Gustav Greiffenhagen

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Gustav Greiffenhagen (born April 13, 1902 in Hanover , † June 2, 1968 in Bremen ) was a pastor in Bremen who was removed from his office during the time of National Socialism .

biography

Greiffenhagen was the son of a pastor. He grew up in Zellerfeld and attended high school in Clausthal , which he graduated from high school. He studied theology at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate there. After that he was tutor and vicar . During this time he wrote his licentiate on the theologian and philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher . In 1927 he became an assistant chaplain in Bremervörde and from 1929 he was pastor in Stotel .

In 1931 the St. Stephen's Church in Bremen appointed him pastor. During the time of National Socialism he was in contradiction to the official church and to the Bremen regional bishop Heinrich Weidemann , but found support and others. a. at the Confessing Church Stephani-Süd and was a founding member of the Confessing Church in Bremen. At the end of May 1934 he took part in the Barmen Confessing Synod, at which the Barmen Theological Declaration was adopted.

In July 1934 Greiffenhagen was prohibited from exercising his office. At times he was by the Nazis in protective custody taken. However, he held church services in private houses and found the support of many parishioners and pastors (including Elisabeth Forck , Tusnelde Forck, Maria Schröder, Hedwig Baudert, Anna Dittrich and Magdalene Thimme ), some of whom were taken into protective custody for supporting Jews. In 1936 he resigned from the Brotherhood Council of the Confessing Church on the grounds that it was too willing to compromise for him. In World War II he served as a soldier.

After the war, Greiffenhagen was again pastor at the Stephanikirche until 1967. He and his congregation asked for forgiveness towards the surviving Christians of Jewish origin because they “had dared not enough object to the Nazi Reich”. He saw himself and the staff of the community called upon to "prove the spirit of Jesus Christ against militarism and anti-communism by renouncing images of the enemy, violence (conscientious objection) and loving one's enemies". He was a close friend of Mayor Henning Scherf's family .

The political scientist Martin Greiffenhagen (1928–2004) was his son, the political scientist Sylvia Greiffenhagen his wife.

Fonts

  • Schleiermacher's Christology in his maturity with special consideration of the methodological problems ; 1930
  • Speeches and writings 1931–1961 In: Hospitium Ecclesiae, Vol. 20, 1995; or Ed. Diether Koch at Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Michaelis - St. Stephani parish: Stephani church (cultural church) & parish hall: history of the parish . ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2007 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.kirche-bremen.de

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SURNAME Greiffenhagen, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1968
Place of death Bremen