Otto Weber (theologian)

Otto Weber (German: [ˈveːbɐ]; 4 June 1902 – 19 October 1966) was a German theologian.

Biography

Weber was born in Mülheim, and studied at Bonn and Tübingen. In 1933, he joined the Nazi Party^[1] and was for a short time a member of the German Christians group. In 1934, Weber became professor at the University of Göttingen.

He opposed the witness of the Confessing Church, and after the war felt a strong sense of guilt for his involvement with Nazi Germany.^[2] His 1955 work, The Foundations of Dogmatics is one of the most influential Reformed theological works of the twentieth century.^[3] Jürgen Moltmann describes him as an "expert teacher" and a "compelling preacher".^[2]

Weber died in St. Moritz.