing his critical opinion on the state. Although the denunciations by convinced national socialists did not lead to a prison sentence, Böhler was forced to leave the University of Heidelberg. The Protestant state church of Baden did not support him - on the contrary. In order to finish his studies, Böhler went to Leonhard Ragaz in Zurich, while his fiancee stayed behind in Karlsruhe. With the help of local religious socialists, Böhler, an impoverished son of working-class parents, maintained himself with difficulty and finally passed exams in 1936. The Swiss aliens branch of the police did not grant him an unlimited residence permit - which was an important prerequisite in order to find work in Switzerland. Neither could he work in the foreign social welfare work, since the Foreign Office of the official German Reich Church foiled his employment for Yugoslavia. Tolerated with difficulty and attacked by Swiss citizens with a pronational socialist attitude, Böhler, who was without citizenship from 1943 on, could hardly support his family and was called to the Swiss labour service in 1944. Only in 1955 did he receive Swiss civil rights and was integrated. Böhler is an example of those few Germans who did not subdue to national socialist rule and had therefore to endure hard personal and professional disadvantages. Border's correspondence papers and his other comments also give evidence for the fact that cautious Germans could identify Hitler's criminal regime as being such from the beginning. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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