Herbert Achterberg

Herbert Achterberg (1930)

Herbert Otto Heinrich Achterberg (born August 29, 1903 in Köslin ; † June 16, 1983 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Herbert Achterberg was confirmed in Stralsund , where he graduated from university in 1922. He then studied theology and German in Greifswald , Berlin and Tübingen . He completed his first theological exam in 1927, the second exam in 1930 in Stettin . In February 1930 he was at the Faculty of Greifswald to Dr. phil. PhD.

On March 30, 1930, he was in the Castle Church in Stettin by General Superintendent Walter Kahler ordained . After the teaching vicariate in Greifswald, Weitenhagen and Altmalchow, Achterberg was pastor in Reinfeld in the Belgard district from 1930 to 1937 , then city mission inspector and hospital chaplain in Stettin for three years. In 1940 he was appointed superintendent of the Demmin church district and pastor at the St. Bartholomew Church by the Pomeranian church leadership . He worked there until his retirement on October 31, 1969.

In the post-war period, Achterberg had to hold up to six services on Sundays due to the lack of personnel in the church district. To do this, he rode his bike from local church to local church. The post-war period, demanding pastoral care, shaped him. He recognized the need to create a worthy memory for the fallen and civilian victims of the war and to give their relatives a place to mourn. This resulted in years of persistent commitment to war grave care in Western Pomerania and the Oder region. Particular mention should be made of the Demmin cemetery, cemeteries on Rügen , in the Anklam and Grimmen districts and the cemetery on Golm for the victims of the American air raid on Świnoujście on March 12, 1945. March 1945 ”is a room named after Achterberg. His sustained efforts and commitment against the resistance of the political-atheist state party SED included not only the financing and construction of memorials, but also significantly on their design, e.g. B. the memorial stones and crosses.

In the post-war period, Achterberg built up the evangelical station mission in Demmin with voluntary helpers .

Herbert Achterberg was an ecumenical Christian, was considered an enthusiastic preacher with a cultivated language, he was literate and interested in cultural and church history.

He had been with Margarete Achterberg, born on August 12, 1930. Lupprian (1908-2004) married and had three daughters. He was an uncle of the legal scholar Norbert Achterberg . Herbert Achterberg was buried in the Demmin cemetery.

Fonts

• Interpretatio Christiana. Disguised religious figure of the Teutons on German soil (= Form und Geist Vol. 19) Eichblatt Verlag, Leipzig 1930 (also Diss. Greifswald 1930).
• Publication in the German Cultural Atlas : 32 maps on the history of churches and piety, Berlin, de Gruyter 1928 to 1938.
• Power of faith. Witnesses of the gospel from the twenty centuries after Christ. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1976; ² 1981.
  • Witnesses of the Gospel - Lexicon of Persons. 300 characters from the 20th centuries AD. Brendow, Moers 1987, ISBN 978-3-87067-300-0 .

literature

• Superintendent em. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schwerin: Commemorative speech on August 29, 1993, the 90th birthday of Dr. Herbert Achterberg, published in Demminer Nachrichten citizen newspaper with official announcements of the Hanseatic City of Demmin, No. 13/2003, pages 20–22, On the 100th birthday of Superintendent Dr. Herbert Achterberg .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Demminer local association of the Volksbund z. 25th anniversary .
2. ↑ Golm war cemetery .