Johannes Sievers (Oberkirchenrat)

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Johannes Sievers (born July 16, 1881 in Lübeck , † February 16, 1959 ibid) was a German senior church councilor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck .

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Sievers comes from an Evangelical Lutheran family and studied economics after graduating from high school . He came into contact with völkisch - nationalistic circles in which his worldview was formed.

From 1920 Sievers was a member of the church committee of the Lübeck Luther Community and from 1928 its chairman. Sievers was an active National Socialist. In 1933 Sievers joined the church movement of German Christians and became its local group leader. From August 1933 he was chairman of the Kirchentag (Synod), from 1935 to 1945 senior church councilor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck . In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life and became chairman of its administrative committee. After the bishop was called in October 1939, he took over the leadership of the regional church. At the same time he was promoted to head of the Working Group of Protestant Church Leaders , an organizational structure of the German Christians within the German Evangelical Church . This working group operated the publication of its own hymn book under the title Great God we praise you . For this, he made paper contingents available - in the war year 1941 - and also took care of the financing. He made large sums of money, including loans, available to the publishing house Der neue Dom . 

literature

  • Rolf Saltzwedel: The Luther community in Lübeck during the time of National Socialism. In: Der Wagen 1995/96 (1995), pp. 119-138.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karen Meyer-Rebentisch: The Luther Church was built 75 years ago. Today it is the parish church and memorial for the four Lübeck martyrs. In: Lübeckische Blätter 177 (2012), H. 21, P. 368–371, here: P. 370.
  2. ↑ Saltzwedel (Lit.), p. 122
  3. ↑ Thomas M. Seidel (ed.): Thuringian ridge walks ; Leipzig 1998, p. 291.
  4. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray ; Cologne 1987, p. 151.
  5. ↑ Hansjörg Buss: Entjudete theology - Lübeck Pastor Gerhard K. Schmidt and the Eisenach Institute ; P. 117; in: Church, Christians, Jews in Northern Elbe 1933–1945. The exhibition in the state house ; Series of publications by the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament 7; Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament 2006 ( Memento from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Birgit Gregor: ... freed from Jewish influence: "Great God we praise you". A German-Christian hymn book from 1941 ; in: Thuringian ridge walks, p. 124 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Oberkirchenrat
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1959
Place of death Lübeck