Eduard Goecker

Eduard Goecker as a student in Göttingen in 1867

Eduard Friedrich Theodor Wilhelm Goecker (born May 2, 1848 in Holtrup , † May 1, 1931 in Gütersloh ) was a German pastor.

Live and act

The Luther Church in Wetter (Ruhr) , built under Eduard Goecker and inaugurated in 1906 - the "Ruhrtaler Dom"

Eduard Goecker was born in Holtrup near Minden in 1848 as the son of the local pastor. After his first lessons with his father, he attended grammar school in Gütersloh from 1861 to graduation in 1867. He then studied theology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . There he was in 1867 a member of the connection and later fraternity Holzminda . For the Franco-Prussian War he interrupted his studies in 1870 and served as a war volunteer in Minden with the local Infantry Regiment No. 15 , with which he was involved in the siege of Metz , among other things . After the war, he completed the theological exams at the University of Münster and subsequently became head of the Rector's School in Lübbecke . In the summer of 1874 he was elected pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Wetter an der Ruhr , where he worked for 43 years until his retirement in 1917. He founded numerous associations and had a new parish hall and a new church built. In addition, he worked for a long time as a district school inspector. From 1917 he retired in Bielefeld and later in Gütersloh, where he died in 1931.

Honors

1906: Red Eagle Order IV class

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bauks: The Protestant pastors in Westphalia from the Reformation period to 1945. 1980, no. 2001.
Dietrich Thier: The Ruhr Valley Cathedral. The Luther Church in Wetter (Ruhr). Wetter (Ruhr) 2006.

Web links

Goecker's work in the Evangelical Lutheran parish Wetter (Ruhr)

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 51142, matriculated on May 3, 1867)
^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 150.

personal data
SURNAME	Goecker, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goecker, Eduard Friedrich Theodor Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pastor and church builder
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Holtrup
DATE OF DEATH	May 1, 1931
Place of death	Gutersloh

[1] Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 51142, matriculated on May 3, 1867)

[2] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 150.