Jens Motschmann

Jens Motschmann (born June 30, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German Protestant pastor and theologian.

Life

Motschmann went to school in the GDR and graduated from high school in Beetzendorf / Altmark in 1960 . He studied Protestant theology and political science in Berlin, Hamburg and Bayreuth. From 1971 to 1972 Motschmann worked as a pastor in Neumünster-Einfeld , from 1972 to 1987 in Itzehoe , from 1987 until his retirement in 2007 in the St. Martini Church in Bremen . Motschmann was a member of the Evangelical Emergency Community in Germany and published the Red Book Church in 1976 together with Helmut Matthies and the New Red Book Church in 1978 together with Friedrich-Wilhelm Künneth . A dissertation from 1994 states about this book : “The tenor of this publication is the assumption that the Evangelical Church in Germany has been infiltrated by communists and is pursuing a 'popular front policy'. The authors see themselves in the midst of a religious struggle against which the church struggle of the Third Reich was a vanguard battle '”.

From 1977 to 1987 Motschmann was a member of the Synod of the North Elbian Church , in which he took a conservative position. He has been a retired pastor since 2008. From 2009 to 2010 he worked as an honorary substitute pastor in the St. Jakobi congregation in Bremen, and continues to hold services. Motschmann was chairman of the Seniors' Union in Bremen from April 2010 .

Jens Motschmann is married to the Bremen politician Elisabeth Motschmann and has three children and eight grandchildren with her.

Publications (selection)

• Not like that, Pastor! What will happen to the Protestant Church? Ullstein publishing house , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-550-07501-4 ; Paperback edition 1993, ISBN 3-548-35338-X .
• The Pharisees. The Protestant Church, Socialism and the SED Regime. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-548-36622-8 .
• Feminist theology. Return of the Goddesses. Logos-Verlag, Lage 2001, ISBN 3-933828-71-6 .
• A walk through the church year. Bremen sermons 1990–2010. Fromm Verlag, Saarbrücken 2014, ISBN 978-3-8416-0487-3 .
• Bremen sermons. Help in life from the word of God. Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-1973539728
• Bremen sermons. Orientation from the Word of God. Bremen 2018, ISBN 978-1980483458
• Bremen sermons. The church year. Bremen 2018, ISBN 978-1790690312

as editor

• Red Book Church. Seewald-Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-512-00452-0 (with Helmut Matthies ).
• The new Red Book Church. Seewald-Verlag, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-512-00503-9 (with Friedrich-Wilhelm Künneth).
• Church between the Seas. Contributions to the history and shape of the North Elbian Church , Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1981, ISBN 3-8042-0211-X
• Power and abuse of church tax. Luther bookstore Harms, Groß Oesingen 2002, ISBN 3-86147-241-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens Motschmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Dettmar: Interest and information. Comparison of the press agencies "Evangelical Press Service" and "Information Service of the Evangelical Alliance". Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994 (= also Diss. Frankfurt a. M.), page 93.
2. ↑ CHURCH: Shakes and shakes - A religious dispute divides Protestants in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: How political can pastors be? in: Der Spiegel 13/1985 of March 25, 1985
3. ↑ Motschmann: Vita ( Memento from May 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ St. Jakobi Congregation: Chronicle of the Pastors ( Memento from February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Motschmann new head of CDU seniors ( memento from October 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), nwzonline.de, article from April 24, 2010.
6. ^ E. Motschmann: Vita ( memento from February 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 12, 2016.