Ernst Evers

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Ernst Eduard Evers (born August 15, 1844 in Kaköhl, Blekendorf parish ; † October 23, 1921 in Malente ) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor and writer.

theologian

The son of a wagon maker and a midwife from the village of Kaköhl in Schleswig-Holstein attended high school in Plön and began studying theology at Kiel University in 1865 . To continue his studies, he later moved to the theological faculty of Berlin University . In 1869 he became a pastor in Tetenbüll on the Eiderstedt peninsula in Schleswig-Holstein. He also worked as an editor on the paper he founded, Das Immergrün , before joining the Berlin City Mission in 1888 .

Collaboration in the Berlin city mission

As pastor and spiritual inspector of the Berliner Stadtmission , Evers headed the Stadtmissions publishing bookstore founded on August 1, 1883, since April 1, 1888 and was also the editor of numerous publications it edited. In 1891, Evers was provided by the publisher's owner to provide professional support as a further authorized managing director of the bookseller Ulrich Meyer. The calendar Deutscher Volksbote , published since 1888 by the Berlin City Mission in an edition of around 10,000 copies, was editorially and also creatively responsible for Pastor Evers from 1891 onwards and the sold circulation reached up to 80,000 copies in the following years. The publishing house of the bookstore of the Berliner Stadtmission published the Volksbote for the last time in 1904 under the editor Ernst Evers, also in a special edition for West Prussia .

After this success, Evers, who joined the bookstore's management together with bookseller Ulrich Meyer, brought out further calendars: in 1897 - together with the pastor of the Reconciliation Church, Johannes Burckhardt  - the Martha calendar , which was aimed particularly at female readers, and in 1900 the St. John's calendar for "Christian-minded men and young people". Evers also edited a tear-off calendar with verses from the Bible for the day in question. The Leipziger Zeitung characterized Evers in their book review on Auguste Viktoria. The life picture of the German Empress as one of “the most lovable Christian storytellers. He hits the noble folk tone both in the story and in the description and keeps himself completely free from the recently popular manner of aping the speech of the people. He sounds so familiar, so homely to us from his books ... Evers seems to us to be born to be a folk writer. ”Evers took up historical topics in several of his works, for example in the story from the Thirty Years War “ Wild Wogen ”, published in 1890. In the discussion of this title, Evers was recognized as "gift of captivating and moving representation". Evers also wrote stories for the Kinderspiegel and the children's library and published them as booklets in the publishing house.

Editor of The Sunday Friend

One of the magazines published by the Berlin City Mission was “Der Sonntagsfreund”, which appeared for the first time on January 1, 1885. The magazine contained poems, reflections, stories and narratives, historical, a review of the inner and outer mission, including information from the Berlin city mission, book reviews, pictures and illustrations, puzzles and advertisements. After Evers, when he joined the city mission in 1888, was given the task of editing and editing this Sunday paper, he expanded its “General Edition” to include additional regional special editions and won pastors from all areas of Germany as co-editors. For the respective regional edition, often only the head of the main edition of Der Sonntagsfreund was changed and church news of local interest was also published. The magazine for Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe was called Lutherisches Sonntagsblatt and, in addition to the main content of the “General Edition”, the newspaper announced events in the region, such as Sunday and public holiday services. In addition, there was a special Sunday friend for each of the Berlin parishes in the Mark Brandenburg region , to whom the local “church slip” could be attached.

Evers wrote edifying and instructive stories for editions of the "Sonntagsfreundes", which were supposed to have a positive influence on the minds of the readers, for example in 1895 the story "Advent sounds / Advent bells, which was printed in four sequels."

social commitment

In 1895 Evers wrote a historical account of the “Berlin emergencies” in church and social life on the basis of statistics from 1891/92. He advocated an increase in church tax in particular and campaigned for support for the work of the Berlin City Mission so that all pending tasks could be better fulfilled. On this occasion Evers mentioned that he lived in a suburb of Berlin and had to pay a church tax there that was one percent higher than in Berlin. He underpinned his call for help to overcome the emergencies in Berlin through non-profit organizations with the realization that the “authorities and corporations have to be much more considerate, are much more bound in their actions, and move forward much more slowly than the authorities a free association. ”Pastor Evers lived around 1895 in what is now the Berlin district of Tempelhof , which at the time was still a village in the former Prussian administrative district of Potsdam, Teltow district. In the Harz, in Wernigerode, he built a rest home.

