Johannes Youngest

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Johannes Jüngst (born March 5, 1871 in Drabenderhöhe , † September 9, 1931 in Hoffnungsthal ) was a German Protestant clergyman, author and right-wing conservative politician.

Life

The oldest child of Pastor Johannes Friedrich Jüngst and his wife Luisa Carolina Wilhelmina Emilia, née. Stoehr was born in Drabenderhöhe, where his father was a pastor. He attended school in Siegen and Viersen , most recently the high school in Moers , where he passed his Abitur at the age of only seventeen. He then studied Protestant theology in Strasbourg , Halle (Saale) and Bonn . Recently was a member of the Evangelical Theological Association. He passed the licentiate examination with a thesis on the sources of the Acts of the Apostles. He got his first job in St. Johannisberg near Kirn, where he worked for around six years. In 1902 he was appointed to the Jakobikirche in Stettin .

In Szczecin recently he was also the secretary of the Evangelical Union for Szczecin and Pomerania. He wrote several works on church history and numerous newspaper and magazine articles as well as various hymns, which he also set to music himself.

Towards the end of the First World War, Jüngst turned to politics. In Stettin he took over the chairmanship of the German Fatherland Party (which acted in Stettin under the name "Vaterlandsbund"), was considered one of its leading members in Pomerania and was also a member of the party's Reich Committee. After the end of the war, he joined the German People's Party , for which he appeared as a speaker. In addition, he was chairman of the Szczecin branch of the Association for Germanness Abroad .

In the autumn of 1931 he died of a heart attack shortly after returning from a trip to visit relatives in Scotland.

Fonts

  • The sources of the Acts of the Apostles (Gotha 1895)
  • Is the hope of a reunion after death Christian? A cemetery talk (Giessen 1899)
  • Cult and historical religion (Pelagianism and Augustinism). A contribution to religious psychology and folklore (Gießen 1901)
  • Christianity and the History of Religions (Gießen 1902)
  • Evangelical Church Life in the Rhine Province (Halle 1902)
  • Church history reader for teaching at higher educational establishments , with Heinrich Rinn (Tübingen 1903)
  • Pietists (= Folk Books on Religious History, IV.1, Tübingen 1906)
  • Dogma History Reader , with Heinrich Rinn (Tübingen 1910)

literature

  • Karl Stoehr: Christian Jacob Stoehr. Pastor zu Mehren with his ancestors and descendants . Kassel 1941, pp. 126-134

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bert Becker: Revolution and right-wing collection: The German National People's Party in Pomerania 1918/19 . In: Bert Becker / Horst Lademacher (ed.): Spirit and shape in historical change. Facets of German and European History 1789-1989 . Münster, New York, Munich, Berlin 2000, pp. 213f.
personal data
SURNAME Recently, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman, author and right-wing conservative politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Drabenderhöhe
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1931
Place of death Hope valley