Leipzig Missionary Organization

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The mission house in Leipzig 1906.

The Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk Leipzig is the still active successor organization to the Dresden Mission founded in 1836 , which was moved to Leipzig as the Leipzig Mission in 1848 . It sees itself as the successor organization to the Danish-Halle Mission . The Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk Leipzig is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Churches of Saxony and the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

history

Altar from 1913
Altar with the crucifixion group in the prayer room of the mission house in Leipzig.
Mission stations 1914
Mission stations of the Leipzig Mission in Tamil Nadu in 1914. Click on the map three times to enlarge it.
Mission stations of the Leipzig Mission in Tanzania in 1914. Click the map three times to enlarge it.

The Dresden Mission was founded on August 17, 1836 as the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society in Dresden . Its headquarters were in the orphanage church on what would later be Georgplatz . On March 2, 1840, Heinrich Cordes (1813-1892) sent her as a missionary to Tranquebar in southern India. Carl Ochs followed in 1842 . With this she took over the successor to the Danish-Halleschen Mission founded in 1706 .

Karl Graul (1814–1864), director of the mission leadership since 1844, carried out the theological university training for future missionaries. In this context, the mission was relocated to Leipzig. Thus, from the Dresden mission by order of 31 August 1847, the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Leipzig - the Leipzig Mission . In 1856 the company moved into the mission house of the Leipziger Missionswerk in Paul-List-Straße 19 (called Carolinenstraße until 1947). From 1895 to 1914 the Leipzig Mission had its heyday with the establishment of mission stations in India and Africa. Between 1925 and 1939 there was a resurgence in missionary activities.

After the Second World War, the Leipzig Mission existed in both parts of Germany by mutual agreement as the Evangelical Lutheran Mission to Leipzig and the Evangelical Lutheran Mission to Erlangen . In 1965 Christoph Jahn took over the management of the newly founded publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Erlangen in Erlangen in the Evangelical Lutheran Mission (Leipzig Mission) in Erlangen . The Leipzig Mission publishing house in Leipzig had to stop its work in the socialist GDR . That is why the publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Erlangen has now published all of the mission literature of the Leipzig Mission in the Federal Republic of Germany . The Leipzig Mission newsletters also appeared there from 1966 to 1977 . In 1995 the Missionswerk Bayern took over the sponsorship of the publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Erlangen , which in 1998 was renamed Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene .

In Hildesheim there was at that time the Hildesheim headquarters of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission (Leipzig Mission) to Erlangen . In 1970, Dietrich Winkler became India Officer for the Leipzig Mission in the Hildesheim Mission House. The mission house in Hildesheim became the branch office of the ELM on May 25, 1977 after the foundation of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony (ELM) in Hermannsburg . The branch office was closed on June 30, 2006 and their villa in Hildesheim was sold.

On 25 May 1977, was Evangelical Lutheran Mission (ELM) from the mission hospital Hermannsburg - also known as Hermannsburg Mission - as a joint institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover, Brunswick and Schaumburg-Lippe from the merger of Mission Institute Hermannsburg and the Hildesheim Central of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission (Leipzig Mission) in Erlangen . Here, too, Dietrich Winkler was India Officer for the Leipzig Mission from 1977 to 1981.

The Missionswerk Bayern was founded on April 1st, 1972 . It was committed to the mission work of the Leipzig Mission and took over the mission work of the Society for Internal and External Missions in Papua New Guinea and the Berlin Mission in Tanzania . In 1995 the Missionswerk Bayern took over the sponsorship of the publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Erlangen , which in 1998 was renamed Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene . In 2007 the Mission EineWelt was created from the amalgamation of the Missionswerk Bayern , the Church Development Service and the work of the Latin America Commissioner . The Mission EineWelt is an institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria , based in Neuendettelsau .

In 1992, the Leipzig Mission Association dissolved in Leipzig. Instead, the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk Leipzig was founded with its seat in Leipzig. Since then, the ELM in Hermannsburg has continued its own work in India as an independent partner alongside the “Leipzig Mission”.