Works (selection)

He published the following entertaining titles in what was then the publishing house of the Berliner Stadtmission bookstore:

  • Weather clouds and sunshine
  • Wild waves
  • Under fir and palm trees
  • Homeward
  • Olive branches and thorns
  • In the light of the Christmas sun
  • In the light of the Easter sun
  • Rogate . Narration (1889)
  • Am Sinai - Tales on the holy ten commandments (1899. Published in 1900 also by the Christian publishing house Carl Hirsch , Konstanz, as well as his story Rogate .)
  • Gold grains. Stories of German Loyalty , 1900
  • The Berlin City Mission (with contemporary illustrations by the Berlin painter Adolf Antkowiak).

In addition, Evers wrote the books Auguste Viktoria, a life picture of the German Empress , which was published in several editions while working for the Berlin city mission . The history painter Paul Händler illustrated in the Luther house , which was published by the Berliner Stadtmission bookstore in 1889 and then by Konstanz Kunstverlag . Evers published the Berliner Evangelien- Postille with 80 Berlin evangelical pastors as authors, which contained sermons for Sundays and feast days of the church year . For this he received a commendation from the emperor. The Verlag der Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission published the sermons in three sets of books at different prices, with the paperback edition costing the least, while the bound editions with leather backs and a further splendid edition with additional gilt edging were the most expensive. The printing was done by the Vaterländische Verlags-Anstalt in Berlin.

Evers published his works in several publishing houses, especially during his retirement for health reasons from 1904:

  • Cobblestones City Stories, Stuttgart (1904)
  • Christian Jensen. A picture of life. Breklum 1908; 1912; 1924
  • The mayor's family, Rauhen Haus agency , Hamburg 1913

In 1997 the revised reprint Ünner de Duppeleek was published. Schleswig-Holsteensche stories in his book Uenner de Doppeleek, which he published in his native Low German in 1885 . Schleswig-Holstein Stories , which contains Schleswig-Holstein stories.

Private

Evers had been married to his wife Minna, née von Grumkow, since 1873 and was able to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary with her in the service of the Berlin City Mission in 1894. They had six children. Three years earlier, Evers was included in the management of the bookstore of the Berliner Stadtmission and was later entrusted with the management of the “Buchdruckerei der Vaterländische Verlagsanstalt” in Berlin by the city mission and after the founding of the “Kunstanstalt für Kirchenausstättenungen” (Art Institute for Church Furniture). Due to its legal form as a state-recognized association and the rights granted to it as a legal person on November 16, 1891, the Association for Berlin City Mission, in particular with Evers, as the manager authorized by the board, was able to handle the day-to-day business for both the printing company and for run the art institute responsibly. As managing director, Evers actively supported himself with all his powers for the manufacture and sale of journalistic and sacred products, such as altar and pulpit clothing . On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Berlin City Mission, Walter Thieme paid tribute to Pastor Evers, the director and former editor of her magazines, who had passed away at that time, as a "sensitive writer", especially of short stories. The pastor of the Berlin city mission Ernst Bunke (* 1866; † 1944) pointed out that Evers "finally collapsed" under the burden and that at the age of 60 he "had to leave office" at the Berlin city mission "prematurely". He moved to Malente, where, together with his family, he built a higher daughters boarding school / Christian leisure home (Villa Martha and Villa Maria). He also wrote other books here. Evers died in Holstein Switzerland at the age of 78. His work is carried on today by his great-granddaughter, Dr Gudrun Wagner and her husband, Pastor Dagobert Wagner, who run the "Christian Jugendhof" leisure center in Malente-Kreuzfeld.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evers, Ernst (Eduard). In: Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Volume 3, Einstein-Görner. Munich 2006, p. 183; ISBN 3-598-23186-5
  2. ^ Ernst Evers: The Berlin city mission. Verlag der Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin 1902, foreword “I've been ... already fourteen years in city mission work .... Berlin, at the end of January 1902. "
  3. ↑ Walter Thieme: 50 years of work in the service of faith and love. 1877-1927. Anniversary publication of the Berlin city mission . Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt , Berlin 1927, p. 220
  4. ↑ "Bookstore of the Berlin City Mission". In: Address book of the German book trade and related branches of business (founded by OA Schulz), 56th year, on behalf of the board, edited by the office of the German booksellers' association in Leipzig. Leipzig 1904, p. 72
  5. ↑ The German People's Messenger for West Prussia . A calendar for the year 1904. Published by Ernst Evers. Verlag der Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin
  6. ↑ Walter Thieme: 50 years of work in the service of faith and love. 1877-1927. Anniversary publication of the Berlin city mission . Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt, Berlin (1927), p. 219.
  7. ^ Ernst Evers: The Berlin city mission. Verlag der Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin 1902, p. 119.
  8. ^ Review of the 1st edition by the Leipziger Volkszeitung by Ernst Evers: "Auguste Viktoria. The portrait of the German Empress ”Excerpt from the reprint in the advertising of the“ Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission ”, early 1890.
  9. ↑ Evangelische Kirchenzeitung 1890, quoted in the advertising of the bookstore of the Berliner Stadtmission for Christmas 1892. Printed by Thormann and Goetsch, Berlin
  10. ↑ Evers is named as the publisher and responsible editor in “Der Sonntagsfreund”, z. B. in the 11th year 1895, publishing house of the Berliner Stadtmission bookstore, Berlin, 1895
  11. ↑ For example the edition No. 46/1896; 24th Sunday after Trinity
  12. ^ Services for the 24th Sunday after Trinity, 1896; with local advertisements
  13. ^ Ernst Evers: The Berlin city mission . Verlag der Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin 1902, p. 114
  14. ↑ The Sunday friend . 11th year 1895, No. 47 to 50, pp. 371f., 378ff., 387f. and 394f.
  15. ^ Evers, Ernst: Berlin emergencies . Bookshop of the Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin (1895), p. 24
  16. ^ Berlin address book for the year 1895, suburb of Tempelhof; "Dorfstraße", since 1949 "Alt-Tempelhof"
  17. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon. Leipzig u. Vienna 1909. Sixth edition, vol. 19, keyword “Tempelhof”, p. 405, column 1.
  18. ↑ Ernst Evers: Auguste Viktoria. The life picture of the German Empress with a portrait in collotype . Bookshop of the Berliner Stadtmission. Second probably edition, including a "Fine edition on writing paper in leather band with gilt edging", Berlin (1891) and the 4th edition (1908) in the foundation publishing house in Potsdam
  19. ↑ Publishing bookstores . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1898, part IV, p. 35. “Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission, Johanniterstraße 6”.
  20. ^ Ernst Evers: The Berlin city mission. Verlag der Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin 1902, p. 120
  21. ↑ Walter Thieme: 50 years of work in the service of faith and love. 1877-1927. Anniversary publication of the Berlin city mission . Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt, Berlin 1927, p. 220
  22. ↑ Publishing house advertising in the appendix (after p. 158) of the book: Evers, Ernst / Händler, Paul (drawings as heliogravures : "Im Lutherhaus", Berlin (1898)).
  23. ↑ Publishing bookstores . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1898, part IV, p. 36. "Vaterländische Verlags-Anstalt, D. von Oertzen, Wilhelmstrasse 30/31".
  24. ↑ Walter Thieme: 50 years of work in the service of faith and love. 1877-1927. Anniversary publication of the Berlin city mission . Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt, Berlin 1927, p. 222.
  25. ^ Revised reprint of the edition from 1885; 1st edition, ed. by CJ Schulte; ISBN 3-932637-00-3 .
  26. ^ Ernst Evers: The Berlin city mission . Verlag der Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin 1902, p. 54
  27. ^ Guide through the Church of Berlin . Edited and published by the office of the Berlin City Committee for Inner Mission. Fourteenth edition, Berlin 1905, p. 141
  28. ↑ Walter Thieme: 50 years of work in the service of faith and love. 1877-1927. Anniversary publication of the Berlin city mission . Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt , Berlin 1927, p. 30
  29. ^ Bunkes report on the Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt , was printed in: Walter Thieme : 50 years of work in the service of faith and love. 1877-1927. Anniversary publication of the Berlin city mission . Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt, Berlin 1927, (209-235) p. 221 f.
  30. ↑ Evers, Ernst (Eduard). In: Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Einstein-Görner, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-23186-5 , Volume 3, p. 183.
personal data
SURNAME Evers, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evers, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, pastor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaköhl, Blekendorf community
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1921
Place of death Malente