Gottfried Husemann

Gottfried Husemann (born April 18, 1900 in Blasheim / Lübbecke , † May 19, 1972 in Arlesheim ) was a German anthroposophist and co-founder and pastor of the Christian Community .

Life

Gottfried Husemann was born as the first of five children from the second marriage of an evangelical country pastor in Blasheim, a current district of Lübbecke. The first marriage had three children, including the anthroposophical doctor Friedrich Husemann .

From 1913 to the “ Notabitur ” in 1918 he attended the boarding school of the Pforta state school near Naumburg . In June 1918 he was called up for military service; he had to do a few more weeks of stage service on the Belgian front and almost a year of "border security" in Stolp in Pomerania .

He began studying theology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , which he continued at the University of Tübingen . At the end of September 1920, his brother Friedrich took him to the first anthroposophical university course to open the first Goetheanum in Dornach ; he immediately became a member of the Anthroposophical Society . In Tübingen, on November 2nd, he provided a public lecture entitled “The University System's Guilt for the Fall of the West” for a “quite stormy gathering”; Expelled from the theological faculty, he began to study chemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart .

In May 1921 he formulated the decisive written submission to Rudolf Steiner , which three weeks later led to the first theological course.

From 1922 to 1931 he worked as a pastor in Cologne , where he also participated in the "Neuwachtschule" Waldorf School , which, however, soon had to close again. In 1929, after Johannes Werner Klein left the company , he was appointed “driver” in West Germany, and in 1931 he moved to Stuttgart to lead the seminary. In the same year he married Luba Möhle, who later also became a priestess.

When the building of the seminary could be inaugurated in 1933, there were at the same time difficult disputes among the priests surrounding Gertrud Spörri ; Husemann was appointed "top link" in her place. From 1936 he took a leading position in the leadership of the Christian community alongside Friedrich Rittelmeyer and Emil Bock .

After the banning of the Christian community by the Nazis, Husemann was in prison for five weeks. Then he could begin a medical degree and take it to the physics college. Until the end of the war he helped in the surgery of a hospital in Stuttgart.

He then took part in the reconstruction of the Stuttgart congregation and, above all, the seminary, constantly active, but also repeatedly weakened and sickly; dissatisfied with what he was able to do himself, often dissatisfied with his pastor colleagues and his anthroposophical friends, all the more after the death of Emil Bock in 1959. After a life-threatening health crisis in 1962, he still had around ten years to live. He did not write any books himself, but only left a detailed and comprehensive description and chronology of the founding events for the priestly circle of the Christian Community.

literature

• Rudolf F. Gädeke: Gottfried Husemann , in: Die Gründer der Christengemeinschaft , Verlag am Goetheanum (Pioneers of Anthroposophy 10), Dornach 1992, pp. 384–395

Web links

• Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls