Background
Baumann was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
Baumann was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
Because of his Bible study and under the influence of Kirchenkampf during the Third Reich as well as intensive contact to Catholic Christians especially during the Second World War, he came in 1941 to the conclusion that after the Gospel of Matthew 16.18 and Gospel of John from 21.15 to 17 Jesus said Simon Peter was transmitted order to be understood as a continuing until the end of time office, which in the Roman Pope was realized. Since this would not voluntarily give up his office, there were in 1953 first teaching breeding process in the history of the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. This process is based on a specially adopted teaching breeding regulation ended with the removal Baumann from the rectory. The procedure and the judgment of the college motto of this method was also used by evangelical authors (in what Hans Asmussen and Max Lackmann criticized) sometimes violently.
A key point of criticism of the educational process against Richard Baumann is that the church"s motto College, chaired by the Landesbischof had refused to submit a binding teaching on the question of the duration of the Petrine office (as Baumann had demanded it, in this case, he had a has offered to retract his theses), while in fact, the prevailing view in the judgment against Baumann set legally binding.
At the Second Vatican Council, Baumann took part as an unofficial observer. He died, aged 97, in Tübingen.