Hermann Siemonsen

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Hermann Ferdinand Siemonsen (born January 7, 1882 in Husum , † February 21, 1958 in Schleswig-Friedrichsberg ) was a German Lutheran pastor and provost , most recently provost of Schleswig .

Life

Siemonsen was ordained on May 25, 1909 in Krempe and worked from January 6, 1909 as a study inspector in the preacher's seminary in Preetz . In June 1910 he became a curate in Rickling and on October 29, 1911 pastor in Schenefeld . On December 4, 1921 he was appointed chief pastor in Kappeln and provost of Südangeln, and on June 14, 1925, he was appointed chief pastor in Flensburg to St. Marien and provost of Flensburg. On November 15, 1933, he was released from his post as provost and from November 19, 1933, pastor in Bahrenfeld at the third parish of the Luther Church. On June 16, 1935, he was appointed provost again, this time in Schleswig with the official seat in Friedrichsberg. For a time he was part-time consistorial councilor in the regional church office in Kiel . As provost of Schleswig, he retired on October 1, 1951.

Mediator between the fronts

Not bound to the organized and institutionalized groups of the church struggle and deliberately separated from them, individual clergy took an independent position early on (1934/35), which they understood as apolitical, purely ecclesiastical and above all faithful. They were critical and cooperative of the two large church political groups DC and BK . For them there was no question of organizational consolidation, rather they came together through individual projects - for example in the first trust council in 1937, for the announced church election of the same year, in 1943 for the church unification, to rebuild the regional church since May 1945. Reumann:

“The fact that this position has found growing approval and support since 1937, revealed at the same time a rejection of the church political camp formation that began in 1933. This unbound, confessional center was personified by the Schleswig Provost Siemonsen, he filled the de facto leadership role. "

Impulse generator for a new beginning

On May 28, 1945, the former Bishop Völkel set out from Bordesholm on his way to Schleswig. There - barely three weeks after the capitulation of the German Reich - some of the leading churchmen of Schleswig-Holstein, including Siemonsen, met for the first time and discussed the reorganization of the regional church in the so-called "Schleswig Working Group". On June 14, 1945, Siemonsen and Völkel drove to Timmendorfer Strand to contact the remaining representatives of the regional church office evacuated from Kiel. Siemonsen advocated the convening of a provisional general synod and a new appointment to the church leadership positions in connection with the period before 1933. When the provisional overall synod took a different path and the old church political fronts broke up again, Siemonsen withdrew and left Wilhelm to his compastor from Flensburg's times Halfmann the further way to redesign the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein after the war.

Namesake

In 1986 the State Association for Inner Mission in Rickling built the Propst-Siemonsen-Haus as part of the Ansgarstift building in Neumünster and in 2001 it was fundamentally modernized and expanded.

Publications

  • The Schleswig-Holstein Brotherhood in Rickling , Bordesholm 1916.
  • War service and Christ service. About the probation of the Schleswig-Holstein Brotherhood in the war. According to letters from the Ricklinger deacons , Hamburg: North German Men and Youth Association 1917.
  • 75 years of the State Association for Internal Mission in Schleswig-Holstein , Schleswig 1950.

literature

  • Johannes Voigt: New beginning - turning point in life. From our welfare education , Bordesholm 1924.
  • Kurt Jürgensen : The hour of the church. The Ev.-Luth. State Church of Schleswig-Holstein in the first years after the Second World War , Neumünster 1976.
  • Theo Christiansen: Schleswig und die Schleswiger 1945–1962 , Husum 1987, p. 114 ff. ( Excerpt online )
  • Friedrich Hammer : Directory of the pastors of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church 1864–1976 , ed. from the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History, Neumünster: Wachholtz 1991, p. 362.
  • Klauspeter Reumann: The Schleswig provost Hermann Siemonsen: Victims and overcomers of the church struggle 1933-1945 , in: Contributions to Schleswig city history vol. 47 , Schleswig: Society for Schleswig city history 2002, pp 89-104.
  • Klauspeter Reumann: Church struggle as a struggle for the "middle". The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein , in: Manfred Gailus / Wolfgang Krogel: From the Babylonian captivity of the church in the national. Regional studies on Protestantism, National Socialism and post-war history 1930 to 2000 , Berlin: Wichern 2006, pp. 29–58.
  • Sarah Banach: The Ricklinger welfare process 1930. Evangelical home education on the test bench , Opladen: Budrich 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reumann: Church struggle as a struggle for the "middle" ... , 2006, p. 57.
  2. ↑ K. Jürgensen: The Hour of the Church ... , 1976, p. 41.
  3. ↑ Reumann: Propst Hermann Siemsonsen ... , 2017, p. 2
  4. ↑ Propst-Siemonsen-Haus (online at landesverein.de)
  5. ↑ Review by Kurt Schilde , University of Siegen (online at hsozkult.de)
personal data
SURNAME Siemonsen, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siemonsen, Hermann Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor and provost, most recently provost of Schleswig
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1958
Place of death Schleswig-Friedrichsberg