Johann Georg Overbeck

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Johann Georg Overbeck (born December 24, 1759 in Lübeck , † October 11, 1819 in Goisern ) was a German Protestant theologian who was active in Austria during the period when Protestantism was first tolerated at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Life

Johann Georg Overbeck was born in Lübeck as the youngest of three sons of the lawyer Georg Christian Overbeck (1713–1786), a son of the superintendent Caspar Nicolaus Overbeck , and his wife Eleonora Maria Jauch (1732–1797). The family, originally from Westphalia, settled in northern Germany in the 17th century and since then has produced a number of respected pastors. Johann Georg Overbeck studied Protestant theology after visiting the Katharineum at the University of Jena . He visited Johann Gottfried Herder in Weimar and published a book about the Gospel of John.

Overbeck climbed the pulpit in Reinfeld near Lübeck when he was 19 years old . After completing his studies, presumably in 1781, he became court master of the Catholic imperial court councilor and school reformer Johann Melchior Birkenstock in Vienna . However, there were differences between himself and Birkenstock, so that in 1784 he moved from there to the pastor's post in Weißbriach in Carinthia. In 1787 he accepted the call to the parish in Ramsau am Dachstein in Styria. Due to conspiracies in the course of the French Revolution, the Protestants who had just emerged from the church underground were persecuted in Austria in the mid-1790s. Overbeck was also denounced. The charge of allegedly disseminating scriptures glorifying the French Revolution was followed by his impeachment as pastor in 1793. Overbeck successfully defended himself in Vienna and proved his innocence. He was reinstated as pastor and in 1795 and 1796 even received commendations from the district office in Judenburg , which had previously ordered his removal from office, because of the school measures taken by Overbeck. In 1797 he moved to a position in the Protestant parish of Dornbach near Malta in Carinthia. His last transfer to Goisern in the Salzkammergut followed in 1802 , a community with a crypto-Protestant tradition. Here in Upper Austria he also became a senior in the Evangelical Church . In the first year of office 1802 a smallpox epidemic broke out in Goisern and in 1805 the Salzkammergut was occupied by the French. The support of both the Salzamt and the members of his community gave him and his family a viable existence despite all the adversities of the time. Overbeck ran the new Protestant church in Goisern from 1813 to 1816, which he was able to consecrate himself in time for the Reformation anniversary in 1817.

Offspring and family

Overbeck married Marie Babette Bingel (1744–1840) from Nuremberg in 1792. The couple had five children. His descendants held important positions in the Evangelical Church of Austria and Bohemia and Moravia for generations. The eldest daughter Marie Therese (1793-1853) married Johann Theodor Wehrenpfennig (1794-1856), 1820-1853 pastor in Gosau , 1855 pastor in Goisern and 1833 senior of the Protestant parishes in Upper Austria. In 1855 he became superintendent of Superintendenz AB Upper Austria. Overbeck's son Karl (1806–1864) also became a pastor and worked in Attersee am Attersee ; In 1855 he was also a senior member of the Protestant parishes in Upper Austria. Overbeck's grandsons were Adolf Wilhelm Wehrenpfennig (1819–1882), also pastor of Goisern and in 1870 a senior of the Protestant parishes in Upper Austria, and the architect Hermann Wehrenfennig (1822–1881), who was a well-known builder of Protestant churches in Upper Austria and, among others, 1864– The present church in Gosau was built in 1869. Another grandson was Moritz Konrad Ernst Wehrenpfennig (1826–1897), who also became pastor in Goisern and in 1882 a senior of the Protestant parishes in Upper Austria. In 1873 his wife Luise, known far beyond the borders of the country for her charitable work, founded a toddler school she runs and an evangelical education center in Goisern, today known as the "Luise-Wehrenpfennig-Haus".

Great-grandson, son of Adolf Wilhelm Wehrenpfennig, was the pastor Gottfried Paulus Wehrenpfennig (also Wehrenfennig) (1873-1950), long-time federal leader of the Federation of Germans, close friend of the Reich Governor in the Sudetenland Konrad Henlein and first holder of the Golden Decoration of Honor of the Federation of Germans in Bohemia. "Gottfried Wehrenfennig ... was the chairman of the Federation of Germans, who first unified the Sudeten Germans in non-political areas before Konrad Henlein achieved their political unification ..." The great-great-grandson was the bishop of the high church in Austria Manfred Apollos Strenger-Wehrenpfennig .

The romantic poet and Lübeck mayor Christian Adolph Overbeck was Overbeck's oldest brother. The painter Friedrich Overbeck his nephew.

Works

  • New experiments on the Gospel of Johannis , Gera 1784

literature

  • Karl Dinges: The history of the Protestant Ramsau am Dachstein in the context of the entire Austrian church history , 1967
  • Michael Kurz: Come on, dear May, and make the trees green again ... - Pastor Johann Georg Overbeck. In: Lübeckische Blätter 2009, pp. 353/354.
  • Georg Lösche, in: Yearbook of the History of Protestantism in Austria , Volume 28, pp. 27–39 (on Overbeck's office and persecution)
  • Fritz Luchmann: Overbeck family in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Volume 10, pp. 282–283.
  • Isabell Sellheim: The family of the painter Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869) in genealogical overviews , Neustadt an der Aisch 1989.
  • Family table Wehrenberg, supplement to: Heimat und Kirche , Festschrift for Church President D. Wehrenfennig, Heidelberg and Vienna 1963

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Karl Dinges: The history of the evangelical Ramsau am Dachstein in the context of the entire Austrian church history , 1967, p. 97
  2. ^ Isabell Sellheim: The family of the painter Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) in genealogical overviews , Neustadt an der Aisch 1989, p. 165
  3. ^ Karl Dinges: The history of the evangelical Ramsau am Dachstein in the context of the entire Austrian church history , 1967, p. 98
  4. ↑ 200 years of the Protestant parish AB Dornbach 1790-1990. Presbytery of the Evangelical Parish AB Dornbach, Gmünd in Kärnten 1990, p. 40 ( online )
  5. ^ Vienna, Lutheran City Church, marriage book 1, p. 64f.
  6. ^ Leopold Temmel: Evangelical in Upper Austria. History and inventory of the Evangelical Church , Linz 1982, p. 81 ( Online ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 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 remove then this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / museum.evang.at
  7. ↑ Waltraud Heindl: The Protocols of the Austrian Council of Ministers, 1848–1867 , 1987, p. 43 fn. 7
  8. ↑ World's evangelical alliance (JM Mitchell, ed.): The religious condition of Christendom, described in a series of papers presented to the seventh general conference, 1879 , p. 121: “The wife of Pastor Wehrenpfennig, at Goisern, in Upper Austria , deserves special mention for her zealous care for the young "
  9. ↑ Encyclo online encyclopedia , inspection August 29 2013
  10. ↑ Herzberg in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon / Gre. u. ed. by Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz. Continued by Traugott Bautz, Vol. 19 (2001), pp. 1511-1516
  11. ^ Junge Kirche , Volume 8, 1940, p. 110
  12. ↑ Gerhard Zauner: Lost Treasures in the Salzkammergut: The Search for the Mysterious Nazi Gold , 2003
  13. ↑ Evangelical Association for German Settlers and Emigrants: Der Deutsche Auswanderer , Volumes 32–36, p. 192
  14. ↑ See "Hochkirche" in: Österreich-Lexikon , Volume 1, 1966, p. 506
personal data
SURNAME Overbeck, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1819
Place of death Goisern