Bernhard Weerts

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Bernhard and Marie Weerts as a young married couple

Bernhard Weerts (born July 17, 1858 in Firrel / East Friesland , † March 19, 1929 in Berlin ) was a Baptist clergyman who held a number of important offices within the German Baptist Union. Among other things, as chairman of the school commission, he was head of the Baptist theological seminar in Hamburg-Horn .

Life

Former seminary of the German Baptists in Hamburg-Horn (around 1888)

Bernhard Weerts, who came from a rural Evangelical-Lutheran family, experienced an internal conversion to the Christian faith at the age of 19 and was baptized two years later, on November 11, 1879, against the strong resistance of his father by the Baptist preacher Jannes Jelten in Schwerinsdorf . After the baptism he had to leave his parents' house and found acceptance into a Baptist family that had already taken in several rejected sons and daughters and whose house was therefore called a Baptist asylum by the villagers . Weerts began to hold public sermons shortly after his baptism and was officially commissioned with the office of travel preacher on April 1, 1882 . From 1885 to 1889 he studied at the German Baptist seminary in Hamburg-Horn . Then the Baptist congregation in Frankfurt am Main called him pastor. 13 years later he followed a call from the Bochum community and worked there until 1911. He did his last community service in Berlin from 1911 to 1925.

The Federal Conference of German Baptists elected Bernhard Weerts in Barmen in 1897 to the administrative commission of the then federally owned Oncken-Verlag . In addition to his pastoral service, from this point on he worked in many responsible positions in the Federation of German Baptist Congregations . Among other things, he was secretary of the so-called United Federal Administration (1900 to 1907) and chairman of the school commission (1912 to 1924), which at that time was in charge of the Hamburg-Horner seminary. In addition, in his role as treasurer of the Baptist English-German mission committee, he maintained relations with foreign Baptist unions.

Selected works

literature

  • Frank Fornaçon: Short biography Weerts, Bernhard , in: A Lord, a Faith, a Baptism. 150 years of Baptist congregations in Germany (published by Günter Balders on behalf of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches ), Wuppertal and Kassel 1985 (2nd unchanged edition), ISBN 3-7893-7883-6 , p. 365
  • Hero Jelten: And the Lord Deed added. 125 years of the Baptist congregation in the Hesel / Uplengen area (published for the anniversary 1990 by the Evangelical Free Church Community Firrel / Remels), Hesel 1990, p. 51ff

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Fornaçon: Short biography Weerts, Bernhard , in: A Lord, a Faith, a Baptism. 150 years of Baptist congregations in Germany , Wuppertal and Kassel 1985, p. 365 - Paul Schmidt [quoted from Hero Jelten: And the Lord added. 125 years of the Baptist congregation in the Hesel / Uplengen area (published for the anniversary in 1990 by the Evangelical Free Church Community of Firrel / Remels), Hesel 1990, p. 53] names March 15 as the date of death.
  2. ↑ Hero Jelten: And the Lord added. 125 years of the Baptist congregation in the Hesel / Uplengen area (published for the anniversary 1990 by the Evangelical Free Church Community Firrel / Remels), Hesel 1990, p. 51ff
  3. ↑ Frank Fornaçon: Short biography Weerts, Bernhard , in: A Lord, a Faith, a Baptism. 150 years of Baptist congregations in Germany , Wuppertal and Kassel 1985, p. 365
  4. ^ Paul Schmidt: Yearbook of the Union of Baptist Congregations in Germany , Hamburg 1930
personal data
SURNAME Weerts, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baptist pastor and head of the theological seminar in Hamburg-Horn
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Firrel
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1929
Place of death Berlin