Hanover Whitsun Conference

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The Whitsun Conference in Hanover , also known as the Hanoverian Whitsun Conference , was a conference held for the first time in the first half of the 19th century by theologians of the Lutheran denomination , and later also by lay people , to discuss general ecclesiastical matters of the Evangelical Church in the Kingdom of Hanover (or after the Province of Hanover following him after the Prussian annexation ). Most of its participants were recruited from new Lutherans and thus represented only one, albeit significant, current within the church. The importance of the gathering held annually for decades in the week around Pentecost with hundreds of participants from all consistorial districts lay in their unifying anticipation of a regional church organization. The latter was then created in 1864 with a church council and synodal order, whereby the Pentecostal conferences, which continued to take place in parallel, lost their importance and became a meeting point for the decidedly Lutheran faction within the now established regional synod .

In its organizational form, the Pentecost Conference is thus a preliminary form of the later regional synod, its initiator, the neo-Lutheran Ludwig Adolf Petri was - without his having intended it - a pioneer of the later Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

history

Ludolf Adolf Petri had already suggested a "larger gathering of clergy" to clarify church issues at the end of the 1830s. The first of these conferences took place by personal invitation after Pentecost on May 25, 1842 in the New House . In the mornings, the 52 pastors and candidates discussed a liturgy to be revised on the basis of the so-called “ Calenberg Church Regulations ” . After Gerhard August Julius Wellhausen (1808–1861), co-founder of the Pentecost Conference, had completed the prelude to the historical liturgy of the Calenberg Church Ordinance, he was asked to revise the old liturgy for the purpose of reintroducing it into the service.

As an organization, it was institutionalized as a registered association in 1904 . In 1921 the " Lutheran Association " emerged. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists this was followed by the country's religious collection .

Periodicals

  • 1848–1855: Journal for the Affairs of the Lutheran Church , ed. by Ludwig Adolf Petri
  • 1856 / 59–1887: New newspaper for the affairs of the Lutheran Church in Hanover , ed. by Cornelius Karneades Konrad Münkel
  • From 1873 to 1921 the journal Hannoversche Pastoral-Correspondenz / Committee of the Hanoverian Lutheran Whitsun Conference appeared as a supplement to the periodical Blätter from the Henriettenstift about and for the deaconess matter published by the Evangelical Lutheran Deaconess Mother House Henriettenstiftung .
  • 1910, 1921–1941: Evangelical truth

literature

  • Paul Fleisch : 100 years of Hanoverian church history as reflected in the Pentecost conferences . Reprint from the yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony. 47 vol. 1949
  • Thomas Jan Kück: The establishment of the Pentecost Conference in 1842 and the subsequent years of its leadership . In: Ders .: Ludwig Adolf Petri (1803–1873). Church politician and theologian (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony , Volume 35), Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, also dissertation at the University of Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-525-55236-0 and ISBN 3-525-55236-X , p. 161-194; limited preview in Google Book search

Archival material

Archives about the Hanover Whitsun Conference can be found

  • as reference files for the period from 1896 to 1996 with a summarizing commentary by theologian Hans Otte from June 6, 1998 in the State Church Archives Hanover , holdings D 12 and holdings N 12 (Ködderitz estate)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Jan Kück: From pastor at the Kreuzkirche to co-founder of the regional church. Ludwig Adolf Petri on his 200th birthday , Chapter II. 1, sections The Pentecost Conference. A preliminary form of the regional synod and preservation and confession? , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 57 and 58 (double volume, 2003, 2004), pp. 139f., 140f.
  2. ↑ a b c Hansjörg Bräumer : The Hanover Whitsun Conference . In: Ders .: August von Arnswald. 1798-1855. A contribution to the history of the revival movement and neo-Lutheranism in Hanover (= Studies on the Church History of Lower Saxony , Volume 20). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1972 (also dissertation 1970 at the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen), ISBN 978-3-525-55223-0 and ISBN 3-525-55223-8 , especially p. 122; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ A b Thomas Jan Kück: Ludwig Adolf Petri (1803-1873). Church politicians and theologians (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony , Volume 35), Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, also dissertation at the University of Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-525-55236-0 and ISBN 3-525-55236-X , page 193 -194.
  4. ^ A b Thomas Jan Kück: The foundation of the Whitsun Conference in 1842 and the subsequent years of its leadership . In: Ders .: Ludwig Adolf Petri (1803–1873). Church politician and theologian (= Studies on the Church History of Lower Saxony , Volume 35). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997 (also dissertation at the University of Göttingen), ISBN 978-3-525-55236-0 and ISBN 3-525-55236-X , pp. 161–193; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ Wilhelm Rothert : Wellhausen, Gerh. Just. Aug. , in this: General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 591
  6. ↑ a b c d Information about the Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen archive information system
  7. ↑ Compare the information and cross-references in the journal database