Gottfried Meskemper

Gottfried Franz Meskemper (* 6. May 1932 in Leyden ( Holland ); † 21st January 2015 in Bremen ) was a German engineer of Electrical Engineering , a pioneer of several evangelical organizations and author of evangelical writings.

Live and act

Gottfried Meskemper was born to a Jewish father, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1942, and a Catholic mother. From the age of two he grew up with a maternal uncle in Oldenburg . He was baptized Catholic and at the age of 12, due to depressing experiences in the Catholic Church during his time as an altar boy, he moved to the Evangelical Church , where he was also confirmed . After completing elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship in telegraph construction at the Deutsche Bundespost from 1946 to 1949 . In evening classes he made up his secondary school leaving certificate and then went to Lage (Lippe) as a scholarship holder from his teaching company to become a qualified engineer in electrical engineering . By 1957 he was prepared for his future inspector work at the Deutsche Bundespost and was transferred from Oldenburg to Bremen , where he worked as a planner and from 1967 as a teaching officer in apprenticeship training and adult education and retired in 1994 as a councilor of Deutsche Telekom .

In Bremen he got to know the DCTB , where he decided in 1958 under the influence of a sermon by Walter Tlach to live as a Christian . He worked in Protestant parishes in Bremen, participated in the establishment of a Bible study group, was involved in the church council of the Hohentors parish of the Bremen Evangelical Church for 30 years and was a member of its synod. Meskemper was involved with Heinrich Kemner from Ahlden in the establishment of the Bethel working group, from which the confessional movement No other gospel emerged in 1962 and was a member of the executive committee there. From 1979 to 2002 he was the co-founder of the Free Evangelical Confession School in Bremen and was the spokesman for the nationwide Association of Protestant Confession Schools (AEBS) he set up. He supported the founding of the study group Wort und Wissen , where he was a member of the board for 20 years. From 1976 to 1997 he was the head of the German Christian Technician Association. In 2005 he was elected chairman of the Evangelical Emergency Community in Germany , which, under the motto “Church must remain church”, opposed the politicization of the Protestant churches.

Meskemper gave lectures on topics such as school development: anamnesis of the German school misery and PISA , Jesus the technician with considerations about his earthly profession or Jesus the teacher . He wrote various scripts and was the author of several books.

Private

Meskemper married his wife Liesel in 1954. His daughter was born in 1963 and is now the director of studies. The couple lived in Bremen.

Publications

• False prophets among poets and thinkers , Schwengeler Verlag , Berneck 1983, 5th edition 2000, ISBN 978-3-856663834 .
• as Ed .: Approaches to a new way of thinking. In natural science, society, economics and theology , ( dedicated to Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith on his 70th birthday), Hänssler-Verlag, Neuhausen 1985, ISBN 978-3-775110914 .
• Jesus, the teacher: his role model for the role models of the present , Hänssler-Verlag , Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-775113175 .
• In one go , Christian literature distribution , Dillenburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-894363093 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gottfried Meskemper in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Gottfried Meskemper  in the German Digital Library
• Lectures (MP3) by Gottfried Meskemper at Sermon-Online
• Homepage of Gottfried Meskemper

Individual evidence

1. ^ Meskemper: Obituaries , weser-kurier.de, advertisement from January 31, 2015.
2. ↑ Meskemper: Vita ( Memento from January 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Committed Evangelical: Gottfried Meskemper 75, (PDF; 499 kB) ( Memento from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), selk.de, SELK-Info 2007-06, p. 18.
4. ^ Board of the Confession Movement ( Memento from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Obituary: Dipl. Ing. Gottfried Meskemper ( Memento from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), vebs-online.com, notification from January 30, 2015.
6. ↑ Meskemper from 1976 to 1997 DCTB chairman ( Memento from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), dctb.de
7. ^ Chairman of the Notgemeinschaft and editor of the magazine "Renewal and Defense" ( Memento of February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
8. ↑ Evangelical pioneer: Gottfried Meskemper died , idea , message from January 23, 2015.
9. ↑ Lecture on school development in Germany (2003) ( Memento from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Lecture: Jesus the Technician ( Memento from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Lecture: Jesus the Teacher ( Memento from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )