Gerhard Kunze (pastor)

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Gerhard Kunze (born July 29, 1892 in Hartenstein (Saxony) , † October 25, 1954 in Hofgeismar ) was a German pastor and liturgical scholar.

biography

Kunze was the son of a teacher in Hartenstein (Ore Mountains). He attended high school in Schneeberg and studied theology at the University of Jena and the University of Leipzig .

After the First World War, in which he participated as an officer, he passed his first theological exam in 1919. This was followed by a visit to the seminary at St. Pauli in Leipzig . In October 1920 passed the second theological exam. The ordination took place on April 15th in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig . He found his first pastor in the Friedenskirche in Leipzig-Gohlis in the role of student pastor. In 1933 the acting regional bishop Friedrich Coch , who had been a member of the NSDAP since 1931 , removed him from his office. Kunze then moved to the Hanover regional churchand took up a pastor's position at the St. Nicolai Church in Hanover- Bothfeld . His public commitment to the Confessing Church led to him being arrested several times. Strong tensions, also in his own community, caused by confessing NSDAP members, did not diminish his expression of opinion against the attempt to bring teaching and organization into line, as the German Evangelical Church tried to implement.

He was to stay at the St. Nicolai Church in Bothfeld until 1946, and from May 16, 1946, he served as city ​​superintendent of Hanover until his retirement in 1948.

He found a fresh start in 1950 as the director of studies at the preacher's seminary in Preetz (Holstein), southeast of Kiel.

His subject area, liturgical science , he devoted himself as editor and publisher of the monthly for worship and church art and the monthly for pastoral theology .

He died on October 25, 1954 in Hofgeismar.

The estate is deposited in the regional church archive in Hanover.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LkAH N 134 - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ Directory of all pastors from the Reformation in St. Nicolai to the 21st century. Archive of the parish on Sutelstrasse
  3. ↑ Documents are in the archives of the St. Nicolai parish in Hanover-Bothfeld.
personal data
SURNAME Kunze, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartenstein (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1954
Place of death Hofgeismar