Johann Heinrich Ludwig Pielstick

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Johann Heinrich Ludwig Pielstick
Janson & Pielstick business card
Sick Oncken's request to Pielstick (from the files of the Hamburg Senate)

Johann Heinrich Ludwig Pielstick (short form: Ludwig Pielstick ) (born August 4, 1832 in Zissenhausen near Tettens / Wangerland , † March 23, 1898 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg merchant and Baptist elder . He belonged to the second generation of founders of the German Baptist movement and also held an important leadership position within the United Congregations of baptized Christians / Baptists (today: Bund Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher Congregations in Germany ).

Life

Ludwig Pielstick came from a farming family. His father was from tin derived farmer Gerd Janssen Pielstick (born September 15, 1796 in box; † August 23, 1847 in Zissenhausen), his mother from Abickhafe native Sophia Helena Wiemer (born October 29, 1793 in Abickhafe; † 24th September 1869 in Hamburg). He was the youngest of six children.

Around the middle of the 19th century was Pielstick contact with the Baptist church Jever and settled on 15 August 1852 on the confession of his faith in Jesus Christ baptized . The Baptist was the Jever bookbinder and Baptist missionary Anton Friedrich Remmers , who performed the baptism in a body of water near Rahrdum (today a district of Jever). The community register of the Evangelical Free Church Community of Jever notes that "the farmer Johann Heinrich Ludwig Pielstick" emigrated to Peoria / USA with his brother's family in 1855 . There was a Baptist mission founded by the Hamburg deacon JH Krüger in 1851 to take care of German immigrants. The already mentioned brother Ludwig Pielsticks later held the office of secretary in the German community created by the mission.

In 1857 at the latest, Pielstick seems to have started his return journey to Germany and taken up residence in Hamburg, because on August 27 of that year he married Johanne Jacobine Marie Kruse (1831–1867) in the Hanseatic city. From this marriage there were three children. After the early death of his first wife, Pielstick married Caroline Henriette Mathilde Kruse (1833–1903) for the second time. This connection also resulted in three children. In the collection of the German commercial registers , under the date February 6, 1863, the entry of a company founded with the name "Janson & Pielstick (trading company)" can be found. In addition to a certain Heinrich Christoph Ludwig Conrad Carl Janson , Johann Heinrich Ludwig Pielstick is also named as the owner .

By the beginning of the 1860s at the latest (probably earlier), Pielstick was a committed member of the Hamburg Baptist congregation. This was founded in 1834 through the work of Johann Gerhard Oncken and is considered the nucleus of German and continental European Baptism. The community received its legal recognition by the Hamburg Senate in 1858 and experienced considerable growth. More than 50 branch communities emerged in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Foreign congregations founded by Oncken or other Hamburg missionaries were also administered from what is now known as the Oncken congregation and, after the state concession was granted, also reported to the authorities as branch churches . Until 1872 Johann Gerhard Oncken had led the congregation and its branches alone as an elder and preacher . Although he was represented on his Europe-wide mission trips, he always took full leadership responsibility after his return. It was not until 1873 that Oncken declared that he was ready to permanently surrender part of his responsibility and proposed to the community assembly that Johann Heinrich Ludwig Pielstick be appointed as a fellow elder . In an excerpt from the minutes of the congregation meeting of January 19, 1873, it says: “On Sunday, January 19, 1873, the Hamburg Baptist congregation, chaired by its elder, Preacher JG Oncken, decided to elect JHL Pielstick as the eldest of the Hamburg Baptist congregation. The election of the municipality was accepted by Mr. JHL Pielstick on the commemorative day! "

The first years of his term of office were overshadowed by a conflict that initially ignited between the Hamburg and Altona Baptist congregations, but then spread to the entire federal community. This dispute was about the relationship between the local congregations. While Oncken and the Hamburg congregation were thinking of a more “centralist” organized free church, the congregation in neighboring Altona pursued the concept of a congregational confederation . The dispute was pacified at the Hamburg Federal Conference in 1876, but it had sapped Oncken's inner strength. When he suffered a stroke in 1879, the leadership of the congregation was solely with Pielstick, who, as an elder, also presided over the preachers of the congregation. The mentioned conference of 1876 was introduced by Pielstick as the host elder of the 170 MPs with the words: “Would we like to be able to forget the sad events of the last few years in order to rise to the height of our actual profession! The Baptists = churches are missions = churches and only missions = churches! "

1878 Pielstick was by Mrs Baptist national conference in your in the body of ordering brothers appointed. This body was responsible for the management and administrative affairs of the Federation of Baptist Congregations between the conferences that took place at different intervals. It is considered to be the forerunner of today's presidium of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches .

Pielstick held the office of parish elder until his death in 1898. His successor was Ernst August Hamann.

literature

  • Rudolf Donat: The growing work. Expansion of the German Baptist congregations over 60 years (1849 to 1909) , Kassel 1960.
  • Evangelical Free Church Congregation Hamburg I (Ed.): 150 Years Oncken Congregation 1834–1984 , Hamburg 1984.
  • Margarete Jelten: Book Two. A second congregation book as an early baptismal register of the Baptists in Jeverland , Bremerhaven 2006.
  • Helga Teten / Rainer Hinrichs: Zissenhausen / Tettens and the Pielsticks from Dose / Friedeburg , in: History calendar for the year 2013. Frisian yearbook since 1834 (Ed .: Hajo Allmers), 179th year, Jever 2012, p. 29– 40.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pielstick from Ostfriesland , in: German gender book , Vol. 12, pp. 366–372.
  2. ^ Ancestry family tree: Bohlken and others ; accessed on February 14, 2011.
  3. ^ Ancestry family tree: Bohlken and others (family members) ; accessed on February 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ Margarete Jelten: Book Two. A second church book as an early baptismal register of the Baptists in Jeverland , Bremerhaven 2006, p. 23.
  5. ↑ This is probably Gerd Janssen Pielstick ; compare the Ancestry family tree: Bohlken and others (Gerd Janssen Pielstick) ; accessed on February 14, 2011.
  6. ↑ Congregation Book II of the Evangelical Free Church Community Jever, membership number JV184.
  7. ^ Rudolf Donat: The growing work. Expansion of the German Baptist congregations over 60 years (1849 to 1960) , Kassel 1960, p. 14.
  8. ↑ Minonk Talk - History: German Baptist Church ; accessed on February 15, 2011.
  9. ↑ Documents on the marriages and children of Pielstick can be found in the family history records of the Bohlken family, Friedeburg.
  10. ↑ Central Organ for the German Commercial Stand (Ed.): Collection of the German Commercial Register , Second Volume, Cologne 1863, p. 29.
  11. ↑ These were, among others, branch churches in Bucharest (1863), Sarajevo (1868) and Ningpo / China (1870); see Rudolf Donat: The growing work. Expansion of the German Baptist congregations over 60 years (1849 to 1909) , Kassel 1960, p. 17.
  12. ↑ Quoted from Evangelical-Free Church Community Hamburg I (Hrsg.): Festschrift 150 years Oncken-Gemeinde. 1834-1984 , Hamburg 1984, p. 140.
  13. ↑ See also Hans Luckey : Johann Gerhard Oncken. Beginnings of German Baptism , Kassel 1958, pp. 267–273.
  14. ^ Rudolf Donat: The growing work. Expansion of the German Baptist congregations over 60 years (1849 to 1909) , Kassel 1960, p. 330.
  15. ^ Rudolf Donat: The growing work. Expansion of the German Baptist congregations over 60 years (1849 to 1909) , Kassel 1960, p. 267.
  16. ^ Homepage of the BEFG: Structure ; accessed on February 15, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Pielstick, Johann Ludwig Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant, Baptist clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Zissenhausen near Tettens
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1898
Place of death Hamburg