Johannes Evers

Johannes Evers

Johannes Evers (1928)

Relief by Johannes Evers in the Church of St. Gertrud in Lübeck

Johannes Hermann Friedrich Evers (born October 8, 1859 in Lübeck ; † January 9, 1945 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and the first full-time senior in Lübeck. .

Life

origin

Evers came from an old Lübeck merchant family. His father of the same name (1812–1864) was married to Sophie, née Taube (1818–1896). Johann Heinrich Evers was his brother.

career

After passing the Abitur exam at the Katharineum at Easter in 1879 , he and the later chief pastor of the cathedral , Christian Reimpell , moved to the University of Erlangen to study Protestant theology . For this they left the Lübeck train station for their two-day journey on March 27, 1879 and stayed in Eisenach at the Wartburg .

During the first two semesters, as one-year volunteers, they fulfilled their military service and were shaped in the following three semesters by the dogmatist Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank and the New Testament scholar Theodor Zahn . At the beginning of his studies he became a member of the Christian student union Uttenruthia .

The universities in Berlin and Göttingen followed as further study locations. After passing the theological examination in the autumn of 1883, he worked for a considerable time as a private tutor .

On February 2, 1886, Evers was elected third pastor at St. Jacobi . When the St. Jacobi parish was divided and at the same time a St. Gertrud parish was founded in 1902, he became pastor of the new parish. He was actively involved in the implementation of the new funeral regulations in the city. As a member of the cemetery authority, he inaugurated the Vorwerker Friedhof with the first burial on May 13, 1907 , which from then on became the largest cemetery in the city. Among other things, he gave a lecture on this topic in the Fatherland Association . Like Johannes Bernhard with the new construction of the St. Lorenz Church , Evers was seen as a driving force in the planting of the congregation and the construction of its church . In this he enjoyed a high reputation. She elected him her chief pastor on July 9, 1909 .

From 1903 Evers was a longstanding member of the Lübeck citizenship and, for several electoral terms, of the citizens' committee . He was elected as a civil deputy on October 17, 1906. In 1919 he joined the DNVP and remained a member until it was dissolved in 1933.

Seat of the superintendent in the inner courtyard of the woe

Shortly after the death of Johannes Becker , who was one year older and with whom Evers had been friends since his youth, Evers was appointed by the Lübeck Senate as his successor as a senior minister of the Ministry of Spirituality and thus as chief clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck . Evers was the last senior to be appointed by the Senate as owner of the sovereign church regiment, and at the same time the first full-time senior. He took over part of the preaching work in the council and market church of St. Marien and moved into the house of the superintendent in der Wehde .

On June 1, 1920, he said goodbye to the St. Gertrud parish. These thanked him for his work thereat by by Hans Schwegerle a relief from bronze was make. The chairman of the church council , who was First Public Prosecutor at the time, Dr. Cay Diedrich Lienau , presented the plaque to the community during the service on April 24, 1921 in the presence of Mayor Neumann . It hangs on the central pillar of the north wall of the church.

Evers has campaigned for social projects in the spirit of the Inner Mission . At his suggestion, the " State Association for Protestant Welfare Care " was founded in 1921 , and he became its director. He was chairman of the Lübeck branch of the Evangelical Union .

His work extended not only to the area of ​​his office, preaching and pastoral care , but also to participation in public life. He got involved in the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , held the office of director of the society from 1918 to 1921 and was its archivist .

Evers played a leading role in the creation and introduction of the new church constitution of 1921, which laid down the framework for church work in Lübeck after the end of the sovereign church regiment and the separation of state and church .

On the occasion of his 40th anniversary of ordination , the theological faculty of Kiel University awarded Evers in February 1926 on the " Days of Worms " the dignity of an honorary theological doctor .

In 1929, Evers took part in the Speyer memorial ceremony as the official representative of Lübeck , as well as at the Lutheran World Convention in Copenhagen .

In the autumn of 1933, Evers retired , also under pressure from the National Socialists, who had come to power in the meantime, and the external circumstances of the church upheaval. His successor as leading clergyman was the German-Christian Hamburg pastor Erwin Balzer , who received the title of bishop .

family

Johannes Evers was married to Anna, geb. Plitt (1874-1906). The couple had three children, including the future art historian Hans Gerhard Evers as the youngest son .

Works

• Honor list of the Lübeck theologians and the Lübeck rectory: 1914-1918. Self-published ([Lübeck, Moltkepl. 30]: [D. Joh. Evers]) 1937

References

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Johannes Evers in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949 Göttingen 2006 ISBN 3-525-55761-2 , p. 72 ( digitized version )
• Senior Senior Pastor Johannes Evers. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1919, No. 5, edition of December 7, 1919.
• Senior Senior Pastor Becker †. In: Lübeckische advertisements , year 169, morning edition, No. 366, edition A of August 8, 1919.
• Senior D. Evers. from the chief public prosecutor i. R. Dr. Lienau In: Lübeckische Blätter , 76th year, no.43, edition of October 28, 1934.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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
2. ^ Main Pastor Christian Reimpell. by D. Johannes Evers In: Lübeckische Blätter , 68th year, no. 9, edition of February 28, 1926, pp. 134-136.
3. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 66 No. 696.
4. ^ The inauguration of the Vorwerker cemetery. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1907, no. 21, edition of May 19, 1907, pp. 82–83.
5. ↑ Weekly chronicle from Lübeck and the surrounding area. In: Father City Leaves , No. 23, June 2, 1907 edition.
6. ↑ Weekly Chronicle. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , No. 29, edition of July 18, 1909.
7. ↑ Weekly chronicle from Lübeck and the surrounding area. In: Father City Leaves , No. 43, October 21, 1906 edition.
8. ↑ Senior D. Evers. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 76th volume, no. 43, edition of October 28, 1934 by senior public prosecutor i. R. Dr. Lienau.
9. ^ Plaque from Senior D. Evers for the St. Gertrud Church. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1920/21, No. 20, edition from June 19, 1921.
10. ^ Senior D. Johannes Evers is retiring. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1932/33, No. 21, edition of July 8, 1933.
11. ^ Senior D. Evers on his 70th birthday. by Professor Meyer In: Lübeckische Blätter , year 1920/21, No. 41, edition of October 13, 1929.
12. ↑ According to the parish council of the Mariengemeinde, quoted by Hansjörg Buss: "Entjudete" church. The Lübeck regional church between Christian anti-Judaism and ethnic anti-Semitism (1918-1950). Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77014-1 , p. 200, note 767

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes Becker	Senior of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeckischen State 1919 - 1933	Erwin Balzer (Bishop)