Clemens Schultz

Portrait in the Church of St. Pauli

Street sign
Clemens-Schultz-Straße

Clemens Schultz (born September 22, 1862 in Hamburg ; † January 13, 1914 ibid., Full name Clemens Eduard Ferdinand Carl Schultz ) was the most important pastor of the Hamburg Church of St. Pauli and one of the founders of modern church youth work and welfare. He founded the first so-called "apprentices 'associations" or "assistants' associations" in Hamburg as a means of pastoral and social care for young workers.

Life

Clemens Schultz was born as the eldest son of the director of a marine insurance company, but he died in 1878 before he finished school. In 1886 he joined the visit of Wandsbek Gymnasium with the Abitur , and immediately thereafter began in Jena to study theology. He continued his studies in Berlin and returned to Hamburg in 1890 to prepare for his exams. As his mother's financial situation was not very good, he gave private lessons and in this way came into contact with younger people. He did not graduate until 1894 on the third attempt.

First he was accepted into the Hamburg teacher training college. He got in touch with Nicolai von Ruckteschell , at that time a pastor in Eilbek, and was strongly influenced by him personally and professionally.

In July 1896 Clemens Schultz received his permanent pastor in the church of St. Pauli . The focus of his activity was soon the confirmation work , in which he showed himself to be extraordinarily committed and successful despite the difficult social conditions in St. Pauli. He looked after between 400 and 600 confirmands per year. In order to be able to train and support the young people even after their confirmation, Clemens Schultz first founded the St. Paulian Apprenticeship Association in 1894 and later the St. Pauli Assistant Association for young men who had completed their training .

Clemens Schultz must have exerted a considerable fascination on his contemporaries. All of his activities were extremely successful, the two clubs grew rapidly, and their annual meetings were attended by up to 800 people. Schultz's office hours and services were usually overcrowded. In addition to the two associations, he also founded the community's day nursery , the tradition of which the daycare center continues to this day. He was not just a pastor, but more of an educator and social worker , he created a basis for youth work and welfare in Hamburg. As a result, he achieved a level of awareness that reached well beyond the city limits. Schultz himself often referred to himself ironically as "cathedral and court preacher", by which he meant his activities at the fair on the Heiligengeistfeld and in the backyards of St. Pauli.

He brought together his experiences with young people and his view of working-class culture in the brochure "Die Halbstarken " published in 1912 , with which he coined a term that is still widespread today. From 1913 he was the lodge master of the Hamburg Masonic Lodge "Zum Gral" and one of its founding members.

On January 13, 1914, Schultz died after a long illness and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery with great sympathy . A street in St. Pauli is named after him to this day . In the churchyard of "his" church there is still the gravestone as a memorial stone for him.

Apprentice and assistant association

The purpose of the two associations is defined in their respective statutes as follows:

Ҥ 1. The purpose of the association is: 1. To protect the growing male youth from spending Sunday evening in a wrong or bad way. [...] "

- Statutes for the Association of St. Paulian Apprentices

"§ 1. [He] should [...] pursue the purpose of the instruction [... and] want to familiarize his members with the existing conditions in church, state and society as objectively as possible."

- Articles of Association for the St. Pauli Association

The apprentice association should serve the pastoral care of young people outside the church institutions. A fixed program divided the club evening on Sunday into collective activities, lectures, games and conversations or singing. Attendance of the lectures was compulsory for the members and a library was available to them. In order to achieve full membership, a recommendation from another full member first had to be available and then a trial period had to be successfully completed. The members were given defined behavioral guidelines, such as "thoroughly decent behavior [...] to vigorously reject any disturbance [of the lectures ...] [...] and immediately after the end of the meeting without detours and without staying home to go ”( § 11 of the statutes for the Association of St. Paulian Apprentices ). The association managed itself completely, Clemens Schultz held no official position on the board. However, he used his excellent contacts within Hamburg to recruit experienced speakers for the lectures. These included other pastors, teachers, and doctors. You could only belong to the apprentice association for a maximum of four years, after which you had to resign and join the assistant association.

The assistants club should the time between the end of the training and establishment of bridging their own family for the already economically independent young workers. It was less protective than educative. For this purpose, the association organized lecture evenings twice a month followed by discussions and once a month a visit to a public non-profit institution. Attending the lecture evenings was compulsory. Members who behaved “in a manner that violates the association” ( Section 5 of the statutes for the St. Pauli Associate Association) could be excluded from the association by resolution of the general assembly. The framework of the lecture evenings was adapted to the audience, they took place in a hall of the Bavaria brewery and usually ended in a social get-together under the supervision of Schultz. The topics dealt with were also adapted to the interests of the audience: politics, history, technology, Hamburg, transport and trade were the main focuses.

See also

• Johann Hinrich Wichern
• Journeyman's Association

literature

• Parish of St. Pauli (ed.): Sankt Pauli Church in Hamburg 1820-1970 . Albatros Verlag, Hamburg 1970, p. 19-32 .
• Alexander Krolzik:  Schultz, Clemens Eduard Ferdinand C (K) arl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1129-1133.
• Peter Dudek : Schultz, Clemens , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 539f.

Web links

Commons : Clemens Schultz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Clemens Schultz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Clemens Schultz in the Common Authority File (GND) of the German National Library. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
2. ^ Register entry on Clemens Schultz in the Deutsche Biographie . Retrieved July 11, 2012.
3. ↑ Short biography on the community's homepage. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
4. ↑ To the term "youngsters" on the homepage of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . Retrieved April 19, 2013.
5. ↑ Information on Schultz ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the Johannisloge "Zum Gral" in Hamburg. Retrieved April 19, 2013.  
6. ^ All quotations from the statutes and statutes for apprentices 'and assistants' associations according to the version in the parish of St. Pauli (ed.): Sankt Pauli Kirche zu Hamburg 1820-1970 . Albatros Verlag, Hamburg 1970, p. 23-25 .