Eugen Scheuermann

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Eugen Scheuermann (born September 12, 1856 in Riga , Livonia Gouvernement , Russian Empire ; † May 22, 1919 in Riga, Latvian SPR ), with full name Eugen Otto Scheuermann , Latvian Eižens Šeuermans or Eižens Šeiermanis , was a German-Baltic pastor . He is considered an Evangelical Lutheran martyr and is recorded on the Riga Martyrs Stone.

The dates in this article are based on the Julian calendar for the period up to 1918 unless otherwise noted.

Life

Youth and education

Eugen Scheuermann's mother was very religious and died early. Eugen Scheuermann attended the Gouvernements-Gymnasium in Riga from 1871 to 1877. His high school religion teacher was the pastor Jentsch. Both of these people gave him the opportunity to study theology. His father was the businessman August Scheuermann, who came from East Prussia . While he was taking his high school diploma, his father also passed away.

His financial possibilities were very limited when he enrolled at the Dorpat State University in 1877 . Here Professor M. von Engelhardt, who was considered to be conscience-building, exercised the decisive influence on him. For Eugen Scheuermann too, conscience was very important; he was considered extremely conscientious. On October 4, 1877 he became a member of the Dorpat Theological Association. He was also a member of the Fraternitas Rigensis . He completed his studies in 1881 as a graduate student.

In 1882 he passed the exams before the consistory in Riga. From 1882 to 1883 he spent his probationary year with Pastor Keussler in Schwanenburg and with Pastor Kählbrandt in Neu-Pebalg in Livonia. In 1883 he married Adele Barbara Pawlowsky.

Pastor in Lubahn

After his time as vicar, Eugen Scheuermann was ordained pastor of Lubahn on May 29, 1883 in Riga by Superintendent General Girgensohn . This municipality was at the extreme end of Livonia on the border with the Russian-speaking governorates of the Russian Empire. For several years he was able to enjoy his life here. Religiously motivated, he tried everything he could to help the Latvian people. He built a small infirmary for sick and old parishioners. The infirmary built by the community were unsuitable as old people's homes; they were more like a waiting room for death, as management was entrusted to those who could provide care for the least possible financial outlay.

Times should be harder for Eugen Scheuermann. This led to conflicts with the local Russian Orthodox priest and with nationalist parishioners who rejected him as a Baltic German. There were also financial problems; so the pastor was dependent on deliveries of produce from the common land. This was not a problem at first, but that changed when the government of the governorate lifted the municipalities' obligation to make such supplies. This decision was successfully litigated, which, however, took 4½ years to complete. Scheuermann had six school-age children, which made his economic hardship worse and worse during this time. The verdict weighed on the farmers, which angered them against the pastors.

In May 1895, Scheuermann asked for clarification regarding the expenses for poor relief, pointing out that in Germany one could get by with lower amounts per person.

Inauguration in Riga

Luther Church in Riga

The problems mentioned in the previous subchapter prompted Eugen Scheuermann, in 1898, to answer a call to another congregation with relief: Now he served as pastor in the Luther congregation in Riga- Thorensberg . This consisted predominantly of factory workers of Latvian ethnicity and socialist sentiments.

Scheuermann's appointment as pastor took place against the will of the congregation, which strained their relationship with him for a long time. Scheuermann's behavior, however, led to an improvement over time, for example by rejecting fee payments by poor people. The pastor's workload was heavy, which affected his health but did not prevent him from performing his duties.

Outside employment

Collections that he had collected for special purposes in his community were often acknowledged in the press.

On Monday, December 18th, Jul. / December 31, 1900 greg. , he inaugurated the first tea and dining house of the Riga moderation club "Sonne" in Latvian and German.

In addition to his clerical work, Eugen Scheuermann, as well as pastor Karl Schilling , murdered in 1905, was provost Ludwig Zimmermann , murdered in 1906, clergymen Hans Bielenstein , Alexander Bernewitz , Xaver Marnitz , Arnold von Rutkowski , Paul Fromhold-Treu , Christoph Strautmann , who were executed by Bolsheviks in 1919 , Karl Schlau , Eberhard Savary and Wilhelm Gilbert and like the pastors Gustav Cleemann and Erwin Gross , who died as a result of their imprisonment with the Bolsheviks, full members of the Latvian-Literary Society , which was dedicated to the study of the Latvian language, folklore and culture . This society was mainly supported by German-Baltic pastors and intellectuals. For the Latvians themselves, a higher education was hardly accessible at the time of the imperial Russian rule, their culture led a shadowy existence.

On Friday June 22nd, Jul. / July 5, 1901 greg. , he held two festive services in the Luther Church on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city of Riga, at 9 a.m. in Latvian and at 11 a.m. in German.

On Sunday December 7th, Jul. / December 20, 1903 greg. , he took part in the annual festival of the support fund for Evangelical Lutheran congregations in Russia by reporting at the Latvian 6 p.m. service in the Luther Church.

The Russian Revolution of 1905 with its atheistic and violent aspects faced Scheuermann as an opponent. He defended the Christian faith and an orderly legal system.

On Friday February 10th Jul. / February 23, 1906 greg. , he gave the funeral speech at the funeral of the former orphan father Wilhelm Lang, who was then known in Riga, on Psalm 103 , the deceased's favorite psalm , and said a prayer.

Church services, including children's services, which took place on weekdays, and confirmations, he held both in German and in Latvian.

Illegal confirmation

On April 30, 1906, Eugen Scheuermann confirmed 16-year-old Pauline Grajew, whose mother was Evangelical Lutheran while her father belonged to the Russian Orthodox state church, which should bring Scheuermann into conflict with the authorities.

Following the Russian Revolution of 1905

On the morning of August 19, 1906, a Saturday, two men entered Scheuermann's apartment, allegedly to speak to him on official matters. Scheuermann himself and his daughter were present. The men threatened Scheuermann with a weapon, asked him to put his hands up and stole four rubles from him. The intruders asked for more money and weapons. Scheuermann replied that there was still more money in the living quarters above. After receiving this information, the robbers fled.

After the Russian Revolution of 1905 , Scheuermann campaigned in November 1906 for a former pupil of the Strasdenhof Institute for the Blind who had lost his small brush workshop during the revolution. Scheuermann was available to collect money with a target amount of 100 rubles to provide information about the needy to potential donors and to receive the donations.

Opinion on reform of religious instruction

On January 31, 1907, a letter to the editor by Scheuermann with the title “Reform Fever” appeared in the Rigaschen Zeitung about the reform of religious education and the reporting in various newspaper articles about it. He considered individual branches of religious education to be in need of reform, but rejected a comprehensive reform. He took the view that a newspaper article on the subject, which was based on statements by a Reformed pastor, misrepresented religious education and aroused unjustified doubts about its necessity. In Protestant religious instruction, as claimed, it is not about bending under a religious law; this would contradict Protestant belief. A memorization of Luther's articles in the language of the 16th century takes place, but it is accompanied by explanations from the religious teacher. Religious instruction is not just about respecting the person of Christ and the hereafter, as claimed, but about awakening a faith that carries through life. Scheuermann justified memorization with the consolation that memorized Bible words had already given to many. The religion teacher must ensure that memorization is not mechanical, but is filled with content. Scheuermann particularly criticized the statements of a father whose criticism he considered unqualified. Anyone who does not understand a word from the Bible should talk to other Christians about it. Theological advances, for example on the question of the inspiration of the Bible, are ignored by the critics. The reporting is too superficial.

The subsequent statement by the newspaper indicated the need to take up the issue in order to enable the reader to reach a judgment. It is also necessary to allow expressions of opinion that do not correspond to Scheuermann's view; his indignation is not expedient.

The lack of clarity about the question of which aspects of religious education should be reformed, which Scheuermann's letter to the editor also pointed out, made a religious teacher day necessary in the opinion of one teacher. The Rigasche Rundschau ruled on Scheuermann's letter to the editor that parents have the right to have a say in the concerns of their children and that teaching the Lutheran articles would be an advertisement for the Lutheran denomination.

Unsuccessful assassination attempt

When the situation seemed to have calmed down after the actual period of the revolution and the field courts established because of the revolution were abolished, on May 6, 1907 at 3:30 p.m. on Keckauschen Strasse, a remote suburban street, between two hills that narrowed the street, a Attack perpetrated on Scheuermann, who was traveling in a cart to a funeral at the Luther cemetery on Seifenberg , which belongs to his community . The motive was probably his negative attitude towards the previous revolution. Two teenagers standing on the left side of the street, one taller and one shorter, fired eight rounds at him with Browning pistols . Three other people were involved in the act, one of whom was on guard. It was later determined that the two young men were probably also responsible for the murder of two police officers in Bienenhof and of the carpenter Behrsin in Ilgezeem .

