Ernst Volk

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Ernst Volk (born November 13, 1927 in Biskirchen , † October 16, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian .

Life

Ernst Volk grew up in Biskirchen an der Lahn, where he was confirmed in 1942 in the Reformed church community. He attended the Philippinum Weilburg grammar school , which was interrupted by the Second World War. There he experienced traumatizing events and the inescapability of life situations in 1944/45, which he survived in contrast to many comrades. After a short imprisonment he was able to return to Biskirchen starved. After 1945 he again attended grammar school in Weilburg, which he graduated from high school in 1946. He decided to study Protestant theology in Marburg , where he converted from the Reformed to the Lutheran creed, and in Wuppertal . His vicariate in Oberhausen and Wetzlar-Niedergirmes followed his first theological exam in 1952 . Afterwards he was ordained to the Lutheran confessions and from then on occupied himself with the writings and theology of Martin Luther , for whose Reformation legacy he campaigned. He then worked as a parish administrator in Hückelhoven near Aachen. From 1956 to 1992 he was pastor in Mülheim on the Moselle. He particularly promoted the partnership work of the church district with parishes in the Uckermark .

From 1972 to 1995 he was chairman of the Lutheran Convention in the Rhineland , then its honorary chairman. 1,960 people were from the district Trier Synod as Skriba in Kreissynodalvorstand selected. In 1964 she elected him three times in a row to the post of superintendent, which he held until his retirement in 1992.

As the author of articles in the information letter of the confessional movement “No other gospel” , he became known nationwide. He caused a stir in 1996 when he spoke out against the participation of Protestants in Catholic pilgrimages - for example to Lourdes or to the Holy Rock in Trier. Whoever does this is recognizing Roman doctrinal decisions.

Private

Ernst Volk married his wife Gertraude Hirse in 1954, who died in 2012. The church wedding took place in Rothenburg an der Neisse , where his father-in-law was a pastor. The couple had three children and lived in Mülheim on the Moselle. After the death of his wife in 2013, he moved to a nursing home near his children in Berlin.

Publications (selection)

  • Evangelical Church, quo vadis? Evangelical Notgemeinschaft in Deutschland eV, Saxony near Ansbach 1975.
  • Utopia or Gospel: Thoughts on the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's birthday . Faculty of the Lutheran Theological University, Oberursel (Taunus) 1978, ISBN 978-3-921613-09-2 .
  • The special fund of the ecumenical anti-racism program contradicts the gospel. A study of anti-racism, the struggle for freedom and the Church of Jesus Christ. Idea eV, Wetzlar 1984.
  • Church taxes for the special fund? Solidarity or faith of love. An expert opinion on a controversial decision by the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. Idea eV, Wetzlar 1985.
  • The South African “Kairos Document” - prophetic voice or political agitation? An analysis. Idea eV, Wetzlar 1986.
  • The other Martin. A memory of the Lutheran theologian Martin Chemnitz . Friends of Church Renewal, Berlin 1987.
  • From the evangelical preaching office. A fragment. Lutherische Buchhandlung Harms, Gross Oesingen 1990, ISBN 3-922534-55-4 .
  • The Christian in post-Christian Germany. Lecture by the chairman of the Lutheran Convention in the Rhineland (Superintendent Ernst Volk, Trier). Idea eV, Wetzlar 1991.
  • Evangelical Church Mülheim, Mosel (Photos: Andreas Lechtape). Schnell and Steiner, Munich / Regensburg 1993.
  • Was Luther an Anti-Semite? A statement on the demand that the EKD should publicly distance itself from Luther's anti-Jewish statements. Idea eV, Wetzlar 1996.
  • Philipp Melanchthon. The teacher of Germany. Lutherische Buchhandlung Harms, Gross Oesingen 1997, ISBN 3-86147-157-4 .
  • with Hartmut Günther : Luther's interpretation of the epistle. Volume 5: Paul's first letter to Timothy. Paul's first letter to Titus. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 978-3-525-55637-5 .
  • Contestation and Certainty of Faith. The seven letters of Revelation are interpreted. Freimund-Verlag, Neuendettelsau 1998, ISBN 3-7726-0192-8 and Society for Mission, ISBN 978-3-86540-192-2 .
  • Johannes Bugenhagen . The reformer in the north. Lutherische Buchhandlung Harms, Gross Oesingen 1999, ISBN 3-86147-174-4 .
  • The Osiandrian controversy and its present day significance . In: Homiletic-liturgical correspondence sheet, NF Vol. 17 (1999/2000), No. 67, pp. 321–336.
  • with Gertraude Volk: This is how faith comes from the sermon. Evangelical sermon in the Trier region. Lutherische Buchhandlung Harms, Gross Oesingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-86147-295-7 .
  • Johannes Brenz . Witness to biblical-evangelical truth and reformer in southern Germany. VTR, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941750-23-4 .

literature

  • Thomas Berke (Ed.): Finding what has been lost. Festschrift for Ernst Volk on his 65th birthday. 1992. 2nd, revised edition, Luther Edition Elversberg, Spiesen-Elversberg 1993, ISBN 978-3-9803152-0-3 (with bibliography Ernst Volks on pp. 509-517).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mourning for Ernst Volk , ekir.de
  2. ↑ a b Obituary for Ernst Volk from October 23, 2015 ( Memento from October 31, 2015 on WebCite )
  3. ↑ Lutheran Convention in the Rhineland  in the German Digital Library
  4. ↑ Conservative Lutheran Ernst Volk died , idea.de, October 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ Obituary notice Gertraude Else Volk, geb. Millet ( memento from October 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), obituary notice from May 14, 2012
  6. ↑ Thomas Berke: curriculum vitae and appreciation of the work of pastor and superintendent i. R. Ernst Volk , ekir.de, funeral service on October 23, 2015 in the Ev. Mülheim church on the Moselle.
personal data
SURNAME People, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Biskirchen
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2015
Place of death Mülheim on the Moselle