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Preface: The Faculty of Theology Dean's Office History of the Registrar's Educator The Faculty of Theology has existed since the founding of the university in 1810. However, the first colleges on Christian morality and hermeneutics were held by Schleiermacher as early as 22.11.1809.(1) In an expert opinion on the establishment of the Faculty of Theology from 25.5. to 22.11.1809, the first colleges were held in the Faculty of Theology.In 1810 Schleiermacher demanded a division of the subject matter into exegetical, dogmatic and practical theology and a seminar for scholarly theology for a closer connection between pupils and teachers and for the deepening of knowledge, pointing out that no difference should be made between the denominations and individual directions of the Protestant Church within the faculty.(2) As can be seen from the Faculty Statutes of 1838, Schleiermacher's proposals were also realized. The following disciplines were on the curriculum: Encyclopedia and Methodology of Theology Introduction to the Old and New Testaments Biblical Critique and Hermeneutics History of the Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology Interpretation of the Pentateuch, the Job, the Psalms and the Isaiah, the most important historical and didactic writings of the New Testament Church and Dogma History Dogmatics, theological Morality, Symbolism Practical Theology, in the whole and in individual branches. These disciplines were also confirmed in the faculty statutes of 1903. The Faculty of Theology at the University of Berlin was the leader in Germany in the 19th century. Among the most important professors of that time were Schleiermacher, Marheineke, de Wette, Neander, Hengstenberg and Twesten. At the end of the 19th century the faculty reached a new heyday through the work of the professors von Harnack on church history and von Schlatter on systematic topics. In the 20th century, under the deanship of Professors Stolzenburg and Seeberg, strong tendencies towards National Socialism also emerged in the Faculty of Theology. Supporters of the Confessing Church (e.g. Dietrich Bonhoeffer) were given leave and students were strictly forbidden to participate in their events. D. Werner Gruehn, professor of systematic theology and religious psychology, and Dr. Ernst Schubert, lecturer for foreign Germanism and the Church, represented National Socialist ideology. Both dealt with problems of "German people growth abroad" in connection with church issues. In the years 1847 to 1870 an academic service was held during the semester. The first plans were made in 1810, but could not be realized. The request of the faculty to establish a university church in 1830 was also not answered by the ministry, until in 1847 the energetic efforts of Professor Dr. Nitzsch succeeded in establishing a Protestant preaching position at the university. The first service took place on the 3rd Sunday of Advent 1847 in the Dorotheenstädtische Kirche. There was also a seal for the university preacher. From 1847 to 1855 Professor D. Nitzsch served as university preachers, from 1855 to 1858 Professor Wuttke and the private lecturers Lic. Strauss and Dr. Erdmann served as interim lecturers, and from 1858 to 1870 Professor Steinmeyer. In the year 1870 this office was abolished, since in Berlin no university, but only a personnel municipality had formed and no need for the holding of an academic service seemed to exist any longer.(3) On 5.11.1916 it was however again taken up and held up to 1923 by all professors in the turn in the Kaiser Wilhelm memory church.(4) Only with effect from 1.12.1923 the student priest received again a fixed remuneration. Until then, aid had to be requested to cover the most urgent costs of renting the church space, among other things. The Academic Divine Service was financially supported by the state until 1938,(5) but until 1945 it was no longer announced in the university calendars and regarded as an internal church matter. The student chaplain worked at the university until 1945. The following institutes were affiliated to the Faculty of Theology: 1. Theological Seminary In the summer semester of 1812 the Theological Seminary was opened.(6) It made subjects of theological scholarship its task and was divided according to the regulations of 31.5.1812 into two sections, the philological and the historical. Of these, the philological was once again divided into the Old Testament exegesis and the New Testament exegesis. The historical department, originally divided into church history and dogma history, continued to exist after a few years as a church history department. The systematic department was added around 1920, but hardly any further details exist about it. Over the years, the subdivisions developed into independent departments, which were only nominally connected by the dean as director of the seminar. In 1931 there were tendencies to make the four departments independent, but this proposal was rejected by the Ministry for financial reasons.