Schmidt, Philipp Georg Martin

Protestant pastor

Born: 04.11.1883 in Miehlen (Taunus)

Died: 06.06.1964 in Frankfurt am Main

Schmidt studied medicine, then Protestant theology in Leipzig, Halle, Tübingen, Bonn and Aberdeen (Scotland). After attending the preacher's seminary in Herborn, he was a pastor in Holzhausen an der Haide from 1910 and a pastor in Wiesbaden from 1918-28.

As a member of the smallest faction (ecclesiastical left), he became secretary of the constitutional committee of the constitutional state church congress of 1922, which had to deal with the transition from the "Consistorial District of Wiesbaden" to the "Evangelical State Church in Nassau". From 1947 to 1949, as a man of the Confessing Church, Schmidt was chairman of the Church Ordinance Committee of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau. He was also publisher and editor of the Protestant church magazine "Weg und Wahrheit".

His academic specialty was primarily religious education. From 1929 until his politically motivated leave of absence in April 1933, he was Professor of Religious Studies at the Simultaneous Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt am Main. His appointment to a professorship in Marburg failed in 1934. In 1937-40 and 1945-48 he held a professorship at the preacher's seminary in Herborn. From 1954, he was a lecturer in religious education and religious history in Marburg. From 1948-57, he held the same position at the Institute for Vocational Education and at the University of Frankfurt. The University of Marburg awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1949.