In 1993 the Leipziger Missionswerk was founded as the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk Leipzig e. V. founded by the Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Mecklenburg , Saxony and Thuringia . The Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Mecklenburg announced in 2011 that it would end its sponsorship for the Leipzig Mission in the course of the church merger to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . That decision limited the financial resources of Leipzig and Missions a further after it already after the turn of the funding provided by the regional church support the Lutheran Evangelical Mission to Erlangen in the former Federal Republic of Germany had lost.

Directors

Directors
Karl Graul , Mission Director (1843-1859)
Carl Paul , Mission Director (1911–1923).

Mission areas

Perception of the Christian missionaries

In 1928, the globetrotter and writer Colin Ross wrote in his book Mit Kind und Kegel in die Arctic :

  • One may disagree about the value of mission, but hardly any about the value of missionaries. At least I have come to know them in all latitudes as outstanding, unusually far-sighted people, who not only generally know more about the customs and habits of the natives than any other white man, but who usually also have an astonishingly broad-minded understanding of the original religious Have ideas about the people who convert them to Christianity.

Today's work

Overseas partners are supported with financial and personnel aid, as well as in their diaconal and evangelistic projects.

The following institutions are supported in India:

  • the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church (TELC),
  • Gurukul Theological College in Chennai,
  • the United Theological College in Bangalore,
  • the Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary in Madurai,
  • the Henry Martyn Institute in Hyderabad.

The Lutheran Bethlehem Congregation in Rangoon ( Burma ) is also funded .

In Tanzania there is a collaboration with the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which today consists of 26 dioceses . The Missionswerk traditionally has close contacts with the dioceses in the north of the country, which arose from the work of the Leipzig Mission. These are:

the Northern Diocese, Moshi,
the Meru Diocese, Usa River,
the north-central diocese, Arusha,
the Pare diocese, Same,
the central diocese, Singida,
the north-west diocese, Bukoba.

Since January 2009, the LMW has also been responsible for parts of the Tanzania work of the former church province of Saxony in the six southern dioceses of the state. These are:

the Ulanga Kilombero diocese, Ifakara,
the Iringa diocese, Iringa,
the southern diocese, Njombe,
the south-central diocese, Makete,
the southwest diocese, Matamba,
the Konde diocese, Tukuyu.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea with its 16 church districts (districts) is the third major partner of the Leipzig Mission. Church training and further education as well as the church health system are supported by secondments. Projects are financially supported, for example

  • to fight malaria and AIDS ,
  • for drinking water supply,
  • for the schooling of children,
  • for church building.

Friends and sponsors

The Friends and Supporters Association of the Leipziger Missionswerk started in Meißen in 1902 and was founded by the then cathedral preacher Lic. Theol. Emil Körner launched under the name “Aehrenlese”. It was a tiny little plant that was not predicted to have a long life.

In 1575 he wrote letters to his "gentlemen in office" with the request to win over as large a group of women as possible to support the missionary work.

Cathedral preacher Körner had recognized that "mission must again become a church matter". He said, "Missionary work brings joy to mission". From the inconspicuous beginning of seven young women who went from house to house in their communities as so-called "gleaners" and asked for a small donation of 10 pfennigs, a small collection soon grew.

After just the first year, 306 collectors were out and about, collecting 4512 gold marks for the Leipzig mission. After six years it was 73,000 marks. The same type of collection developed through the “seeds” within the young men’s circles. Mission was not just a “woman's business”.

After the division of Germany in 1949, annual publications appeared in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1951 to 1992 under the name Ährenlese der Evang.-Luth. Mission (Leipzig Mission) (1951 to 1964) and harvest of grain (1964 to 1992).

Due to the division of Germany, it was no longer possible in the GDR to get the name Ährenlese for this collection. So it got the name “Monthly Membership Fees” for short “MM”. In the west of Germany, on the other hand, the Ährenlese-Verein was able to continue to exist. After the fall of the Berlin Wall it was possible in 1993 to sell the two collection parts under the new name Freundes- und Förderkreis e. V. to reunite. In 2014 it had around 3,300 members and aims to publicize, promote and support the work of the Leipziger Missionswerk (LMW).

archive

Archives of the Leipzig Mission up to July 1, 1993

Since the spring of 2006, the majority of the archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk Leipzig have been on permanent loan in the archive of the Francke Foundations in Halle. The holdings of the archive, which were created before the conversion of the Leipzig Mission into the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk Leipzig on July 1, 1993, were given to Halle. These include the personnel files of the deceased missionaries, mission teachers and nurses from the Leipzig mission - including the detailed documentation of their work (approx. 100 running meters). Personnel files of missionaries who are still alive as well as a reference library for employees remain in the Leipzig Mission House. Other collections can also be found there.

