Friedrich Hambrock

Friedrich Hambrock (born December 29, 1890 in Stöckendrebber ; † July 31, 1985 in Dresden ) was a pastor and head of the Seventh-day Adventist mission .

Hambrock was born in Stöckendrebber near Hanover in 1890 as the son of the farmer and horse breeder Adolph Hambrock and his wife Marie, b. Voigt, born. His mother raised him in the Adventist faith. In 1906 he was baptized in Bremen (baptism of faith). From 1906 to 1909 he attended the mission seminar in Friedensau (today: Theological University Friedensau ) near Magdeburg and then worked as a “book evangelist” selling missionary writings.

In 1910 he became assistant preacher; In 1915 he was ordained in Berlin by Ludwig Richard Conradi and Heinrich Franz Schuberth . From then on he was in Rostock , Schwerin (1910/11), Stralsund (1912/13), Berlin (1913–1920, with interruptions), Dresden (1920–1926), Insterburg (1926–1929) and Königsberg (1929–1934) active.

From 1934 to 1954 he was the association chairman in Chemnitz and Dresden. From 1954 to 1961 he was head ( bishop ) of the Adventist Church in the GDR .

His son died as a soldier in World War II. Shortly before his death, Friedrich Hambrock and his daughter Waldtraudt visited his home village and the farm again on the occasion of the millennium of Stöckendrebber. On the Hambrock-Hof, today owned by the Grumpelts (first son-in-law Werner Grumpelt and finally his son Rainer Grumpelt), Omptedastr. 7, there is no longer any agriculture or Hanoverian horse breeding. Even the Adventist church that has existed there for over 70 years, which arose from the visit and Bible study of a book evangelist from Hanover and grew through many refugees from East Prussia, no longer exists. However, a scout center was set up there. The stables have been converted into rental apartments. New buildings have been built on the garden site (house, workshops (CPA) and barn, built by Gerald Grumpelt). On the neighboring farm there is a stork's nest immediately adjacent, which is regularly incubated. Parts of the relatives still live in Stöckendrebber and belong to the Advent congregations Hannover-Fischerstraße, Fallingbostel and Nienburg / Weser. Among the other relatives there is also a pastor (Burkhard Mayer) who visited Friedrich Hambrock several times, at that time with his parents, in Dresden on Klopstockstrasse. He worked in Lüneburg, Hannover-Fischerstraße, as a teacher at the Marienhöhe School Center and Bad Schwartau as a pastor and from 2016/17 full-time in the travel service as a coordinator for evangelistic events in Northern Germany. The family seat is still in Stöckendrebber (Stöckendrebber Str. 37).

Web links

• Daniel Heinz: Hambrock, Friedrich . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .