Johannes Schleuning

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Johannes Schleuning (born January 27, 1879 in Neu-Norka on the Volga , Russian Empire ; † September 7, 1961 in Braunschweig , Germany ) was a pastor, Russian-German author and expellee functionary.

Life

After studying theology at the Imperial University of Jurjew in Dorpat , Schleuning was ordained in 1910 and appointed pastor in the capital of the Russian governorate of Tbilisi , where he was also editor of the monthly "Caucasian Post". In October 1914 Schleining was exiled to Tobolsk in Siberia . Only after the February Revolution of 1917 was he able to return to the Volga, where he worked as editor of the “Saratower Deutsche Volkszeitung” for cultural and economic self-government for the Volga Germans . In December 1917 the newspaper was banned by the Bolsheviks and he was forced into exile.

He was a board member of the "Kolonistenbank" founded in Berlin in 1918 and for many years held leading positions in the VDA ( Association for German Culture Abroad, today Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad ). In April 1919 he founded the Association of Volga Germans in Berlin and became its chairman. As part of the Central Committee of Germans in Russia, of which he was chairman from 1921 to 1929, he made the German and foreign public aware of the difficult situation of Germans in Russia . During the famine of 1921/22 he organized aid from America for the starving German villages in Russia.

Since it was founded in 1923, he was editor-in-chief of the official magazine of Germans from Russia, "German Life in Russia", which was banned by the Gestapo in September 1935 . From 1925 to 1933 he was in charge of a pastor's post in a Berlin suburb, then he became superintendent and pastor in Berlin-Lichtenberg and then in the state of Braunschweig . After his retirement Schleuning campaigned again for the interests of the Russian Germans. When the country team of Germans from Russia was founded in 1950, he was elected its first chairman and was its spokesman until 1957. Schleuning wrote the forewords to the homeland books for the years 1955 to 1961. On September 7, 1959, he received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class .

Works

  • The Bolshevik reign of terror in the German settlements in the Volga region // Das Deutschtum des Auslands, Berlin, 1918, issue 38, pp. 423-425
  • The German colonies in the Volga region. Berlin, 1919
  • Out of the deepest need. Fate of the German colonists in Russia. Berlin, 1922
  • The Autonomous Soviet Republic of the Volga Germans // German Life in Russia, 1924, No. 7/8, pp. 80–83
  • Mother tongue // German life in Russia, 1924, No. 51/52. Pp. 22-30
  • The Germanness in Soviet Russia. Berlin, 1927; In struggle and distress. Berlin, 1930
  • The Volga Germans. Their becoming and their death way. Berlin, 1932
  • The tragedy of the German peasantry in Soviet Russia. Leipzig, 1933
  • The German settlement areas in Russia. Holzner-Verlag Würzburg / Main. The Göttingen working group. Series of publications, 1955
  • The mute speak. 400 years of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia. Erlangen, Würzburg: Martin Luther Verlag, 1957
  • My life has a goal. Memoirs of a Russian-German pastor. Witten: Luther-Verlag, 1964

literature

  • Reinhard Uhlmann: Federal Cross of Merit 1st class for Johannes Schleuning. In the calendar , Historical Research Association of Germans from Russia eV, Nuremberg, 2002
  • Victor Herdt (Ed.): Between Revolution and Autonomy. Documents on the history of the Volga Germans from 1917 and 1918. Cologne 2000
  • Alfred Eisfeld: German Colonies on the Volga 1917-1919 and the German Empire, Harrassowitz, 1985, ISBN 978-3447025119
  • The churches and the religious life of the Russian Germans. Evangelical part. Editing: Joseph Schnurr. 2nd Edition. ARE Verlag Landsmannschaft der Germans from Russia. Stuttgart, 1978, pp. 168-169.
  • Lexicon of Russian Germans. Part I: About history and culture. Educational Association for Folklore in Germany DIE LINDE e. V. Berlin, 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Schleuning, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Lutheran pastor and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH New Norka , Volga
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1961
Place of death Braunschweig