Hans Brandenburg (theologian)

Hans Brandenburg (born March 17, 1895 in Riga , † 1990 in Villingen ; to distinguish it from the writer of the same name usually with his title Lic. Hans Brandenburg ) was a German Protestant theologian and author of Christian books.

Life

Hans Brandenburg, son of a merchant, was born in Riga in 1895 , which at that time still belonged to the Russian Empire. He attended the humanistic high school there until 1913, then studied in Dorpat , Berlin , Bethel , 1917/18 in Tübingen and 1918/19 in Rostock Protestant theology . After passing his theological exam in Münster, he was vicar year in Kattenvenne in 1919 . During this time he wrote his dissertation on the subject of studying Luther's Galatian Lecture from 1516/17 . In 1920 he received his doctorate as a licentiate in theology. Even during his studies he worked as a pastor and missionary . Further stations in his life were from 1920 traveling as secretary of the German Christian Student Association , in 1921 a teaching position as a lecturer in Latin, Greek and church history at the Bethel Theological School and the parish office.

After his ordination and the death of the main pastor Alfred Haensel on April 22, 1922, he became the second clergyman at St. Matthäi in Lübeck . He took over the idea of ​​the Matthäi community from Haensel. In 1926/27 Brandenburg founded a refuge for young women at risk, the "Domblick House". With around 30 volunteers, he oversaw the children's church service. The former had developed into the community's trademark under Haensel. Even after he left the congregation in 1930, he came back to Lübeck on various occasions, such as anniversaries or repeatedly for Bible studies, speeches or sermons.

In 1930 he moved to Berlin, where he became mission inspector of the Berlin City Mission Association and headed the YMCA-Süd youth work. From the beginning of 1931 until its dissolution on June 30, 1933, he was a member of the Christian Social People's Service. In February 1934 he began his service as a pastor at the Salem Deaconess House in Lichtenrade and was chairman of the “Association of German Community Deaconess Mother Houses”. In August 1943, at the age of 48, Brandenburg was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in April 1945 was taken prisoner by the Americans, from which he returned in September. He worked in the returnees brotherhood formed after this time. From spring 1949 until his retirement he was mission inspector for the Mission Association of Light in the East , which moved to Korntal in 1951.

Brandenburg wrote numerous Christian books. In addition to missionary-motivated works, The Living Word - an introduction to the divine thought processes and life principles of the Old Testament , which he wrote together with Jakob Kroeker , with 15 self-contained volumes, is at the center of his work. This is a series of interpretations of biblical texts based on our own translations. Until the handover to Fritz Grünzweig in 1980 he wrote sermon interpretations (sermon meditations of the series Consolation and Power from God's Word ).

Private

Brandenburg married Anna Luise von dercken in 1920 and acquired German citizenship, as a return to the Baltic States was not possible due to the political circumstances at the time. In December 1934 he was married to Johanna Sterzel for the second time.

Fonts

• 1951 - The way to Christ testifies to the people of today
• 1951 - death, where is your sting? (with Ludwig Widmann)
• 1952 - At the well
• 1952 - Christ also in prison
• 1952 - All that has breath, praise the Lord
• 1953 - In the school of suffering
• 1953 - I believe in the Holy Spirit
• 1953 - The increasing knowledge and the eternal, abiding gospel
• 1954 - Popular Missionary Series. H. 48. What do I do with the Bible?
• 1955 - Hans Brandenburg was appointed to the lake
• 1955 - Count Felizian Zaremba
• 1955 - From doubt to belief
• 1955 - The Gospel in Russia
• 1955 - The only way to God
• 1955 - Eduard Wüst
• 1956 - Gospel standard bearer
• 1956 - The way to Christ for people today
• 1957 - God loves transformation
• 1957 - Hans Dannenbaum
• 1957 Dangers of Sacred Service (with Johannes Lindgrén and Walter L. Jack)
• 1957 - On the right road (with Johannes Busch)
• 1958 - The living word. Vol. 1. The first creation - its fall and its restoration (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1958 - Adolf Stoecker
• 1958 - What does faith mean?
• 1958 - The living word. Vol. 6. The Prophets or God's Speeches (pre-exilic) (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1959 - Rudolf Kögel
• 1959 - The living word. Vol. 2. The Patriarchs or The Basics of Faith (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1959 - The living word. Vol. 3. Israel, a miracle of history (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1959 - Power of God
• 1959 - How Saul became Paul
• 1960 - consecration of the house
• 1960 - In the school of suffering
• 1960 - creation and the fall of man
• 1960 - People's Missionary Series. H. 49. Against the worrying spirit
• 1960 - The living word. Vol. 4. The Prophets or God's Speeches (pre-exilic) (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1961 - Popular Missionary Series. H. 87. What actually makes a Christian?
• 1961 - The living word. Vol. 5. The prophets or God's speaking: Isaiah (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1962 - Popular Missionary Series. H. 93. A little psalmology
• 1961 - The Night Talk
• 1961 - Paul's letter to the Galatians
• 1963 - Who is the Holy Spirit?
• 1963 - The living word. Vol. 9. The prophets or God's speaking (pre-exilic) (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1963 - The living word. Vol. 10. The prophets or God's speaking (post-exilic) (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1963 - God met me. T. 1. From Riga to Lübeck, R. Brockhaus Verlag Wuppertal
• 1964 - God met me. T. 2. From Lübeck to Korntal, R. Brockhaus Verlag Wuppertal
• 1965 - The living word. Vol. 7. The prophets or God's speaking (exilic) (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1966 - Büchsel and Frommel
• 1966 - Christians' intercourse with Christ (with Martin Kähler)
• 1968 - The way to Christ for people of today
• 1968 - Paul's letter to the Galatians
• 1968 - The living word, Vol. 12 / II - The textbooks of the old covenant. The psalter. The prayer book of God's people. Part II: Psalm 73-150.
• 1969 - Sanctification and Freedom
• 1969 - The living word. Vol. 11. The Textbooks of the Old Covenant (with Jakob Kroeker)
• 1970 - Sanctification and Consummation
• 1970 - Paul's letter to the Galatians
• 1970 - Herr Ober (with Gerhard Bahrmann)
• 1978 - A childhood in Riga
• 1982 - The little prophets I: - Joel, Obadja, Jona, Micha, Nahum, Habakuk, Zephanja: The living word
• 1982 - The minor prophets II: - Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi (with Ezra and Nehemiah) - The community that has returned: The living word

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Brandenburg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mission work light in the east

literature

• Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg (3 volumes). Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , Volume 1, pp. 275-278.
• Wilhelm Neander: Lexicon of Baltic German Theologians since 1920. Hannover-Döhren 1967, p. 24.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrollment of Hans Brandenburg in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Eight important years: Hans Brandenburg ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2016 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.  
3. ↑ Hans Brandenburg, in: Helmuth Egelkraut : Die Liebenzeller Mission and National Socialism , 2015, p. 169.
4. ^ Nachlass Pastor Lic. Hans Brandenburg, 7 NL 103 , archiv-ekir.de, accessed on March 4, 2017.