Edgar Popp

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Edgar Popp (born June 10, 1920 , † July 20, 2015 in Otterberg ) was a German-born Croatian Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the Evangelical Church of Croatia and dean of Zagreb .

Life

Edgar Popp was the son of the only Protestant bishop of Yugoslavia , Philipp Popp , who was executed in 1945 for collaborating with the fascist Ustasha regime. After Edgar the university had acquired, he studied Protestant theology and became a priest ordained . After the death of his father, he took over the pastor's office at the Christ Church in Opatija , which was added to Yugoslav territory as part of Istria after the Second World War . The previous German Evangelical Church there found its legal successor in the Croatian Evangelical Church . Until 1960, when he left for Germany, Popp was dean in Zagreb.

During his term of office and beyond, Popp maintained contact with an Evangelical Aid Committee for the German Evangelical Church from the former Yugoslavia. V. When this celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2006, he could no longer take part due to his age, but was officially given a greeting. The magazine Religion in Eastern Europe reports that his successor in office, Pastor Vladimir Deutsch, wanted to bring Popp into connection with aid supplies from the Lutheran World Federation , which apparently had not been distributed and had been found on a rubbish dump. Popp was a member of the Christian Peace Conference , at the second meeting of which he took part in 1959 in Prague .

literature

  • Peter Maser , Jens Holger Schjørring: Between the millstones: Protestant churches in the phase of establishing communist rule in Eastern Europe. Martin Luther Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3875131363 .

Publications

  • Information about the history of the renovation of the abbey church. Otterberg , Protestant. Parish office 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official Journal of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate, No. 7 , p. 20, August 18, 2015, accessed on October 22, 2015 (PDF; 188 kB).
  2. ↑ The Churches and the Legacy of Communism: The Period after 1989 - Caesura, Coming to terms with the Past and New Beginning; Case Studies from Central and Eastern Europe and Ecumenical Inventory, page 182
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://freenet-homepage.de/Stephan-Sander/hikom.html
  5. ↑ http://www.georgefox.edu/academics/undergrad/departments/soc-swk/ree/yoder_cro.html
  6. ↑ Pages 249/250 and 16 others
personal data
SURNAME Popp, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-born Croatian Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the Evangelical Church of Croatia and Dean of Zagreb
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1920
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 2015
Place of death Otterberg , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany