Gerhard M. Gülzow

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Gerhard M. Gülzow (born October 28, 1904 in Liepgarten ; † December 10, 1980 in Lübeck ) was Senior Consistorial Councilor of St. Mary's Church in the Free City of Danzig until 1945 and chairman of the Eastern Church Committee after World War II .

Life

The pastor's son graduated from the University of Greifswald theology . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Greifswald fraternity in 1923 , and later in 1953 a member of the Teutonia-Germania Marburg fraternity . On October 5, 1930, he was in the Castle Church in Stettin to the ministry ordained . He was first assistant pastor and pastor in Kallies in the Dramburg district and in 1934, succeeding Artur Brausewetter, he was pastor at St. Marienkirche in Gdansk. In 1940 he was appointed as a part-time senior consistorial advisor to the consistory of the church area Danzig West Prussia within the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and as permanent representative of Bishop Johannes Beermann .

"Has good opinion done much to smooth the opposites" as "man of the center," he continued in the church struggle for representatives of the Confessing Church , and resisted against the aspirations of the German Christians as well as the Nazi Party leadership in the Free City of Danzig . Among other things, he prevented the establishment of the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia after 1939 the introduction of the "Posen model" of the Evangelical Church in the Reichsgau Wartheland after the annexation by the German Reich, in the sense of its undressing as a corporation under public law and its transformation into an im “Voluntary Churches” essentially deprived of their public impact. But he could not prevent his successor as youth pastor, Martin Ezekiel , from coming into conflict with the Gestapo .

After the flight and expulsion he became a pastor at Lübeck's Luther Church . In Lübeck he was involved in the board of the Vorwerk nursing home, today's Vorwerker Diakonie . He was regarded by the Gdańsk refugees and displaced persons as the administrator of the Gdańsk evangelical bishopric. From then on, he primarily devoted himself to the registration, organization and family reunification of refugees and displaced persons from the Free City of Danzig and Danzig-West Prussia . In Lübeck, which at that time was the largest collection point for expellees from the Free City of Danzig in Germany, he founded the “Aid Committee” of Evangelicals from Danzig-West Prussia (later name of this institution: “Community of Evangelicals from Danzig-West Prussia”) and the League of Danzig . In 1947 he formed the Council of Danzig as a state representative body in exile in the Free City of Danzig.

Gülzow wanted to bring as many memorabilia as possible saved from Danzig together in Lübeck. For example, he made sure that the chimes of St. Catherine's Church in Gdańsk, recovered from the Hamburg Bell Cemetery, were installed in the Marienkirche in Lübeck and that the treasure trove of St. Mary's Church in Gdańsk was also exhibited there. This is shown today in the St.Annen Museum .

In 1946 he became second chairman and from 1951 until his retirement in 1973 first chairman of the Eastern Church Committee , which represented the concerns of evangelical refugees and displaced persons. In this capacity he was one of the founders of the Eastern Church Institute at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in 1957 and was editor of the monthly Der Remter .

Gerhard M. Gülzow died in 1980. He was married and had five children, including the later Hamburg church historian Henneke Gülzow .

estate

Part of his estate (mainly official files) is now held as 607 in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin .

Fonts

  • Church fight in Danzig 1934–1945. Personal memories. Gerhard Rautenberg, Leer 1968

literature

  • In memory of D. Gerhard Gülzow , in: Ostkirchliche Informations IV-2005, p. 5 ( digitized ; PDF; 273 kB)
  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006 ISBN 3525557612 , p. 94
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 196-197.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Walter : Danzig . In: Günther Harder , Wilhelm Niemöller : The hour of temptation. Parishes in the church struggle 1933-1945. Testimonials. Munich: Chr. Kaiser 1963, pp. 37–56, here p. 39
  2. ↑ Gerhard Gülzow (Ed.): Looking back on five decades of service to the moronic in the Vorwerk education and nursing home outside the gates of Lübeck. Lübeck 1956
  3. ↑ Inventory overview ( Memento of the original dated October 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ezab.de
personal data
SURNAME Gülzow, Gerhard M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gülzow, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German senior consistorial councilor in Danzig
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Liepgarten , Ueckermünde district
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1980
Place of death Lübeck