Hermann Friedrich Ferdinand Clemen

Hermann Friedrich Ferdinand Clemen , also Andreas Ferdinand Clemen (born March 17, 1805 in Lemgo ; † December 10, 1847 ibid) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor. He played an important role in the revival movement in East Westphalia-Lippe in the 19th century.

Clemens tombstone in St. Marien, Lemgo

life and work

After attending grammar school in Lemgo, Ferdinand Clemen studied Protestant theology and worked as a private tutor in Berlin. There he met Johannes Evangelista Goßner . Goßner became his confessor. Clemen "sat at Goßner's feet" and received from him his love for mission. On May 13, 1838, he gave his application sermon at the Church of St. Marien in Lemgo and was then elected pastor. In doing so, he followed in the footsteps of his father Johann Andreas Clemen, who had also been pastor at St. Marien from 1786 to 1816. Clemen introduced Bible studies in Lemgo , founded a celibacy and a youth club and from 1845 until his death held mission festivals in St. Marien, which were forbidden to the Reformed congregations by the consistory and were very popular. On January 30, 1845, he applied for the establishment of a custody facility for small children, from which today's Rampendal Kindergarten emerged. In order to have a room for the awakening associations, a Bible hall was added to the rectory in 1846 and inaugurated on November 4, 1846.

Clemen was friends with the pastors Clamor Huchzermeyer and Johann Heinrich Volkening and very close to Johann Hinrich Wichern and the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg. He collected donations and led the Rauhen Haus to work for young men. When the rationalistic pastor Rudolf Kulemann was appointed as his successor after his death , numerous members of the congregation protested, which in 1849 led to the establishment of a "New Evangelical Congregation" which existed until 1858.

Since 1840 Clemen was married to Sophie Kracht, a sister of the Lemgo linen manufacturer Christoph Wilhelm Kracht (1811-1902).

Clemens' tombstone was restored in 2018 and placed in St. Mary's Church.

Fonts

Kern and Mark of German hymns. Wagener, Lemgo 1844.

literature

Andreas Lange : Out of concern for small children and youths. Andreas Ferdinand Clemen was one of the most important pastors of St. Marien. In:

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Butterweck: History of the Lippische Landeskirche . Art print Fritz Dröge, Schötmar 1926, p. 480 .
↑ Andreas Lange : "A fresh, happy community life". Inner mission and association as factors of church change in the Lutheran city of Lemgo between 1844 and 1886. Ed .: Special publication of the natural and historical association for the land of Lippe. 1st edition. tape 91 . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-7395-1091-0 , p. 100 .
↑ Jürgen Scheffler: Awakening Movement and Revolution. Religion and Political Public in Lemgo 1848/49. In: Josef Mooser , Regine Krull, Bernd Hey , Roland Gießelmann (eds.): Pious people and patriots. Awakening Movement and Social Issues in Eastern Westphalia 1800 to 1900. Bielefeld 1989, pp. 340–366, here pp. 348 f and 361 f.
↑ Jürgen Scheffler: Awakening Movement and Revolution. Religion and Political Public in Lemgo 1848/49. In: Josef Mooser, Regine Krull, Bernd Hey, Roland Gießelmann (eds.): Pious people and patriots. Awakening Movement and Social Issues in Eastern Westphalia 1800 to 1900. Bielefeld 1989, pp. 340–366, here pp. 351–359.
↑ Jürgen Scheffler, Stefan Wiesekopsieker (ed.): Leinenkracht. The story of a Lemgo merchant and entrepreneur family in three centuries (= writings of the Lemgo Municipal Museum, vol. 10). Strohmeier, Lemgo 2010, p. 28 f ( https://www.kracht.com/wp-content/uploads/Chronik_Web.pdf PDF file).
^ Message in the blog of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of St. Marien.
↑ Congregational letter of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Marien in Lemgo, issue 237, June / July / August 2017, p. 4. ( Memento of April 11, 2019 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Clemen, Hermann Friedrich Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Clemen, Andreas Ferdinand; Clemen, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lemgo
DATE OF DEATH	December 10, 1847
Place of death	Lemgo

[1] Wilhelm Butterweck: History of the Lippische Landeskirche . Art print Fritz Dröge, Schötmar 1926, p. 480 .

[2] Andreas Lange : "A fresh, happy community life". Inner mission and association as factors of church change in the Lutheran city of Lemgo between 1844 and 1886. Ed .: Special publication of the natural and historical association for the land of Lippe. 1st edition. tape 91 . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-7395-1091-0 , p. 100 .

[3] Jürgen Scheffler: Awakening Movement and Revolution. Religion and Political Public in Lemgo 1848/49. In: Josef Mooser , Regine Krull, Bernd Hey , Roland Gießelmann (eds.): Pious people and patriots. Awakening Movement and Social Issues in Eastern Westphalia 1800 to 1900. Bielefeld 1989, pp. 340–366, here pp. 348 f and 361 f.

[4] Jürgen Scheffler: Awakening Movement and Revolution. Religion and Political Public in Lemgo 1848/49. In: Josef Mooser, Regine Krull, Bernd Hey, Roland Gießelmann (eds.): Pious people and patriots. Awakening Movement and Social Issues in Eastern Westphalia 1800 to 1900. Bielefeld 1989, pp. 340–366, here pp. 351–359.

[5] Jürgen Scheffler, Stefan Wiesekopsieker (ed.): Leinenkracht. The story of a Lemgo merchant and entrepreneur family in three centuries (= writings of the Lemgo Municipal Museum, vol. 10). Strohmeier, Lemgo 2010, p. 28 f ( https://www.kracht.com/wp-content/uploads/Chronik_Web.pdf PDF file).

[6] Message in the blog of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of St. Marien.

[7] Congregational letter of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Marien in Lemgo, issue 237, June / July / August 2017, p. 4. ( Memento of April 11, 2019 in the Internet Archive )