Herbert Goltzen

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Julius Arthur Herbert Goltzen (born September 5, 1904 in Berlin , † June 27, 1979 in Kaufbeuren ) was a German Protestant pastor and co-initiator of the Pastors' Emergency Association .

Life

Herbert Goltzen was born in Berlin as the son of the lawyer Arthur Goltzen and Julia Lehmann. After attending the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin, he studied at the universities of Tübingen, Marburg and Göttingen. In Tübingen he joined the AV Nicaria student association in the Schwarzburgbund . He also joined the Protestant youth movement in his studies . It was here that he met Karl Bernhard Ritter and Wilhelm Stählin for the first time . His ordination took place on May 17, 1931, afterwards he worked in preparatory service as synodial vicar in Düsseldorf , and in 1932 as assistant preacher in Beeck - Alsum . In the same year he finally changed as pastor to Kohlo in Niederlausitz (today Koło, to the rural community Brody ) and worked there until the final expulsion in June 1945.

After a brief activity in the Lehnin Deaconess Mother House , he accepted an invitation from Bishop Wilhelm Stählin to Oldenburg in 1946, where he was introduced as pastor on May 30, 1946. After Stählin's resignation, he took the opportunity to move from the city back to a rural community and was introduced to the community of Emstek , based in Cappeln , in November 1954 , where he worked until he retired on October 31, 1969. For his work in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg , he was appointed to the church council in February 1965 .

After his retirement, Goltzen moved with his wife to Weißensee near Füssen in the Allgäu, but still worked actively in the Lutheran Liturgical Conference and at the German Evangelical Church Congress . Herbert Goltzen died on June 27, 1979 in Kaufbeuren after a traffic accident and was buried in Weißensee.

Theological work

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Goltzen, along with Eugen Weschke and Günter Jacob, was one of the initiators of the Protestant Pastors' Emergency Association , which was founded on September 21, 1933 in Pastor Gerhard Jacobi's apartment in Berlin. He was a member of the Berneuchen movement , which arose after the First World War and the collapse of the old ecclesiastical order (end of the sovereign church regiment ) for the spiritual renewal of the Evangelical Church, and since 1935 also a member of the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood that emerged from this movement in 1931 . In the Johannes-Stauda-Verlag (Kassel), which is closely related to the Berneuchen movement, he published several theological writings and essays. In the Michael's Brotherhood, Herbert Goltzen, like Karl Bernhard Ritter and Wilhelm Stählin, was one of the opponents of women's ordination , which he viewed as contradicting the Bible and the Lutheran creed .

Fonts (selection)

  • The voice of the victims , Kassel 1948.
  • with Wilhelm Stählin: Sermon aids on psalm texts , Kassel 1955.
  • with Wilhelm Stählin, Horst Schumann and Harald Wolff: Psalm prayers , Kassel 1959.

As editor

  • with Jörg Erb : Voices of the fathers. Testimonies of faith from the early days of the Church to our present day sorted according to the church year , Constance 1973.

literature

  • Otto Fischer: Evangelical Pastor's Book for the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation. 2 vols. Berlin 1941. (vol. 2, p. 256)
  • Udo Schulze: Johannes Vienna and Herbert Goltzen - two pastors from the East in Oldenburg. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch , Vol. 97, 1997, pp. 181-211 (digitized version) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So far cf. Fischer, p. 256.
  2. ↑ See Schulze, p. 194.
  3. ↑ See Schulze, p. 197.
  4. ↑ See Schulze, p. 209.
  5. ↑ See Schulze, p. 210.
  6. ↑ Herbert Goltzen: Women in the spiritual office of the church. In: Quatember. 1962, accessed January 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Karl Bernhard Ritter: Women's ordination. In: Quatember. 1963, accessed January 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Goltzen, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and co-initiator of the Pastors' Emergency Association
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1979
Place of death Kaufbeuren