Alfred Haensel
Carl Alfred Max Wilhelm Haensel (born February 2, 1869 , † April 22, 1922 in Lübeck ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and the first pastor at St. Matthäi . He founded the Christian Association of Young People in Lübeck.
Life
Haensel, who came from Sackisch , passed the official theological examination in 1891 with the second character. On 20 March 1892 he was as parochial vicar of the Deaconess Institute in Altona ordained .
While the community of St. Lorenz once only had between 200 and 300 members, the suburb of St. Lorenz and thus the community grew rapidly due to the urban development of Lübeck since 1864 . On April 23, 1882, when Johannes Bernhard was hired as the second pastor of the congregation, the number of members was already around 9,000 and doubled again in Johann Hermann Bousset's last years. The Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck decided in 1895, at the request of the Church Council , to divide the community and build two new churches.
The new community comprised the streets to the left and right of Schwartauer Allee as well as the Teerhofsinsel and around 4200 people. Their church council , which was formed in May 1896, decided to appoint their own pastor on July 1, 1896 , even though they had neither a pastorate , a church or parish rooms. Pastor Haensel at the St. Ansgar parish in Kiel was the youngest of the 15 applicants for the office. The board and committee of the community elected him on September 28th with eleven of the 15 possible votes as their first clergyman and on October 25th he was introduced to his office by the senior , Leopold Friedrich Ranke .
Since the pastor and the board of directors agreed that a new congregation needed both its own rooms and a place of worship, they declined the offer of shared use of the St. Lorenz Church . In the community area Haensel found the centrally located III. St. Lorenz School. Their large gym was made available by the Lübeck school authorities as a provisional church room for church services .
At the beginning of the new church year , the 1st Advent in 1896, Haensel held the first service in the parish of St. Matthäi. This date was later referred to as the actual birthday of the church. On that day, the first children's church service took place there, which was not a particularly common church offer in those years . In the following years this became a trademark of the parish of St. Matthäi.
The lessons of his confirmation , the first group consisted of only 21 children, as well as Bible studies were in the early days held the church in classrooms. Over the course of 25 years, more than 4200 girls and boys were to be blessed by Haensel.
It was decided in 1899 to build a church with a parish hall and parish apartment next to the school. When the foundation stone was laid on February 12, 1899, the community, led by Senior Ranke and Mayor Klug , moved over to the excavation pit . The church was consecrated on the Laetare Sunday of 1900, which falls on March 25th . The St. Matthäi Church was thus the first church to be built in Lübeck after around 250 years. The new St. Lorenz Church , which was being built at the same time, was only consecrated on Sunday Jubilate , May 6, 1900.
Haensel gave the young community influences that still exist today. The St. Matthew Fellowship was a circle that did not revolve around itself, but placed itself at the service of the church and community. For example, members of the “community” were included as helpers in children's services . In the children's services, up to 1000 children, including from neighboring parishes, gathered at the beginning and then separated in groups. They filled every corner of the church and parish hall down to the tower or cellar. Up to 1,300 of them were counted during his excursions into the Riesebusch .
At a time when some people occasionally accused older people that they were no longer suitable for work, the sentence passed down from Haensel: “It is noble to wear white hair.” Based on this, he invited them weekly to the “Edelweiss “-Afternoon at the parish hall.
In his first seven years, Haensel was the sole pastor of his parish and the 4200 at the beginning had grown to over 12,000 parishioners by 1903. Areas beyond the flood trench as the residential areas on the upper Schwartau Avenue, Wilhelm height, the village Vorwerk and industrial space Trems were Rensefeld abgepfarrt and the new community slammed shut.
Since the pastors of St. Lorenz saw themselves unable to "represent the clergyman of St. Matthäi because of their own heavy workload in the event of disability", the St. Matthew church council decided on February 11, 1903 to set up a second pastorate. Now the church council was concerned with the relationship between the two pastors. The church council wanted to appoint one of the two as the main pastor, following the inner-city model. However, when the synod refused this and wanted the two pastors to be treated equally, the church council turned to the senate , as it was then in charge of the sovereign church government. The latter informed the board that he would not intervene and make the decision himself. However, since it is a matter of regulating work in the congregation, it is considered best if the church council, and not the synod, decides in this case. Ergo it was decided on July 28, 1903 by the board that Pastor Haensel should be appointed chief pastor. The second pastor's position was filled with Pastor Karl Arndt, who was appointed to his post on October 4, 1903 ( Thanksgiving Sunday ). After Haensel's death, Arndt Haensel's successor and remained at the St. Matthäi Church for his entire professional life, 31 years.
When Haensel became a pastor in Lübeck in 1896, he also became a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . In the Vorwerk district bordering Lübeck, the Schwartauer Allee in Lübeck became the Schwartauer Chaussee . At the beginning of the Chaussee was the district school for Vorwerk . When the Chaussee merged into the avenue in 1904, it was continued from number 96. The school without street numbers up until then became the 6th St. Lorenz School and was given house number 132 . At the meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities on April 11, 1905, Haensel was elected as its representative to the board of the sixth toddler school.
In an extensive activity in the evangelistic field, many associations were founded and led by him in this regard. The circles that gathered around him here were called the "Landekirchlicher Gesamtverband für die Christiane Christianity ". The Matthäi Church was with him as a figurehead as an evangelical stronghold.
Haensel also worked on the work of the constitution commission for the new church constitution . He defended the hotly contested Articles 13 and 30. These were supposed to guarantee the protection of so-called minorities and to anchor them in the constitution. With the conclusion of the new church constitution, this was then described as exemplary.
Haensel founded the CVJM Lübeck . He was its first chairman until his death. The association owes its former building at Grosse Burgstrasse 51 , in the backyard of today's Dr. Julius Leber House, to his constant efforts .
Also for the missionary work to Haensel enthusiastic. This was expressed, among other things, in the fact that his children's worship groups raised the money for three bells. They were sent to the mission areas of the Indian Jaipur Church and to the Bethel Mission in Africa .
The church had to be closed due to overcrowding for his funeral service held by Provost Lucht in St. Matthäi on the afternoon of April 26, 1922 . The funeral procession then left the church with the YMCA wind choir followed by delegations from the associations founded by Haensel in front of his coffin . His wife Emmy (1875–1944) and his children were followed by the Council of Churches, Mayor Neumann and Building Councilor Baltzer as chairman of the Synod. Almost all the clergy in the Lübeck churches followed him in regalia . The deceased's community stood from the church to behind Wickedestrasse, the border with the Lorenz community, the train trellis . At the grave in the Lorenz cemetery, Pastor Arndt spoke as the representative of the congregation and Pastor Beckemeier as the head of the “Landekirchlichen Gesamtverband für die Festes Christianity”.
literature
- Senior Pastor Alfred Haensel †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1921/22, No. 16, edition of May 7, 1922, p. 61.
- Senior Pastor Alfred Haensel †. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 64th year, number 18, edition of April 30, 1922, pp. 140–141.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ At that time there was no independent Ansgar congregation, but since 1888 a preaching district "Ansgar" existed.
- ^ Dietrich Mutschler, Günter Brühl, Horst Göppinger: Church in Kiel , Karl Wachholtz Verlag (1991), ISBN 9783529027178 , page 17.
- ↑ Local news. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 4th year, number 31, edition of August 2, 1903, p. 397.
- ↑ 108. Annual report of the society for the promotion of charitable activities in 1896. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 63rd vol., Number 45, edition of November 7, 1897, pp. 549-560.
- ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1905, No. 16, edition of April 16, 1905, p. 209.
- ↑ Hansjörg Buss: "Entjudete" Church. The Lübeck regional church between Christian anti-Judaism and ethnic anti-Semitism (1918-1950). Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77014-1 , p. 95 f.
- ↑ Haensel's wife, who was called Emmy, was actually called Emilie Johanna.
- ↑ The family had at least two sons, Johannes and Erich
- ^ The funeral of the main pastor Haensel von St. Matthäi. In Lübeckische advertisements , volume 172, issue A, no. 195, April 27, 1922
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haensel, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haensel, Carl Alfred Max Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1869 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1922 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |