Arnold Wilhelm Nordbeck

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Arnold Wilhelm Nordbeck (born March 29, 1860 in Schüttorf ; † December 11, 1948 ibid) was a German Reformed preacher in Landschaftspolder ( East Friesland ).

Life

Dr. jur. Nordbeck was married to Gesine Nordbeck Koppelmann (born January 28, 1863 in Schüttdorf; † 1956). Three children were born to the couple: Wessel Georg (born March 1, 1888 in Landschaftspolder), Johann Christian Friedrich Ludwig (born March 24, 1890 in Landschaftspolder; † April 4, 1945 in Herne ) and Gerhard Hermann (born April 7, 1894 in Landschaftspolder; † December 21, 1970 in Schwerin ).

Nordbeck took over the pastor's position in Landschaftspolder in 1886, which he held for 36 years. The abolition of the pastor's post there was directly related to his social commitment to the farm workers. Nordbeck campaigned for the workers in the polder areas who lived and worked in poor conditions on the large polder farms, but were almost possessed and did not have their own land. In view of their social grievances, Nordbeck founded a Christian workers' association for Ditzumer Verlaat and the surrounding area in 1907 , of which he became the first chairman. Workers from Landschaftspolder also joined the association, which quickly had over 100 members. When the expected success did not come soon, many workers left the association. Because Nordbeck publicly defended the concerns of the Social Democrats and considered them compatible with being a good Christian, the Aurich consistory warned him and did not withdraw the warning even after his contradiction.

The conflict escalated after the First World War when, on April 17, 1919, workers violently attacked the peasants in their distress and Nordbeck sided with them. The Christian Workers 'Association gained new support through the establishment of a farm workers' union in Ditzumerverlaat. Nordbeck has been a member of the reformed regional synod since around 1920 and gained influence as a result. In 1922, as negotiator for the workers' association, Nordbeck succeeded in leaving an area of ​​over 38 hectares to the farm workers as settlement land. Under pressure from the polder farmers, the parish of the Landschaftspolder Church , which had had its own pastor since 1768 and was financed by the farmers, was merged with the parish in Ditzumerverlaat in 1922 in order to remove Nordbeck from his office.

Nordbeck achieved supra-regional importance. He himself addressed his case in two publications, the first of which appeared under a pseudonym . The settlement area in Kanalpolder, the so-called Aalande, is commonly called the "Nordbeck settlement".

After his removal, Nordbeck became a pastor in Plantlünne until he retired in 1929. He spent his twilight years in his native Schüttorf, where he died in 1948 at the age of 88.

The son Gerhard Hermann probably painted two portraits of his parents in the 1940s, which the granddaughter Dorothea Anna Friederike Nordbeck gave to the Ditzumerverlaat parish in 2018.

literature

  • Arnold Wilhelm Nordbeck [Philalethes]: The abolition of the pastorate in landscape polders. Experiences of a pastor from 36 years of service . Hubert & Co., Göttingen 1926, reprint: Reinhard, Leer 1998, ISBN 3-927139-35-1 .
  • Arnold Wilhelm Nordbeck; Christian workers 'association for Ditzumerverlaat (ed.): The history of a farm workers' settlement. Memorandum . Goettingen 1928.
  • Arnold Wilhelm Nordbeck; Heide Braukmüller (Ed.): Memories . Ed. 1 print, Leer 2009, ISBN 978-3-941578-01-2 .
  • Menno Smid : East Frisian Church History . H. Risius, Weener 1974 (East Friesland in the protection of the dike, vol. 6).
  • Hartmut Rebuschat: Landscape polder. Life on the ocean floor . Self-published, Landschaftspolder 2007.
  • Paul Weßels : "Whoever believes will not flee". Pastor Wilhelm Nordbeck in Landschaftspolder. In: Emder yearbook for historical regional studies of East Frisia . Vol. 88/89, 2008/2009, pp. 174-209.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Emslandische and Bentheimer Familienforschung from September 2000, Issue 56, Volume 11, p. 197 Online . Retrieved June 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ Rebuschat: Landschaftspolder . 2007, p. 93.
  3. ↑ Rebuschat: Landschaftspolder . 2007, p. 93f.
  4. ↑ Smid: East Frisian Church History . 1974, p. 508.
  5. ↑ Smid: East Frisian Church History . 1974, p. 509.
  6. ↑ Smid: East Frisian Church History . 1974, p. 510.
  7. ↑ Hartmut Rebuschat (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape): Landschaftspolder , p. 1f. (PDF file; 42.3 kB), viewed September 25, 2011.
  8. ↑ Hartmut Rebuschat (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape): Landschaftspolder , p. 3 (PDF file; 42.3 kB), viewed September 25, 2011.
  9. ↑ Menno Smid: East Frisian Church History . H. Risius, Weener 1974, p. 512, 517 (Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike, vol. 6).
  10. ^ Hans-Walter Krumwiede: Church history of Lower Saxony. Verlag Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1996, p. 216, ISBN 3525554346 ( online ).
  11. ^ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft: Heinitzpolder , p. 2 (PDF file; 22.4 kB), viewed September 25, 2011.
  12. ↑ Rheiderland-Zeitung of June 14, 2018: Return to paintings , accessed on September 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Nordbeck, Arnold Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed pastor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Schuettorf
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1948
Place of death Schuettorf