# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/friedrich-rittelmeyer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:32:13.746Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/friedrich-rittelmeyer"
name: "Friedrich Rittelmeyer"
slug: "friedrich-rittelmeyer"
description: "Friedrich Rittelmeyer was a Lutheran German minister, theologian and the principal founder and first leader of The Christian Community. Rittelmeyer came to prominence in the early 20th century as a leading academic liberal theologian and priest in Germany and wrote several books that advocated a socially engaged \"Christianity of deeds\" (Tatchristentum). During the First World War he eventually became one of the most high-profile clergymen in Germany to publicly oppose the war. From the 1910s his thinking was gradually influenced by the philosopher Rudolf Steiner, and in 1922 a group of mainly Lutheran priests and theology students led by Rittelmeyer founded The Christian Community as an ecumenically oriented Christian community inspired by Steiner's writings; The Christian Community is primarily a liturgical community with only a loose creed, and for that reason rejects Christian dogmas. Rittelmeyer saw it as a continuation of the liberal Christian tradition of which he was the foremost representative in Germany in the early 20th century."
tagline: "German theologian (1872-1938)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Friedrich_Rittelmeyer.png/330px-Friedrich_Rittelmeyer.png"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1872-10-05"
deathDate: "1938-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump