Georg Behrmann

This article deals with the theologian Georg Behrmann. For other people see Georg Bärmann .

Georg Behrmann, 1905

Christian Conrad Georg Behrmann (born November 15, 1846 in Hamburg , †  July 10, 1911 in Lokstedt ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Georg Behrmann was the son of master locksmith Dietrich Behrmann (1817–1849) in Ahlden and his wife Lydia Schultz (1804–1884). He grew up - his father died very early - in modest but righteous circumstances and was able to attend the Johanneum's school for scholars . After graduating from university there, he studied theology at the Universities of Halle and Tübingen with a focus on oriental studies .

In 1870 he became pastor at the St. Johanniskirche in Curslack . On October 29, 1871, he was elected pastor at the St. Michaeliskirche in his hometown and in 1873 he became pastor at the St. Nicholas Church in Kiel . In 1879 he became the main pastor of St. Michaeliskirche in Hamburg. When he was elected senior in the spiritual ministry after the death of Adolf Kreusler in 1894, he became the leading clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state .

After he was made an honorary doctor of theology at Kiel University in 1895 , he accompanied Kaiser Wilhelm II on his journey to the Holy Land and Jerusalem in 1898 .

The fire of St. Michaelis Church on July 3, 1906, which almost completely reduced the church to rubble and the beginning of its reconstruction, fell during his term of office. Behrmann died in his apartment in Lokstedt . In his day he was a widely respected theologian and known as a connoisseur of the orientalists.

Georg Behrmann was married to Minna Matthießen (1857–1946). The couple had a son, who was also called Georg Behrmann (1877–1958), was born in Kiel, was last pastor in Bergedorf and married Maria (1881–1963), Werner von Melle's eldest daughter . The Georg Behrmann Foundation , founded in Bergedorf in 1959, was named after his son .

Selection of works

• The resurrection of Jesus Christ. Five Reflections , 1880.
• The Book of Daniel , 1894.
• A trip through Greece in May , 1890.
• The Sermon on the Mount of our Lord Jesus Christ: Explained in Bible Studies , 1882.
• Hamburg's Orientalists , 1902.
• Memories , 1904.
• Klopstock booklet. On the centenary of the poet's death on March 14, 1903 , 1903.
• Children's life: pictures from the Seehospiz Kaiserin Friedrich zu Norderney , 1904.
• Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf: Memorial booklet for his 200 year old ... 1900.

literature

• Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1958.
• Hans-Hermann Tiemann: Memory of Hans-Jürgen Quest (1924–1999). Berlin-Hamburg-Münster: LIT Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7384-6 , p. 315.
• Georg Behrmann:  Behrmann, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 16 ( digitized version ).
• Rainer Hering: Behrmann, Georg . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 32-33 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Behrmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Behrmann, Georg, "Behrmann, Georg" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 2 (1955), p. 16 online version , deutsche-biographie.de
2. ^ Myriam Isabell Richter: City of Man - University. Hamburg, Werner von Melle and a century of life's work. Part 1: The man and the city (= patrons of science. Vol. 18). Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-943423-42-6 ( full text online, see family table of Melle, p.340 / 341 )
3. ↑ Brochure commemorates 40 years of Behrmann-Stift , bergedorfer-zeitung.de of August 5, 2009
4. ↑ https://georg-behrmann-stiftung.de/die_gruender.html

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes Andreas Rehhoff	Chief Pastor to St. Michaelis 1879–1911	August Wilhelm Hunzinger