The pastor was critically injured by a total of five bullets; his left arm was grazed, the bones of his right hip were splintered by another shot, and he received two grazes on his left shin; his leg received a bullet. He fell out of the car. The seat of the car was also shot through, but the driver was unharmed. Scheuermann remained conscious despite his serious injuries.

The assassins fled up one of the hills into the bushes. Since the street was deserted and the carter turned around and fled back into town, it took some time before the bleeding heavily bleeding Scheuermann, who barely survived, was helped. Scheuermann was taken by some women to a hut on Bauskeschen Strasse, which was the next building. His wife was informed and he was given emergency bandages. He was later taken to the deaconess institution in a rapid medical aid car. He was given an injection of morphine on the night of May 7th so that he could sleep. The next morning his condition had improved, indicated by a body temperature of 37.7 ° C. The ball in the hip could not be removed at this point.

Only a few empty shell casings were found by police and court officials as evidence. Scheuermann survived the attack.

Reactions to the attack and suspects

A connection between the deed and the undesirable appointment of Scheuermann as its pastor was doubted by the “Rigas Awise” due to the atheistic nature of the socialist movement at the time. Instead, this newspaper suspected that the socialists wanted to shift suspicion to Scheuermann's community with the attack, and called for martial law to be maintained. The assassination attempt on Scheuermann proves that the complaint of the revolutionary magazine " Cīņa " about the declining energy of the revolutionary groups in Thorensberg and Sassenhof was understood as an appeal to murder Scheuermann and other clergymen.

In a letter to the editor in the “Rigas Awise” on May 9, 1907, several community members expressed their affection for Scheuermann and distanced themselves from the assassins. Congregation members are certainly not to be looked for among them, they are socialists.

In May 1907 Scheuermann received a quarter-hour sick visit from the Livonian governor, Privy Councilor Sweginzow, in the deaconess house.

On June 27, 1907, the 16-year-old community farmer Jaan Elmanstrun from Annenburg was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the attack against Scheuermann. He confessed. On May 16, 1908, he had to answer before the temporary court martial. Elmanstrun accused Jakob Lahzgalw, Emil Siegmund and two unknown companions of the act. He himself only had to keep watch with a revolver they had given him. He later withdrew this statement because he had been subjected to police violence and said he had no knowledge of the attempted murder. He was sentenced to six years in prison for covering up and failing to report the crime.

The 16-year-old Sehgelin and the 20-year-old Launag were suspected of having carried out the shots. Launag was tall, his appearance was described as unattractive, Sehgelin was shorter. You were arrested because of the robbery and murder of Miss Rosenberg in a forest in Riga-Edingburg. The motive for this act was hunger, the booty was worth 15 rubles. The woman is said to have been shot first by Sehgelin and then killed by Launag with a meat hammer. The two denied involvement in the other crimes they were accused of, including the assassination attempt on Scheuermann. However, material collected by the secret police suggested that Sehgelin and Launag were also guided by political motives in their first acts.

Scheuermann was treated in the Riga Diakonissenhaus , from which he was released on July 16, 1907 as cured. He retained a stiffness in the knee joint; he could not use two fingers on his left hand normally. Massages appeared as a promising healing method. On the 30th, he traveled to a sanatorium in Bad Reichenhall ( Bavaria ) for a follow-up treatment .

In October 1907 Scheuermann returned recovered from his cure and took over the services in the Luther Church again in September.

Scheuermann's problems during the revolution, especially the failed murder attempt, led to an improvement in his reputation in his community. Revolutionaries were now viewed as common opponents because of their excesses against the church and its representatives. It was no longer possible to agitate against Scheuermann without being suspected of sympathizing with the attackers. The “Rigas Awise” ruled that the assassins had achieved the opposite of what they wanted to achieve.

