Johannes Spiecker

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Johannes Spiecker (born March 29, 1856 in Boppard , † January 19, 1920 in Barmen ) was a German Protestant missionary.

Life

Spiecker studied Protestant theology , first at the University of Tübingen , where he joined the Tübingen Wingolf , and later at the University of Bonn . In 1883 he became pastor in Herchen an der Sieg, in 1885 a teacher at the mission house of the Rhenish Mission Society in Barmen, where in 1899 he was promoted to mission inspector. In the years 1902–1903 and 1905–1907 he undertook extensive inspection trips through southern Africa. His diary from this period is an important source for the suppression of the Herero and Nama uprising .

From 1908 until his death Spiecker was director of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. In 1910/11 he went on an inspection trip to the Dutch East Indies, today's Indonesia , on which he fell seriously ill with typhus. He died of an infectious disease at the age of 63.

family

Spiecker was a son of the businessman Fritz Spiecker (1817–1869) and his wife Luise geb. Wirtz. The father was active in numerous church associations and also worked as a church master in the Evangelical Reformed community in Boppard. Spiecker's older brother was the industrialist Friedrich Albert Spiecker , who played an important role in the Inner Mission and other associations of German Protestantism.

Spiecker had been with Johanna born on August 24, 1884. Wetschky married. The marriage had eight children. The sons Hans and Theo died in the battle of the Somme in autumn 1916 .

Fonts

  • He leads me on the right street . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1903.
  • The Rhenish Mission in Hereroland. At the same time visit report of the mission inspector Pastor Spiecker (= Rheinische Missions-Schriften, No. 130). Missionshaus publishing house, Barmen 1907.
  • The Rhenish Mission after the war . Publishing house of the Mission House, Barmen 1919.
  • My diary: Experiences of a German missionary in German South West Africa 1905–1907 . Edited by Lisa Kopelmann and Martin Siefkes. Simon-Verl. for library knowledge, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-940862-41-9 .

literature

  • Hannig: Spiecker, Johannes , In: The religion in past and present , 2nd edition. Vol. 5, 1931, Col. 690.
  • Marlies Spiecker-Salazar: Mission and colonial rule from the perspective of a mission inspector: The diary of Pastor Johannes Spiecker's trip to Africa, 1905–1907 . In: Wilfried Wagner (Ed.): Colonies and missions. Lit, Münster 1994, pp. 426-439.
  • Martin Siefkes: Language, Faith and Power. The records of Johannes Spiecker in German South West Africa at the time of the Herero-Nama uprising . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8260-5197-5 ({ http://siefkes.de/dokumente/Siefkes_Sprache_Glaube_und_Macht.pdf PDF file).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Siefkes: Language, Faith and Power. The records of Johannes Spiecker in German South West Africa at the time of the Herero-Nama uprising . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8260-5197-5 , p. 14 f.
personal data
SURNAME Spiecker, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical missionary
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Boppard
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1920
Place of death Barmen