August Hoyer (Pastor)

August Hoyer (also Augustus Hoyer and Wilhelm August Hoyer and August Georg Wilhelm Hoyer ; born October 11, 1820 in Blumlage near Celle ; † October 5, 1908 ) was a German Protestant clergyman .

Life

August Hoyer came from "an old Hanoverian pastor family " and was born in Blumlage near Celle in 1820, at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover and before the beginning of the industrial revolution . In Lüneburg he first attended the local grammar school before he studied theology first in Halle at the local university , then in Jena and finally in Göttingen at the Georg-August University . He then worked for several years as a private tutor for Pastor Büttner, who was active in Daverden , before finally passing his theological exam and being ordained by the Hanover Consistory for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America and by a committee on July 12 of the same year 1848 United States was seconded. At the beginning of August he set sail from Bremen with a sailing ship, which after about 7 weeks crossing the Atlantic was able to anchor in Baltimore on September 24th . From there he went to the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Pittsburgh , which wanted to elect him to pastor and to whom he was supposed to personally deliver 120 Reichstaler from the central board of the Leipzig-based Gustav Adolf Association to build a church .

In fact, August Hoyer was still working as a preacher at the Missouri Synod in the 1840s and subsequently administered the pastoral office of a Protestant parish in Philadelphia for a few years , as Reverent at St. John's Church .

On September 5, 1851, Hoyer married his Mathilde (Mathilde Amalie Elisabeth; * February 15, 1826, † November 21, 1893 in Hanover) in New York .

After his return to the Kingdom of Hanover, Hoyer worked temporarily as a military chaplain with the Hanoverian garrison stationed in Celle . In 1859 King George V called him to take over the pastoral office for the newly founded parish of the Christ Church . At that point in time, the church in the Hanoverian district of Nordstadt , known for the first time decades later, had not yet been built. As an alternative, he was introduced to his office on August 28, 1859 in the Nikolaikapelle, which had been used by the community until then ; the date has been considered the founding date of the Christ parish ever since. The foundation stone for the Christ Church was only laid a good three weeks later on September 21, 1859, the Crown Prince's birthday.

In his initially still small “little church”, Hoyer worked with the then consistorial councilor Gerhard Uhlhorn and other “ministerial brothers” during the evening mission hours .

Pastor Hoyer was characterized by a special pastoral effectiveness. Under him, on May 15, 1863, a first waiting school was opened in the rooms of the elementary school on Engelbosteler Damm for the children of working parents. In the following year, 1864, he set up a nursing ward with a deaconess from the Henrietten Foundation - an example that quickly established itself beyond the borders of Hanover.

Exactly 5 years after the laying of the foundation stone of the Christ Church, the master builder Conrad Wilhelm Hase handed over the key for the church to King George V at the ceremonial inauguration of the Christ Church on September 21, 1864, who immediately passed it on to Pastor Hoyer.

The Deutsche Volkszeitung later wrote about Hoyer:

"As a representative of the parish under the patronage of the Royal House , he took part in the funeral of the King of Windsor , as well as in the wedding ceremony of Duke Ernst August in Copenhagen ."

While the number of members when the church was founded was around 7,000, this number doubled to around 14,000 in just three years in the course of industrialization. In order to alleviate the enormous increase in workload, Hoyer was therefore assigned the priest Richard Greve, who initially worked as a “ parish collaborator ”, in 1867 . In the early days of the German Empire , the two clerics alone had in 1876 1300 children baptized , 400 children confirm , 358 couples marry and bury more than 600 parishioners. For the rapidly growing congregation, the two therefore initially set up the Apostle Church as a daughter congregation ; the formation of the congregation of the later Luther Church , however, brought about above all Greve. From 1891 onwards, the third Paster Rudolf Graff, intended for this, helped.

After around 35 years in the service of the Christ Church, August Hoyer retired on October 1, 1894. He died in 1908 at the age of 88.

Trivia

In 1869 Hoyer received a grant of 1,392 thalers .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wilhelm Löhe , Johann Friedrich Wucherer (Ed.): Kirchliche Mittheilungen from and about North America , 1st year, No. 4, Nördlingen: Printed and commissioned by the CH Beck'schen Buchhandlung, 1843, Sp. 31, 32; Digitized via Google books
2. ^ ^{A b} McElroy's Philadelphia Directory, for 1865 containing the Names of the Inhabitants of the consolidated City, their Occupations, Places of Business, and dwelling Houses: A Business Directory, a List of the Streets, Lanes, Alleys, the City Offices, public Institutions, Banks etc., also the Names of Houskeepers etc., in Camden, New York . Nineteenth edition. Philadelphia: Edward C. and John Biddle, printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1856, p. 303, 882; limited preview in Google Book search
3. ↑ Richard Greve : From the foundation of the community to its first division (1859-1884) , in ders .: The Christ Church in Hanover. Notes from the 50-year history of a metropolitan community , Hanover: Verlag von Heinrich Feesche, 1909, pp. 3–37; here: p. 5
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} German Gender Book , Volume 179 (1979), p. 17; limited preview in Google Book search
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Wolfgang Pietsch: The pastors of the Christ Church Congregation. In: Stefanie Sonnenburg, Felicitas Kröger, Wolfgang Pietsch, Claudia Probst, Peter Troche, Rolf Wießell (ed.): 1859–2009. 150 years of the Christ Church in Hanover. Anniversary publication on the occasion of the foundation of the community on August 28, 1859 Akzent-Druck, Hanover 2009, pp. 117–129, v. a. P. 117f.
6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Capital (function). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 274.
7. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Nordstadt. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 482
8. ^ Pastor Brunn: Pastor Brunn's travel report , in CFW Walter (Red.): Der Lutheraner , ed. from the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other states, Volume 20, Issue 23, St. Louis: August 1, 1864; Digitized via Google books
9. ^ R. Hartmann : History of the royal city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , revised reprint of the original edition from 1880, UNICUM, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8457-0308-4 , p. 631; limited preview in Google Book search
10. ↑ Stefanie Sonnenburg: Community Sisters in the Nordstadt , in Stefanie Sonnenburg, Felicitas Kröger, Wolfgang Pietsch, Claudia Probst, Peter Troche, Rolf Wießell (ed.): 1859–2009. 150 years of church planting. . , Pp. 133–140, here: s. 140
11. ↑ Dieter Brosius : School, Church, Poor and Health Care , in Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : History of the City of Hanover , Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994, ISBN 3 -87706-364-0 , pp. 335-340; here: p. 336f .; limited preview in Google Book search
12. ↑ Simon Benne : Christ Church celebrates its anniversary / 150 years old - and as if reborn / The Christ Church in the northern part of the city celebrates its 150th anniversary - and the new choir center opens on time , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from September 18, 2014, updated September 21, 2014, last accessed February 10, 2018
13. ↑ Werner Trolp: The military pastoral care in the Hanoverian army: support within the general structures of the church, taking into account the special features of the army (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony , volume 045), 1st edition, Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2012, ISBN 978-3 -8470-0067-9 , p. 103; limited preview in Google Book search