Wolfgang Ullmann (18 August 1929 – 30 July 2004) was a German

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Life

Wolfgang Ullmann was born in

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near

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. From 1948 to 1954 he studied

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theology and also philosophy, first in

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and then at the

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. Following graduation he returned to

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in 1954 and became minister in Colmnitz,

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. In 1963 he was appointed lecturer in

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. From 1978, he was lecturer in Church History at the training centre of the Eastern Region of the then divided Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg in East Berlin. Protected by the Protestant Church in East Germany, opposition movements against the regime in the GDR formed and in 1987 Wolfgang Ullman became a member of one of these group, the “Initiative for the Refusal of Practice and Principle of the Demarcation”. After German reunification in 1990 he was a member of parliament (

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) and from 1994 to 1998 a member of the

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for Alliance '90/The Greens. He was married since 1956 and had three children including the composer Jakob Ullmann. He died during a holiday in the Erzgebirge.

Writings

* Wolfgang Ullmann: The psychological Trinitätslehre August in as a theological condition of the medieval ethics. Goettingen, Theol. F., Diss. v. 11. Nov. 1954 * Friedrich de Boor, Wolfgang Ullmann (Hrsg.): Sources: Selected texts from D. History christl. Church. Berlin, Evang. Verl. - Institute, 1980 * Wolfgang Ullmann: Preparatory school of the democracy: Church and round table. Berlin, Berlin: Evang. Verl. - Anst., 1990, * Wolfgang Ullmann: Democracy - now or never: Perspectives of the justice. Munich, Kyrill and Method Verl., 1990, * Bernhard Maleck, Wolfgang Ullmann: I will not be silent: Discussions with Wolfgang Ullmann, Berlin, Dietz, 1991, * Bernhard Maleck, Wolfgang Ullmann: Condition and parliament. A contribution to the condition discussion, Berlin, Dietz, 1992, * Wolfgang Ullmann: Future clearing-up. A stocktaking after the end of the utopias. Berlin, context Verl., 1995, * Wolfgang Ullmann: Patience, loves Dimut!: Brussels letter. Leipzig, forum Verl., 1998,

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Wolfgang Ullmann Biography (1929–2004)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ullmann, Wolfgang 1929 births 2004 deaths People from Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge German Lutheran theologians All-German People's Party politicians Government ministers of East Germany Members of the 10th Volkskammer Members of the Bundestag for Saxony Members of the Bundestag 1990–1994 Alliance 90/The Greens MEPs German male non-fiction writers 20th-century German Protestant theologians Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Göttingen alumni Members of the Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens 20th-century Lutherans