Erich Hoyer (clergyman)

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Erich Hoyer (born November 17, 1880 in Brake , † August 30, 1943 in Isenhagen ) was pastor in Oldenburg and Isenhagen.

Life

Erich Hoyer studied 1901–1905 in Halle and Greifswald. On January 16, 1910, he was ordained pastor in Oldenburg . After pastorships in Ahrensbök (Principality of Lübeck) and Ickern (Dortmund district), he was pastor at St. Lamberti in Oldenburg from 1918 . He is a member of the Oldenburg General Preacher's Association founded in 1834. He was involved in the youth music movement and for the renewal of evangelical worship. As a liturgist, Hoyer worked far beyond the city limits of Oldenburg and advocated liturgical renewal. Together with his organist Otto Wissig, he was a founding member of the Lower Saxony Liturgical Conference in 1925 , of which he was the first managing director.

In 1932, he was only a few months before the seizure of power instrumental in the organization of an annual meeting of the black African pastor by the Nazis Robert Kwami involved in the Lamberti Church in Oldenburg. The National Socialists already ruling in Oldenburg and in particular the incumbent Prime Minister of Oldenburg and Gauleiter of Weser-Ems Carl Röver railed with racist tirades against Kwami and the event planned for September 20, 1932. The NSDAP demanded that the Oldenburg State Ministry prevent the African pastor from appearing. Pastor Hoyer then wrote an open letter to the incumbent Prime Minister of Oldenburg and protested against the public attacks. As the initiator of the event, Hoyer saw himself personally attacked: "I urge you [...] to take back the words that contain a threat to the security and life of a dutiful Oldenburg citizen, with a clear expression of regret." Regional newspapers sent. The so-called “ Kwami Affair ” thus not only became a nationwide political issue, the incidents also caused a stir in the English and Dutch press.

Outraged by the behavior of the state government and the interference of the NSDAP in church affairs, the General Preachers' Association, the professional representative of the pastors, presented a series of theses on Christianity and racial doctrine that received national attention. It became the prelude to the church struggle.

Two years after the "Kwami Affair", in 1934 Hoyer was appointed pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . In the same year he took up the position of pastor in Isenhagen near Hankensbüttel. From 1935 he was also head of the liturgical seminary until its liquidation in 1939. in the former district office there, which was rented by the state. Hoyer had the founding of this liturgical school largely in long negotiations with "representatives of the regional churches of Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, the two Mecklenburg, Braunschweig, Oldenburg and Eutin under the direction of the regional bishop Abbot D. Marahrens in Lüneburg with board members of the conference" operated.

In 1941, Hoyer was a driving force in forming a working group for joint liturgical work with liturgical conferences in the Rhineland and Westphalia.

Hoyer died on August 30, 1943 after a long illness in Isenhagen.

Works

  • The suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ as the Evangelist Matthew tells us and how the believing community celebrates it. 6 Passion devotions, 1 Good Friday Vesper, 1 Easter Mass , [Fourth Book of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony], Gütersloh 1927.
  • Four festive masses on the great feasts of the Christian Church. Christmas, Easter, Ascension Day, Pentecost [Fifth Volume of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony], Gütersloh 1927.
  • Eight Metten and Vespers. Compiled on the occasion of the 2nd meeting of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony from 1.-4. October 1927 in Schwerin i. Mecklenburg , [Seventh Book of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony] Gütersloh 1927.
  • Two devotions on the Sunday of the Dead. Der Tod, Die Toten [Eighth Booklet of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony], Gütersloh 1927.
  • 15 celebrations for the Christmas circle. 1. Advent, 2. Christmas, 3. Epiphany [ninth to eleventh booklet of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony], Gütersloh 1928.
  • Metten and Vespers for meetings and conferences [Fourteenth Book of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony], Kassel 1929.
  • Our Protestant church service, as presented to us by the Reformation [loose sheets of the Liturgical Conference for Lower Saxony, No. 1], Göttingen 1929.
  • Children's and community services in their liturgical and community relationships. At the same time, a contribution to the questions of the relationship between worship and Christian teaching, parish pastoral care and liturgical methodology [16. Booklet of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony], Göttingen 1931
  • Divine service regulations. In connection with the Liturgical Working Group of Hanover, published by the Liturgical Conferences of Lower Saxony, Westphalia, the Rhine and Hesse [17. Booklet of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony], Göttingen 1932
  • Twelve Metten for conferences and singing weeks [19. Booklet of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony], Göttingen 1931.
  • Feast of the Epiphany. In: Liturgical drafts of the monthly for worship and church art No. 38, Göttingen 1933.
  • Children's service and community service in their liturgical and community relationships . In: Der Kindergottesdienst 43 (1933), pp. 80–91.
  • Cantata celebration. In: Liturgical drafts of the monthly for worship and church art No. 41, Göttingen 1934.
  • The liturgical need of the present and its overcoming [20. Booklet of the Liturgical Conference of Lower Saxony]. Goettingen 1934.
  • Liturgical seminar for Lower Saxony. In: MGkK 39, Göttingen 1934, p. 238
  • Our services. From the Isenhagen church book . Kassel 1936.
  • The church book for the community . Kassel 1940.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Rheindorf: Liturgy and Church Policy. The Liturgical Working Group from 1941 to 1944 . Evang. Verl.-Anstalt, Leipzig 2007, p. 128.
  2. ^ Georg Joel and Jens Müller to the Oldenburg State Ministry. Printed in: Klaus Schaap: Oldenburgs way into the “Third Reich” (= sources on the regional history of Northwest Lower Saxony, issue 1). Oldenburg 1983, Document No. 157. See also: Confessional community and confessing communities in Oldenburg during the years of National Socialist rule. Protestant ecclesiasticalism and everyday Nazi life in a rural region, vol. 39, part 5, p. 52.
  3. ↑ Erich Hoyer to Carl Röver, letter of September 19, 1932. Printed in: Klaus Schaap: Oldenburgs Weg ins “Third Reich” (= sources on the regional history of Northwest Lower Saxony, volume 1). Oldenburg 1983, Document No. 159.
  4. ↑ The Kwami Affair. ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Bridge for Africa - The North German Mission (accessed August 30, 2011). See also the caricature ( memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. a Bremen newspaper about the dispute. It shows Carl Röver (left) and Robert Kwami (right). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zeitgemaess.unsere-mission.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zeitgemaess.unsere-mission.de
  5. ^ Reinhard Rittner: Religion, Church and Society in the City of Oldenburg around 1930. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch. 103, 2003, pp. 85-106, here p. 95.
  6. ↑ Jochen Cornelius Bundschuh : Liturgy between tradition and renewal. Problems of Protestant liturgical science in the first half of the 20th century illustrated by the work of Paul Graff . Göttingen 1991, p. 38.
  7. ↑ Erich Hoyer: The liturgical need of the present and its overcoming . Göttingen 1934, quotation p. 3.
  8. ^ Thomas Rheindorf: Liturgy and Church Policy. The Liturgical Working Group from 1941 to 1944 . Evang. Verl.-Anstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02526-8 .
  9. ^ Thomas Rheindorf: Liturgy and Church Policy. The Liturgical Working Group from 1941 to 1944 . Evang. Verl.-Anstalt, Leipzig 2007, p. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Hoyer, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor in Oldenburg and Isenhagen
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Brake
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1943
Place of death Isenhagen