Ernst Böhme (theologian)

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Ernst Böhme (born August 23, 1871 in Behlitz , † August 19, 1901 in Wernigerode ) was a German Protestant theologian. The Ernst Böhme Foundation was named after him. Böhme was the son of the pastor of the same name who, after Wilhelm Boegehold's death, worked as a clergyman at the Lazarus Hospital and Deaconess House in Berlin's Bernauer Strasse . His mother was the daughter of the theologian and poet August Schwartzkopff (1818–1886). Böhme was handicapped.

education

During his theology studies, he became a member of the Association of German Students in Tübingen (VDSt, also called Kyffhäuser Association ), and met many later influential theologians in the Berlin connection as fellow students and federal brothers : Eberhard Baumann (1871-1956) - later Reformed consistorial councilor and Pastor in Stettin, Gerhard Füllkrug (1870–1948) - later managing director of the Continental Conference for Inner Mission and Diakonie, Bruno Geißler (1875–1961) - later general secretary of the Gustav Adolf Association , Max Maurenbrecher - one of the spiritual pioneers for the movement of the German Christians and Wilhelm Schneemelcher (1872–1928) - later General Secretary of the Evangelical Social Congress (ESK). In November 1895 Böhme passed the first theological exam in Berlin.

This was followed by a job as a city mission candidate with the reconciliation church in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. The city ​​mission there was then headed by Adolf Stoecker (1835–1909), the former court and cathedral preacher in Berlin, whose ideals Böhme highly valued. In the following years he became one of Stoecker's closest confidants and supporters. His support for Friedrich Naumann in the dispute over the direction of the Christian Social Party founded by Stoecker in 1878 in 1895/1896 only clouded the relationship between the two for a short time.

Free Church-Social Conference

After they left the Evangelical Social Congress , conservative theologians around Stoecker and the Greifswald university professor Martin von Nathusius founded the Free Church Social Conference (FKSK) on April 28, 1897 , which was close to the Christian Social Party . After Böhme had passed his second theological exam, he was appointed the first general secretary of the FKSK in the summer of 1897 . In this function he was responsible for the day-to-day business of the conference on behalf of the board . He also became a shop steward of the Christian Social Party and a committee member as well as chairman of the social commission of the Evangelical Workers' Association in Berlin , which was founded at his suggestion . On April 1, 1900, he handed over the office of General Secretary of the FKSK to his successor Reinhard Mumm , who later became a member of the Reichstag and member of the National Assembly .

Ernst Böhme Foundation

At the end of 1899 Böhme became the chaplain of the Berlin City Committee for the Inner Mission and in the same year he was a co-initiator of the Berlin homeworkers movement, which on October 2, 1900 led to the founding of the Berlin union of homeworkers by the church-social women's group in Berlin. Here, too, Reinhard Mumm later took over the continuation of Böhme's work. In 1901, a few months before his untimely death, Böhme was still a co-founder of the Vaterländischer Bauverein, the aim of which was to build apartments and homes for Christian workers. From 1901 he also worked as an ordained assistant preacher for the Reconciliation Congregation in the Nikolaikirche in Berlin .

In the same year he died of pneumonia. He was buried on his 30th birthday after a funeral service in the Church of Reconciliation in the Sophienkirchhof in Bergstrasse in Berlin. Mentor Adolf Stoecker gave the funeral address. Böhme bequeathed his savings to the Berlin Home Workers' Association, which was the basis of the later Ernst Böhme Foundation, which campaigned for the construction of rest houses for homeworkers.

Works

  • Christian work among homeworkers, presentation by General Secretary (Ernst) Böhme. With discussion. Negotiations of the 7th commission and the women's group of the Free Church-Social Conference in Erfurt 1900. Verlag der Berliner Stadtmission, 1900, pp. 44–66.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Güldner, Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations : Directory of honorary members and old men. Gütersloh 1899, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Böhme, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Behlitz
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1901
Place of death Wernigerode