Hugo Linck

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Maria and Hugo Linck (1958)

Hugo Linck (born March 20, 1890 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † December 24, 1976 in Hamburg ) was a German pastor who had stayed with his congregation in Königsberg / Kaliningrad until 1948.

Life

Hugo Linck attended the Collegium Fridericianum . After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg and (one semester) at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . As a volunteer in World War I , he was taken prisoner by Russia in 1915 . He was taken to Siberia . After a successful escape, he was in the on December 28, 1918 Castle Church (Koenigsberg) ordained . He held his first pastor's position from January 1, 1919 to June 1922 in Puppen , Ortelsburg district , Masuria . Immediately afterwards he was in Wehlau until October 1930 . He later became a pastor at the Löbenicht Church . Liep was a rural part of the municipality in the east of the city, 3 km from the core municipality of Löbenicht . Since the Lieper part of the community grew very quickly, Linck built a community center in Liep as the first Löbenicht pastor from 1936. The parish hall and rectory for the second pastor of the Löbenicht parish were inaugurated in 1937. Linck became involved in the Confessing Church early on . From 1936 he sat in the East Prussian state brotherhood . After the battle of Königsberg and the destruction of the Löbenicht, the center of community life shifted to Liep. Linck stayed with his community. In March 1946, the employees of the remaining Protestant church elected him "main pastor", the head of the Protestant church in East Prussia. He turned down the offer of the Russians to appoint him "bishop". He stayed in Liep until the last Germans were expelled in March 1948.

Since May 4, 1948 in Hamburg, but initially still on vacation, he took up his work on August 1, 1948 as acting pastor at St. Johannis (Harvestehude) . In October 1948 the position specially created for him was set up. The official inauguration was on February 5, 1949. Ten years later he retired. As a passionate rower and member of the Academic Rowing Association "Alania" Königsberg, Linck founded the old man of the Academic Rowing Association in Hamburg (1958) and the Academic Rowing Association "Alania" in Hamburg (1960).

Descendants

Hugo Linck and his wife Maria had four children. The two older sons died in World War II , one as a submarine commander of the Navy , the other with the Army on the Eastern Front . The two younger children Ingeborg and Roland were born in Wehlau. The son Roland (1925–2008) had four children: Annekathrin, Elisabeth, Tilman and the historian Stephan Linck. The daughter Ingeborg married. Andresen (1923–2014) had three children: Christiane (1950–2019), Henriette (* 1951) and Carl Clemens (* 1954). Henriette Piper's book about Hugo Linck was published in 2019.

Works

First edition 1952
  • Königsberg 1945–1948. Rautenberg & Möckel, Leer 1952, 5th edition (1997), ISBN 3-7921-0350-8 .
  • The church struggle in East Prussia. 1933 to 1945. History and documentation. Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 1968, DNB 457435704 .
  • The eagle between the angels - memories of the Löbenicht church. Rautenberg, Leer (Ostfriesland) 1970, OCLC 174208472 .
  • Tested in the fire as the dying, and behold, we live. Reports from the life of the remaining parishes after the capitulation in and around Königsberg. Rautenberg, Leer 1972, ISBN 3-7921-0126-2 .
  • On the history of the church in the Wehlau district. In: Prussia . Communications from the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research and from the archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . Volume 7 (1969), ZDB -ID 123737-8 , p. 17.
  • Our dead. In: Hellmut Herbst: Sixty Years - History of the Academic Rowing Association 1904–1964. Chronicle of the federal corporations. Hamburg 1964.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hugo Linck  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ C. ST .: The last pastor of Königsberg. Hugo Linck died in Hamburg at the age of 87. In: Ostpreußenblatt . Episode 2, January 8, 1977, p. 15, col. 2 f. ( archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de [PDF; 11.5 MB]).
  2. ↑ a b From the East Prussian home districts ... Königsberg city. Farewell party for Pastor Linck. In: Ostpreußenblatt . Volume 10, episode 16, April 18, 1959, p. 5, column 1 ( archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de [PDF; 9.6 MB]).
  3. ↑ a b Henriette Piper (2019).
  4. ↑ Title recording. In: vifasport.de, Virtual Sports Science Library , accessed on April 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ Book presentation (H. Piper) at be.bra verlag . -
    Gisela Borchers: [review]. In: Journal for East Central Europe Research. Volume 69 (2020), No. 1, pp. 142–144 (with a more extensive biographical sketch; zfo-online.de [PDF; 109 kB]).
personal data
SURNAME Linck, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1976
Place of death Hamburg