Constantin Liebich

Constantin Liebich
Constantin Liebich 1920s
Born	9.6. 1847 in Breslau
Died	12/29 1928 in Berlin
job	Journalist and writer
Known for	Schrippenkirche

Constantin Liebich (born June 9, 1847 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † December 29, 1928 in Berlin ) was a journalist and writer . He became known through the founding of the Schrippenkirche in Berlin-Wedding .

Life

Liebich operated the newspaper correspondence Liebich & Pfeiffer in Breslau .

In 1880 he came to Berlin as a trained wood turner after his attempt to emigrate to America failed. In Berlin he became an enthusiastic supporter of the court preacher Adolf Stoecker when he joined the "Older Evangelical Youth Association". He was also a member of the Evangelical Reconciliation Congregation. Under the influence of Adolf Stoecker, Liebich became a journalist for the conservative press and also joined the Christian Social Party . For example, he wrote for the newspaper Der Reichsbote , the ultra-conservative Kreuzzeitung and the Bundesbote .

In September 1882 Liebich took part with hundreds of Christian young men at the meeting of the " German Youth Clubs " at the Hermannsdenkmal and was so impressed by the German-American evangelist and founder of the first YMCA in Germany, Friedrich von Schlümbach , that it was and he was an awakening experience in a lecture in 1882 called for "active, Christian charity" for the homeless. A little later in the fall, Liebich founded the “Service to the Homeless Association”, which in 1883 moved to the Christian clubhouse at  6 Müllerstrasse . In the same year he published the novel The Somnambule or the Sleeping Preacher and in 1894 the novel Homeless - Images from the social and moral misery of the unemployed   and in 1897 the novel Im Abgrund . In the last two novels mentioned, he addressed the situation of the unemployed and homeless.

On September 29, 1900, the "Verein Dienst an Unemployed" was entered in the land register as the owner of the property . A year later, construction began on the extension at 71 Hussitenstrasse and a transverse building. In the same year, Constantin Liebich gave up the chairmanship of the association and was director of the association from 1902 to 1908.

In 1902, in the social novel Ein Arbeitsheer, Liebich developed the first concept of a rural labor service, in which the unemployed and homeless should disappear from the cities and cultivate wasteland in militarily administered communities .

Constantin Liebich died in Berlin in 1928. He was buried in the Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof II in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Works

plant	Art	publication	publishing company
The somnambulist or the sleeping preacher	novel	1883
Homeless. Images from the social and moral misery	novel	1894	Berlin, Wiegandt & Grieben
In the abyss	novel	1897
A labor army	socially critical novel	1902
The deterioration of our construction	Newspaper articles	1910	Land reform

Commemoration

In the form of	Dating	Artist	place	image	Explanation	Details
Plaque	October 31, 1988		Ackerstrasse 7, Berlin		The memorial plaque was put up in memory of Liebich's association serving the unemployed .
sculpture	August 30, 2007	Michael Sprengler	Ackerstrasse 136/137, Berlin		The sculpture in the form of a Schrippen church was erected to commemorate Liebich's idea of ​​the Schrippenkirche .	The sculpture is made of sandstone and weighs approximately 6 tons.

literature

• Regina Scheer : Helping the weaker to be strong . The Schrippenkirche in Berlin Wedding 1882–2007. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-63-7 .

Web links

• Schrippenkirche - history. In: schrippenkirche.eu. Retrieved April 3, 2020 . 
• Schrippenkirche, historical picture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regina Scheer: Helping the weaker to be strong. The Schrippenkirche in Berlin Wedding . Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-63-7 .
2. ↑ Gerhild HM Komander: The Wedding: on the way from red to colored . Berlin Story Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-929829-38-9 ( google.de [accessed March 30, 2020]).
3. ↑ 14: Schrippenkirche - Berlin Street. Accessed April 2, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ denkwerk berlin - a schrippe for the schrippenkirche. Retrieved April 2, 2020 . 
5. ^ Verlag Berlin, Wiegandt & Grieben, 1894. Emil Muensterberg: Bibliographie des Armenswesens . Books on Demand , 2017, ISBN 978-3-8460-4536-7 ( google.de [accessed March 30, 2020]).
6. ↑ Constantin Liebich: Das Arbeitsheer: A future picture of the state elimination of unemployment . 1902 ( google.de [accessed March 30, 2020]).
7. ↑ Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Liebich, Constantin . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
8. ^ Jochen Kothe: DigiZeitschriften: table of contents. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .