Johannes Bernhard

Chief Pastor Bernhard

Johannes Bernhard (born November 17, 1846 in Boren ; † April 22, 1915 in Lübeck ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor at St. Lorenz in Lübeck-St. Lorenz .

Life

origin

Bernhard's father was a teacher and sexton in Boren. At the time of the uprising in 1848 and in the years after, he was the mainstay of the community because of his upright manner and his German convictions, which passed to his son.

After finishing school he wanted to learn a trade first. However, he gave up on this project after a year, went to high school in Glückstadt at the age of sixteen and did his Abitur there. Shortly after he started there, the early death of his parents made him an orphan . This forced him to be independent in judging and acting and further shaped his strong Schleswig-Holstein feeling of independence. He would later be known for these properties in Lübeck.

He then studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and Kiel .

career

After he was predicant in Breklum , he was ordained on November 23, 1873 pastor in Simonsberg ( Propstei Husum ) and then at the old church in Pellworm .

St. Lorenz Church

He took up the newly created office of second pastor in St. Lorenz on April 23, 1882. When the Schleswig-Holsteiner managed to understand and love his new home here, he opened up to the Lübeck style and gained recognition and recognition.

Pastors Bernhard, Holm (since February 5, 1876 deacon at St. Aegidien) and Lindenberg ( Nusse ) were presented for the election of a new main pastor to replace the retired senior Johann Carl Lindenberg at St. Aegidien . The community board and committee elected Carl Theod on March 19th. Spar.

As the successor to the main pastor of St. Jakobi , who retired on January 1, 1891 , Gustav Hofmeier , his board proposed the pastors Lindenberg, Marth and Bernhard. On November 20th, Lindenberg was chosen by them.

As the successor to the retiring pastor Johann Hermann Bousset , father of Wilhelm Bousset , Bernhard was appointed as his successor as the first pastor (main pastor) on April 23, 1898. He put his entire work force almost exclusively into the service of his ecclesiastical office, his congregation and his regional church . In addition to preaching , pastoral care and teaching, he was mainly involved in church poor relief .

His publications, such as the text We all want to be guardians , which appeared a few weeks before his death, were all pastoral in character.

His strong sense of ecclesiastical dignity and form made him the driving force behind the construction and decoration of the new church. The same inclination and talent were responsible for the treatment of the Liibeck pulpit prayers , the liturgical prayers for the regional church. In 1909, when it came to replacing the five Lübeck church prayers that had been in use up until then with a rich collection, pastor Bernhard, as chairman of the ministry's liturgical commission, not only directed the work, but carried out most of the work himself. Of the 65 prayers contained in the collection, 12, whose author the commission is named, had been designed by Bernhard himself, and all the others were more or less heavily revised.

At the outbreak of war , Bernhard surprised everyone with the altar and pulpit prayers for wartime . They were gratefully received every Sunday in their “wonderful” language with rich and deep emotional content by the parishioners. Some of them became exemplary for other regional churches. A similar job that he had been asked to do was halfway through when he fell ill. He suffered from pneumonia for three weeks . As a pleurisy was come, he died.

For the love and admiration within his community, not only the very substantial donations for church decoration and poor relief on his jubilees in office in 1898 and 1907 were evidence. She showed up again at the funeral service that was held in his church with a large participation of his congregation before he was buried.

family

Bernhard was married to Dorothea, nee Rissen, and had several children.

Web links

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

literature

• Johannes Bernhard †. In: Lübeckische advertisements , year 165, evening edition, No. 204, edition of April 23, 1915.
• Senior Pastor Bernhard †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, year 1914/15, No. 31, edition of May 2, 1915.
• Senior Pastor Bernhard †. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 57, No. 18, edition of May 2, 1915.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 31, No. 17, Edition of February 27, 1889, p. 92.
2. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 32, No. 88, edition of November 2, 1890, p. 523.
3. ↑ Local and mixed notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 32, No. 94, edition of November 23, 1890, p. 560.