Johannes Noack

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Johannes Noack (born December 25, 1878 in Burg-Kauper ; † May 9, 1942 ) was a German Protestant pastor .

Life

Noack was born in Burg-Kauper near Cottbus in 1878, initially wanted to study mathematics, but then chose theology. After his ordination on August 31, 1905, he initially worked as an assistant preacher. In 1909 he became pastor in Lonkorß (West Prussia). From there he went in 1911 as a pastor to Reetz near Belzig and in 1924 as a pastor to Blumenau in Brazil. After his return due to illness in 1928, he worked as a pastor at St. Anne's Church in Eisleben . Here he and his congregation joined the Confessing Church , which opposed the Nazi regime and the predominantly regime- loyal church organization in the church struggle . In 1939 Noack was arrested on the basis of a denunciation by a member of the parish council and sentenced to prison on April 3, 1940 for "state agitation" , as a result of which he died on May 9, 1942. He was married to Bertha Weiland from Esgrus (Schleswig).

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf . In Eisleben , his last place of work, a street was named after him.

Fonts

  • My eyes have seen your Savior. Sermons. Self-published, Berlin 1906. 3rd edition: Dessau 1914, DNB 361268173 .

literature

  • Martin Onnasch : Pastor and congregation in the church battle of the church province of Saxony. The "Johannes Noack Case". In: Hostels of Christianity. No. 12, 1979, pp. 139-150.
  • Beatrix Herlemann : Saxony-Anhalt. In: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism. A documentation. Volume 2: Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1999, ISBN 978-3-89331-391-4 , p. 528ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IV. Fighters against fascism and Nazism on Friedhofsfinder.stiftung-historische-friedhoefe.de.
  2. ↑ a b Lutz Hiller: A denunciator brought pastors to the penitentiary. ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . December 27, 2008.
  3. ↑ Günther Heydemann, Lothar Kettenacker (ed.): Churches in the dictatorship. Third Reich and SED state. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993, ISBN 978-3-525-01351-9 , p. 350ff.
personal data
SURNAME Noack, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Burg-Kauper
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1942