Johann Heinrich Ludolph Holekamp

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Johann Heinrich Ludolph Holekamp (also: Johann Heinrich Holekamp ; born January 13, 1760 in Hanover ; † February 24, 1832 in Eschede ) was a German field preacher and Evangelical Lutheran pastor .

Life

Johann Heinrich Ludolph Holekamp was the time of the Electorate of Hanover , the son of Council - master carpenter Heinrich Daniel Holekamp born (1729-1782).

During the years of the French Revolution , the Evangelical Lutheran Holekamp accompanied the Kurhannoversche contingent of the Imperial Army from 1793 to 1795 during its deployment in the First Coalition War . In the war diary of field preacher Johann Heinrich Ludolph Holekamp from 1793-95 he described in detail, among other things, his encounters with refugees who emigrated from France to Westphalia , Catholic priests in the Münsterland or ordinary people, for example in Warendorf and Wiedenbrück .

For example, Holekamp noted about a war zone:

“On the battlefield we met dead French people who had stripped down to their shirts and were now being buried. You could see that they were not hungry. "

Holekamp noted in one place in his diary about food and accommodation during wartime:

"Our room was as black as a chimney and the people so unclean that we almost all lost our appetite for food."

On November 20, 1796, Holekamp married Christiane Elisabeth Henriette, née Elster (born October 28, 1771 in Wolfenbüttel ) in the Marktkirche in his hometown of Hanover . Barely two years later he took over the office of pastor in Suhlendorf from 1798 to 1810 . His daughter Dorothea Christiane Margarethe was born on February 28, 1803 in the parish of the same name and there in the town of Növenthien .

From 1810 Holekamp held the position of pastor in Eschede. According to the church register there , which posthumously certified him, among other things, "[...] professional loyalty, altruism and honesty", Holekamp died there in 1832 of " slime fever ".

Through his daughter Christiane, Johann Heinrich Ludolph Holekamp is considered a great-great-grandfather of the writer Hans Fallada .

War diary

literature

  • Paul Leidinger : Warendorf and its surrounding area 1793–1795 in the war diary of the Hanoverian field preacher Johann Heinrich Ludolph Holekamp . In: Warendorfer Schriften , Vols. 30–32 (2002), pp. 190–200.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Joachim Gries: Searching for traces : An ancestor of Hans Fallada was a pastor in Eschede on the page eschede.de , last accessed on June 22, 2016
  2. ↑ Petra Tabeling: "Diaries Wanted" - Culture from Below , article on the Deutsche Welle website from January 31, 2002, last accessed on September 18, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d Johannes Meier : Westphalia and the secularization. Reflections on 1803 in 2003 . In: Westfälische Zeitschrift , No. 153 (2003), pp. 277-300; Copy as a PDF document from the lwl.org site of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association
  4. ^ The German Diary Archive in Emmendingen: Lived, Thought, Felt , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 23, 2003
  5. ^ "Diaries Wanted" - Culture from Below , Deutsche Welle , January 31, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Holekamp, ​​Johann Heinrich Ludolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holekamp, ​​Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German field preacher and Evangelical Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1832
Place of death Eschede