Johannes Becker (theologian)

Johannes Becker

Wehde before 1942

Friedrich Johannes Theodor Becker (born May 21, 1859 in Lübeck ; † August 7, 1919 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor at St. Marien .

Life

origin

Becker came from an old pastor family in Lübeck. His great-great-grandfather, Johann Hermann Becker , was appointed by Greifswald as a preacher at the Marienkirche in 1750 . Its epitaph is there. His great-grandfather, Peter Hermann Becker , was pastor in the Jakobikirche , his grandfather inspector of the Johanniskloster and his father Hermann Friedrich Becker (1817–1866) since 1847 deacon (2nd pastor) at St.Marien.

career

Becker first attended the candidate school from 1870 and then attended the Katharineum until he graduated from high school at Easter 1878. He then did his military year in Leipzig as a one-year volunteer . He studied Protestant theology in Erlangen , Göttingen , Berlin and Gießen . In 1882 he passed his theological exam ; after that he went abroad as a tutor for a long time .

At the age of 25, Becker was elected the third clergyman in the St. Marien parish and moved into the rectory in Wehde , which his parents had lived in for 19 years. On the board of his community, Becker was first secretary , then deputy chairman, and during the war its chairman.

In addition to his official work, he built up a large sphere of activity in the field of welfare . He was a senior member of the board of directors in the rescue house on the Third Fisherman's Shack and was a prison chaplain for several years . He was a member of the community orphans ' council, the central deputation for the poor , the foundation authority , the child care facility and the head of the children's hospital.

During his time as a prison chaplain, he was the victim of an attempted murder by a released prisoner in 1893 . Becker received a gunshot wound to the head . However, this was not fatal and healed completely during the vacation . Since that event, the saying God was my Protector hung over his desk in his study .

In 1889, Becker took over the chairmanship of the board of the Lübeck main association, Christian Reimpell took over the deputy chairman, businessman Carl Hinrich Buck took over the treasury and head teacher Rudolph Groth took over the writing. As its chairman, he regularly took part in their general meetings abroad .

In the circle of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities he worked as head of the library and the former school teachers' seminar . The foundation of after-school centers for boys and girls , of which he was also to become head, in Lübeck goes back to a lecture he gave in her .

From 1903 he belonged to the Lübeck citizenship. He was also a member of the citizens' committee for several electoral terms until 1919 .

Funeral service on January 20, 1915

Two days after the board of St. Marie parish to Pastor unanimously elected successor to the late senior pastor Christian Marth had called the lübeckische appointed him Senate at the same time the senior of the Ministerium . Becker became the leading clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck in place of Senior Lindenberg, who had been dismissed from office at his own request .

When Christian Reuter , director of the Katharineum, fell in France at the beginning of 1915 , the well-respected pulpit speaker held his funeral on January 20, 1915 in the overcrowded Marienkirche. In the course of his speech, Becker announced, among other things, that the director wrote the following saying for the window in the Katharineum, which is dedicated to the memory of the fallen : “They only died for those who live for them”.

For a second time in his life, this time due to a serious illness, Becker took a longer vacation in 1917.

On the afternoon of August 7, 1919, Becker was taking the tram on a trip to Schwartau when he suffered a stroke near the slaughterhouse and died.

On August 12th, his childhood friend, Senior Pastor Evers , gave the memorial speech before his last voyage from the nave of the church to the Allgemeine Gottesacker began. The coffin was followed by a procession from a delegation from the Senate and the Council of Churches , the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs, delegations from the high school authorities and the rescue house, members of the board and the poor relief of his community, delegations from the boards of the Protestant parish in town and suburbs, the Israelite community , the higher educational institutions, several foreign clergy and numerous other bodies , as well as family members, friends and acquaintances of the deceased. His elderly mother was among the latter.

family

Becker had been with Lina, geb. Summer, married. The marriage remained childless.

References

Web links

Commons : Johannes Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Senior Senior Pastor Johs. Becker. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, year 1914, edition from April 1914.
• Senior Senior Pastor Johannes Becker †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, year 1919, No. 23, edition of August 17, 1919.
• Senior Senior Pastor Becker †. In: Lübeckische advertisements , year 169, morning edition, No. 366, edition A of August 8, 1919.
• Senior Johannes Becker †. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 61, No. 33, edition of August 17, 1919 by Senior Pastor Evers .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized , no. 337
2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized version , no. 773
3. ↑ Carl Hinrich Buck was a partner in the company Wm. Stiehl & Co.
4. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 31, No. 96, Edition of December 1, 1889, p. 562.
5. ↑ Funeral of Director Professor Dr. Reuter. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, year 1915, No. 19, edition of February 2, 1915.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Lindenberg	Senior of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeckischen State 1914 - 1919	Johannes Evers