Immanuel Baumann (pastor)
Immanuel Baumann (born December 21, 1900 in Gnadental , Bessarabia , † June 29, 1974 in Hanover ) was a Protestant clergyman of Bessarabian German origin. As senior pastor , he held a key role for the ethnic German group in Bessarabia. After the Bessarabian Germans were resettled in 1940 , he continued to look after his compatriots in their settlement areas in German-occupied Poland . After 1945 it was important for the cohesion of the Bessarabian Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1946 he founded the Evangelical Lutheran Aid Committee here . Church from Bessarabia .
Life
Baumann was born into a farming family in Bessarabia. The place of birth was the village of Kolonie Gnadental with around 1200 inhabitants around 1940, founded by German emigrants in 1830. He attended the Wernerschule in Sarata and received his school-leaving certificate at the German Boys' High School in Tarutino in 1921 .
Baumann then studied Protestant theology in Tübingen, Leipzig and Vienna. After graduating in 1925, he completed a year-long vicariate in Carinthia . In 1926 he returned to Bessarabia and after his ordination (July 31, 1927) received a job as an assistant pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bessarabia . In 1927 he married his childhood friend Else Schulz from Basyrjamka / Bessarabia, a descendant of the Bessarabian German colonizer Gottfried Schulz . In 1929 the son Winfried was born, in 1932 the son Arnulf Baumann , who also became a pastor. For the Bessarabian Germans, the latter gained a similar importance in Germany as his father Immanuel had in Bessarabia.
In 1929 the residents of the parish Klöstitz elected Immanuel Baumann as pastor . He looked after around 10,000 community members in around 10 German villages. In 1936 the Synod of the Tarutino parish appointed him senior pastor . He was thus a church representative for around 92,000 Bessarabian Germans.
In 1940 the Bessarabian Germans were resettled and in 1941 - after spending about a year in a resettlement camp - they came to the Wartheland in Poland, which had been conquered by Germany . Baumann followed them. In the Konin district , as settler pastor and superintendent , he looked after the resettlers in their new settlement area. When the Eastern Front collapsed in January 1945 , he fled to Germany. First he worked as a pastor in Hemmingen / Württemberg. In 1948 he received a parish commission in Alfeld (Leine) . In 1950 he was called to the state refugee pastor of the Hanoverian regional church and was responsible for the ecclesiastical integration of all refugees into the regional church. In 1956 he became pastor at the garden church in Hanover, in 1964 at the Nicolaikirche in Hanover-Bothfeld. He retired on November 1, 1967.
swell
- Files from Immanuel Baumann's work as a refugee pastor, State Church Archive Hanover , inventory E 70 (House of Homeland)
literature
- Arnulf Baumann: Senior Pastor Immanuel Baumann (1900-1974) . In: Yearbook of Germans from Bessarabia, Hanover 2000
Individual evidence
- ^ Church gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover . 15/1974, p. 114.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baumann, Immanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Protestant clergyman of Bessarabia German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gnadental , Bessarabia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1974 |
| Place of death | Hanover |