Archives of the Evangelical Luth. Mission (Leipzig Mission) to Erlangen e. V.

The archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk in Lower Saxony (ELM) in Hermannsburg contains the archives of the Missionsanstalt Hermannsburg (1849–1977) and the - 1977 from the merger with Evangelical Lutheran. Mission (Leipzig Mission) to Erlangen e. V. - Evangelical-Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony (ELM).

literature

Own publications

  • Annual report of the Evangelical Mission Association in Leipzig. Evangelischer Missions-Verein <Leipzig>, Leipzig 1821–1901 (published: [1.] 1821; 2.1822 - 83.1902 [?]).
  • Advertising paper for the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society in Dresden. Supplement to: Pilgrims from Saxony. Dresden October 1, 1836 to the end of 1838.
  • Dresden Mission News. Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society in Dresden. Naumann, Dresden 1839-1840.
  • Mission messages of the Ev.-Luth. Mission Society to Dresden. Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society in Dresden. Dresden: Naumann, 1841–1845.
  • Evangelical Lutheran Mission Journal. Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Leipzig. Dresden 1846–1847 and Leipzig 1848–1941. After that, the publication was discontinued. From 1892 in: Annual report of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Leipzig.
  • Annual report of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Leipzig. Leipzig 31.1849 / 50 - 109.1927 (1928) (verified). From 74.1892 also in: Evangelical-Lutheran mission sheet . Then: The work of the Leipzig Mission. Annual report. Leipzig 110.1928 (1929) - 122.1940 / 41. Then: From the service of the Leipzig Mission (issues not proven).
  • Leaves for mission. A people's mission sheet of the Leipzig Mission. Published by the Saxon Main Mission Association and the Mission Conference in Saxony. Published: Dresden 1863–1939, date of publication: [1.] 1863/64 - 77.1939. Hanover edition 1940–1940 (date of publication 1.1940 - 2.1941 [?]).
  • Collection of missionary writings . Verlag der Evang.-Luth. Mission, Leipzig (volumes 1–12 verified) 1888 to 1901.
  • Report for the women's aid associations of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Leipzig Leipzig 1.1896 - 11.1906 [?], Later: Annual report for the women's aid associations of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Leipzig 14.1909 (?) - 25.1919 (verified).
  • Leipzig Mission Studies. New episode 1-7, Verlag der Evang.-Luth. Mission, Leipzig 1928–1934.
  • From the past and present of the Leipzig Mission. Series with 10 brochures (verified). Verlag der Evang.-Luth. Mission, Leipzig 1936.
  • Grain harvest of the Evangelical Luth. Mission (Leipzig Mission). Erlangen 1951–1964. Then: harvest of grain. Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Mission. Erlangen 1964-1992.
  • Leipzig Mission. Series of publications. Verlag der Evang.-Luth. Mission, Erlangen 1966-1976 / 77 (1975).
  • God's tool for the world. 150 years of the Leipzig Mission. Documentation. Publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Erlangen 1987.
  • Church worldwide: newsletter of the Leipziger Missionswerk. Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Mission. Leipzig from 1992.
  • Annual reports published by: Leipziger Missionswerk. Leipzig from 2005/2006.
  • Material folders Ed .: Leipziger Missionswerk. Leipzig from 2012.

Secondary literature (selection)

  • Richard Handmann: The Evangelical Lutheran Tamulen Mission in the time of its re-establishment , JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1903.
  • Paul D. Fleisch: One Hundred Years of Lutheran Mission , Leipzig 1936.
  • Carl Ihmels: A Tamulenkirche is being built. Ev.-Luth. Mission Leipzig undated (1937?), 20 pages.
  • W. Hellinger: The Leipzig Evangelical-Lutheran Mission. In: CH Swavely (ed.): The Lutheran Enterprise in India. Madras, Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India (FELCI) 1952, 15–31.
  • Paul H. von Tucher: Nationalism: Case and Crisis in Missions - German Missions in British India 1939-1946. Diss. Erlangen 1980. Self-published Erlangen 1980. See: [1] , [2] and [3] .
  • Hugald Grafe (Hg): Evangelical Church in India. Information and insights. Erlangen Taschenbücher Volume 51. Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1981.
  • Niels-Peter Moritzen: God's tool in the world: Leipziger Mission 1836-1936-1986 , Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1986.
  • Ponniah Manoharan: Warungal. The Indian Tamulenkirche invites you. Publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Erlangen 1986.
  • Joachim Schlegel (Ed.): 150 Years of the Leipzig Mission. God's tool for the world. Documentation. Erlanger Taschenbücher Vol. 76. Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1987. ISBN 3-87214-217-8 Here you can find the article on pages 64-88: Niels-Peter Moritzen: The last 50 years - review and outlook. This article covers the work of the Leipziger Missionswerk from 1937 to 1987.
  • Hugald Grafe: The History of Christianity in Tamilnadu from 1800 to 1975. Erlangen 1990. (Erlanger Monographs from Mission and Ecumenism; 9).
  • CS Mohanavelu: German Tamilology. German contributions to Tamil language, literature and culture during the period 1706–1945. Madras 1993.
  • Africa holdings in the archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk Leipzig e. V. Appears in series from Part 1 ff. In the Institute for African Studies at Leipzig University, Leipzig 1998 ff.
  • Africa holdings in the Evangelical Lutheran mission archives in Leipzig and Moshi . Arranged by Adam Jones, Christoph Langer, Steffen Lehmann. Institute for African Studies, Leipzig 2000.
  • Andreas Nehring: Orientalism and Mission: The Representation of Tamil Society and Religion by Leipzig Missionaries 1840–1940 , Wiesbaden 2003.
  • Erika Pabst (ed.): Sources of the India Mission 1700–1918 in archives of the German-speaking area. Halle Source Publications and Repertories 9. Halle 2005.
  • Roland Sckerl: Tranquebar. Pictures from the first hundred years of Lutheran missions in India. Three short biographies based on old reports. Durmersheim, 2006.
  • Eva-Maria Siebert Johnson: Praise God with hymns and words, with bow songs and sermons. , Leipziger Missionswerk, lecture in Leipzig on June 30, 2012.
  • Hugald Grafe: Church under Dalits, Adivasi and caste people in South India. The Indian partner churches of the Lutheran churches in Lower Saxony. Becoming and growing. Series: Sources and contributions to the history of the Hermannsburg Mission and the Evangelical Lutheran. Mission in Lower Saxony. Vol. 22, LIT Verlag Berlin-Münster-Vienna-Zurich-London 2013. ISBN 978-3-643-12098-4
  • Ponniah Manoharan: Work of the ELM in India, presented on December 3rd, 2003 by Pastor Ponniah Manoharan, Asia advisor ELM (Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony). (Accessed February 25, 2016)
  • "A Missionary Life". Hermann Gäbler and the Leipzig Mission in South India (1891–1916) . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Leipzig 2018.

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Source: Christoph Jahn .
  2. ↑ Dr. Hermann Vorländer, Director of the Bavarian Mission from 1991 to 2007: On the relationship between the Leipzig and the Bavarian Mission
  3. ↑ Shane Desiatnik: Australian Jewish News . In: Ghil'ad ’s Indigenous language game changer . July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  4. ^ The Leipziger Mission (now Leipziger Missionswerk) published this quote in: Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionsblatt, 91st Volume, No. 2 of February 1936, page 55, Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Leipzig 1936. This showed that this quote corresponds to their own self-image.
  5. ^ Finding aids for the inventory of the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk Leipzig e. V. in the archive of the Francke Foundations (name register is at the end). (PDF; 2855 kB)
  6. ↑ This documentation contains contributions that were made in the events for the 150th anniversary of the Leipzig Mission on 24.-27. May 1986 in Leipzig.