Herbert Bührke
Herbert Bührke (born October 24, 1891 in Posen ; † February 8, 1954 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer and from 1943 until his death in 1954 President of the Regional Church Office in Kiel.
Life
Herbert Bührke studied law at the universities of Halle and Göttingen from 1910 to 1913 . In 1913 he became a trainee lawyer in Poznan. From 1914 to 1918 he did military service in the First World War . After this he continued his legal clerkship at the district court in Kiel in 1919 . In 1921 he became an assistant judge at the regional and district court in Kiel . This was followed by a brief activity as a lawyer in Berlin; In 1922 he returned to Kiel as an assistant and examining magistrate.
In 1925 he entered the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein as consistorial councilor in the regional church office under President Traugott von Heintze . In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP . Promoted to senior consistorial councilor in 1936, he became vice-president of the regional church office under Christian Kinder in 1939 . When he became a full-time curator of Kiel University in 1943, Bührke was commissioned on October 1, 1943 with the provisional management of the regional church office. According to the leader principle enforced in the regional church , he was the head of the regional church in all administrative matters and exercised the powers of the regional church government. On March 20, 1944, he received his formal appointment. At that time the state church office was in Timmendorfer Strand because the service building in Kiel was completely destroyed in an air raid. In February 1945 he was appointed head of the German Evangelical Church Chancellery by Hermann Muhs while still on the side.
After the end of the Second World War, Bührke conducted initial negotiations with the British military government to restore the synodal structure of the regional church. These led to the preliminary general synod , which met from August 14th to 16th in Rendsburg . Bührke's power was reduced when the powers of the regional church government were transferred to the synodal provisional church leadership , but he was confirmed as president of the regional church office and held this office until his death. With the formation of the EKD he was appointed head of its disciplinary court.
In 1953 the Theological Faculty of Kiel University awarded him an honorary theological doctorate .
literature
- Kurt Jürgensen : The hour of the church. The Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Schleswig-Holstein in the first years after the Second World War. Neumünster: Wacholtz 1976 ISBN 978-3-529-02824-3
- Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006 ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , p. 48
- Stephan Linck: New beginnings? How the Evangelical Church deals with the Nazi past and its relationship to Judaism. The regional churches in northern Elbe. Kiel 2013, ISBN 978-3-87503-167-6 , esp.p. 65f.
Web links
- History of the regional church office 1924-1976 , church archive of the northern church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Linck (Lit.), p. 65
- ↑ Hauke Marahrens: State church sovereignty practiced in National Socialism: The finance departments in National Socialist church politics and their practice in the regional churches of Hanover, Braunschweig and Baden. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014 (AKZ B 59) ISBN 9783525557747 , p. 174
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bührke, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer; President of the regional church office in Kiel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1954 |
| Place of death | Kiel |