(7) The seminar was endowed with scholarships and bonuses and therefore had to limit the number of its members to twenty. Although at first there was no uninterrupted direction for each department, in the course of time a constant direction developed through certain conductors, so that the conductors were later appointed. The changing directors of the Old Testament department show the changing currents of contemporary theology. Their first leader was de Wette until 1819. After interim stages, Professor Hengstenberg took over the seminar in 1826 and carried out the exercises in Latin until the introduction of the German language in the winter semester of 1846/47. Dillmann, who had led the seminar since 1869, retained the Latin language for his written works. It was not until the winter semester of 1881/82 that they were partly submitted in German. From 1.4.1884, the premiums for the work from the sovereign wealth fund ceased to apply. Since the seminar was no longer a scholarship institution at the same time, the limitation of participants became superfluous. Since 18.1.1887 the seminar also received means for the establishment of a library. The New Testament Department of the Theological Seminary was opened on the proposal of the Faculty of Theology of 6.4.1812 by the Regulations of the Department of Cultures and Public Education of 31.5.1812 as a subdivision of the Philological Department. Schleiermacher was the first director of the philological department. In the New Testament section, larger sections of the New Testament were treated in conversational work and written works were prepared. A special library for New Testament exegesis was available. In 1908 the seminar was divided into the Proseminar for beginners and the Seminar for advanced students.(8) The Department of Church History was headed by Professor Neander until 1850. During this time there were extensive lectures from all periods of church history, especially the old church history, and treatises on published works. To obtain seminar scholarships or bonuses, written work had to be written in Latin. Since 1906 the seminary has been divided into a department for early church history and a department for more recent church history. The practical-theological seminar Plans for the establishment of a Homiletian Institute were already worked out by Professor Marheineke and presented to the Ministry on April 3, 1821. Marheineke saw the purpose of the institute as the exercise of the students in the elaboration and presentation of spiritual speeches and in the evaluation of the presented. The Ministry welcomed the establishment of a Homiletic Society, but wanted it to be regarded as a private institute until the participation of the students ensured sufficient income. Around 1862 Professor Büttner founded a homiletic seminary at the university and planned a catechetical one. Until 1873 he carried out the corresponding exercises as an honorary professor. On 1 October 1875, Professor Pfleiderer finally opened the Practical Theological Seminary.(9) According to the regulations of 31 March 1876, it served the students to prepare them for the future spiritual profession through suitable exercises. Students of the first four semesters were not admitted to the seminar. The seminar consisted of a homiletic and a catechetic section, where a weekly seminar service was held in the homiletic instead of the speech exercises. The chapel of the cathedral candidate abbey served as a place of practice. In the catechetical department at first only exercises were held after private consultation with teachers. Since 1906, however, by decree of the Provinzialschulkollegium, students were allowed to spend one hour a week in the upper class of a community school. From the winter semester of 1912/13 onwards, regular liturgical and church music exercises were carried out following the seminar. Professor Kaweran was the leader of these exercises.(10) After his death in 1918 Professor Biehle took over the leadership.(11) 3. The Christian-archaeological and epigraphic collection According to the decree of the Prussian Ministry for Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs of 23.5.1849, the Christian-archaeological art collection (also Christian Museum) was founded in June 1849 after many years of efforts by Professor Piper. Professor Piper, who served as director of the Christian-Archaeological Collection until his death on 29.11.1889, mainly collected costly originals, copies of pictures and casts of originals with the purpose of making the students familiar with early Christian history. At first he kept the works of art in his apartment, but on 22.4.1850 he transferred them to a room in the school building at Friedrichstraße 126 with the permission of the school authorities.(12) Since spring 1891 they have been in the west wing of the university.(13) With this collection Professor Piper was the first in the world to create a model for all universities. His successor, Professor Müller, supplemented the existing collection with plaster casts, photographs and other illustrations of early Christian and medieval monuments and from 1890 devoted himself particularly to building up a library. After the death of Professor Müller on 3.9.1912, Professor Deißmann took over the management of the collection on a representative basis and Professor Stuhlfauth on 1.4.1913. Since 31.3.1924 Professor Lietzmann was involved in the management alongside Professor Stuhlfauth. With effect from 1.10.1935 Professor Friedrich Gerke was appointed Director of the Seminar for Christian Archaeology and Art.(14) Under his direction the seminar was given the character of a research and teaching institute for the entire late antique and medieval archaeology and art research. In 1936 he started to build up a Nordic-Germanic department. After he was drafted into the military, Professor Hans Reinerth took over the management of the seminar on a representative basis and in 1944 initiated the relocation of the institute's library to the Dechtow manor. The teaching collection, publications and foreign correspondence were brought to Schloss Plattenburg / Prignitz. 4th Seminar for Post-Biblical Judaism On 13.11.1883 Professor Strack founded the seminar with the aim of driving "Jewish mission" and acquainting Christian theologians with Judaism, its literature and its essence.(15) It received no state support, but was greatly enriched by the donation of Professor Strack's library in 1918. After the death of Professor Strack, Professor Greßmann took over the directorship of the seminar on 1.12.1923, Professor Joachim Jeremias on 1.10.1928 and Professor Bertholet on 12.7.1929. On 1.10.1937 Professor Hempel was appointed managing director.(16) Since the summer semester of 1937 no more lectures have been held. Since the Institute has not been listed in the course catalogue since the summer semester of 1939, it was probably dissolved in the winter semester of 1938/39. The Institute was founded in 1917 by Professor Julius Richter as a seminar on mission history and renamed the Seminar on Mission Studies on 9 June 1931. Julius Witte was appointed Director on 6 November 1930. He remained so until his retirement on 1.4.1939.(17) From 1.4.1934 onwards, the Institute dealt not only with the holding of religious studies exercises but also with the study of Germanic religions and the Christianisation of the Germanic peoples. After the decree of 24.10.1935 it was therefore renamed the Institute for General History of Religion and Missionary Studies.(18) Since after the retirement of Professor Witte the appointment of the Chair of Missionary Studies was no longer intended by the Ministry, the Institute was closed on the basis of the decree of the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and Popular Education of 3.1.1944. The existing books were transferred to the university library. 6th Institute for Social Ethics and Science of Inner Mission The Institute, founded in 1927, was affiliated to the Theological Seminary, Department of Systematic Theology, and, according to its statutes of 25 July 1927, served the scientific promotion and instruction of students in the field of inner mission in connection with the problems of social ethics and welfare work. The first director, Professor Seeberg, was appointed by the Ministry of Science, Art and Popular Education in consultation with the Faculty of Theology and the Central Committee of the Inner Mission. He was assisted by a board of trustees composed of a representative of the ministry, a member appointed by the president of the German Protestant Kirchentag, a member of the Protestant Oberkirchenrat in Berlin, two lecturers from the Faculty of Theology and two members of the Central Committee of the Inner Mission. Assistants of the Institute participated in the meetings of the Board of Trustees. The institute was dissolved on the basis of the ministerial decree of 26.3.1938.(19) (1) Todt, Fr., in: Das Pfarrhaus, 1895, Nr. 11 u. 12: Die Theologische Fakultät der Universität Berlin, Berlin 1896 (2) Elliger, Walter: 150 Jahre Theologische Fakultät Berlin, Berlin 1960 (3) DZA Merseburg, Rep.76 Va Sekt.2 Tit.1 Nr.8 (4) DZA Potsdam, Reichserziehungsministerium, current no. 1239 Bl.3 (5) DZA Potsdam, Reichserziehungsministerium, current no. 1239 Bl.36 (6) Lenz, Max: Geschichte der königlichen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, Halle/Saale 1910, Volume 3, pp. 3-24 (7) HU Berlin, Archiv, Universitätskurator, current no. 792/1 (8) Lenz, ibid. (9) DZA Merseburg, Rep.76 Va Sekt.2 Tit.10 No.25 Vol.1 (10) ibid. Vol.2 (11) ibid. Vol.3 (12) Lenz, ibid. (13) DZA Merseburg, Rep.76 Va Sekt.2 Tit.X No. 74 Vol.3 (14) HU Berlin, Archive, University Curator, Current No. 793 (15) DZA Merseburg, Rep.76 Va Sekt.2 Tit.X No. 186 (16) HU Berlin, archive, university curator, current no. 795 (17) ibid. current no. 806 (18) DZA Potsdam, Reichserziehungsministerium, current no. 1449 (19) HU Berlin, archive, university curator, current no. 798 Inventory and registry history The inventory was handed over by the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Theology