Legal proceedings for the illegal confirmation

In November 1908, proceedings were brought against Scheuermann because of Pauline Grajew's confirmation. The trial took place on September 30th . / October 13,  1910 greg. instead of. Grajew, now married, and her mother were called as witnesses. The hearing took place in camera. Since the statute of limitations for Scheuermann's interference in the affairs of the Orthodox state church was one year, his defender, von Rüdiger, was able to have the proceedings put down after a brief consultation.

Inauguration of a hospital

In February 1910, Scheuermann held a devotion in Latvian and German as part of an ecumenical ceremony on the occasion of the inauguration of Riga's second city hospital.

exile

In 1914 the First World War broke out. Many German-Baltic pastors were considered Germanophile by the Russian authorities, they were even accused of spying for the German Reich. The result was the exile to Siberia . This is what happened to Eugen Scheuermann. In 1918 he was able to return.

Imprisoned by the Bolsheviks

In 1919, during the Latvian War of Independence , Bolsheviks took control. Eugen Scheuermann had to decide whether to stay with his community or to flee. It was natural for him to stay. His eldest son August Scheuermann was a pastor in Dickeln . He was arrested and detained. The second son was in Tuckum prison and was shot there. Eugen Scheuermann then wrote to his eldest son:

"I mean, God wants to educate us to a real heroism of suffering during this time, we want to keep him quiet."

He also expected to be arrested for himself at any time. Until April 3, he was bedridden for three weeks due to illness.

On April 5, there were mass arrests; Eugen Scheuermann was arrested and taken away with his eldest daughter. He was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in Riga Central Prison; at the gate he was separated from his daughter. It was clear to both of them that it would be a goodbye forever. Scheuermann wrote his wife numerous letters of comfort from prison, in which he said:

"I still hope that the light will rise in our darkness."

and:

"If you write to August, tell him that I am actually happy to be his fellow sufferer, and tell him: hold on until God's hour has come, not in your own, but in God's power."

August Scheuermann was transferred to a concentration camp, which improved his situation. Eugen Scheuermann was very happy about it. His health was very good, measured against the illness he had just overcome. He commented on this in a letter to his wife:

"It seems that God wants me to keep my strength."

Daily devotions took place in many cells; next to it, section by section, the Passion story was read out, especially during Holy Week. Eugen Scheuermann and Theodor Taube did this in their cell . On Good Friday, Scheuermann expressed his gratitude in a letter to be able to suffer with a clear conscience, as well as his hope for the resurrection and a good end perhaps in this life. During Scheuermann's imprisonment, his youngest daughter Maria had to undergo a serious operation. He wrote her a letter in which he comforted her that God would not forsake her. His daughter died too. Scheuermann suffered greatly from not having seen her again, but also wrote:

“God knows why, also why He made her last earth days so difficult, but the reunion, the wonderful, we can firmly hope. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. "

(Compare Rev 14,13  LUT .) For May 1st, 1919, the prisoners expected an amnesty, but this did not materialize. They were torn between hope and fatefulness.

Scheuermann's daughter was buried on May 19. The father was not allowed to participate. Scheuermann also wrote a letter in which he presented the sun, which was shining brightly on that day, as a comforting symbol for God's grace. He did not know that he would also die only three days later; he knew, however, that he didn't have much longer to live. So he sent his wife his wedding ring a few days before his death.

execution

On May 22nd, the prison was about to be stormed by a raid troop of the Baltic State Armed Forces , about which the prisoners knew nothing. Shortly before the Bolsheviks withdrew from Riga, Eugen Scheuermann and 32 fellow prisoners (see the list below) were led out of their cells in the afternoon. They were brought in an orderly train through the long corridors under heavy guard to the prison yard. Soldiers of the Red Army, who formed the guard, were posted there and now shot all those who were taken out. Details about Eugen Scheuermann's death are not known. But he had to bear the full extent of what Livonian pastors had to endure during this time.

Immediately after the execution, the soldiers and commissioners fled. A little later, an armored car from the Landeswehr made its way to the prison; the prisoners' relatives followed him into the courtyard. They were shocked by the sight they saw.

Afterlife

On May 21, 1929, a memorial plaque for Scheuermann was unveiled in the Luther Church as part of a service that began at 7:30 p.m. and was held by Pastor Grüner and Pastor Meyer.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Domestic. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 108, May 15, 1895, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  2. ↑ receipt. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 83, April 13, 1900, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  3. ↑ receipt. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 88, April 19, 1900, online under Pastor Scheuermann | issueType: P
  4. ↑ A joyless existence! in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 274, December 4, 1902, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  5. ↑ A joyless existence! in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 275, December 5, 1902, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  6. ^ To the Christmas collection of the Verein gegen Bettel in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 283, December 16, 1902, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  7. ^ Association against begging. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 288, December 21, 1902, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  8. ↑ receipt. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 9, January 13, 1903, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  9. ↑ Notes. in the Rigaschen city sheets , No. 52, December 30, 1900, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  10. ^ List of members of the Latvian Literary Society from 1901 ( Memento from September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Notes. in the Rigaschen Stadtbl Blätter , No. 32, August 9, 1901, online at Pastor Scheuermann Pastor Pastor | issueType: P
  12. ↑ Notes. in the Rigaschen Stadtbl Blätter , No. 51, December 24, 1903, online at Pastor Pastor Pastor Pastor Scheuermann | issueType: P
  13. ↑ On the funeral of the former orphan father Lang in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 37, February 14, 1906, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  14. ↑ Church services in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 176, August 4, 1906, online at Pastor Scheuermann Pastor | issueType: P
  15. ↑ Church services. in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 103, May 5, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  16. ^ Church services in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 86, April 13, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  17. ↑ Church matters. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 69, March 22, 1908, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  18. ↑ Local. in the Rigaschen Zeitung , No. 102, May 3, 1908, online at Pastor Pastor Pastor Scheuermann | issueType: P
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  32. ↑ Domestic. in the Libauschen Zeitung , No. 189, August 21, 1906, online at Scheuermann Pastor Scheuermann | issueType: P
  33. ↑ Urgent request! in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 276, November 30, 1906, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  34. ↑ Urgent request. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 57, March 9, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  35. ↑ On the reform of religious education. in the Rigaschen Zeitung , No. 25, January 31, 1907, online under Pastor Scheuermann | issueType: P , in it Scheuermann's letter to the editor
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  38. ↑ On the reform of religious education. in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 179, August 4, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  39. ↑ Wanted murderers. in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 118, May 23, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  40. ↑ Arrests of Serious Criminals, in Rigaschen Zeitung , No. 185, August 11, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  41. ↑ Local. in the Rigaschen Zeitung , No. 104, May 7, 1907, online at Pastor Scheuermann | issueType: P
  42. ↑ Press votes. in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 105, May 8, 1907, online at Scheuermann Pastor | issueType: P
  43. ^ Latvian press. in the Rigaschen Zeitung , No. 105, May 8, 1907, online at Scheuermann Pastor | issueType: P
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  46. ^ On the assassination attempt on Pastor Scheuermann. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 107, May 10, 1907, online at Scheuermann Pastor Scheuermann | issueType: P
  47. ↑ His Excellency the Livonian Governor in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 111, May 15, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
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  50. ↑ On the robbery in Edinburgh. in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 149, June 30, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  51. ↑ On the robbery in Edinburgh. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 149, June 30, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  52. ↑ On the arrest of the murderers of Fraulein Rosenberg, in the Rigaschen Zeitung , No. 149, June 30, 1907, online under Pastor Pastor Pastor | issueType: P
  53. ^ Pastor Scheuermann. in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 175, July 31, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  54. ↑ Pastor Eugen Scheuermann in Rigaschen Zeitung , No. 175, July 31, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  55. ^ Pastor Eugen Scheuermann in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 175, July 31, 1907, online under Scheuermann | issueType: P
  56. ↑ Local. in the Düna-Zeitung , No. 254, November 1, 1907, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  57. ↑ To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Pastor Scheuermann's office in the Rigaschen Zeitung , No. 125, May 31, 1908, online at Pastor Scheuermann | issueType: P
  58. ↑ The inauguration of the second city hospital in the Rigaschen Zeitung , No. 46, February 25, 1910, online at Scheuermann | issueType: P
  59. ^ The memorial day of May 22nd in Riga in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 106, May 14th 1929 ( Scheuermann Pastor Pastor Pastor | issueType: P )
personal data
SURNAME Scheuermann, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheuermann, Eugen Otto; Šeuermans, Eižens; Šeiermanis, Eižens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, German-Baltic martyr
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1919
Place of death Riga , Latvian SPR