Hermann Augustin

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Hermann Augustin (born November 22, 1932 in Bülderup ) is a doctorate German Evangelical Lutheran theologian who worked as a pastor in Feldstedt and Blankenese and as provost of the parish of the Duchy of Lauenburg , based in Ratzeburg .

Life and work

Childhood and youth

Augustin grew up as the son of a teacher together with two brothers in Northern Schleswig / Denmark . On January 22, 1933, he was baptized in Pastor Johannes Schmidt-Wodder's parents' apartment .

His father, Cornelius Augustin, ran a village primary school for the German minority until the outbreak of World War II , when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . After the end of the French campaign in 1940, he was released as a family man and transferred to Kiel to the Realschule in Kiel-Ellerbek , with which the family also returned to Germany.

In 1940/41, at the age of nine, Augustin experienced the beginning of the bombing raids on the shipyard of Kiel. Shortly before their home was destroyed, the family moved to Ratzeburg in 1941 because the father had accepted a call to the teacher training institute (LBA) founded there a few months ago . When the Russian campaign began in July , his father was drafted into the Wehrmacht again in September. A sister was born at the end of the year. The father was given home leave for baptism in January 1942.

“A colleague of my father's, who was also the Hitler Youth site leader in the city, visited us. When he said goodbye at the floor door and I stood at the other end of the hall, he asked about the baptism, which my father called 'natural'. 'We'll wean you off that! Heil Hitler! 'He clenched his heels and disappeared. "

On April 19, 1943, the evening before “ Führer’s birthday ”, Augustin was ten years old in front of the Ratzeburg Cathedral and the monument to Henry the Lion with torches, fanfares, flags and an inspiring speech from the leader of the Ratzeburg flag “ Heinrich the Lion ” accepted into the Hitler Youth . At the end of 1944, following a Reich selection process, he was allowed to join the " Adolf Hitler School Tilsit ", which was housed in the NS-Ordensburg Krössinsee (today barracks for Polish officers) in the Dramburg / Falkenburg district east of Stettin because of the war .

In November 1944, he and his class did a “shoveling” in Rose near Schneidemühl in Western Pomerania for a few weeks in cold, rainy weather on slippery, clayey soil to dig trenches against attacks by Soviet tanks. Because of the collapse of the Eastern Front in spring 1945, the school was relocated to Wiek on Rügen and then to Grömitz in February 1945 . From there, after the school was closed, Augustin returned to his family in Ratzeburg. There he experienced the end of the war with the handover of the city of Ratzeburg to the British troops on May 2, 1945 without a fight.

At the end of the war in Libau / Kurland-Baltikum in 1945, the father was taken prisoner by the Soviets and did not return to the Federal Republic of Germany until October 1955 from Sverdlovsk / Ural (now Yekaterinburg again ) via Friedland .

On the day of the surrender , an emergency situation that was difficult to cope with occurred for Augustin's family in Ratzeburg. Salary payments were stopped immediately. It was not until years later that they were partially paid again after court hearings before his father's return from captivity. His mother was on her own with Hermann Augustin and his three little siblings. Half of the apartment had to be occupied by refugees. Personal relationships in the Ratzeburg rural environment did not exist. The last signs of life came from the father in the April weeks of 1945 and then once in November 1945 from captivity. Because of his severe malaria illness, the next message in a strange handwriting did not appear again until May 1946.

In July 1945, his godfather (brother of his mother), master carpenter Hermann Böhrnsen , reacted surprisingly to this situation and brought the family to the hometown of the Augustin / Böhrnsen families in Rendsburg , where they were accommodated in the ancestral home of the Böhrnsen family. Augustin was confirmed on March 21, 1948 in the Rendsburg-Neuwerker Christkirche and passed his Abitur in 1953 at the Gymnasium Herderschule.

During his time in Rendsburg, it was shaped by the city's youth work in annual major events with a few hundred young people. The Schleswig-Holstein bishops Wester and Halfmann as well as professors from the University of Kiel came together and discussed with the young people after their lectures. The weekly meetings of a student Bible group, the so-called “Jungewacht”, with schoolmates and fellow confirmands and the associated leisure camps were also of great importance. "Reich meeting of the Jungewacht" in Marburg and Göttingen brought him into contact with important women and men of the " Confessing Church " from the time of the Nazi regime. But also annual ascension meetings by bike to the Brahmsee and later to the Koppelsberg near Plön played an important role for him.

