Background
Scholder was the son of Erlangen professor of Chemistry Rudolf Scholder.
historian theologian university professor
Scholder was the son of Erlangen professor of Chemistry Rudolf Scholder.
After his high school graduation, he studied Germanistics and Theology at the University of Tübingen and at Göttingen.
After his academic promotion and his ordination as an evangelical pastor, he worked for the Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party)"s Bundestag faction. After his habilitation he worked as a private docent at the University of Tübingen and in 1968 received a professorship for Ecclesiastic Order. The two volumes are still considered a standard on the topic in Germany.
A third volume was completed posthumously in 2001 by his student Gerhard Besier, now Director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research into Totalitarianism in Dresden.
Influenced by Karl Georg Pfleiderer, Scholder joined the Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party)/DVP. In the late 1960s he was chairman of the Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party)/DVP Tübingen District Association. In the 1970s, he was vice chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
He was a major contributor to the cultural and religious points of view in the Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party)"s "Berlin Agenda" of 1957.