Johann Bielfeldt

Johann Claus Bielfeldt (born November 14, 1886 in Hohn ; † July 9, 1981 in Itzehoe ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Wilster and Rendsburg , field chaplain in World War I in France and Russia, member of the Confessing Church in Schleswig-Holstein in the time of National Socialism as well as pastor and provost in Itzehoe after the Second World War .

Life

Bielfeldt grew up with three brothers and a sister in Mockery. His father was head of office and farmer there. After attending primary school in Hohn, he switched to high school in Rendsburg and passed his Abitur there in 1898. He studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , Berlin and Kiel , where he met the liberal theologians Adolf von Harnack and Otto Baumgarten , among others .

He completed his vicariate with Provost August Wilhelm Treplin (1840–1917) in Hademarschen . He was ordained on October 26, 1913 in Kiel and was then assistant preacher in Wilster. From 1914 to 1918 he was used as a field preacher in France and Russia during the First World War. During this time he met Friederike Martens from Berlin in Wilna and married her after the end of the war in 1919. The marriage had two children.

Bielfeldt worked as a pastor in Wilster again after the war. In 1925 he applied for a pastor's position in the Christian parish in Rendsburg and worked there until 1945.

On September 12, 1933, Bielfeldt witnessed the “brown synod” in Rendsburg. From October he belonged together with Pastor Volkmar Herntrich and Professor Kurt Dietrich Schmidt to the so-called “Führer Council” of the growing “denominational community” in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein . Since the 1st Synod of Confession in Kiel on July 17, 1935, Bielfeldt was a member of the board of the Confessing Church (BK) in Schleswig-Holstein.

After the failure of a "pacification path" at the 2nd Synod of Confession in Bredeneek (1936), Bielfeldt resigned from the board of the BK movement, but continued to support the BK movement in Schleswig-Holstein.

From 1946 to 1956 he was provost of the Münsterdorf provost in Itzehoe. After his retirement he temporarily took over the management of the preacher's seminary in Preetz .

He took his retirement home in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek ; Here, at the suggestion of Kurt Dietrich Schmidt, he developed the book Der Kirchenkampf in Schleswig-Holstein (published in 1964).

He died on July 9, 1981 and was buried in the Brunnenstrasse cemetery in Itzehoe.

Works

• Pulpit declaration by Schleswig-Holstein pastors on the 2nd Advent [December 10th] 1933 , in: Kurt Dietrich Schmidt (Ed.): The Confessions and Fundamental Statements on the Church Question of 1933 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1934, pp. 89-91 (together with Volkmar Herntrich, Johannes Lorentzen , Kurt Dietrich Schmidt); (online at geschichte-bk-sh.de) .
• The Christian knight of the German nation. A chapter from the history of the German people , Berlin: Kranz 1935.
• Honor and love , in: Pastoraltheologie 31 (1935) 32–47.
• Should the church stay in the village? ( Breklumer Heft 20) , Breklum: Missionsbuchhandlung 1941.
• On the political tasks of the church. Elaboration for the church leadership in October 1945 , in: Kurt Jürgensen: The hour of the church. The Ev.-Luth. State Church of Schleswig-Holstein in the first years after the Second World War , Neumünster 1976, pp. 286–288.
• The word remains. Sermons and lectures , Itzehoe n.d. (after November 18, 1956).
• 75 Years of Mission to East Asia , Heidelberg: Ev. Publishing house Comtesee 1962.
• The church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein 1933–1945 (dedicated to the memory of Bishop D. Wilhelm Halfmann ) , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1964.
• The attitude of the Schleswig-Holstein Brother Council in the church struggle , in: Ernst Wolf , Heinz Brunotte (Ed.): To the history of the church struggle. Collected essays (works on the history of the church struggle , volume 15) , Göttingen 1965, pp. 173–188.

literature

• Johannes Schröder: Johann Claus Bielfeldt , in: Wolfgang Prehn (Hrsg.): Time to walk the narrow path. Witnesses report on the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein , Kiel: Lutherische Verlagsgesellschaft 1985, pp. 159–161.
• Klauspeter Reumann: The church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein from 1933 to 1945 , in: Schleswig-Holstein Church history. Vol. 6/1: Church between self-assertion and external determination , Neumünster 1998, pp. 111–451.
• Klauspeter Reumann: Church struggle as a struggle for the "middle". The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein , in: Manfred Gailus , Wolfgang Krogel: From the Babylonian captivity of the church in the national. Regional studies on Protestantism, National Socialism and post-war history 1930 to 2000 , Berlin: Wichern 2006,
• Karl Ludwig Kohlwage , Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “What is right before God”. Church struggle and theological foundation for the new beginning of the church in Schleswig-Holstein after 1945. Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2015 . Compiled and edited by Rudolf Hinz and Simeon Schildt in collaboration with Peter Godzik , Johannes Jürgensen and Kurt Triebel, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2015, therein:
  • Hedwig Bielfeldt: [Memories] , pp. 89–91.
  • Hermann Augustin : Johann Bielfeldt (1886–1981) , pp. 173–180.
• Karl Ludwig Kohlwage, Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “You will be my witnesses!” Voices for the preservation of a denominational church in urgent times. The Breklumer Hefte of the ev.-luth. Confessional community in Schleswig-Holstein from 1935 to 1941. Sources on the history of the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein . Compiled and edited by Peter Godzik, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-7868-5308-4 .

Web links

• Biogram Johann Bielfeldt (online at geschichte-bk-sh.de)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reprinted in: Kohlwage, Kamper, Pörksen (ed.): “You will be my witnesses!” ... , Husum 2018, p. 427 ff.