Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck

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Seal image of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck (after 1945) as a glass painting in the Marienkirche

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck ( Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lübeck state until 1937) was a regional church in the German Empire . It was the church of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck , which was an independent state of the German Empire until 1937 and then became a district of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein .

In 1948 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck was a founding member of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and also belonged to the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD).

On January 1, 1977, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck merged with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state , the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Schleswig-Holstein, the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Eutin and the Harburg District of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover to form the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church .

history

As early as 1163 the city of Lübeck had become the seat of a diocese. From 1530 the Reformation was introduced according to the Lutheran creed, so that Lübeck was a Protestant city for centuries. The area of ​​the city and the church area were identical. Later, a reformed parish was established, but it did not belong to the regional church of Lübeck.

The administration of the church in Lübeck and the sovereign church regiment lay with the Senate as a college until 1918. In 1895 the church was given a constitution. A new church council was set up as a governing body, which was initially chaired by Senator Heinrich Alphons Plessing . This church constitution was renewed in 1921 in such a way that the Senate renounced the church government . From then on, the senior elected by the regional synod was at the head of the church, and from 1934 he received the title of “bishop”. This exercised the spiritual direction in consultation with the church leadership. The regional synod was appointed by the municipalities. The administrative authority of the church was the bishop's office in Lübeck.

In the church elections in 1933, the German Christians won the majority. The bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck was one of seven Evangelical bishops or regional church presidents who signed the "Announcement on the Church Status of Evangelical Jews" on December 17, 1941:

“The National Socialist German leadership has irrefutably proven with numerous documents that this war on its global scale was instigated by the Jews. It has therefore taken the decisions and measures against Judaism, both internally and externally, necessary to secure German life. As members of the German national community, the signed German Protestant regional churches are at the forefront of this historical defensive struggle, which, among other things, made the Reich Police Ordinance on the identification of Jews as born enemies of the world and the Reich necessary, as Dr. After bitter experiences, Martin Luther demanded that the strictest measures be taken against the Jews and that they be expelled from Germany. From the crucifixion of Christ to the present day, the Jews have fought Christianity or misused and falsified it in order to achieve their selfish goals. Christian baptism does not change the racial character of a Jew, his ethnicity or his biological being. A German Protestant church has to promote the religious life of German nationals. Racial Jewish Christians have no place and no right in it. The signed German Protestant church leaders have therefore abolished any fellowship with Jewish Christians. You are determined not to tolerate any influence of the Jewish spirit on German religious and ecclesiastical life. "

With the merger of 1977, in which it comprised a total of 31 parishes, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck as a provost (today church district) became part of the newly circumscribed "Holstein-Lübeck district".

Superintendent of the Lübeck Church

  1. 1532–1548: Hermann Bonnus
  2. 1553-1567: Valentin Curtius
  3. 1575–1600: Andreas Pouchenius the Elder
  4. (1611) Christoph Butelius (elected, died before taking office)
  5. 1613–1622: Georg Stampelius
  6. 1624–1643: Nikolaus Hunnius
  7. 1646–1671: Meno Hanneken
  8. 1675–1683: Samuel Pomarius
  9. 1689–1698: August Pfeiffer
  10. 1702–1728: Georg Heinrich Götze
  11. 1730–1767: Johann Gottlob Carpzov
  12. 1771–1774: Johann Andreas Cramer
  13. 1779–1796: Johann Adolph Schinmeier

After that, the office was no longer filled; the management tasks were performed by the respective senior of the Ministry of Spirituality .

Seniors of the Spiritual Ministry

Both Hermann Friedrich Behn and Johann Carl Lindenberg were honored by the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck with its highest award of the Senate, the Bene Merenti commemorative coin .

Seniors or bishops of the Lübeck Church

Hymn books

  • Lübeckisches Gesangbuch ebst addition of a prayer book ... Lübeck: Wiedemeyer
  • New Lübeck hymnbook, for public services and for domestic devotion on the ordinance of a Hochedlen Hochw. Raths drawn up by the Lübeck Ministerio ; Lübeck, 1790, new edition from 1821
  • Lübeck Evangelical-Lutheran hymn book for public worship and domestic devotion, issued by the ministry by order of a high senate ; Lübeck, 1859
  • Hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lübeck State - Standard hymn book of the Evangelical Lutheran regional churches in Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Lübeck, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Eutin, Lübeck; introduced in 1930
  • Evangelical church hymn book - edition for the Evangelical Lutheran regional churches Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg, Hamburg, Lübeck and Eutin, Hamburg; from 1950/53?

literature

  • The pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck since the Reformation. In: Ecclesiastical gazette of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck 1950, No. 1, supplement
  • Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church history of Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in nine centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1981 ISBN 3-7950-2500-1
  • Konrad Dittrich: 850 years of the church in Lübeck. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1993 ISBN 978-3-7950-3210-4
  • Wolf-Dieter Hauschild: "Seek the city's best": nine centuries of state and church in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Edited by Antjekathrin Graßmann and Andreas Kurschat, Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2011 ISBN 978-3-7950-5200-3
  • Hansjörg Buss: "De-Judged" church. The Lübeck regional church between Christian anti-Judaism and ethnic anti-Semitism (1918-1950). Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77014-1

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Joachim Beckmann (ed.): Kirchliches Jahrbuch for the Protestant Church in Germany 1933–1944 , vol. 60 to 71, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1948, 2nd ed. 1976, p. 460; reprinted in: Günter Brakelmann , Martin Rosowski (ed.): Antisemitismus. From religious hatred of Jews to racial ideology . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989. ISBN 3-525-33560-1 . P. 108.
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal ; GND = 124598390
  3. ↑ resigned at her own request

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