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Johannes Peter Hymmen (born December 28, 1878 in Barmen ; † March 18, 1951 in Bonn ) was a German Protestant clergyman and spiritual vice-president of the Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Life

Johannes Hymmen attended grammar school in Barmen until his Abitur in 1897 and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Erlangen, Halle and Bonn. In autumn 1900 he passed his first and in autumn 1902 his second theological exam. Easter 1903 he was appointed inspector of the seminary in Soest . In Bonn, he was in December 1905 with a dissertation on Augustine's doctrine of the sacraments to Lic. Theol. PhD.

In 1904 he was ordained a pastor; at the same time he became a private lecturer at the University of Münster. From November 1905 to 1912 he was pastor of the Evangelical Congregation in Otzenrath . From 1910 he was also a part-time director of the regional church diaspora seminar and from 1912 full-time director of the church seminary abroad , first in Soest, then in Witten . From 1914 to 1918 he did military service in the First World War , from 1916 as a field preacher .

From 1923 to 1925 he was pastor in Blankenstein / Ruhr , at the same time managing director of the Inner Mission of the ecclesiastical province of Westphalia . In 1926 he was appointed to the consistorial council in Münster; In 1932 he qualified as a professor at the University of Münster in the field of internal mission and church studies .

In the course of the pacification attempts in the church struggle, Hymmen was entrusted with the management of the business of the clerical vice-president of the Evangelical Upper Church Council in 1936. At the same time he was Ephorus of the Berlin Cathedral Candidate Foundation . In the pressure of church ministers on August 31, 1939 Hanns Kerrl educated clergy Vertrauensrat the German Evangelical Church , he represented the Prussian Union of churches; the other members were the Mecklenburg DC regional bishop Walther Schultz , regional bishop August Marahrens ( Hanover ) and from March 1940 Otto Weber ( Reformed Churches ); the management was Friedrich Werner , head of the Church Office and Ernst Hundt . The trust council was primarily responsible for unspeakable appeals to the communities and addresses of devotion to Hitler.

Because of the Allied bombing raids on Berlin, the upper church council and church chancellery were housed in Stolberg (Harz) from summer 1944 , where Hymmen saw the end of the Second World War . In the summer of 1945, before the Treysa church conference , he retired and moved to Bonn.

The author and radio journalist Friedrich Wilhelm Hymmen (* 1913 in Soest; † 1995 in Würzburg) was his son.

Honors

Works

  • The sacraments of Augustine presented and assessed in context. Bonn: Georgi 1905, plus dissertation Bonn 1905 ( digitized version )
  • Parish and farm workers' settlement. [Bielefeld, Old Town Kirchpl. 2a]: [Evang. Settlement Service] 1931

literature

  • Karl-Heinrich Melzer: The Spiritual Trust Council. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991, ISBN 3-525-55717-5 .
  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , pp. 119f
  • Martin Stiewe: Johannes Hymmen (1878-1951). Church leadership in the twilight . In: Jürgen Kampmann (Ed.): Protestantism in Prussia. Life pictures from his history , Vol. 4: From the First World War to the division of Germany . Hansisches Druck- und Verlagshaus, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-86921-036-0 , pp. 149ff.