Hugo Hahn (Bishop)

Hugo Hahn (born September 22 ^{. Jul} / 4. October  1886 ^greg. In Reval ; † 5. November 1957 in Dresden ) was a Lutheran theologian and 1947-1953 Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in Dresden.

Live and act

Hugo Hahn comes from an old Baltic pastor's family. He was the son of the pastor and people's missionary Traugott Hahn (1848–1939) and grandson of the Hereromissionary Carl Hugo Hahn (1818–1895). He himself survived his brother Traugott Hahn (1875-1919), who perished as a martyr under the Soviets.

After taking home lessons and attending St. Annen School in Saint Petersburg from 1900 to 1904, Hahn began studying theology at the Universities of Dorpat , Leipzig and Berlin .

From 1910 to 1916 Hugo Hahn was parish priest in Kreuz in Harrien / Estonia , then in Nissi / Estonia. In 1919 he took up the post of pastor in Worbis in Eichsfeld, Thuringia, in the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony .

In 1927 he moved to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and was pastor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig for three years , after which he worked as a pastor at the Frauenkirche in Dresden and the associated office as superintendent for the Dresden district.

During the National Socialist era , Hugo Hahn headed the Confessing Church in Saxony and was expelled from Saxony by the Gestapo because of his resistance activities.

Hugo Hahn was able to take up a new position in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg in Stuttgart-Hedelfingen , where he became city vicar. From 1946 to 1947 he took over a parish office in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen .

Hahn was dedicated to the confessing Ev.-Luth. Regional church of Saxony as legitimate regional bishop. Therefore Hahn, as the Saxon representative, signed the Stuttgart confession of guilt of October 19, 1945. However, the Soviet military administration did not allow his return until 1947. On July 16, 1947 Hahn was elected regional bishop by the advisory board of the regional church office, the interim church leadership. He held this office from 1947 to 1953 before he retired due to a serious illness. His last official act was the closing remarks at the Leipzig German Evangelical Church Congress in 1954.

His successor in the episcopate was Gottfried Noth .

Hugo Hahn was married to Erika von Baggehuffwudt († 1942). He was buried at her side in Stuttgart-Hedelfingen.

Other functions

Hahn was involved in establishing the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (VELKD) after the Second World War. In 1945 he was a member of the council of the EKD and in 1949 deputy chief bishop of the VELKD.

Fonts

• God over all things! Sermon in the confessional service in the Jakobikirche in Dresden on Friday, January 12th, 1934
• Reluctant fighters. Memories from the church struggle 1933–1945. Ed. And ed. by Georg Prater. 1969

literature

• Gottfried Fuß: … proclaim the Lord's works. On the death of former Bishop D. Hugo Hahn. In: Signs of the Times. Monthly magazine. No. 12, 1958, pp. 21f.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hugo Hahn. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 469.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Hahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hugo Hahn in the Saxon Bibliography
• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hugo Hahn. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the Olaikirche zu Reval (Estonian: Tallinna Oleviste kirik)