Ernst Georg Baars

Ernst Georg Baars (born November 26, 1864 in Bremerhaven , † September 25, 1949 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant theologian .

biography

Baars was the son of a shipbuilder . He spent his childhood in his hometown. After completing his school career in Bremerhaven and Oldenburg, he studied Protestant theology at the universities of Halle , Jena and Strasbourg . Baars was ordained on June 2, 1889. He then worked as vicar in Bruchsal , Schwetzingen and Baden-Baden . In 1893 he married Maria (1865–1942), daughter of Lieutenant General and linguist Johannes Streccius ; together they had a son and five daughters. From December 17, 1894, he worked as a pastor in the community in Weiler .

On 22 September 1895 he was supported by the United Evangelical Protestant church to Bremen-Vegesack elected pastor, where he worked until the 1928th He was a member of the Monistenbund , the German Protestant Association and assessor of the board of the Bund für Mutterschutz , local group Bremen. His diverse activities connected him with the women's rights activists and pacifists Auguste Kirchhoff and Helene Stöcker as well as the sexual reformers Magnus Hirschfeld and Iwan Bloch . He was also a member of the Schlaraffen Association in Bremen and later Vegesack. As a result of an official offense, the Bremen Evangelical Church initiated an ecclesiastical procedure against him , which led to his removal from office based on a judgment of February 15, 1928. Baars then lived first in Lesum and then in Bremen, where he was involved in the Bremen branch of the German Peace Society. Until the dissolution of the local group in April 1933, he was its last chairman. After the death of his wife in 1942 he moved to a daughter in Biedenkopf and returned to Bremen at the beginning of September 1949, where he died a few days later. His gravestone has been preserved in the Vegesack cemetery on Lindenstrasse . His extensive collection of field post from the First World War is kept in the Schönebeck Castle Local History Museum.

Works (selection)

• Bible study on a historical basis. Brief guide to use in confirmation classes (Bremen-Vegesack 1901)
• The victory of faith. A Pentecost or Reformation Festival (1903)
• Out of the deepest misery. A scene from life with a declamatory frame and a picture (Flensburg 1906)
• Maternity leave, a cultural task. Lecture held at the Bund for Maternity Protection in Hamburg (Hamburg 1910)

literature

• Georg Huntemann : Baars, Ernst Georg. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Hrsg.): Bremische Biographie 1912-1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 20 (Col. 1-2).
• Matthias Wolfes :  Baars, Ernst Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 79-83.
• Claudia Lepp : Protestant-liberal departure into the modern age. The German Protestant Association at the time of the founding of the Reich and the Kulturkampf (Gütersloh 1996).
• Thomas Begerow: The long road from war advocate to pacifist. Pastor Ernst Baars and the First World War. In: Eva Schöck-Quinteros and Nils Steffen (eds.): "How happy we must be not to have the war in our country!" Field post to Pastor Ernst Baars in Vegesack (1914–1918) , Bremen 2014 (From the files on the stage, Volume 7), pp. 25–42.
• Thomas Begerow: From the Empire to the Weimar Republic, Ernst Baars (1864–1949), In: Thomas Begerow, Volker Keller, Ingbert Lindemann (Ed.): 200 Years of the Evangelical Church Community Vegesack 1817-2017 , Bremen ( Donat Verlag ) 2017, ISBN 978 -3-943425-73-4 , pp. 63-73.