Cornelius Rudolph Vietor

Cornelius Rudolph Vietor (born October 31, 1814 in Bremen , † February 8, 1897 in Bremen) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Vietor's father, Friedrich Martin Vietor (1776–1836), came from Hesse and was a merchant in Bremen. Cornelius Rudolph studied 1834-1840 in Göttingen , Berlin , Bonn and Münster theology . From 1843 he was assistant pastor in Blumenthal and from 1854 pastor at Our Dear Women in Bremen. In his practical pastoral work, he was a good organizer in the social area. In 1857 he founded a community visiting association and in 1859 a housing association. In 1861 he called the first deaconess to Bremen.

Pastor Cornelius Rudolf Vietor was a founding member of the "Committee", the North German Mission Society (NMG), from 1851 , and from 1868 to 1888 its chairman and president. The NMG - also known as the "Bremen Mission" after its headquarters in Germany, has been active since 1856, primarily in the hinterland of the Gold Coast (now Ghana ). From 1851–1870, the West African merchant Johann Carl Vietor , a brother of the pastor , also belonged to the management committee of the society, which was firmly linked to the Vietor overseas merchant dynasty .

As a factory owner and company founder in Africa , the trading business of the Vietors and the mission of the mission were closely interwoven for long stretches. This connection was promoted by some as a “mission as a trade” as a matter of course, but also critically supported or rejected by others.

Vietor was married three times and had seventeen children. Son Karl Vietor (1861–1934), later ran the Bremen trading company Friedrich M. Vietor Sons , his daughter Anna Vietor (1860–1929) was a teacher at secondary schools for girls in Bremen and his son of the same name Cornelius Rudolf Vietor became a pastor in Bremen and a writer .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert Black Forest: The Great Bremen Lexicon. Volume 2: L-Z. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 930.
2. ↑ Ulrich van der Heyden / Holger Stoecker (ed.): German missions in an African perspective
3. ↑ Rainer Alsheimer: Between slavery and Christian ethnogenesis
4. ↑ North German Mission ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 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. - Mission through trade  
5. ^ Die Maus - Ortsfamilienbuch Bremen and Vegesack

literature

• H. Vietor (Ed.): "Cornelius Rudolph Vietor, memories from my life", private publication of his memoirs by his widow H. Vietor, Bremen 1897;
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .