Johann Georg Hinsberg

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Johann Georg Hinsberg

Johann Georg Hinsberg (born November 14, 1862 in Darmstadt , † October 25, 1934 in Berleburg ) was a pastor in the Protestant parish of Berleburg, superintendent of the Wittgenstein church district and an important regional historian for the Wittgenstein region.

Life

Hinsberg was born in Barmen as the son of the bank director and co-founder of the Barmer bank association Matthias Hinsberg . After attending school in Barmen and doing military service, he began training in forestry in Bredelar , which he broke off. He then studied theology in Bonn and Berlin. His teachers included the theologian Franz Ludwig Steinmeyer and the historian Heinrich von Treitschke . After completing his studies, Hinsberg worked briefly as a private tutor, after which he completed the vicariate in Langerfeld near Barmen . In 1888 he was ordained, in 1889 he married Elisabeth Müller from Falkenberg . In 1893 Hinsberg was appointed to the second pastorate in Berleburg. In 1900 he rose to be the first pastor. In 1929 the Synod of the Wittgenstein Church District elected him as its superintendent. In 1933 he retired.

Services

In Berleburg, Hinsberg is remembered as a folk-oriented and popular pastor. Some of his local historical research, which he gained from source studies in church archives, but above all in the Fürstlich-Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Castle Archive, is still important, even if it is difficult to understand because of the different good evidence practice. Its extensive history of the noble house of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , of which only three volumes have appeared, is still only obsolete in details . Noteworthy, but hardly accessible, is the multitude of small contributions by Hinsberg, which appeared as series in newspapers or bundled in anthologies. Hinsberg belonged to a generation of national-conservative clergy. In 1929 he regretted that the church was now outside the `` safe haven of the monarchy '' and that its confessional status (reformed in Wittgenstein) was at risk. The positive basic attitude towards the authorities of the old empire is also evident in Hinsberg's writings.

Selected works

  • From Berleburg's old church registers . Without place and year (Berleburg around 1909).
  • Berleburger picture book. Berleburg 1912; 2nd edition Siegen 1929.
  • Forays into Berleburg's past . Berleburg 1915.
  • Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg I: The entire county of Wittgenstein until the formation of the independent county of Wittgenstein-Berleburg around 1603/5 with special consideration of the glory and city of Berleburg in local picture decorations. Berleburg 1920. Digitized .
  • Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg IV: Cultural history as part of a dwarf state or the county of Wittgenstein-Berleburg under the government of Count Ludwig Ferdinand (1741–1773). Berleburg 1925. Digitized .
  • Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg V: History of the County of Wittgenstein-Berleburg under the government of Christian Heinrich, Count, since 1792 Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1773–1800) . Berleburg 1920. Digitized .
  • History of the Berleburg parish up to the reign of Count Casimir (18th century). Introduced, edited and commented by Johannes Burkardt and Ulf Lückel. Bad Berleburg 1999.

Literature (selection)

  • Johannes Burkardt and Ulf Lückel: Johann Georg Hinsberg and the older Berleburger historiography. In: Johann Georg Hinsberg: History of the Berleburg parish up to the reign of Count Casimir (18th century). Bad Berleburg 1999, pp. 8-13 (introduction).
  • Johannes Burkardt: On the 65th anniversary of the death of the Berleburg pastor Johann Georg Hinsberg. In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein. Vol. 87 (1999), No. 4, pp. 161-163.
  • Johannes Burkardt:  Hinsberg, Johann Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 700-702.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Burkardt: State, Church and Community: On the history of the Wittgenstein District Synod in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: From Wittgenstein into the world. Radical piety and religious tolerance (Contributions to Westphalian Church History 35), ed. by Johannes Burkardt and Bernd Hey, Bielefeld 2009, p. 233.
personal data
SURNAME Hinsberg, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformed theologian; Regional historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1934
Place of death Berleburg