in 1964 and 1966. After comparison with the old administrative repertory, hardly any loss of files occurred. No cassations were made. The bequests of Professors Titius and Gerke, which were kept under the files, were spun off as separate holdings and the files from the period after 1945 were transferred to the administrative archive. Before being handed over to the dean's office, the files were administered in the university's central registry and filed according to the alphabetical keyword system. The repertory of the authorities, which had been set up accordingly, turned out to be completely inadequate, so that the stock was recorded and rearranged in the summer and autumn of 1966. Berlin, December 1966 Barbara Lange A revision took place in 2013. Ilona Kalb During a review in 2017, a twisting of signatures within the current No. 68 - 71 was corrected. In the case of promotion files (signatures 100 - 126), only those names are indicated for which documents are in the file. Claudia Hilse References 1st Bibliography Elliger, Walter: 150 Years Theological Faculty Berlin, Berlin 1960 Lange, Max: Die Universität Berlin, Wien/Düsseldorf/Küssnacht am Rigi 1931, S.18f Lenz, Max: Geschichte der Königlichen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, Halle/S. 1910, Bd.3 S.3-24 Todt, Fr.: Die Theologische Fakultät der Universität Berlin in: The Parsonage, 1895 No. 11 and 12 2nd Archival Sources Archive of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Stock University Curator current No. 793: Institute for Christian Archaeology, 1928-1941 current No. 794: Seminar for Christian Archaeology and Church Art, 1942-1946 current No. 795: Institute for Post-Biblical Judaism, 1923-1943 current no. 792/1: Theological Faculty and Theological Seminars, 1928-1945 current no. 799: Theological Seminary current no. 800: Theological Seminary, New Testament Department, 1928-1942 current no. 801: Theological Seminary, Church History Department, 1928-1943 current no. 802: Theological Seminary, Systematic Section, 1928-1944 current no. 803: Theological Faculty and Theological Seminars, 1934-1938 current no. 804: Theological Faculty and Theological Seminars, 1938-1945 current no. 805: Assistants to the Theological Seminary, 1942-1944 current no. 806: Missionary Seminary, 1930-1944 current no. 807: Seminar of Missionary Studies, Assistants, 1934-1939 Theological Faculty, Dean's Office, current No. 43 to 56: Establishment of seminars and institutes (see Findbuch) Deutsches Zentralarchiv, Hist. 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II Merseburg (now: GStA) Rep. 76 Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs Va Sekt.2 Tit.1 No. 8: The Church Affairs of the University of Berlin and the Establishment of a Special University Church, 1810-1816 Va Sekt.2 Tit.4 No. 28: Appointment of Professor Dr. Nitzsch as Full Professor in the Faculty of Theology and his Appointment as University Preacher, 1846-1868 Va Sekt.2 Tit.10 No. 1: Das Seminarium theologicum bei der Universität Berlin, Vol. 1-7, 1821-1933 Va Sekt.2 Tit.10 No. 25: The foundation of a Christian-archaeological art collection at the University of Berlin as well as the archaeological teaching and practice apparatus, 1844-1850 Va Sekt.2 Tit.10 No. 74: The Christian-archaeological art collection, Vol.1-3, 1857-1938 Va Sekt.2 Tit.10 No. 186: The Seminar for Post-Biblical Judaism, 1912-1932 Va Sekt.2 Tit.12 No. 14: The theological-scientific association founded by the students of theology at the University of Berlin as well as the associations founded by the students of the scientific purposes, 1842-1888 Rep. 89, Zivilkabinett X Berlin No. 1 h: Christliches Museum, 1853-1908 Deutsches Zentralarchiv, Hist. Abteilung I, Potsdam (now: Bundesarchiv) Bestand Reichserziehungsministerium lfd. No. 1360: Seminar für christliche Archäologie und kirchliche Kunst, Vol. 4, 1938-1942 current no. 1322: Theological Seminary, vol. 9, 1935-1944 current no. 1239: Church Affairs and the Establishment of a University Church, vol. 2, 1916-1936 current no. 1449: Seminar for Missionary Sciences, 1918-1935 Inventory structure I Faculty matters 1. Instructions for business dealings 2. Treasury matters 3. Insurance matters 4. Organization of studies 5. Facility and control of faculty albums 6. Establishment of seminars and institutes 7. Faculty days 8. Anniversaries and celebrations 9. Publications and expert opinions 10. Library matters 11. University chronicles 12. Church battle 13. Miscellanea 14. Doctorates 15. Honorary doctorates 16. Habilitations 17. Award of the honorary citizenship II Affairs of the teaching staff 1. Generalia 2. Personnel matters: Professors 3. Personnel matters: Privatdozenten III Student matters 1. Generalia 2. Military relations 3. Examination regulations and examination documents 4. Awarding of prizes 5. Certificates of departure 6. Scholarship payments from foundations 7. Honorary court and disciplinary matters 8. Association matters Citation method: HU UA, Faculty of Theology.01, No. XXX. HU UA, Theol.Fak.01, No. XXX.