"The ceremonial handover of the Koppelsberg by the Mau family to the Schleswig-Holstein State Church with the change of flag to the ' Cross on the Globe ' and later the inauguration of the chapel are among my important memories."

Soon after the confirmation, Augustine's desire to study theology was established in order to later shape church life in a congregation with young and old. After graduating from high school, Augustine was forced to earn money for his intended studies. During half a year of shift work at the Ahlmann-Carlshütte in Rendsburg- Büdelsdorf , he managed to earn so much money enamelling cast-iron washbasins and bathtubs that he could begin his studies in Kiel in the winter semester 1953/1954. Until his father's return from captivity in 1955, he was dependent on further earnings at the Ahlmann-Carlshütte during the semester break.

Studies and Vicariate

After graduating from the Herderschule in Rendsburg, Augustin studied theology at the theological faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and after the first theological exam in SS 1960 at the Mission Academy in Hamburg-Nienstedten and received his doctorate in 1961 at the University of Hamburg under Professors Hans -Rudolf Müller-Schwefe and Kurt Dietrich Schmidt on the subject of regeneration and inner mission with Johann Hinrich Wichern . He completed his vicariate with Pastor Andreas Schau in Hoyer , North Schleswig, and was then ordained in 1962 in Schleswig Cathedral by Bishop Reinhard Wester .

Parish offices

Augustin spent the time of the auxiliary clergy in Nortorf in 1962/63

In May 1963 he was the first pastor to take over the Feldstedt parish of the North Schleswig community until 1973.

From 1973 to 1981 Augustin worked as pastor and chairman of the church council in Hamburg-Blankenese . During this time, in 1978, he became a founding member of the Hamburg-Blankeneser Rotary Club and in 1981 moved to the Lauenburg club in Ratzeburg-Mölln, but left there in 1983 due to time constraints.

Religious instruction

During his time as parish pastor, Augustin gave religious instruction in the upper grades of the following high schools

Provost office

In May 1981 Augustin was elected as the first provost of the North Elbe church district of the Duchy of Lauenburg with official residence in Ratzeburg and pastor of the St. Petri parish . Until then, there was a state superintendent in Lauenburg with a state superintendent as the leading clergyman at the head, which in November 1980 had been converted into a north Elbian church district.

Other offices

From 1985 to 1993 Augustin was deputy bishop in the diocese Holstein-Lübeck for Bishops Ulrich Wilckens and Karl Ludwig carbon balance .

From 1986 to 2009 he was vice chairman of the board of the North Elbe Mission Center (NMZ) and chairman of the Papua New Guinea committee of the NMZ.

Trips abroad

On behalf of Bishop Wilckens, Augustin drove on 1/2. September 1990 to Rügenwalde , Köslin and Kolberg to meet the Catholic Bishop Jeż as part of the North Elbian ecumenical partner relationship with the Church in Poland .

In February 1992 he (together with his wife Renate Augustin ) traveled to Papua New Guinea (PNG) for the first time for the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea (ELC-PNG) in Jalibu, combined with visits to Bishop Getake Gam in Lae and with District President Beka Kosieng in Finschhafen / Heldsbach .

The second PNG trip took place in October 1994. At the district synod in Kip / Kalasa, the partnership agreement with the Kotte district of the ELC-PNG was concluded. The signatures were made by Augustin and Beka Kosieng.

Retirement and rowing

In 1997 Augustin retired and lived in Ratzeburg. On this occasion, the pastors' convention of the parish of the Duchy of Lauenburg gave him a plywood C-unit , which he used diligently on the Ratzeburg lake . From his time as an active rower , Augustin is still a member of three rowing clubs:

  • RPRC: Rendsburg Primaner Rowing Club from 1880 (active from 1951 to 1953, since then "Old Man" / AH)
  • ARV: Academic Rowing Club Kiel from 1897 (active from 1954 to 1956, AH since then)
  • RRC: Ratzeburg Rowing Club (passive member since 1982)

Travel abroad as emeritus

In October 1998 Augustin (together with his wife and representatives of the Lauenburg / Elbe parish ) traveled to Tanzania for the first time to visit Lyasongoro at the foot of Kilimanjaro , the partner parish of the Duchy of Lauenburg parish and the Lauenburg / Elbe parish, combined with a visit to Bishop Dr. Queka in Moshi .

The second trip to Tanzania (together with the Willers from Lauenburg / Elbe) took place on behalf of the incumbent provost Peter Godzik at the turn of the millennium or the new millennium 1999/2000 for the inauguration of the new church in Lyasongoro on January 1st, 2000. Augustin reported:

“The 'Magnificent Bishop' Dr. Queka with a shepherd's crook and miter, the powerfully blowing trombone choir in the march rhythm as they move in, the overcrowded new church and around 3,000 people outside, and the goats that were still running around lively under the bell tower the evening before and were eaten around 4 p.m. after the festive service. We (bishop, pastors, Lauenburgers, etc.) received such a specimen as a grilled ' Tschagga banana', which was solemnly distributed piece by piece. "

The third PNG trip in September 2001 (together with his wife Renate) served to participate in the district synod of the Kotte district of the ELC-PNG in Gitua / Kalasa and to visit Bishop Dr. Wesley Kigasung in Lae. It was connected with a visit to Hong Kong at the Lutheran Theological Seminary (LTS), one of the leading theological training centers in Asia, and with Pastor Leung (Breklumer Mission) in the Evangelical Lutheran. Philip house church.

In November 2001 Augustin (together with his wife) represented the incumbent provost at the church consecration anniversary in Heydekrug and the rededication of the Evangelical Lutheran church in Pogegen, which had previously been used by others, by Bishop Kalvanas junior. Both places in Lithuania are the locations of the Diakonie stations that are part of the Diakonisches Werk of the parish of the Duchy of Lauenburg.

family

Augustin is with the community assistant Renate Augustin , born in Breklum . Steffen, married. The couple have four grown daughters, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. On January 23, 2000, a few days after her 60th birthday, Renate Augustin was awarded the Ansgar Cross of the North Elbian Church for her diverse voluntary work as head of the Evangelical Women's Aid and Hospital Visiting Service in the parish of St. Petri-Ratzeburg and as a long-term synodal of the church district Duchy of Lauenburg awarded. On January 18, 2015, on the occasion of her 75th birthday, she was honored with the crown cross of the Diakonie in gold.

Publications (selection)

  • Three case studies for the general mood of the post-war period in Germany (Gregor Steffen, Sella Ropers, Cornelius Augustin) , in: Karl Ludwig Kohlwage , Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (ed.): "What he tells you, that does!" Reconstruction of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church after the Second World War. Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2017 . Compiled and edited by Peter Godzik, Rudolf Hinz and Simeon Schildt, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2018, pp. 61–65.
  • National and National Socialist influences on the Evangelical Lutheran. Church life of the German minority in North Schleswig. Considerations from the perspective of two contemporary witnesses , contribution to the second conference in Breklum 2017 (together with Günter Weitling ), therein:
    • Title page ( online )
    • Augustin: Basics from the history of the Diocese of Schleswig, the special development of the church work of the German minority in North Schleswig since 1920 and the "new beginnings" after 1945 to the present ( online )
    • Weitling: Additional remarks on the topic “National and National Socialist Influences on the Evangelical Lutheran. Church life of the German minority in North Schleswig " ( online )
  • Memories ... from the war and post-war period , in: Karl Ludwig Kohlwage, Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “What is right before God”. Church struggle and theological foundation for the new beginning of the church in Schleswig-Holstein after 1945. Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2015 . Compiled and edited by Rudolf Hinz and Simeon Schildt in collaboration with Peter Godzik, Johannes Jürgensen and Kurt Triebel, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2015, pp. 71–74.
  • Johann Bielfeldt (1886–1981) , in: “What is right before God” ... Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2015 , Husum 2015, pp. 173–180.
  • Epiphany 2007: Witnesses Are In Demand! In: Peter Godzik (ed.): Lavender scent and summer wind. Spiritual edification from the Lauenburger Land. Selected articles from the series “Wort zum Sonntag” in the Lübecker Nachrichten - Lauenburger Nachrichten. Steinmann, Rosengarten b. Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-927043-33-6 , p. 29 f.
  • The Reformation in the Duchy of Lauenburg , in: Kurt Jürgensen (Hrsg.): The Church in the Duchy of Lauenburg. Contributions to their past and present , Neumünster: Wachholtz 1994, pp. 42–52.
  • Development of ecclesiastical structures in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , in: Dieter Jaschke (Ed.): Regional Atlas of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Mölln: Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture - Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation 1992, sheet 3.8.
  • Lauenburger Land, respect the word of the Lord! Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of the Lauenburg-Ratzeburg Biblical Society 1816–1991 , Ratzeburg 1991.
  • Field stone churches in the Lauenburger Land. Witnesses of religious and cultural history , Lauenburg / Elbe 1991 (together with Martin Sommerfeld).
  • Introduction: 400 Years of the Lauenburg Church Ordinance 1585–1985 , in: Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History (Ed.): The Lauenburg State Superintendent as a North Elbe Church District . Lectures and speeches on the 400th anniversary of the “Lauenburg Church Order” from 1585 , Neumünster: Wachholtz 1986 ( content ), pp. 9-20.
  • Lauenburg Church Ordinance 1585. Part 1 and 2 , Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1985.
  • Country, hear the word of the Lord. Ev.-luth. Churches and churches in the Duchy of Lauenburg , Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1984.
  • Two feasts. Confirmation free time 1979 , in: Hans-Rudolf Müller-Schwefe (Hrsg.): Das Wort zum Abendmahl , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1980, pp. 98-101.
  • Regeneration and inner mission with Johann Hinrich Wichern , Hamburg 1961.

literature

  • Friedrich Jessen: Church in the borderland (writings of the local history study group for North Schleswig, issue 27) , Aabenraa 1973
  • Ingrid Riese and Peter Jessen Sönnichsen: In the course of time - 75 years of the North Schleswig community , Tingleff 1998, ISBN 87-986795-0-3
  • Günter Weitling : German church life in North Schleswig since the referendum in 1920 . Published by the Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger and archive / historical research center of the German ethnic group, Aabenraa 2007, ISBN 978-87-991948-0-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memories ... from the war and post-war period , in: “What is right before God” ... , Husum 2015, p. 73.
  2. ↑ The external situation and internal constitution of the late returnee Cornelius Augustin described his son Hermann at a conference in Breklum 2017, printed in: Three case studies for the general mood of the post-war period in Germany (Gregor Steffen, Sella Ropers, Cornelius Augustin) , in: Karl Ludwig Kohlwage , Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “What he tells you, do it!” The reconstruction of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church after the Second World War. Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2017 . Compiled and edited by Peter Godzik, Rudolf Hinz and Simeon Schildt, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2018, pp. 61–65, here p. 64.
  3. ↑ Memories ... from the war and post-war period , in: “What is right before God” ... , Husum 2015, p. 73.
  4. ^ Friedrich Hammer : Directory of the pastors of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church 1864–1976 , Neumünster: Wachholtz Verlag 1991; Hermann Augustin: Memories ... from the war and post-war period , in: Karl Ludwig Kohlwage , Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “What is right before God”. Church struggle and theological foundation for the new beginning of the church in Schleswig-Holstein after 1945. Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2015 . Compiled and edited by Rudolf Hinz and Simeon Schildt in collaboration with Peter Godzik , Johannes Jürgensen and Kurt Triebel, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2015, pp. 71–74.
  5. ↑ https://www.kirche-ll.de/aktuelles/schaufenster/details/nachricht/partschaften-mit-dem-kotte-district-in-papua-neuguinea-10092012.html
  6. ↑ https://elevationmap.net/lyasongoro-marangu-mashariki-moshi-tz-1012568369 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unfGTSTZ6DI
  7. ↑ Email of June 23, 2020 to Peter Godzik
  8. ↑ Homepage of the LTS
  9. ↑ Renate Augustin: Memories ... from the war and post-war period , in: "What is right before God" ... Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2015 , Husum 2015, p. 105 f .; Votum , in: “What he tells you, that does!”… Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2017 , Husum 2018, pp. 100 f., 105 f.
  10. ↑ https://www.ln-online.de/Lokales/Lauenburg/Unterhaltungen-am-Krankenbett-Ratzeburger-Besuchsdienst-hilft-seit-30-Jahren
  11. ↑ https://www.kirche-ll.de/aktuelles/schaufenster/details/nachricht/ratzeburg-renate-augustin-erhaelt-das-kronenkreuz-18012015.html
  12. ↑ http://d-nb.info/481052755
predecessor Office successor
Joachim Heubach
( as state superintendent of the state superintendent of Lauenburg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein )		 Provost of the church district Hzgt. Lauenburg of the North Elbian Ev.-Luth. Church
1981 - 1997 		Peter Godzik
personal data
SURNAME Augustin, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Lutheran theologian, pastor and provost
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bulderup