Johannes Burckhardt (pastor)

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Johannes Friedrich Paul Burckhardt (born October 20, 1853 in Altena , Westphalia, † January 27, 1914 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a German Protestant pastor and founder of the first Protestant station mission in Germany.

life and work

Burckhardt, a son of the pastor Eduard Burckhardt († 1886) and great-grandson of the writer Anna Schlatter-Bernet , became a chaplain for Inner Mission in Bielefeld in 1880 after studying theology in Bonn and Tübingen . Here he worked closely with Friedrich von Bodelschwingh . In 1889 he was appointed parish priest in Berlin.

In 1893 Burckhardt founded the “Board Association of Protestant Virgins' Associations in Germany”, later renamed “Evangelical Association for Germany's Female Youth” in Barmen, and in 1894 Germany's first (Protestant) station mission in Berlin.

In 1913/1914 he had the “ Burckhardthaus ” built in Berlin-Dahlem. In this house was also the publishing house of the same name, in which, among other things, the Deutsche Mädchen-Zeitung appeared. After 1949 this facility split up; the West German branch in Gelnhausen , also as a publishing house and conference center, also focused on working with girls and young women, including as the national seat of the Young Women's Christian Association .

Johannes Burckhardt died in 1914 at the age of 60 in Berlin-Dahlem and was buried in the Dahlem cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

Publications

  • Than the living stones. Thoughts on community work in a large city community , M. Warneck, Berlin 1904.
  • The recruitment and training of female workers for the Inner Mission , Berlin 1903.
  • The acquisition of female forces for the Inner Mission (presentation at the 33rd Congress for Inner Mission in Leipzig from September 25 to 28, 1905), Hamburg 1905.
  • Do you also go to the vineyard , in: Hennig, Martin (ed.): How the master called us into the vineyard. Testimonies of Jesus' deeds to his disciples drawn by a number of well-known representatives of the Inner and Outer Mission, Hamburg 1906, 21–38.
  • The virgins' associations Significance and task for the kingdom of God, in the church, for the people and the fatherland. (Lecture at the 15th annual conference of the Protestant virgin associations of Germany in Bremen from June 18 to 20, 1907), Berlin 1907.
  • Care for the female youth (magazine), 1892–1913.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 567.
personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burckhardt, Johannes Friedrich Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Altena , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1914
Place of death Berlin