Ernst Buddeberg

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Ernst Buddeberg (born September 11, 1873 in Cologne , † January 9, 1949 in Bad Liebenzell ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, pastor, author and director of the Liebenzeller Mission .

Live and act

Buddeberg was a son of the businessman Julius Friedrich Buddeberg (1843-1905) and his wife Elizabeth, née Furer (1846-?), He was the fourth of six children. He studied Protestant theology in Halle , Berlin and Bonn . He completed his vicariate in Neukirchen am Niederrhein, then taught at the Johanneum Evangelist School in Barmen and in 1901 became a pastor in Heiligenhaus . In 1907 he became inspector of the Evangelical Society for Germany in Elberfeld , where he later worked for 20 years as a pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church .

In 1901 he married Luise Coerper (1874–1937), a daughter of the pastor Fritz Coerper (1847–1924). The son Ernst Friedrich Julius, born in 1907, also became a pastor.

Buddeberg was a speaker at the Gnadau Conference in 1910, where he spoke about Where does the crush begin? spoke. From 1931 to 1933 he was inspector and chairman of the Rhenish Community Association. He also belonged to the national-conservative German National People's Party (DNVP), and in 1932 he expressed a certain sympathy for the emerging National Socialism on the one hand, and on the other hand he warned against this movement and became a member of the Confessing Church . He supported the director of the Gnadauer Verband Walter Michaelis against the German Christians . In 1933 he published his concerns about the German Reich Church as the author and editor of the magazine Licht und Leben . He edited other magazines such as the Schatzgräber and the Lutheran Community Gazette and, with his efforts, managed to increase the number of readers. His small scripts and books achieved considerable editions, his work The Most Important from Biblical Studies saw 13 editions with almost 200,000 printed copies.

In 1934, Buddeberg, freshly retired, moved to Bad Liebenzell, where, in difficult times, he took over the management of the Liebenzeller Mission from the founder and his wife's uncle, Heinrich Coerper . He had previously married the daughter of his brother and missionary Fritz Coerper. However, he apparently kept silent about his membership in the Confessing Church and said in public statements at the end of 1934, “that we are not yet thanking enough for the election of Adolf Hitler ; .... the state rightly exerts coercion and complainers are not to be tolerated. "A little later he became explicitly anti-Semitic :" The Jews are a curse for other peoples because they are people under the curse of the murder of the Messiah. We agree that the influence of the Jews in our fatherland should be suppressed in the strongest possible way. ”On May 22nd, 1936 he forbade the visit of Jewish doctors with immediate effect, and anyone who should still be treated by a Jewish doctor must do so abort.

Buddeberg was able to maneuver the Liebenzeller Mission through the National Socialist period and the hardship of the Second World War with only a few restrictions thanks to his good contacts with the Protestant bishop of Württemberg Theophil Wurm and the German authorities. He succeeded in raising the level of training for missionaries and introducing nursing training for women. He arranged the finances, reorganized the mission society and appointed three mission inspectors Adolf Witt, Wilhelm Heinsen and Heinrich Hertel. He held this office for 12 years until he fell seriously ill in 1946 and died after three years of illness.

Fonts

  • Guide through the Holy Scriptures , 1908, Aussaat-Verlag , Neukirchen-Vluyn, 12 editions
  • The most important of biblical studies , Aussaat-Verlag, Wuppertal 1919, 13 editions
  • Maria Walter. A missionary life completed early, Liebenzeller Mission bookstore, Bad Liebenzell 1920
  • I know who I believe in - a brief doctrine of faith for young Christians with attached Bible studies , bookstore of the Evangelical Society for Germany, Elberfeld 1922
  • Pastor Fritz Coerper - a people's missionary , bookstore of the Evangelical Society for Germany, Elberfeld 1925, 3 editions
  • Glimpses into the otherworldly world , bookstore of the Evangelical Society for Germany, Elberfeld 1931
  • Goethe and the Gospel , 1932, 3 editions
  • From the memoirs of a people's missionary Pastor Fritz Coerper - a program for our time , bookstore of the Evangelical Society, Elberfeld 1934, 3 editions
  • The most important from the Christian doctrine , bookstore of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1934, 7 editions
  • Heinrich Coerper: From the life and work of the founder of the Liebenzeller Mission , bookstore of the Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 1936, 4 editions
  • How do I get to the certainty of salvation? 1968, 2 editions

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Buddeberg, Ernst. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 795-796.
  • Ernst-Friedrich Buddeberg: Ernst Buddeberg - a life from faith (= Edition C. Volume 275). Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 1989, ISBN 3-88002-380-8 .
  • Helmuth Egelkraut : The Liebenzeller Mission and National Socialism: A study on selected areas, people and positions. With a statement by the Liebenzeller Mission Committee (= Interculturality & Religion. Volume 3). LIT, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-12980-2 .
  • Elmar Spohn : Between adaptation, affinity and resistance. The faith and community missions in the time of National Socialism (= contributions to missiology and intercultural theology. Volume 34). LIT, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-13213-0 , pp. 195-216.
  • Jochen Gruch: The Protestant Pastors in the Rhineland I. Bonn 2011, No. 1696.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.evangelisches-gemeindeblatt.de/detailansicht/entsetzt-ueber-antisemitismus-1008/ Andreas Steidel: Shocked about anti-Semitism , Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg 2015
  2. ↑ Elmar Spohn: Between adaptation, affinity and resistance. The faith and community missions in the time of National Socialism. Münster 2016, pp. 195–216; Helmuth Egelkraut: The Liebenzeller Mission and National Socialism: A study on selected areas, people and positions. With a statement from the Liebenzeller Mission Committee. Münster 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Buddeberg, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1949
Place of death Bad Liebenzell