Johannes Büchsel

Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm Büchsel (born September 19, 1849 in Berlin , † February 21, 1920 in Stettin ) was a Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Life

Johannes Büchsel was born as the son of the pastor and later general superintendent Carl Büchsel and his wife Henriette Simonetti. He attended the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin and then studied theology in Tübingen , Leipzig and Berlin.

After passing the First Theological Examination, he taught in the Berlin Mission House from 1872 to 1873. From 1873 to 1875 he worked as a tutor for the children of Prince Otto Viktor von Schönburg-Waldenburg .

In 1875 he passed the second theological exam and was ordained a clergyman by his father on January 30, 1876 in the St. Matthäi Church in Berlin . He spent his assistant preaching time in Tegel .

From 1877 to 1882 Büchsel was pastor in Rosenthal (now in Polish: Różańsko) near Soldin (now Myślibórz ) in Neumark. At the beginning of his service there he married the pastor's daughter Dorothee Amalie Friederike Giesebrecht (1853-1926) in the market church in Halle (Saale) on April 6, 1877 .

From 1882 to 1886 Büchsel held the parish office in Stücken near Potsdam. From there he became superintendent of the church district of Crossen a. d. Or  II with seat in Bobersberg (today Bobrowice ) appointed. This was followed by years of service as superintendent in Cottbus (1890–1895) and as consistorial councilor in Münster (1895–1904).

In 1904 the Evangelical Higher Church Council of the Church of the Old Prussian Union appointed him to Stettin as General Superintendent of the Old Prussian Church Province of Pomerania, the largest in terms of area and number of parishioners, in succession to Heinrich Poetter . He held this office during the World War and the Revolution and led the Pomeranian Provincial Church to the threshold of time, which also represented an important turning point for the Church. His successor was General Superintendent Wilhelm Reinhard , who came from Danzig .

Like his father, Johannes Büchsel was sectarian-Lutheran and part of the union-Lutheran movement within the Union.

literature

• Hugo Gotthard Bloth: The Church in Pomerania. Mission and service of the Evangelical Bishops and Superintendent General of the Pomeranian Church from 1792 to 1919 . In: Pomeranian Life Pictures . Volume V, Cologne / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-412-03478-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jörg Breitschwerdt: Theologically conservative. Studies on the genesis and concerns of the evangelical movement in Germany . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, p. 270 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Poetter	General Superintendent of Pomerania 1904 - 1919	Paul Kalmus (East) and Wilhelm Reinhard (West)