Ernst Barnstein

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Ernst Barnstein (born May 3, 1891 in Krefeld , † January 5, 1975 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a Protestant pastor and opponent of the Nazi regime .

Life

Ernst Barnstein was born as the third child of a businessman in Krefeld, grew up in Düsseldorf and after graduating from high school, studied Protestant theology at the universities of Tübingen , Halle and Göttingen - in Halle and Göttingen he became a member of the Wingolf student association . After the vicariate and activities as an assistant preacher in Sankt Goar , Wickrathberg , Xanten and Essen-Borbeck, he received his ordination in 1918 and a year later - in August 1919 - his first pastor's position in Homberg (Duisburg) . In 1922 he moved to Mülheim an der Ruhr, where he took over the Stadtmitte parish of the Evangelical Old Town.

For almost forty years he looked after the Mülheim community and during the Nazi era stood up for both his community members with Jewish roots and the members of the Jewish community. Ernst Barnstein was a member and leading figure of the Confessing Church in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In his sermons he repeatedly denounced the Nazi regime and its policy of persecuting the Jews. The Gestapo arrested him when he disregarded the official ban on the training of vicars . He was released after ten days in the Oberhausen Police Prison.

After the Second World War , Ernst Barnstein was elected superintendent by the Mülheim district synod . He held this office from 1946 until he retired in 1961.

Honors

In 1961 Barnstein received the honorary gift of “Jobs, the candidate” from the Mülheim civil society “Mausefalle”; on October 29, 1961, it was entered in the city's Golden Book. In 1989 the Pastor-Barnstein-Platz next to the Mülheim Petrikirche was named after him.

literature

  • Mülheimer Stadtspiegel 1966 issue 6, p. 1.
  • Barbara Kaufhold: Faith under National Socialism in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Edited by the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History. Klartext Verlag Essen, 2006, pp. 101-134.
  • Mülheim civil society "Mausefalle" (Ed.): One hundred years of Mülheim civil society "Mausefalle"
  • Frank Kastrup, Ulrich Schreyer (ed.): Ernst Barnstein. Pastor in Mülheim an der Ruhr 1922-1961 . Mülheim an der Ruhr 1991,

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members of the Göttinger Wingolf, Göttingen 1967, p. 2

Other sources

  • City Archives Mülheim an der Ruhr, inventory 1550 No. 138 (Mülheim personalities)

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personal data
SURNAME Barnstein, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and opponent of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1975
Place of death Mülheim an der Ruhr