Johannes Klevinghaus

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Johannes Klevinghaus (born December 7, 1911 in Schwelm ; † September 16, 1970 on the journey from Wittekindshof to Bielefeld ) was a German Lutheran pastor .

Life

Klevinghaus was born on December 7, 1911, the second of six children of the merchant Wilhelm Klevinghaus and his wife Maria Klevinghaus (née Rentrop) in Schwelm. From 1934 to 1936 his father worked together with Wilhelm Niemöller in the regional church of Westphalia . His younger brother Paul Klevinghaus, married to the author Wilma Klevinghaus , was an institutional pastor in the Kaiserswerther Diakonie .

Klevinghaus attended secondary school in Schwelm until 1930 before he began studying theology at Bethel , Bonn , Tübingen and Münster . In Tübingen he was involved in the youth-active and theological college guild Rüdiger von Bechelaren . In 1934 he passed the first theological examination in Dortmund before the Westphalian Synod of Confessions . In the following years he worked as an assistant at the theological school in Bethel and as a vicar in Münster. After Klevinghaus had passed his second theological exam in Bethel in 1937, he was appointed study inspector of the preacher's seminary in Bielefeld , his ordination and his marriage to Martha Brünger in the same year . After the Bielefeld seminary was closed by the authorities, Klevinghaus was sent by the Confessing Church to Bielefeld- Schildesche as an assistant preacher , where he was a driving force of the Confessing Church for a year and a half. This is what it says in a letter from 1939 to the German-Christian senior church councilor Friedrich Buschtöns :

“Assistant preacher Klevinghaus, whose 1st examination is now recognized, is still officiating in Schildesche until the hour. He looks after a parish independently, carries out all official acts, yes you can say that he is still the spiritus rector in the confessional church in our area and also has a strong influence on the local pastors [...]. [...] The opposition and the insurmountable distrust of me personally and of the DC in general can always be traced back to Klevinghaus' work . "

From 1941, like many followers of the Confessing Church, he served as a Wehrmacht priest. In 1944 he was given the management of the Wittekindshof , which he was able to take up a year later. This position was previously filled by his father-in-law Theodor Brünger. He was head of the institution for 25 years. He also wrote a dissertation on the Apostolic Fathers , on the basis of which he graduated from the University of Münster in 1947 as Dr. theol. received his doctorate.

In 1956 Klevinghaus was accepted as a part-time member of the church leadership of the Westphalian regional church . On September 16, 1970 Klevinghaus died as a result of a traffic accident while driving to a meeting of the Westphalian church leadership from Wittekindshof to Bielefeld. In honor of Klevinghaus, a street on Wittekindshof was renamed Dr.-Klevinghaus-Strasse .

Publications

  • The theological position of the Apostolic Fathers on the Old Testament revelation Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1948
  • 70 years of Wittekindshof Wittekindshof, Bad Oeynhausen 1957
  • Help in life. Bechauf, Bielefeld 1972

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Brinkmann: Johannes Klevinghaus - A biographical sketch in: Ernst Brinkmann: Heil und Heilung - memorial book for Johannes Klevinghaus. Luther-Verlag, Witten 1970, page 16
personal data
SURNAME Klevinghaus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1970
Place of death between Wittekindshof and Bielefeld