Joachim Kanitz

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Joachim Werner Archibald Kanitz , called Jochen (born March 28, 1910 in Altraden , Mogilno district , Posen province , † 1996 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the Confessing Church .

Life

Kanitz was a son of the main pastor at the Lübeck St. Gertrud Church Johannes Kanitz (1878-1939). After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology in Erlangen , Bonn and at Berlin University . In 1933 he worked as a vicar in Doberlug-Kirchhain . In 1934 he became assistant preacher of the Confessing Church in Berlin-Lichterfelde . In 1935 he became assistant preacher in Crossen an der Oder, but had to leave this circle again. Now he attended the illegal seminary of the Confessing Church in Zingst and Finkenwalde , where he came into contact with Dietrich Bonhoeffer , from whom he received essential theological impulses. After his ordination as a pastor, he was assistant preacher in Klinkow in 1936 and in Hohenseefeld from 1937 . He was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of Young Theologians in Berlin-Brandenburg . During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and fell into French captivity , during which he was employed as a camp pastor.

After a time in Lübeck, he was from 1947 to 1956 as a clergyman at the Evangelical Church Community Berlin-Giesensdorf , in whose Petruskirche he preached. In the following years from 1956 to 1969 he was pastor at the Evangelical parish "Zur Heimat" in Berlin-Zehlendorf . Here he also worked out a meditation for a work of art in his church: In the main room of the church there is a relief band on the west wall that depicts striking scenes from the Old Testament . It comprises a total of 15 pictures that were designed by the Berlin sculptor Waldemar Otto between 1957 and 1959 and cast in concrete.

In March 1958, Kanitz sparked offense at the Church Broadcasting Department of North German Radio with a sermon in which he called on his audience to say a clear no to the federal government's nuclear armament plans. Since 1961 he worked in the communist front organization Christian Peace Conference . Since 1974 he has been a board member and since 1976 chairman of the "Action Group Solidarity World".

In 1983 Kanitz worked on a film production for Hessischer Rundfunk about the martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He also made a name for himself as a Bible interpreter .

Since 1979 Kanitz lived in retirement in Berlin.

Publications

  • Probation and Failure. Berlin: Action Reconciliation , Peace Services, 1991, 1st edition - Berlin, 1970
  • Between tradition and revolt. A piece of political sermon from West Berlin Hamburg-Bergstedt: Reich, 1970
  • Twenty Years of the Christian Peace Conference in West Berlin , ed. Bé Ruys , Berlin undated

As a co-author

  • Horst Dohle , Joachim Heise , Rimco Spanjer (eds.): See history in the face. For Bé Ruys' 80th birthday . Autobiographical sketches, memories and reflections. In it Joachim Kanitz: A woman who climbs into the pulpit , p. 153

literature

  • Gerhard Besier , Stephan Wolf (ed.): 'Pastors, Christians and Catholics', Neukirchen-Vluyn 1992, p. 912.
  • The disturbing brother . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1958 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Niesel: Church under the word: the fight of the Confessing Church of the Old Prussian Union 1933-1945 , 1978, p. 41
  2. ↑ today Kołodziejewo, district of Janikowo
  3. ↑ Annual plan 2014. (No longer available online.) In: Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Verein. January 9, 2014, archived from the original on March 2, 2014 ; accessed on February 24, 2014 (year of death from lecture title). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dietrich-bonhoeffer-verein.de
  4. ↑ http://www.heimatgemeinde.de/pages/gemeinde/relief.php
  5. ↑ Radio sermon : The disturbing brother , report in Der Spiegel of May 28, 1958, accessed on March 7, 2014
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dietrich-bonhoeffer-verein.de
  7. ↑ http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_i_j.html
  8. ↑ Horst Dohle, Joachim Heise: See history in the face. For the 80th birthday of Bé Ruys autobiographical sketches, memories and reflections. Rimco Spanjer, archived from the original on November 28, 2007 ; Retrieved December 5, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Kanitz, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kanitz, Joachim Werner Archibald (full name); Kanitz, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the Confessing Church
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Altraden , Kreis Mogilno , Posen
DATE OF DEATH 1996