Heinrich Menne

Heinrich Menne , also Hinrich Menne (* 1541 in Steinheim (Westphalia) ; † July 29, 1621 in Lübeck ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, chief pastor of the Lübeck Aegidienkirche and senior of the Ministry of Spirituality .

Life

Heinrich Menne came from a poor family. He came to Lübeck as a pupil, where a relative of his was vice-principal at the Katharineum in Lübeck . After working as private tutor in various families, including that of the late mayor Hermann Falke , he was able to study at the University of Rostock from March 1569 with the help of a scholarship . Since his scholarship expired in 1572, he had to return to Lübeck.

In 1573 he accompanied the Lübeck councilor Mattheus Tidemann to the island of Bornholm , which was in Lübeck lien. Ordained on July 29, 1573 before he left , he lived as a preacher for the Lübeck officials at Hammershus Castle . With the end of the Lübeck lien and the return of Bornholm to Denmark, he returned to Lübeck in 1576. He got a job as a preacher at the castle church and was therefore also responsible for pastoral care at the Holy Spirit Hospital and the residents of the charitable foundation St. Gertruden-Pocken- und Almhaus .

The following year he switched to the Jakobikirche as a preacher . On March 3, 1579 he became a preacher at St. Petri , and in 1596 as the successor to Seniors Georg Bart (main) pastor of St. Aegidien. In 1614 he also became senior of the Lübeck Spiritual Ministry and thus both opposite (as the elected representative of the pastorate) and deputy of the superintendent Georg Stampelius . In the dispute over the settlement of Dutch Calvinists in the city in 1613/14, he supported the pastor of St. Mary's Church, Anton Burchard , against Stampelius , who rejected all communion between Lutherans and Reformed as a "sin". Despite the strong support that Burchard received from Menne and the majority of the ministry, Stampelius succeeded in 1614 in having Burchard deposed by the council as the owner of the sovereign church regiment and expelled from the city.

A few years later, however, Menne was involved in founding the Lübeck city ​​library together with Stampelius, members of the council and the rector Johann Kirchmann . His name can be found right behind Stampelius' name on the frieze surrounding the shelves in today's Scharbausaal. Instead of a family coat of arms, a depiction of a preacher on the pulpit in front of his congregation is added to his name in the form of a coat of arms shield.

Heinrich Menne was married to Gertrud, b. Maes. She died after nine years of marriage, leaving four young children, two of whom died young. In his second marriage he married the widow Anna Querlacks. The daughter Anna married the pastor Hermann Wolff .

Menne's brother went to Norway as a Hanseatic merchant , other relatives went to Riga and Reval . Menne gradually achieved prosperity from the poorest of circumstances and invested capital in house rents. His records , made in 1603, are a mixture of life balance, inventory and will. As a careful householder, he has also recorded his silver items, household utensils, clothes and books; his testamentary provisions admonish the principal heirs, his second wife and the two surviving daughters from his first marriage, Anna and Elisabeth, who were both married to Lübeck Preachers, to a peaceful distribution of the inheritance and take particular care that his books and sermons should not fall into the hands of others.

His half-length portrait in the castle church was reminiscent of Menne; it had only entered the church shortly before 1789 and hung on the south wall of the inner choir. When the castle church was demolished in 1818, other paintings were moved to the church of St. Anne's monastery , which burned down in 1843.

Fonts

Mennes notes are edited by:

• Anton Fahne : The Westphalen in Lübeck . 1855. ( Digitized version , University and State Library Düsseldorf , pp. 76–99)

literature

• Johannes Waldhoff: Heinrich Menne - preacher on Bornholm and pastor in Lübeck. In: Steinheimer Calendar 32 (2008), pp. 73.75-77.79

Web links

• Publications by and about Heinrich Menne in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ See also Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church History Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in 9 centuries . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1981, ISBN 3-7950-2500-1 , p. 290
3. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Think - and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 150
4. ↑ Figure in Waldhoff (Lit.), p. 77
5. ↑ Communications from the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology 8 (1897) p. 66
6. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens: The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thought and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. Nöhring, Lübeck 1928, pp. 167-280. (Facsimile reprint: Verl. Für Kunstreprod., Neustadt an der Aisch 2001, ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 233f)

predecessor	Office	successor
Joachim Dobbin	Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck 1614 - 1621	Johann Stolterfoht