Gerd Slewert

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Magister Ehren Gerd Slewert (spelling variants: Gerhard Slewardt , Slewarth , Sleewart , Sleuert , Schleward , Sleffwart ; * around 1492 in the Hanseatic city of Kampen , Province of Overijssel ; † November 30, 1570 in Flensburg ) was a Flensburg reformer .

Life

Sankt Nikolaikirche in Flensburg

Gerd Slewert came from a religious, rich Dutch family: his uncle Johan Pael died in 1493 on a pilgrimage in the Holy Land , his great-uncle Andries Heymenß was a Benedictine in Cologne , two great aunts van Wilsem and his sisters were Beguines in the Netherlands. Slewert was initially a Dominican and from 1517 to 1519 reading master in the convent of Hadersleben . Then he was sent to the convent of Magdeburg , where he is mentioned in 1522. There he got to know the writings of Martin Luther .

Memorial stone from 1926 for the first Lutheran sermon in Flensburg in 1526 and thus for the introduction of Reformation teaching in Flensburg, with the reference to Rom. 3.28  EU

In 1526, Slewert was appointed to the royal court by Prince Christian , Danish Crown Prince and governor of the Duchy of Schleswig, together with the reformer Johannes Bugenhagen , in order to spread the new teaching "on the visitation and reformation of the churches in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein ". In the same year Hermann Tast gave the first Reformation sermon in Flensburg in the open air.

On December 2, 1526, the 1st Advent, Gerd Slewert began the Reformation service in the Sankt Nikolaikirche in Flensburg . On the same day, the citizenry elected him as senior pastor of the Church. On the following Sundays he also preached at St. Marien and St. Johannis. In 1537 he was one of the seven clergymen of the Duchy of Schleswig in Copenhagen who were instrumental in drafting the new church order. The church order initially only applied to the Kingdom of Denmark . In 1538 Slewert took part in the synod at Gottorf Castle . On April 1, 1540 "Herr Gert" was appointed superintendent . Slewert received the supervision of the clergy and church property in the offices of Flensburg and Bredstedt (over 30 years) and in Tondern until 1542 - still under the Catholic Bishop Gottschalk von Ahlefeldt . Slewert “worked tirelessly for the renewal of the Church and the purity of the faith”.

In his visitation book - a historically significant legacy - his annual trips to the 32 parishes under his control are recorded almost until the end of his life . The church property is kept in records down to the smallest detail. "Since the provost Slewert could not assert himself alone against the passive restlessness of the church debtors, the bailiff was asked to support the provost in every way."

In 1541 Gert Slewert was entrusted with the visitation of the field monasteries Lügumkloster and Rudekloster . In 1557 he sent the king the request of the evangelical abbot of the Rudekloster for dismissal. Slewert was then Abbot of the Rudekloster until 1561. In 1561 he acquired - unusually - the citizenship of Flensburg due to his reputation. He received from King Christian III since about 1550 because of his services to town and country . annual grain deliveries from the royal mill in Flensburg.

Married Gert Slewert was with Anna Goldschmidt, daughter of the Flensburg citizen Dietrich Goldschmidt.

Honors

Flensburg donated a Slewardh legate in his memory. His activity as a reformer made him one of the characters in Schleswig-Holstein's history books. B. a detailed lexicon entry in the Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon about him appeared. In 1826 a commemorative coin was minted to commemorate the Flensburg Reformation: "On December 3rd (the first Sunday in Advent) 1826, the 300th anniversary of the Evangelical-Lutheran Reformation was celebrated in Flensburg and the merits of the theologian Gerhardt Slewerth were commemorated."

literature

  • Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Volume 5, Neumünster 1979, ISBN 3-529-02645-X , p. 244
  • Emmerich Christiansen: Gerhard Slewert - first provost in northern fishing . In: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing, 1998, ISSN  0340-1138 , pp. 17–94
  • Th. Otto Achelis: Gerhard Slewert . In: Archive for Reformation History 29, 1932, pp. 80–84.
  • To the Flensburg Provost Book from 1538 . In: Writings of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History, Vol. 10, p. 35

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . (Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History 22) Flensburg 1972, p. 210.
  2. ↑ Calendar calculation . Thomas Melchert, accessed June 16, 2011 .
  3. ^ Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . (Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History 22) Flensburg 1972, p. 210.
  4. ^ Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg - History of a border town. (Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History 17) Flensburg 1983, p. 87.
personal data
SURNAME Slewert, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slewarth, Gerhardus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformer from Flensburg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1492
PLACE OF BIRTH Kampen, Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1570
Place of death Flensburg