Fritz Engelke

Friedrich Gerhard Engelke (born February 24, 1878 in Schleswig ; † May 5, 1956 in Schwerin ) was a German Lutheran theologian and in 1934/35 "Imperial Vicar of the German Evangelical Church ".

Life

Engelke studied Protestant theology and obtained a doctorate in theology. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state ordained him pastor and in 1925 he was appointed head of the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg-Horn .

He was appointed by Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller in February 1934, first as a Lutheran representative in the Spiritual Ministry and then on September 12, 1934 in the newly created office of "Vicar of the German Evangelical Church". In this capacity, on September 21, 1934, together with Julius Kühlewein, he introduced Müller into his office as Reich Bishop in Berlin Cathedral .

After the end of the Reich Church Government through the appointment of Hanns Kerrl as Reich Church Minister, Engelke succeeded the Rostock professor of practical theology Helmuth Schreiner , who had to give up all offices, who had been forced into retirement by Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt . In 1939 Engelke joined the Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life .

After 1945 he worked as a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg in Schwerin . From 1950 he represented Aurel von Jüchen , who was imprisoned in the Vorkuta Gulag, at the Church of St. Nikolai (Schelfkirche) Schwerin .

Works

• Against the servile self! ; Barmen: Eichenkreuz-Verlag of the Reich Association of Young Evangelical Men in Germany, undated
• Paul's letter to the Romans ; Berlin-Dahlem: Burckhardthaus-Verlag, 1921 (1922 ² )
• The Blue Cross in the service of advertising pastoral care ; Herford: Blau-Kreuz-Buchhandlung, 1925
• Law and Gospel in Inner Mission ; Hamburg: Agency of the Rough House, 1927
• Paul's letter to the Galatians and to us ; Hamburg: Agency of the Rough House, 1928 (1934 ² )
• Paul's letter to the Romans and to us ; Hamburg: Agency of the Rough House, 1928
• Free from the law ; Hamburg: Agency of the Rough House, 1928
• Jesus' kind and ours ; Hamburg: Agency of the Rough House, 1930
• Into life ; Hamburg: Agency of the Rough House, 1930
• Christ wasn't yes and no ; Berlin: Neuland-Verlag, 1931
• Confirmation or youth consecration? Hamburg: Agency of the Rough House, 1931
• Christianity German ; Hamburg: Agency of the Rough House, 1933
• A man from the people in the service of the people! Hamburg: Rauhes Haus, 1933
• God's revelation in history ; Hall: orphanage, 1934
• The inner attitude of the confessional front; Bremen: Hauschild, 1935
• The Epistle to the Ephesians ; Bremen: Coming Church, 1940
• The letter to the Philippians ; Bremen: Coming Church, 1940
• The 1st and 2nd letters to the Corinthians ; Bremen: Coming Church, 1941
• A second letter from captivity ; Marburg (Lahn): Francke'sche Buchhandlung, 1956

estate

Engelke's written estate is in the Schwerin regional church archive.

literature

• Hervé Bentégeat et Patrick Bonazza, "Ombres et lumière", Le Point , November 25, 1995 ( lire en ligne )
• Rainer Hering: Engelke, Friedrich . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 107-108 .
• Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray . Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7609-1144-7
• Klaus Scholder: The churches and the Third Reich. Volume 2: The year of disillusionment 1934 Barmen and Rome . Siedler, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88680-139-X