Background
The son of the famous Old Testament scholar Rudolf Kittel, he married Hanna Untermeier in 1914, but there were no children from the union.
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chaplain theologian university professor
The son of the famous Old Testament scholar Rudolf Kittel, he married Hanna Untermeier in 1914, but there were no children from the union.
He is best known in the field of Biblical study for his Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament (Theological Dictionary of the New Testament). He had had no previous involvement in politics but called the Nazi Party "a voelkisch renewal movement on a Christian, moral foundation". In 1945, after Hitler"s Third Reich capitulated to the Allies, Kittel was arrested by the French occupying forces, removed from office and interned at Balingen.
In 1946 Kittel was released pending his trial.
He was forbidden to enter Tübingen until 1948, however. From 1946 to 1948 he was a Seelsorger (soul carer) in Beuron.
In 1948 he was allowed back into Tübingen, but died that year before the criminal proceedings against him could be resumed. Foreign the Third Reich, he produced antisemitic propaganda posing as scholarship.
In a lecture of June 1933 Die Judenfrage (The Jewish Question), that soon appeared in print, he spoke for the stripping of citizenship from German Jews, their removal from medicine, law, teaching, and journalism, and to forbid marriage or sexual relations with non-Jews - thus anticipating by two years the Nazi government, which introduced its Nuremberg Racial Laws and took away Jewish rights of German citizenship, in 1935.
Within this institute he was attached to the highly anti-Semitic Forschungsabteilung judenfrage.
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In May 1933 he joined the National Socialist German Workers Party.
He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis and an open anti-Semite.
