Heinrich Lachmund

Heinrich Conrad August Lachmund (born September 6, 1875 in Wolfenbüttel , † March 4, 1952 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor .

Life

Heinrich Lachmund was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1875. His father was a pastor at the local Johanniskirche and subsequently superintendent . Lachmund studied Protestant theology in Greifswald , Erlangen and Göttingen . He was ordained in 1903 and then held a pastor's position in Riddagshausen near Braunschweig from 1905 to 1915 . From 1915 to 1927 he was pastor in Braunlage and from 1934 to 1946 pastor at the Luther Church in Blankenburg (Harz) .

Together with the Braunschweig cathedral preacher Karl von Schwartz , Lachmund published the church newspaper Ruf und Rüstung - Braunschweiger Blätter on the development of the church in the spirit of Luther from 1927 to 1941 . The paper was the organ of the ecclesiastical right and was printed in the Hellmuth Wollermann publishing house on Bohlweg in Braunschweig. Lachmund published theological and time-critical articles in it. In the Kirchliche Umschau he commented on the ecclesiastical events in the Braunschweigische Landeskirche . The socially committed Lachmund resigned from the DNVP before the National Socialist seizure of power because of Alfred Hugenberg's economic policy . After 1933 he came into conflict with the Nazi-influenced German Christians and in November 1933 he became a co-founder and until 1938 chairman of the Braunschweigischer Pfarrernotbund , which was joined by 61 pastors of the regional church. In May 1934 he took part in the constituent Barmen Confession Synod of the Confessing Church and in October in the Confession Synod in Berlin-Dahlem . At the beginning of 1934 Lachmund was suspended by the new regional bishop Wilhelm Beye as part of a “scandalous” official criminal case . His successor Helmuth Johnsen lifted the sentence in 1935 and reinstated Lachmund in his Blankenburg pastor. Lachmund critically tolerated the middle line of Johnsen's church policy. In 1937 and 1938 he was a representative of the Braunschweig regional church in the Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany .

Even after the end of World War II , Lachmund remained one of the exponents of the Braunschweig confessional community . His wish to have the church leadership reorganized after 1945 was not fulfilled. He retired in 1946 and wrote a depiction of the Braunschweig church struggle , which was completed by Ottmar Palmer . Lachmund died in March 1952 at the age of 76 in Wolfenbüttel.

According to Dietrich Kuessner, Lachmund was considered a "persistent, influential theological head in the Braunschweig pastorate."

literature

Hans-Walter Krumwiede : Church history of Lower Saxony. Vol. 2. From the German Confederation in 1815 to the establishment of the Evangelical Church in Germany in 1948 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-55434-6 , pp. 498-500.
Dietrich Kuessner : Lachmund, Heinrich Conrad August . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 361-362 .

Individual evidence

↑ Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger (Ed.): Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , p. 150.
^ Siegfried Hermle, Harry Oelke (ed.): Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, p. 121.
^ Dietrich Kuessner: The Braunschweigische Landeskirche in the 20th century . In: Friedrich Weber, Birgit Hoffmann, Hans-Jürgen Engelking (eds.): From the baptism of the Saxons to the church in Lower Saxony. Appelhans-Verlag, Braunschweig 2010, p. 384.
^ Dietrich Kuessner: Lachmund, Heinrich Conrad August . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 361 .
^ Dietrich Kuessner: Lachmund, Heinrich Conrad August . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 362 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lachmund, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lachmund, Heinrich Conrad August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH	March 4th 1952
Place of death	Wolfenbüttel

[1] Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger (Ed.): Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , p. 150.

[2] Siegfried Hermle, Harry Oelke (ed.): Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, p. 121.

[3] Dietrich Kuessner: The Braunschweigische Landeskirche in the 20th century . In: Friedrich Weber, Birgit Hoffmann, Hans-Jürgen Engelking (eds.): From the baptism of the Saxons to the church in Lower Saxony. Appelhans-Verlag, Braunschweig 2010, p. 384.

[4] Dietrich Kuessner: Lachmund, Heinrich Conrad August . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 361 .

[5] Dietrich Kuessner: Lachmund, Heinrich Conrad August . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 362 .