Gerhard Voss (theologian)

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Gerhard Voss (born March 22, 1903 in Rostock , † December 9, 1993 in Schwerin ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and lecturer in church history , most recently in Schwerin.

Live and act

Voss grew up as the son of the later Mecklenburg-Schwerin state superintendent Friedrich Voss and grandson of the church council Friedrich Voss ( Sanitz ) in Rostock. He attended the large city school in Rostock , where he obtained his school-leaving certificate in 1921 .

Voss studied Protestant theology in Erlangen , Halle / Saale and Rostock . After completing his studies, he was first tutor to Landgrave Chlodwig von Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld in Herleshausen near Eisenach . From 1927 he attended the preachers' seminar in Schwerin, after the second exam he did an internship at the welfare office of the city of Cologne and at the end of 1928 he was appointed vicar in Althof near Bad Doberan.

He was ordained on November 11, 1928, making him pastor in the eleventh generation on his mother's side since the Reformation in Mecklenburg, Kurpfalz and Lippe . His brother Martin, who was three years older than him, also became a pastor and later a state superintendent in Wismar and Parchim .

From November 1930 he was parish administrator in Klaber and from November 1938 pastor in Pokrent . During the church struggle , Voss was part of the Kessiner brotherhood . The brotherhood and its gatherings in the Teterow area, where people met every month in shifts in the rectory, meant a lot to him.

On July 17, 1931, he married Gerda Fuckel, the daughter of a pastor from Cologne with Mecklenburg roots. On December 1, 1940, he became a soldier in the Wehrmacht and returned home from a prisoner-of-war camp in August 1945 .

From 1945 to 1970 he served as pastor at the Paulskirche Schwerin .

From 1948 on, Voss was a lecturer in church history at the reopened seminary in Schwerin for 25 years. He dealt intensively with the settlement history of Mecklenburg and the becoming church in the state.

Voss founded together with the theology professors Gottfried Holtz and Erhard Peschke in 1958 the still existing working group for Mecklenburg church history at the University of Rostock . At that time it was the work of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg and is now the work of the Mecklenburg Church District. From 1960 to 1974 he headed the working group after Peschke left. He conducted well-attended conferences in Schwerin (1960), Neustrelitz (1962), Güstrow (1964), Ribnitz (1966), Bad Doberan (1968), Ludwigslust (1970), Malchin (1972) and Wismar (1974).

In the last years of his life, Voss lived withdrawn in a new apartment in Schwerin-Lankow. He celebrated the diamond wedding on July 17, 1991, his 90th birthday on March 22, 1993 and the 65th anniversary of ordination on November 11, 1993. The commemorative article in the Mecklenburgische Kirchenzeitung (MKZ) pleased him. Shortly afterwards, on December 9, 1993, he passed away.

Publications (selection)

  • Epilogue “In memoriam Karl Schmaltz” , in: Karl Schmaltz : Church History Mecklenburgs , Volume 3, 1952, pp. 515 ff.
  • The Reformation in Mecklenburg I – V , in: Mecklenburgische Kirchenzeitung (MKZ), from October 2 to November 19, 1967.
  • The Bible work in Mecklenburg - its origin and its development , in: The Bible in the world. Yearbook of the Association of Evangelical Bible Societies in Germany , Volume 11, Witten and Berlin 1968, pp. 79–93 ( online at pkgodzik.de ).
  • 100 years St. Paulsgemeinde (Schwerin) I – IV , in: MKZ from June 29 to July 20, 1969.
  • Series of articles in life: Slüter , Georg , Clara v. Sciffi , Martin of Tours , Antonius . In: MKZ of February 27, April 23, August 6, November 5, 1972 and February 4, 1973.
  • Article about the origin, destruction and return of the " floating " in Güstrow Cathedral , in: MKZ from September 9, 1973.
  • Georgstrasse through Mecklenburg , in: MKZ from May 4, 1980.
  • Discoveries in the quiet corner of the city. On the Ribnitz monastery church , in: MKZ from January 13, 1974, January 29, 1978 and August 2, 1981.
  • Love and anger. Gottfried Holtz on his 75th birthday , in: MKZ from February 3, 1974.
  • The 'Dom' of Steffenshagen , in: MKZ from March 3, 1974.
  • Witness to a distant time. On the excavations in Groß Raden near Sternberg , in: MKZ of May 2, 1976.
  • Between the lines of an old tax register. On the 750th anniversary of the Ratzeburg tithe register , in: MKZ from August 3, 1979.
  • The fight against the rationalistic hymn book of 1795 , in: MKZ of December 7, 1980.
  • The Church of Groß Wokern in its historical contexts (1981) , in: Michael Bunners, Erhard Piersig (Ed.): Yearbook for Mecklenburg Church History - Mecklenburgia Sacra, Volume 16 , Wismar: Redaria 2013, pp. 9-23.
  • Settlement and becoming a church in the Teterow area , in: Territorialkirchengeschichte. Development, tasks, examples , Greifswald: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität 1984, pp. 31–41.

literature

  • Wilhelm Gundert: History of the German Bible Societies in the 19th Century (Texts and Works on the Bible 3) , Bielefeld: Luther 1987, p. 138 f.
  • Walter Wienandt: In memoriam Gerhard Voss 1903–1993 , in: Michael Bunners, Erhard Piersig (ed.): Yearbook for Mecklenburg Church History - Mecklenburgia Sacra, Volume 2 , Wismar: Redaria 1999, pp. 110–121.
  • Gert Haendler : Experienced Church History. Memories of churches and universities between Saxony and the Baltic countries. Edited by Hermann Michael Niemann and Heinrich Holze (Rostocker Studien zur Universitätsgeschichte, Volume 17) : Universität Rostock 2011, p. 25 ( online version ).

Trivia

In the Mecklenburg pastor Gerhard Voss, Voss has an official brother and namesake interested in church history , who was ordained in 1959 and lives in Güstrow in retirement .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The parishes of the Rostock-Stadt parish from 1933 to 1982 . Edited by Johannes Beltz, Dr. Bruno Romberg and Astrid Siegert, Schwerin 1983, p. 5
  2. ^ Walter Wienandt: In memoriam Gerhard Voss ... , 1999, p. 110 f.
  3. ↑ http://matrikel.uni-rostock.de/id/200018585
  4. ^ A b Walter Wienandt: In memoriam Gerhard Voss ... , 1999, p. 111.
  5. ↑ http://www.kirche-mv.de/Klaber.895.0.html
  6. ^ Walter Wienandt: In memoriam Gerhard Voss ... , 1999, p. 112.
  7. ↑ https://www.kirchenrecht-nordkirche.de/kabl/31619.pdf
  8. ↑ https://kirchenrecht-nordkirche.de/kabl/31721.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.kirche-mv.de/fileadmin/ELLM-Downloadtexte/050314Bestaende.pdf
  10. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Ed. Temmen, Bremen 1995. ISBN 3-86108-282-9 .
  11. ↑ https://www.forumgeschichte-nordkirche.de/ueber-uns/
  12. ↑ http://www.heimat-mecklenburgische-seenplatte.de/kirchen/lk-rostock/k-gross-wokern/k-gross-wokern.htm
  13. ↑ http://pix.kirche-mv.de/fileadmin/Mecklenburg/Rundbriefe/1909_Rundbrief_Kirchenkreis_Mecklenburg_Nr._29.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1993
Place of death Schwerin