Heinrich Lindenberg (theologian)

Heinrich Lindenberg

Heinrich Wilhelm Lindenberg (born June 22, 1842 in Lübeck ; † March 3, 1924 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, chief pastor at St. Jakobi and senior .

Life

origin

Heinrich was the youngest son of Johann Carl Lindenberg , senior pastor at St. Aegidien and, as the senior minister of the clergy, the leading clergyman in Lübeck. As the grandson of Mayor Johann Caspar Lindenberg, he came from a family that had lived in Lübeck since 1600.

His mother Wilhelmine Amalie ( Mine ), b. Geibel (born August 11, 1801 in Lübeck; † December 1, 1855 there) was a daughter of the Reformed preacher Johannes Geibel , which means that Heinrich was also a nephew of the poet Emanuel Geibel .

career

Since the early death of his mother, his eldest sister ran the father's household and became the maternal tutor of Lindenberg and an even younger sister. He attended the Katharineum until he graduated from high school at Easter 1861 and, following the example of his father and grandfather, studied Protestant theology . He studied in Erlangen and, like many students from northern Germany, joined the Uttenruthia Christian Student Union . There he made many friends and remained loyal to the Uttenreuthers to the end. He never belonged to any particular theological tendency. During his studies he was influenced by Gottfried Thomasius , Franz Delitzsch and Johann von Hofmann as well as August Johannes Dorner and the philosopher Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg in Berlin before he completed his studies in Tübingen .

When he returned to Lübeck, he passed the official examination on January 29, 1866 before the examination committee of the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and became a candidate for the Ministry. The employability gained in this way was then limited to the Lübeck regional church . Thus the candidates had to wait until a pastor's position had become vacant and until then to look for employment, usually as private tutors or temporary teachers in schools.

This waiting time turned out to be favorable because the previous head of the candidate school , the candidate Ludwig Trummer , was elected preacher to St. Mary's . Lindenberg was able to take over the management of the school as Trummer's successor. The so-called candidate school, which later became the grammar school of Otto Bussenius grew was a private school to change, which allowed her students to her in the Quarta of Katharineum.

Lindenberg had a special talent for this job . In addition to his teaching, he also approached his students scientifically . So he went on excursions with them, which was new at the time, organized small performances, school concerts and the like. He knew how to encourage his students in science so that the "Lindenbergers", the "Tiliamontaner", as the teachers of the Katharineum jokingly called them in Latin , often towered over the other students when they were admitted. Lindenberg added the quarta to the school's offer in 1872 and now enabled the students of the institution to change to the tertia of the Katharineum. The increased number of pupils and the expanded offer required a house of their own. On October 14, 1872, the preparatory school moved to the premises at Fleischhauerstrasse 67. The previous restaurant, middle Johannisstrasse No. 15 , was owned by Schröder's free schools . After the renovations, the boys' school run by Groth was moved here from Böttcherstraße .

On January 4, 1874, the election for the vacant sermons began pastorate in which belonging to the Lübeck countryside village Nusse . Senior teacher Satori had waived and the candidates Reimpell and Tischler did not answer. After Carl J. Amann and Mertens, Lindenberg preached on the 18th, followed by Theodor Zietz, from 1876 St. Petri , and Holm.

After his ordination on February 8th in the Aegidienkirche, Lindenberg was introduced to his office on the 15th . At its introduction appeared in the Church from the City and Regional Office Lübeck senators Tegtmeyer and Overbeck , of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Councilor welfare of Schoenberg , from Lübeck arrived Senior Lindenberg and Pastor Koppen, as an official neighboring pastor Amann. On March 31, Lindenberg ended his activity at the candidate school. After handing over their management to Bussenius, he moved to Nusse.

Lindberg now used the talent with which he had been able to inspire enthusiasm while teaching for his sermons. He became known for substantial sermons in which the treasure of his classical education, his rich historical knowledge, the maturity of his Christian experience, his theological knowledge and understanding came to light.

In 1884 he directed the funeral of his uncle Emanuel Geibel at the Burgtorfriedhof .

The pastors Bernhard ( St. Lorenz ), Holm (since February 5, 1876 deacon at St. Aegidien) and Lindenberg were presented for the election of a new main pastor at St. Aegidien in place of the retired Seniors Lindenberg . The latter was the last to give his guest sermon on March 3, 1889. However , on March 19, the community board and committee elected Carl Theodor Holm.

There were three pastors to choose from for the pastorate at St. Jakobi , which had become vacant when Pastor Lütge retired at the end of August 1889 : Pastor Hermberg from Münsterdorf near Itzehoe , Lindenberg and the candidate Prill. Lindenberg was elected archdeacon on September 9th .

As the successor to the main pastor of St. Jakobi, who retired on January 1, 1891, Gustav Hofmeier , his board proposed the pastors Lindenberg, Marth and Bernhard. On November 20th, Lindenberg was chosen by them.

Lindenberg joined the administrative committee of the Lübeck Biblical Society .

As a friend of the fine arts , he was accepted as a member of the Association of Art Friends in 1892 .

In the same year Lindenberg also became a member of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology .

His influence was soon to show itself in the ecclesiastical bodies. Impressed by Emil Sulze's ideal of the parish , Lindenberg advocated that the local delimitation of the parishes from one another should form the basis of pastoral activity in the big cities and that each clergyman should be assigned his own district, for which he was responsible and thus responsible. He was at the forefront of those who, under the leadership of the chairman of the then synod , Senator Emil Ferdinand Fehling , created the church parish ordinance issued in 1898 , and thus the establishment of the pastoral care districts . Its main features were incorporated into the new church constitution in 1921 .

The Lübeck department of the German Colonial Society had its general meeting on November 20, 1907 in the premises of the non-profit organizations . Its board of directors included Admiral Heinrich Kühne as first chairman, major general Paul Stern as second chairman, Johann Martin Andreas Neumann , Georg Reimpell, senior pastor Lindenberg, Heinrich Gaerderz, Christian Reuter , major Adolf von Tiedemann , Hermann Eschenburg and Carl Dimpker .

In 1909, Senior Pastor Ranke applied to the Senate to be dismissed from the position of Senior in the Spiritual Ministry . The Senate approved this and elected Lindenberg as his successor. With that he became the leading clergyman of the Lübeck regional church.

Lindenberg held this office until 1914, when he was released from it by the Senate on April 1, 1914 at his request. On June 1, 1915, he was also retired as senior pastor .

His coffin was buried on March 7, 1924 in the pastor's crypt of Sankt Jakob in the Burgtorfriedhof .

Public life

In Nusse, Lindenberg quickly managed to win the hearts of his parishioners. An expression of that confidence was the result of the supplementary election on June 5, 1875. In this supplementary election held in Nusse for the Xth constituency (Ritzerau district), 43 (12%) of the 347 eligible voters had voted . He was elected to the Lübeck citizenship with 36 votes . In the citizens' committee it was decided on November 29, 1876 that Lindenberg would submit an application to amend the resolution of September 24, 1873 regarding the excavation of the Ritzerau mill pond in the extraordinary meeting for the consultation of the state budget of 1877 on December 6 . In the supplementary elections of the citizenship in the Ritzerau rural district in 1893, 73 (41%) of 177 eligible voters had voted and the result confirmed Lindenberg as their representative.

On June 5, 1890, Lindenberg was elected by the Senate to replace the resigning attorney Wilhelm Gädecke as a civil deputy to the high school authorities . On April 4, 1896, the Senate elected Pastor Marth in place of the resigning Lindenberg as the bourgeois deputy to the high school authorities. After Lindenberg had become a senior in place of Rankes in 1909, he asked the Senate to elect him as a bourgeois deputy to the high school authorities in place of Rankes. This also happened.

Lübeck Schiller Foundation

At its general assembly in 1870, the Lübeck Schiller Foundation elected the lawyer Schön , senior teacher Mollwo, candidate Lindenberg and the historian Hach to the board. On the 80th birthday of the Austrian poet Franz Grillparzer on January 15, 1871, she congratulated him by telegram and organized an event in his honor the next day. Lindenberg gave a lecture about Grillparzer's life and work before scenes from Grillparzer's drama King Ottokar's Glück und Ende were read out with assigned roles . In addition to Lindenberg, Geibel was also involved. As usual, the Foundation held the first winter meeting of the year on November 12th, Friedrich Schiller's birthday . After a lecture by Lindenberg about Friedrich Hölderlin's life, scenes from The Death of Empedocles were read with assigned roles . At the general assembly on November 22, 1891, Mr. Fehling and Pabst , who were leaving the board, were re-elected. In place of the director of the Ernestine School , Paul Hoffmann had rejected re-election, Lindenberg was appointed to the board. On November 3, 1892, Lindenberg gave a lecture about "Geibel's father", which was received with great interest. In this he proved by name, as already the father Geibels the excellent features Emanuel, especially the poetic talent and the enthusiastic patriotism to own were. At the general assembly on December 17, 1896, Trummer was appointed to the board in place of him, who resigned.

One of the obituaries for Lindenberg ended with an aphorism .

"And behind him, in the unsubstantial glow, was what subdues us all, the mean."

- Source: Goethe, poems. From: Epilogue to Schiller's Bell, to Schiller's funeral, August 10, 1805

What Goethe praised here in Schiller was in Lindenberg Schiller - Geibelsche Erbe. For this reason it was important to him that his last public appearance on October 18, 1915 was the morning speech at Emanuel Geibel's grave.

The first general assembly of the Lübeck Literary Society took place on November 10, 1903. Lindenberg has been elected to the board on her.

Society for the promotion of charitable activities

Lindenberg was elected head of the fourth school for small children on March 25, 1890 at the meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . Likewise, on May 21st of that year, he was accepted as head of society with others. On February 18, 1896, pastor JG Tegtmeyer was elected head of the school in place of the resigning Linderberg. In place of the resigning Pastor Becker , Lindenberg was elected as his successor as head of the first school for small children .

The general meeting of the Gustav Adolf Foundation took place in the Hanseatic city in 1892. The annual celebration was celebrated on November 9, 1892 in the Jakobikirche. The festive sermon was given by the prepositus Ohl from Stargard in Mecklenburg , the liturgy by the chief pastor Lindenberg. The Lübeck main association was represented by Lindenberg at the general meeting in Hanover in 1896 . In place of Hasse and himself, Messrs. Knieft and Ditzen were elected to the board at the meeting.

After the death of the previous chairwoman of the Association for Nursing by Protestant Deaconesses , Thekla Ganslandt, the General Assembly put its leadership in a male hand. After the Senate had approved the required amendment to the statutes , Lindenberg was put in charge.

When Bölcker moved from the supervisory board to the executive board at the general assembly of the non-profit building association on April 26, 1895, Lindenberg was elected to the supervisory board in its place.

Lindenberg was elected to the head of the hostel Zur Heimat on March 15, 1898.

family

Lindenberg was married to three sisters in succession.

On October 8, 1872, he married Antonie Wilhelmine ( Minna ), b. Becker (born August 1, 1852 in Lübeck, † July 12, 1884 in Nusse). She was the daughter of the preacher to St. Marien Hermann Friedrich Becker and his wife Wilhelmine Emilie, geb. Fehling . She died in 1884 after a three-day illness.

Johannes Friedrich Emanuel (* December 2, 1880 in Nusse; † April 5, 1960 in Enger / old people's home )

Maria Emilie Elisabeth (born September 11, 1882 in Nusse, † November 1, 1951 in Lübeck)

On August 13, 1885 Lindenberg married Minna's older sister Adele in Lübeck (born November 4, 1850 in Lübeck; † December 25, 1886 in Nusse). She died after giving birth to twins , whom she was only to survive by a few hours.

On February 9, 1888, Lindenberg married Maria Anna (born February 14, 1863 in Lübeck; † January 9, 1847 ibid.) Becker's third daughter. He should be happy with her for over 35 years.

Wilhelm Johann (es) Ferdinand (born August 25, 1890 in Lübeck; X March 27, 1916 near St. Eloy / Flanders)

Memorial stone for Wilhelm Lindenberg and other members of the Lübeck CVJM in the Ehrenfriedhof (Lübeck)

I attended the Progymnasium first, then the Katharineum. He then studied theology in Halle , Berlin and Kiel . When he had passed his first exam there in 1913, he was accepted into the seminary in Preetz . In 1914 he was assigned to his father as teaching vicar in the Jakobi congregation, where he acted as his representative. In February 1915 he was in the Reserve Rifle Battalion. 18 , the second reserve Hunter Battalion in Ratzeburg , convened . He left home on May 15 and never returned. He was injured in the fighting near Ypres , but returned to the front after his recovery from the field hospital . In January 1916 he was promoted to private and awarded the Senate the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross. On March 16, his battalion was transferred to the Wytschaete-Bogen in St. Eloi, where a major British attack was expected. He was in the trench when this major attack began on the morning of the 27th with four blasts below the trench .

Adele, (born November 11, 1892 in Lübeck)

On March 12, 1913, she married the senior teacher Eilhard Erich Pauls

Heinrich Otto Walter (born April 30, 1894 in Lübeck; X July 25, 1916 on the Somme)

Heinrich went through the same course of education as his brother. He attended the universities in Freiburg and Berlin to study philology and history . In August 1914 he volunteered in the local regiment . After completing the officer training course in Elsenborn , he was promoted to lieutenant on March 22, 1915 and assigned to the Reserve Infantry Regiment of the 1st Hanseatic Infantry Regiment . Healed from a wound in February 1916, he returned to the front and took part in the fighting for Givenchy . He fell on the Somme . He has been awarded both the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross and the Iron Cross 2nd Class.

Johann Caspar Gerhard (born October 15, 1895 in Lübeck)

Minna (born June 4, 1898, † February 14, 1960 ibid.)

On January 15, 1921, she married Karl Wilcken, the son of the brewery owner Heinrich Wilken

Walther Paul Ernst (born February 3, 1904)

Fonts

• Speeches given at the Lübeck memorial service on the occasion of the hundredth birthday of Emanuel Geibel (October 18, 1815) on October 17, 1915. Lübeck: Gebr. Borchers 1916

literature

• Senior a. D. Heinrich Lindenberg †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1924/25, No. 8, edition of March 23, 1924, p. 30.
• Johannes Evers : Heinrich Lindenberg. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 66th volume, no. 19, edition of March 30, 1924, pp. 236–237.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 586
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Johannes Evers: Heinrich Lindenberg. In: Lübeckische Blätter, 66th volume, no. 19, edition of March 30, 1924, pp. 236–237.
3. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 16, No. 8, edition of January 28, 1874, p. 44.
4. ↑ The official examination at that time was the only examination that a young Lübeck theologian had to undergo in order to gain employment for a spiritual office.
5. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 14, No. 82, Edition of October 13, 1872, p. 452.
6. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 16, No. 1, edition of January 4, 1874, p. 8.
7. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 16, No. 10, edition of February 4, 1874, p. 56.
8. ↑ The Vogtei Manhagen belonging to the Principality of Ratzeburg was parish in Nusse.
9. ^ Introduction by Pastor Lindenberg in Nusse. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 16, No. 14, edition of February 18, 1874, p. 80.
10. ^ Arno Holz : Emanuel Geibel. A memorial book . Oscar Parrisius, Berlin, Leipzig 1884 digitized , p. 115
11. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 31, No. 17, Edition of February 27, 1889, p. 92.
12. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 31, No. 66, edition of August 18, 1889, p. 372.
13. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 31, No. 74, edition of September 15, 1889, p. 416.
14. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 32, No. 88, edition of November 2, 1890, p. 523.
15. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 32, No. 94, edition of November 23, 1890, p. 560.
16. ↑ Report of the Lübeckische Bibelgesellschaft on the years 1890, 1891 and 1892. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 35th year, no. 63, edition of August 6, 1893, pp. 365–366.
17. ^ Association of Art Friends. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 34th volume, no. 7, edition of January 24, 1892, pp. 43–44.
18. ↑ Report of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 34, No. 53, edition of July 3, 1892, pp. 312–315.
19. ^ German Colonial Society, Lübeck Department. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 49, number 49, edition of December 8, 1907, p. 699.
20. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 54, No. 40, edition of October 3, 1909, p. 585.
21. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 59, No. 13, edition of March 29, 1914, p. 245.
22. ↑ citizenship election. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 17th volume, no. 46, edition of June 9, 1874, pp. 271–272.
23. ^ Citizens' Committee on November 29th. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 18, No. 96, edition of November 29, 1876, pp. 573-574.
24. ↑ Supplementary elections in the citizenry. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 36, No. 47, edition of June 11, 1893, p. 274.
25. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 32, No. 29, edition of April 9, 1890, p. 180.
26. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 38, No. 27, Edition of April 12, 1896, p. 163.
27. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 54th volume, No. 42, edition of October 17, 1909, p. 618.
28. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 12, No. 86, edition of October 26, 1870, p. 468.
29. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 13, No. 6, edition of January 18, 1871, p. 36.
30. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 13, No. 91, Edition November 12, 1871, p. 508.
31. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 33rd volume, No. 94, edition of November 25, 1891, p. 560.
32. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 34, No. 89, edition of November 6, 1892, p. 528.
33. ↑ Thirty-fourth report of the Lübeck Schiller Foundation. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 38th year, no. 37, edition of June 21, 1896, pp. 276–278.
34. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 45, No. 46, edition of November 15, 1903, p. 609.
35. ^ Society z. Convey. non-profit. Activity In: Lübeckische Blätter , 32nd volume, No. 25, edition of March 26, 1890, p. 148.
36. ^ Society z. Convey. non-profit. Activity In: Lübeckische Blätter , 32nd volume, No. 41, edition of May 21, 1890, p. 248.
37. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 41, No. 14, edition of February 19, 1896, p. 80.
38. ^ Report of the fourth school for small children. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 42nd volume, no. 42, edition of October 17, 1897, pp. 496–497.
39. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 53, No. 6, edition of February 9, 1908, p. 74.
40. ^ Report of the Lübeck main association of the Gustav Adolf Foundation. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 34th volume, No. 31, edition of April 17, 1892, pp. 180-183.
41. ^ Report of the Lübeck main association of the Gustav Adolf Foundation. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 38th volume, no. 26, edition of April 5, 1896, pp. 151–154.
42. ^ Report on the activities of the Association for Nursing by Protestant Deaconesses. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 35th year, no. 99, edition of December 13, 1890, pp. 577-578.
43. ↑ Annual report of the non-profit building association. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 41, No. 64, edition of December 25, 1896, pp. 570–571.
44. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 43, No. 12, edition of March 20, 1898, p. 125.
45. ↑ ^{a b} memorial plaque. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1915/16, No. 46, edition of August 13, 1916, pp. 190–192.
46. ↑ March 22nd of each year was a day for honors or promotions, since the heroic emperor was born on that date in 1797.

predecessor	Office	successor
Leopold Friedrich Ranke	Senior of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lübeck State 1909 - 1914	Johannes Becker