Paul Deitenbeck

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Paul Deitenbeck (born July 13, 1912 in Lüdenscheid ; † December 3, 2000 there ) was a German Protestant pastor , evangelist and writer with a pietistic and evangelical character.

Life

Paul Deitenbeck went through the vicariate in Lüdenscheid with Pastor Walther Baudert , who later became Bishop of the Moravian Brethren , and in the Berlin City Mission with Pastor Erich Schnepel , who had been the leading missionary there since 1919. Both “vicariate fathers”, Baudert and Schnepel, became his “lifelong friends”, as Deitenbeck wrote in retrospect in the early 1980s. Deitenbeck received an assistant preacher position in the Ravensberger Land and then he became a synodal youth pastor for the Bielefeld church district . The church struggle he experienced in the Third Reich caused him to join the Confessing Church .

After he married a youth worker from Lüdenscheid , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the war . In Augsburg he met the sergeant, evangelical pastor and later chairman of the EKD Council, Helmut Claß , who , like Deitenbeck, was taken prisoner by the Soviets at the end of the Second World War . As he put it, Deitenbeck suffered imprisonment and the like as a former direction finder in the Air Force . a. in camp 126 Nikolayev , then in Moscow .

After his release from captivity in Moscow, Deitenbeck was active in church youth work, the student community , the people's mission of pastoral care and in the factory mission until he became pastor at the Kreuzkirche in Lüdenscheid . There he worked from 1952 to 1982 as parish priest. At the same time he took over church-wide tasks in the tent mission , the Evangelical Alliance and in the Gnadauer Verband . In addition, Deitenbeck volunteered in the so-called confessional movement No other gospel . In old age he described his experience of faith and knowledge: "We do not need to play fate ourselves, but God's secret leadership controls our lives and intervenes for our good even in bottlenecks and lean periods." Deitenbeck counted the pastor and clergyman of the Evangelicals among his close friends Korntal Brethren Fritz Grünzweig and pastor Arno Pagel , who was an EC federal pastor, EC world union president and mission director in the German social welfare association in his professional life .

Deitenbeck was regarded in church circles as a pietistic evangelist and preacher as well as an advocate of the evangelical movement in Germany. He was a co-founder of the confessional movement No other gospel and was from 1958 to 1979 co-chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance and the inventor of the "Jesus lives" pin.

A foundation that bears his name, the Paul Deitenbeck Foundation, was set up for the benefit of the work in the Evangelical Alliance House in Bad Blankenburg .

Works

  • Messages from the other side ; R. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 3-417-11690-2
  • Always stay grateful ; 1992 (4th edition), ISBN 3-501-00731-0
  • I let myself be surprised. A walk through the year. Daily devotions ; 1979, ISBN 3-7958-0363-2
  • Rewarding life ; Golden Words Publishing House , 1962
  • Editor of the narrow booklet Lebenshilfe im Lied ; "Der Rufer" Evangelischer Verlag Hermann Werner Nachf., Wuppertal-Barmen (the publisher was named like this from February 1939 and was closed in autumn 1943), Deitenbeck is the author or took care of the compilation of the following issues: A new day, a new life ; Light for the night. From evening songs and location under the cross

Paul Deitenbeck wrote many other books together with Gerd Rumler , including

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  1. ↑ Paul Deitenbeck: God's doors quietly widen. In: Kurt Heimbucher , Traugott Thoma (ed.): Diener Jesu Christi. Well-known personalities report from their lives. Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission , Bad Liebenzell 1984, ISBN 3-88002-232-1 , pp. 25-28 (26)
  2. ↑ Paul Deitenbeck: God's doors quietly widen. In: Kurt Heimbucher, Traugott Thoma (ed.): Diener Jesu Christi. Well-known personalities report from their lives. Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 1984, p. 26 f.
  3. ↑ Paul Deitenbeck: God's doors quietly widen. In: Kurt Heimbucher, Traugott Thoma (ed.): Diener Jesu Christi. Well-known personalities report from their lives. Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 1984, p. 28.
  4. ↑ Paul Deitenbeck died: Formative figure of post-war pietism. Press release of the German Evangelical Alliance of December 15, 2000
  5. ^ The Evangelical Alliance in Germany donations to foundations.
personal data
SURNAME Deitenbeck, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, evangelist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 2000
Place of death Ludenscheid