Eduard Völkel

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Tomb in Itzehoe

Eduard Völkel (born April 11, 1878 in Eckernförde , † June 27, 1957 in Bordesholm ) was a German Protestant - Lutheran theologian and bishop of the Schleswig district .

Life

Völkel spent most of his childhood and youth in Mölln ; in Ratzeburg he attended the school of scholars there until he graduated from high school . His father had studied theology and then decided to become a teacher: he became a Prussian civil servant and, as rector, initially headed the middle school in Eckernförde and from 1881 the middle school in Mölln. The mother came from a Danish legal family that also included the Danish military.

Völkel studied Protestant theology in Erlangen , Halle and Kiel . In 1898 he became a member of the Erlanger , later the Halle and Kiel Wingolf .

Völkel began his first pastoral position in 1906 in Sterley . Here he met his future wife, started a family and stayed there until he was appointed provost of the provost of Münsterdorf (based in Itzehoe ) in 1912.

From 1925 to 1933 he was Bishop of Schleswig in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein . In 1930, Bishop Völkel was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In the church struggle he was opposed to the " German Christians " and was therefore removed (like his colleague Adolf Mordhorst ). He immediately sought to continue serving in the church.

On April 8, 1934, Völkel took over the recently vacated pastor at the Bordesholm monastery church and worked here as parish pastor for another 14 years.

From 1934 to 1953 he was chairman of the general assembly of the Breklumer Missionsgesellschaft.

At the first meeting of the preliminary general synod from August 14 to 16, 1945, Völkel was elected to the preliminary church leadership of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church. He was also a member of the church leadership in 1946 and 1947. In 1948, Bishop i. R. Völkel took up his seat in the church administration.

His tomb is located in the main cemetery in Itzehoe .

Fonts

  • Farewell sermon, given on November 28, 1948 in the Bordesholm monastery church (printed by Hermann Weber, Bordesholm 1948).
  • Memories from my life (private print, Kiel approx. 1954 - typewritten manuscript, among others in Bordesholm private collection).
  • Monastery and churches of the Augustinian Canons of Bordesholm (1st edition 1954, 4th edition 1981, Bordesholm).
  • A church time picture from the 18th century , in: Writings of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History. 2nd row (articles and communications)
    • Part I: Volume 13 (1955), pp. 47-76.
    • Part II: Volume 14 (1956), pp. 51-88.
  • Remember your teachers! D. Johannes Voigt 1866-1932. Pastor and head of the Brethren House in Rickling 1911–1928 , Rickling 1956.

literature

  • Johann Schmidt: Eduard Völkel , in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon , Vol. 3, Neumünster 1974.
  • Klauspeter Reumann (Ed.): Church and National Socialism , Neumünster 1988.
  • Arno Bammé: Schleswig-Holstein's Church in the Third Reich - neither immaculate nor victim . In: Schleswig-Holstein magazine , year 2003, issue 4.
  • Paul Steffen: D. Eduard Völkel , in: Bordesholm - a review… 1927–1933 . AG Heimatsammlung Bordesholm 1993.
  • Paul Steffen: Bishop D. Eduard Völkel , in: Bordesholmer Rundschau , No. 7 / Jg. 1973, No. 4 / vol. 1978, no. 16./Jg. 1978, No. 4./Jg. 1999.
  • Paul Steffen: Bishop D. Eduard Völkel , in: The Bordesholmer Land in old views . Zaltbommel / Netherlands 2003.
  • Landeskirchenamt in Kiel - Völkel classification: pictures, letters, documents, invitations, obituaries, speeches, manuscripts, etc. a.
  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger-Siebert (eds.): Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , p. 264 ( Google Books ).
  • Uwe Fentsahm: "Völkel is a bit stiff, if you may say so, a bit reactionary" , in: Yearbook for the former office of Bordesholm 9 (2007), pp. 25–47 (online at geschichtsverein-bordesholm.de)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Fentsahm: “Völkel is a bit stiff, if you may say so, a bit reactionary” , in: Yearbook for the former office of Bordesholm 9 (2007), pp. 25–47, here: p. 38 (online at geschichtsverein- bordesholm.de)
  2. ^ LK Schleswig-Holstein - Church leadership (inventory) (online at deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de)
predecessor Office successor
Gen.-Supt. Peter Friedrich Petersen Bishop of Schleswig
1925 - 1933 		Regional Bishop Adalbert Paulsen
personal data
SURNAME Volkel, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1957
Place of death Bordesholm