Georg Burghart
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Hermann Georg Burghart (born October 21, 1865 in Berlin , † March 3, 1954 in Berlin) was a Protestant theologian , Berlin general superintendent , member of the church leadership of the Old Prussian regional church , chief preacher and, as Ephorus, head of the Berlin Cathedral Candidate .
Live and act
Born as the son of a secret finance councilor, Georg Burghart studied Protestant theology at the universities of Berlin and Marburg . In 1891 he became assistant preacher at the Berlin Cathedral and inspector at the Domkandidatenstift, a training center for prospective clergymen.
From 1893 to 1897, Burghart worked as a parish priest in a United parish in Düsseldorf in the Rhenish church province , then moved to a Lutheran pastor in Wupperfeld and returned to his home town of Berlin in 1917.
Here Georg Burghart was appointed as a secret church councilor in the Evangelical Upper Church Council , the church administration of the Evangelical Church in the older provinces of Prussia . After four years in office in the church authority, he was appointed general superintendent for the city of Berlin in the ecclesiastical province of Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union.
In 1927 Burghart was finally appointed clerical vice-president of the Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Old Prussian Union Church, and this activity earned him the service of Upper Cathedral preacher and, traditionally , the office of Ephorus of the Cathedral Candidate Monastery as well - following Paul Conrad . Burghart exercised these offices with great commitment, thereby having a strong influence on church life and also on the training of theological candidates.
After the National Socialists took office, Burghart retired from his professional life and retired. Even in his retirement he was still in great demand, especially for young clergymen who were less involved with the German Christians than with the Confessing Church .
The church historian Kurt Meier describes Burghart, together with Otto Dibelius and the church committee president Hermann Kapler, as supporters of the nationwide boycott of Jews on April 1, 1933, which was accompanied by numerous murders.
Other activities
From 1928 to 1949 Georg Burghart was head of the Prussian Main Bible Society in Berlin and then its honorary president. For many years he was chairman of the New Testament commission for the revision of the text of the German Luther Bible in 1956 , although he did not live to see its completion. His presidency of the German branch of the World Association for Church Friendship , which he took over in 1929, took him ecumenically .
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Georg Burghart. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 819.
- Albert Rosenkranz (Ed.): The Evangelical Rhineland. A Rhenish parish and pastor's book (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History No. 7). 2 volumes, Düsseldorf 1958
- Bruno Doehring : The cathedral candidate pen in Berlin . Berlin 1954
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notes
- ↑ Kurt Meier: Church and Judaism. The attitude of the Protestant Church to the Jewish policy of the Third Reich. Göttingen 1968, p. 25
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Christoph Friedrich Lahusen |
General Superintendent for Berlin city 1921 - 1927 |
Emil Karow |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burghart, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burghart, Hermann Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian, Berlin general superintendent and senior cathedral preacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1954 |
| Place of death | Berlin |