Ernst Lohmann (pastor)

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Ernst Lohmann (born December 21, 1860 in Glowitz , † April 18, 1936 in Brücken ) was a German Protestant clergyman and founder of the German Aid Association for Christian Love in the Orient and the Malche Mission House .

Life

Ernst Lohmann was the son of the last Kashubian pastor in Glowitz, Ernst Cornelius Engelbert Lohmann († 1885). He was initially a secondary school teacher in Erbach (Rheingau) . As a student in 1880 he became a member of the Christian student associations Bonner Wingolf and Hallenser Wingolf . Under the influence of the Christian Association of Young Men , he decided to study Protestant theology and became a pastor. In 1889 he became inspector of the Evangelical Society in Elberfeld .

In 1891 he went to a chapel community in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, which was independent of the regional church . In 1890 he hosted the first student conference with John Mott , from which the German Christian Student Association emerged in 1895 .

In response to the massacre of the Armenians in 1894–1896 , he called on February 2 with a leaflet entitled Der Notschrei Armeniens for donations and relief efforts; this resulted in the German Aid Association for Christian love work in the Orient in 1896 . In the winter of 1898/99, he and Ferdinand Brockes went on an inspection trip to the institutions of German aid organizations. It first took him by ship from Constantinople to Smyrna ( Izmir ), then overland to Mersin , Tarsus , Adana , Sis ( Kozan (Adana) ), Hajin ( Saimbeyli ), Marasch ( Kahramanmaraş ) and Zeitun ( Süleymanlı ). Aintab ( Gaziantep ) and Urfa followed ; then it went to Mesereh ( Elazığ ) and through Cappadocia to Sivas and from there via Amasya to the coast and back to Constantinople. Brockes published his travel reports in the conservative Berlin newspaper Reichsbote and in 1900 in book form. The reports and illustrations give an insight into the world of the Armenian population group who perished in 1915.

In 1898 he founded the Malche Bible House in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) as a training center for female missionaries in the Middle East , which later also bore the name Malche Women’s Mission and is now an evangelical community with a diaconal orientation as the Malche Sisters and Brotherhood . Missionaries for China, Japan, India, Africa, America, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, for city missions and also for the "Gypsy Mission" were trained in Malche. In 1912 there were 120 Sisters trained in Malche working all over the world.

From 1903 he was chairman of the also newly founded Missionsbund for Eastern Europe .

Until around 1927 he was chairman of the German Aid Association for Christian Love in the Orient (Frankfurter Missionsgesellschaft).

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.) Booklets for revision of the Bible translation. Printing and publishing by St. Johannes Druckerei, Dinglingen, Baden, undated (1902)
  • The life of faith according to Genesis 12 - 24. Johannes Schergens, Bonn a. Rh., 3rd edition 1903; Bookstore of the community association, Chemnitz, 4th edition 1920; DNB 574654240
  • To the Saints in Rome: The Apostle Paul's Letter to the Romans, translated and explained. Orient publishing house, Frankfurt a. M., 1912. Second edition: 1920, DNB 575354046
  • As the apostle writes: marginal notes on the letters of the apostle Paul. Orient publishing house, Frankfurt a. M., 1913, DNB 363618783 .
    • Second edition: As the apostle Paul writes: (2. Petr. 3, 15); Some basic concepts of the apostolic salvation proclamation . Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, Ploughshare , 1928, DNB 574654275
  • The letter to the Ephesians: To world harmony through Christ. Ploughshare , Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, 1930, DNB 574654186

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Winkler: Vademekum Wingolfitikum , Wingolfsverlag, Wolfratshausen 1925, p. 70.
  2. ^ Karl Heinz Voigt : Ecumenism in Germany. International Influences and Networking - Beginnings 1848-1945. (= Series Church-Denomination-Religion Vol. 62). Verlag V&R unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0269-4 , p. 72
  3. ↑ Uwe Feigel: The Protestant Germany and Armenia: the Armenian aid of German Protestant Christians since the end of the 19th century in the context of German-Turkish relations. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1989 (Church and Denomination 28) ISBN 9783525565315 , p. 71ff
  4. ↑ Across Asia Minor. Pictures from a winter trip through the Armenian emergency area. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1900, digitized by Hathi Trust, accessible with a US proxy
  5. ↑ Knispel, p. 46
  6. ^ Heinz Boberach: Handbook of the German Protestant Churches, 1918 to 1949: organs - offices - associations - people. Volume 1, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010 online p. 324
personal data
SURNAME Lohmann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman, founder of the German Aid Association for Christian Love in the Orient and the Malche Mission House
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Glowitz, today Główczyce
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1936
Place of death Bridges (helmets)