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                <opener><dateline><date when="1947-01-30">January 30, 1947</date></dateline>
                    <salute>Dear <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Tillich</rs>:</salute></opener>
                <p><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__394" type="person">Gerhard Colm</rs> sent me your
                    letter of January 15,<note type="ea">Liegt nicht vor.
                        <!-- vermutlich Brief L11036 --></note> in which you inquire about the
                    possibility of visiting <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs>. Unfortunately, I was out of town for a few days and did not
                    get to answering your letter earlier.</p>
                <p>I am aware of the correspondence between <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1390" type="person">Reinhold Niebuhr</rs> and <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__4911" type="person">Eugene Anderson</rs> in my Division, and know that <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__4911" type="person">Mr. Anderson</rs> has referred
                        <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1390" type="person">Niebuhr</rs>'s letter
                    to <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__4912" type="person">Lieutenant Colonel R. B.
                        McRae</rs> of the Reorientation Branch, Civil Affairs Division, War
                    Department, with a personal recommendation that your case be favorably
                    considered. <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__4912" type="person">Lt. Col. McRae</rs>
                    is the Chief of the Reorientation Branch.</p>
                <p>As <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__4911" type="person">Anderson</rs> wrote to <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1390" type="person">Niebuhr</rs>, the
                    administrative arrangements for official trips to <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs> by experts in the
                    field of education and information are made by the Reorientation Branch. This
                    also answers one of your questions in your letter to <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__394" type="person">Colm</rs>. The only
                    appropriations available for American experts to be sent to <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs> for contributing to
                    German reorientation appear on the War Department budget.</p>
                <p>These so-called experts are requested by Military Government either by name or by
                    indication of their qualifications, to be put on the War Department payrole for
                    a limited period of time in order to assist Military Government in <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs> in an educational or
                    informational task which is considered important.</p>
                <p>Neither the War Department nor the Department of State has at present any funds
                    for financing any other visits of American to <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__122" type="place">Germany</rs>.</p>
                <p>As to the possibility of an arra<supplied>n</supplied>gement as envisaged by <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__4913" type="person">Professor Douglas
                    Steer</rs>,<!-- Identität nicht ganz sicher, würde aber in den Zusammenhang passen. -->
                    mentioned in your letter to <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__394" type="person">Colm</rs>, I should be inclined to think that the <add place="sublinear">best</add> procedure would be for<note type="ea">Darunter findet sich die
                        Adresse <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Tillichs</rs>.</note><pb n="2"/>
                    <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__4913" type="person">Professor Steer</rs> or the
                    Society of Friends to approach the Reorientation Branch of the State Department
                    as sprecifically as possible with precisely what they have in mind.</p>
                <p>If you have any further questions regarding your plans, do not hesitate to call
                    me.</p>


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                    <salute> Sincerely yours,</salute>
                    <signed><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1823" type="person">Hans Speier</rs>,<lb/>
                        Associate Chief, Division of Occupied Areas<lb/> Office of International
                        Information<lb/> and Cultural Affairs</signed>
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                    <p>cc: <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__394" type="person">Mr. Gerhard Colm</rs>,
                        Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, 25 <del rend="s">attachments</del>
                        with the letter adressed to him by <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Professor Paul Tillich</rs>
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                  <occupation>US-amerikanischer Theologe</occupation>
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                     <p>Niebuhr, Karl Paul Reinhold (21.6.1892 Wright City, Missouri – 1.6.1971 Stockbridge, Massachusetts) war ein US-amerikanischer evangelischer Theologe, Philosoph und Politikwissenschaftler. Er stammte aus einer deutschen Einwandererfamilie, studierte an der Yale Divinity School, wurde 1915 ordiniert und war bis 1928 Pfarrer in Detroit. Von 1928 bis 1960 lehrte er Religionsphilosophie am Union Theological Seminary in New York. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Schriften, hielt 1939 die Gifford Lectures und erhielt mehrere Ehrendoktorate. 1931 heiratete er Ursula Mary Keppel-Compton.</p>
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                  <persName>Steere, Douglas Van</persName>
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                  <persName>Tillich, Paul</persName>
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                     <date>1886-08-20</date>
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                        <placeName>Starzeddel, Niederschlesien (heute Polen)</placeName>
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                     <date>1965-10-22</date>
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                        <placeName>Chicago, Illinois, USA</placeName>
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                  <occupation>Theologe, Religionsphilosoph und Pfarrer</occupation>
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                     <p>Paul Tillich (20. August 1886 – 22. Oktober 1965) war ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Religionsphilosoph. Nach seiner Tätigkeit als Feldprediger im Ersten Weltkrieg lehrte er an verschiedenen Universitäten in Deutschland, bis er 1933 emigrieren musste und in den USA wirkte, unter anderem in New York, Harvard und Chicago. Tillich entwickelte eine Theologie der Kultur und verstand Religion als das „was uns unbedingt angeht“. In seiner „Systematic Theology“ formulierte er die Methode der Korrelation und deutete Gott als „Macht des Seins“. Seine Arbeiten verbinden Theologie, Philosophie und Existenzdenken und hatten großen Einfluss auf das religiöse Denken der Moderne.</p>
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