Herbert Girgensohn

Herbert Girgensohn (born September 27th ^July / October 9th  1887 ^greg. In Wolmar , Livonia Gouvernement , † September 11th 1963 in Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) ) was a German-Baltic theologian of Lutheranism .

Life

Herbert Girgensohn's father was a German-Baltic pastor . After attending school in Saint Petersburg , Girgensohn began studying Protestant theology at Dorpat University in 1906 . He moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (1910/11) and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen (1912/13).

After graduating as Dr. theol. (1913) he was vicar from 1914 and field preacher in the Baltic States in 1919/20 . In 1921 he became pastor at the Petrikirche (Riga) . From 1927 he was also a lecturer in practical theology at the German-speaking Herder University in Riga . According to the German-Soviet non-aggression pact , Girgensohn had to leave Latvia in the course of the resettlement of the Baltic Germans in 1939. In 1940 he became a pastor in Poznan . Fled west in January 1945, Girgensohn became pastor at the Marienkirche in Lübeck . He took care of the expellees from the eastern regions of the German Empire . The Eastern Church Committee (recognized by the EKD in 1949) elected him first chairman in 1946. At almost the same time Girgensohn became a lecturer (from 1955 professor) for practical theology at the Bethel Church University . He resigned the chairmanship of the Eastern Church Committee in 1951, but continued to work through publications to process the experiences of the displaced. With his advocacy of an understanding, he prepared the Ostdenkschrift in 1965. He spoke of Teodors Grīnbergs at the coffin .

Publications

• Don't worry! Two Bible studies held during the Theological Week in Bethel on October 4th and 5th, 1955, publishing house of Bethel near Bielefeld 1956.
• Your kingdom come. 15 sermons from the church year . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht : Göttingen 1959.
• Community in the Church , Gütersloh publishing house Gerd Mohn: Gütersloh 1964.
• Healing powers of pastoral care. Articles , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 1966.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Herbert Girgensohn. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 250.
• Heinrich Wittram : Herbert Girgensohn. Pastors and thought leaders in times of upheaval and loss of home , in: Contributions to East German Church History 7 (2005) (PDF; 2.9 MB), pp. 55–81
• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 471 f .

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Girgensohn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Herbert Girgensohn. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• The situation of the displaced and the relationship of the German people to their eastern neighbors. An evangelical memorandum
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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the Wolmar-Weidenhof community
2. ↑ Rainer Clos on Ostdenkschrift 1965 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.