Carl Ihmels

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Carl Heinrich Ihmels (born October 24, 1888 in Detern , † April 10, 1967 in Dresden ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor , theologian and missiologist . He was director of the Leipzig Mission Office for 37 years .

Carl Heinrich Ihmel's grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Life

Carl Ihmels was born in 1888 as the son of the later regional bishop Ludwig Ihmels and grew up in Loccum , Erlangen and Leipzig . After graduating from the König-Albert-Gymnasium in 1907, he studied philosophy and evangelical theology at the universities of Leipzig , Erlangen and Göttingen . He passed his exams in Hanover in 1911 and 1914 . In 1914 he became a pastor in Baltrum and a teacher at an elementary school. He later worked in Westrhauderfehn . In 1916 he was awarded a dissertation on the emergence of organic nature according to Schelling , Darwin and Wundt . An investigation into the development concept in Erlangen for Dr. phil. PhD. As the successor to Carl Paul , he was director of the Leipziger Missionswerk from 1923 to 1960, and from 1926 also head of the Mission Studies seminar in Leipzig, where he received an honorary professorship in 1932 . In 1927 he traveled to India.

In 1930 Carl Ihmels was awarded an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty in Erlangen . During the Second World War he was a member of the opposition Confessing Church and hid the holdings of the library of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum in the mission. He had been married to Annamarie Scharwächter from Leipzig since 1919 and had six children, including Werner and Folkert Ihmels .

Fonts

  • The emergence of organic nature according to Schelling, Darwin and Wundt. An investigation into the thought of development . Deichert, Leipzig 1916.
  • To our task in India. Thoughts on the restart of German missionary work in Tamulenlande , Leipzig 1927.
  • From World War I to the Present , Leipzig 1936.
  • A Tamulenkirche is built , Leipzig 1936.
  • In the East African steppe , Leipzig 1936.
  • As the Servants of God , Dresden 1938.

literature

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk Leipzig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. He attended the grammar school from 1902 to 1907. Cf. Michael Hübers: The history of the König-Albert-Gymnasium zu Leipzig. A contribution to the history of the Saxon higher education system , Leipzig 1957, p. 127.
  2. a b Directors of the LMW. Website of the Leipziger Missionswerk, accessed on February 4, 2020 .