Ernst Burdach

Ernst Burdach (born June 20, 1905 in Passenheim in East Prussia , † November 6, 1976 in Königswinter ) was a Protestant pastor and member of the Confessing Church .

Life

Burdach comes from a family of doctors from East Prussia. After obtaining his university entrance qualification , he studied Protestant theology and was then accepted into the vicariate of his church of the Old Prussian Union . He then became the pastor ordained . In his pastoral office, which he u. a. from 1938 to 1945 at the church in his native town of Passenheim, he found a connection to the Confessing Church through the theologian Hans Joachim Iwand , who headed the preachers' seminar of the Confessing Church in Königsberg, East Prussia . He dedicated a biographical draft to him.

After the end of the Nazi regime , he came to Bonn in the course of the resulting expulsion . Here in 1955 he became the first pastor of the Evangelical Trinitatis parish, in which he served for 15 years until he retired in 1970.

In the 1950s he joined the Fight against Nuclear Death campaign , which was directed against the German armed forces' nuclear weapons. Because of its politically clear positioning, it was controversial in his community. In the 1960s he was one of those who spoke out in favor of recognizing the Oder-Neisse border and supported the Protestant Church's Eastern Memorandum , and thus primarily angered those who had been expelled from their homeland . In 1966 Burdach spoke out in an appeal against the Vietnam War .

Ernst Burdach was a member of the Christian Peace Conference , at whose I and II All-Christian Peace Assemblies he took part in Prague in 1961 and 1964, respectively .

After his retirement he moved to his house in Königswinter, where he died in 1976.

Burdach was married and the father of three sons and two daughters.

Works

• Ernst Burdach, Hans Joachim Iwand: Theology between the times. A fragment 1899-1937 . Publishing House of Helping Hands, Beienrode 1982

Essays

• Martin Lotz (Ed.), Voices on the death of Gustav W. Heinemann , supplement to H. 10/1976 of the JK [Contributions by Heinrich Albertz , U. Blank , Hans Bodensteiner , Chr. Broda , Ernst Burdach, Horst Ehmke , Erhard Eppler , Florentine Hoffmann , Diether Koch , Werner Koch , Martin Lotz, Diether Posser , Johannes Rau , Helmut Schmidt , Eberhard Stammler , Carola Stern , Vilma Sturm and others. a. and the speech at the funeral in 1976 by Helmut Gollwitzer ]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hartmut Rudolph: Evangelical Church and Expellees 1945 to 1972, Volume 1: Churches without Land, page 556 , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984 ISBN 3-525-55711-6
2. ↑ http://www.weissenseerblaetter.de/h04_99.htm
3. ↑ http://www.trinitatiskirche-bonn.de/archiv/festschrift_50.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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