Ernst Böhme (pastor)

Ernst Böhme (born March 5, 1862 in Jena ; † March 1, 1941 ibid) was a German theologian , hymn poet and pastor for peace . From 1899 he worked as a pastor in Kunitz near Jena. In 1933 he retired. From his pen comes u. a. the hymn Fly there, you time, eternity was written in my heart . He was one of the few peace pastors in Thuringia . In 1894 Ernst Böhme published his first contribution on the subject of "Christians and the Peace Movement", under the title "The War and the Christian Church". This essay is the first theologically and church-historically justified plea for support of the peace movement by Christians, pastors and churches.

As a member of the German Peace Society and chairman of the Jena local chapter, he campaigned for the First German Peace Congress, the annual meeting of the Peace Society, on 9/10 May 1908 in Jena.

Works (selection)

• Peace movement and life education , Gautzsch near Leipzig: Dietrich, 1913
• The Church's sin of omission before the war , Stuttgart 1918

literature

• Karlheinz Lipp: The Thuringian peace pastor Ernst Böhme (1862-1941). A reading book , Nordhausen: Bautz 2010.
• Karlheinz Lipp: Peace Initiatives in History. History and Psychology , Vol. 11 (2002).
• Walter Bredendiek : Church history from 'left and from below'. Studies on the church history of the 19th and 20th centuries from a socio-historical perspective. (PDF; 1.9 MB), Leonhard-Thurneysser-Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-939176-83-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Bredendiek, Irrwege und Warnlichter, Hamburg, Herbert Reich Verlag 1966
2. ↑ Christof Mauch, Tobias Brenner: “ For a world without war. Otto Umfrid and the beginnings of the peace movement. “Ulmer, Schönaich 1987. ISBN 3-924191-25-5 . P. 113.
3. ↑ Karlheinz Lipp: The Thuringian Peace Pastor Ernst Böhme In: Leaves of the Federation of Religious Socialists of Germany eV (Ed.): Christ and Socialist (CuS), Heft 2-3 / 2011, p. 34 ff.
4. ↑ Karlheinz Lipp, Der Thüringer Friedenspfarrer Ernst Böhme (1862-1941), in: Pfälzisches Pfarrerblatt ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2014 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.