Emil Schomburg

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Emil Heinrich Schomburg (born January 26, 1871 in Braunschweig ; † March 6, 1928 there ) was a German Lutheran clergyman and politician.

Life

Schomburg, the son of a train driver, attended the monastery school in Amelungsborn and studied theology at the universities of Tübingen and Leipzig from 1890 . In 1893 he passed the first theological exam in Wolfenbüttel . After his first activity in the school service, namely as the ducal seminar leader at the teachers' seminar in Braunschweig (1894 to 1901), he passed the second theological exam in 1896. From 1901 to 1908 he was pastor in Boffzen and Fürstenberg . In connection with Heinrich Sohnrey he was an active promoter of rural welfare and homeland care during this time. In 1908 he was appointed pastor at St. Magni in Braunschweig. At the same time he was a religion teacher at the Martino-Katharineum . As a pastor he devoted himself in particular to the needs of young people and ordinary workers. Through his criticism of the lockout of workers in the construction industry, which he openly expressed in 1910, he came into conflict with the Braunschweig employers' association. From 1918 onwards, Schomburg actively campaigned for a strict separation of church and state and for the democratization of the Braunschweig regional church . After the First World War he worked as a member of the constituent synod and the regional church assembly (until 1925) on the constitution of the regional church. In 1924 he was elected to the church government. For decades, Schomburg was considered the undisputed spiritual and spiritual leader of the left-wing liberals in the Brunswick church. From 1914 to 1920 he was editor of the Braunschweiger Sonntagsblatt and edited the journal Freier Christenglaube .

In addition to his pastoral work, Schomburg was an active member of the youth movement ( Wandervogel ), a sponsor of the youth hostel association , a member of the Guttempler , whose Braunschweig section still bears his name, and the German Peace Society in Braunschweig. Politically strongly influenced by Friedrich Naumann , he became a member of the German Democratic Party . From 1917 and again shortly before his death in February and March he was a member of the Braunschweig state parliament.

In the dispute over church public relations work, Schomburg resigned from the church service in 1925 and was head of the newly created youth welfare office of the city of Braunschweig until his death.

Publications (selection)

  • with Adolf Lichtenstein: Christmas books for our warriors in the field Im Kriegsj. Presented in 1914 . Wollermann, Braunschweig 1914, OCLC 72715772 .
  • There is no more beautiful death in the world ... For all who mourn the dead . Zwißler, Wolfenbüttel 1917, OCLC 253448798 .
  • The wandering bird. His friends and his opponents. Wolfenbüttel 1917.
  • That we will not forget ... memorial sheets for Rudolf Sievers, the man and his work. Wolfenbüttel 1921.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Dietrich Kuessner: Schomburg, Emil Heinrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 539 .
personal data
SURNAME Schomburg, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schomburg, Emil Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1928
Place of death Braunschweig