Georg Wilhelm Schulze

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Spiritual songs , anniversary edition 1894, Halle (Saale)

Georg Wilhelm Schulze (born April 7, 1829 in Göttingen , † September 9, 1901 in Kreischa ) was a German mission preacher and the first pastor of the free Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church in Berlin-Kreuzberg . He was also a writer and lyricist. Nicknamed Tränenschulze , he was a celebrity in Berlin during the imperial era. It owes its name to a sermon about the tears of Christ in Lk 19.41-48  LUT or his ability to move his listeners to tears, depending on their opinion . Georg Wilhelm Schulze used the name Wilhelm Immanuel as a pseudonym .

Life

Georg Wilhelm Schulze, son of a cloth manufacturer, lost both parents in childhood and grew up in an orphanage in Göttingen. Because of his talent, he was able to attend a grammar school. In 1850 he began studying theology at Göttingen University , which he financed by giving private lessons. During this time he was already preaching in the churches of the region on a temporary basis and attracted attention with his talent for speaking.

In 1856 he went to Badow in Mecklenburg as a private tutor and pastor . In 1858 he accompanied the young Baron von Döring to Berlin as an educator. There he joined the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews as a mission preacher in 1860 . In this function he went on long preaching trips through northern Germany, England, Russia and France.

Georg Wilhelm Schulze worked in the Jewish mission until 1866. His listeners and friends wanted him to keep preaching. He complied with this request in Berlin in an apartment on Wilhelmstrasse .

In 1867 he received his doctorate at the philosophical faculty of the University of Jena on the subject of the state and Christianity in their mutual relationships .

On December 13, 1867, he took part in the founding of the Association of Friends of Zion , which served to support baptized Christians of Jewish descent. The first chapel for 500 listeners was built in Alexandrinenstrasse and consecrated on May 31, 1868. In 1871 the association was renamed the Free Evangelical Lutheran Jesus Congregation . According to Schulze's wish, this community should be independent of the church authorities, which brought him into conflict with the royal consistory, which asked him to leave the regional church . Schulze complied with this request, but recommended that his followers remain in the regional church.

The space available in the chapel was no longer sufficient after a few years. Although Schulze did not want to have a church built before, he was now forced to do so. In 1875 he bought a corresponding piece of land. His future wife from Saint Petersburg financed the construction ; the planning was his brother-in-law, who was a master bricklayer, and a carpenter from St. Petersburg.

The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on September 23, 1875; on June 4, 1876 the church was consecrated. It was the Jesus Church in Berlin-Kreuzberg , which was destroyed on February 3, 1945 and replaced by a new building on July 31, 1960.

Schulze remained the preacher of the community he founded until he went to Kreischa to recover because of a serious illness. He died there on September 9, 1901.

Supporters and opponents

Attending a church service led by Georg Wilhelm Schulze contributed to Ottilie Baader leaving the regional church with her father in 1877 and joining the Free Congregation.

On December 15, 1900, Schulze hosted the wedding service for Alexander Ettenburg , who described him as "Berlin's most popular clergyman".

The parish ideal that Schulze bestowed on the Jesus parish was to have a formative effect on Paul Wachtsmuth , among other things .

Moritz de Jonge, an opponent of the Jewish faith, described Schulze's style of preaching as a “whiny, pietistic pulpit tone” and “permanent tearfulness”. De Jonge viewed Schulze's book on the parable of the prodigal son ( Lk 15 : 11–32  LUT ) as a watering down of the pointed words of Jesus, which, in his opinion, were typical of Christian preachers.

Works

Honors

The Georg Wilhelm Schulze House in the courtyard of today's Jesus Church in Berlin-Kreuzberg was named after Georg Wilhelm Schulze. The building now serves as a Protestant German-Greek day care center.

An area around the Jesus Church in Wassertorstrasse is popularly called Tränen-Schulze in honor of Georg Wilhelm Schulze.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Moritz de Jonge: Jüdische Schriften , Volume V: Jeschuah, the classic Jewish man , Hugo Schildberger, Berlin 1904, p. 19ff (pdf, p. 361ff)
  2. ↑ a b Kreuzberg Speak auf Kreuzberg'd
  3. ↑ a b c d Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Volume 6, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 349
  4. ↑ Roswitha Freude: Ottilie Baader - a biographical contribution to the history of the German women's movement , 1985 (pdf), p. 16
  5. ↑ Alexander Ettenburg: The island of Hiddensee: The Baltic seaside resort of the future , commissioned publishing house by Hans Kruse, Bergen auf Rügen 1912, newly published by Tomas Gütler, tredition GmbH, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8495-9996-6 , reading sample under " Tränen-Schulze "& source = bl & ots = _G94a1BpG4 & sig = nxK2gYyhXcMT5zEiuKj2ESSk85w & hl = de & sa = X & ved = 0ahUKEwiVs9KarPXMAhVLPBQKHYIkDOEQ6 = 22% false
personal data
SURNAME Schulze, Georg Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulze, Georg W .; Tears; Tears-Schulze; Immanuel, Wilhelm; Jmmanuel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, missionary, writer and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1901
Place of death Kreischa