Hermann Bezzel
Hermann Bezzel (born May 18, 1861 in Wald near Gunzenhausen , Middle Franconia ; † June 8, 1917 in Munich ; from 1910 Hermann von Bezzel ) was rector of the Neuendettelsau deaconess institution and senior consistorial president of the Bavarian regional church.
Life
On May 18, 1861, Hermann Bezzel was born as the first of twelve children in Wald , now part of Gunzenhausen ( Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district ). His father was the Waldorf village pastor Ludwig Bezzel. After attending school at the Carolinum grammar school in Ansbach , he studied philology and theology in Erlangen . He joined the fraternity of the Bubenreuther . After eight years as a teacher in Regensburg, he was appointed rector of the Diakonissenanstalt in Neuendettelsau in 1891 . There he led the institution, which was shaped by its founder Wilhelm Löhe , to new recognition and inner strength. In 1909 he became head of the senior consistory (i.e. head of administration) of the church leadership of the Bavarian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Munich. In 1910 Bezzel was raised to the nobility. At the beginning of the First World War he called for holy war . He died on June 8, 1917 in Munich and was buried in Wald.
Services
Hermann von Bezzel was appointed to Neuendettelsau as the successor to Rector Friedrich Meyer . Regarding his work, he said: “Jesus' witnesses are quiet people. They don't talk a lot, they're not busy, but you can see them at work ”. In the fight against liberalism on the one hand and a rigid orthodoxy on the other, he strove all his life to be a good Lutheran, but above all a Christian. He coined the word "prayed through rooms" and some other words that were included in various collections of quotations.
During his time as rector, the so-called “ Höhere Töchterschule ” was founded in Neuendettelsau (1903).
Remembrance day
June 8 in the Evangelical Name Calendar .
Fonts (selection)
- Living water , Neuendettelsau 1917.
- The 10 Commandments , Neuendettelsau 1917.
- Hermann von Bezzel, Johannes Rupprecht: Bezzel Breviary. Words for reflection and deepening following written words by Hermann Bezzel for every day of the year - compiled by Johannes Rupprecht , Stuttgart 1933.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 94-95.
- Heinrich Kemner : Christ or Chaos. A critical examination of Bezel's theology in relation to Luther . Evangelisationsverlag, Berghausen near Karlsruhe 1959.
- Laible, Wilhelm / Ernst Bezzel / Pastor Götz u. a .: In memory of Hermann von Bezzel. Collected essays . Leipzig 1917.
- Johannes Rupprecht: Hermann Bezzel as a person and a Christian: on his 75th birthday , Munich: Müller, 1936.
- Hilmar Schaudig (Ed.): Life picture of the senior consistorial president D. Dr. Hermann v. Bezzel , Müller & Fröhlich, Munich, 1925.
- Hans-Walter Schmuhl , Ulrike Winkler: On the way into the 20th century. The Diakonissenanstalt Neuendettelsau under the rectors Hermann Bezzel and Wilhelm Eichhorn Diakonie Neuendettelsau, Neuendettelsau, 2009. ISBN 978-3-9809431-3-0 .
- Manfred Seitz : Hermann Bezzel. Theology - representation - form of its proclamation . (= Research on the history and teaching of Protestantism, 10th series, vol. 18) Christian Kaiser, Munich 1960; 2nd edition: R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1987. ISBN 3-417-29328-6 .
- Ludwig Turtur: Bezzel, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 213 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Bezzel, Hermann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 574-576.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Bezzel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Hermann Bezzel in the German Digital Library
- Hermann Bezzel (private site)
- approx. 300 sermons by Hermann Bezzel sorted by biblical passages
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wehler : German History of Society, Volume 4: 1914-1949, p. 24
- ↑ Hermann Bezzel in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Alexander von Schneider |
Senior Consistorial President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria 1909–1917 |
Friedrich Veit |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bezzel, Hermann |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bezzel, Hermann von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1861 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Forest near Gunzenhausen, Middle Franconia |
DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1917 |
Place of death | Munich |