Johannes Tramsen

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Johannes Tramsen's grave in the Aukruger cemetery

Johannes Tramsen (born August 1, 1877 in Gremmerup , fishing ; † September 8, 1943 in Aukrug -Innien) was a pastor in Innien and head of the Brotherhood Council of the Confessing Church in Schleswig-Holstein , in 1937 he was one of those who supported the declaration of 96 Protestant church leaders against Alfred Rosenberg because of whose writing Protestant Rome pilgrims signed.

Life

Johannes Tramsen's parents ran a farm. In Flensburg he attended grammar school, where he also graduated from high school. He completed his theology studies in Erlangen , Greifswald , Berlin and Kiel . After the first theological exam he was vicar in Beidenfleth ; after the second exam he was ordained in the Schleswig Cathedral . He then worked as an assistant chaplain in the Diakonissenanstalt Flensburg before he took up his position as pastor in the St. John's parish on Föhr in March 1908 . There he married and had a son and three daughters with his wife, one of whom died early.

From 1915 until the end of his life he was pastor in Innia (see Evangelical Church Aukrug ), where he gave his last sermon on August 9, 1942. At the time of National Socialism , Johannes Tramsen belonged to the Confessing Church from the beginning and later became a member of the Brother Council of the Confessing Church in Schleswig-Holstein . He was president of the Confessional Synod in Kiel in 1935 and the Synod in Bredeneek Castle in August 1936. During this time, he was also elected as the successor to Reinhard Wester as chairman of the Brotherhood of the Confessing Church in Schleswig-Holstein. He also took part in the writing against Gustav Frenssen with his own contribution : The North Mark in the Faith Struggle. An answer from the church to Gustav Frenssen , edited by Johannes Lorentzen , pastor in Kiel. In 1943 he was diagnosed with bladder cancer, from which he died a short time later.

Fonts

  • Frenssen's judgment on the Church of the North Mark and its pastors , in: Johannes Lorentzen (Hrsg.): The North Mark in the Faith Struggle. An answer from the Church to Gustav Frenssen , Breklum: Missionsbuchhandlung 1936, pp. 33–36; reprinted in: Karl Ludwig Kohlwage , Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “You will be my witnesses!” Voices for the preservation of a denominational church in urgent times. The Breklumer Hefte of the ev.-luth. Confessional community in Schleswig-Holstein from 1935 to 1941. Sources on the history of the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein. Compiled and edited by Peter Godzik , Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-7868-5308-4 , pp. 211-216.

Sources and literature

  • Ecumenical Yearbook , ed. by Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze , Max Niehans Verlag, Zurich 1939
  • Johannes Schmidt: Johannes Tramsen , in: Wolfgang Prehn (Hrsg.): Time to walk the narrow path - witnesses report on the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein , Kiel, Lutherische Verlagsgesellschaft, 2nd edition 1985, pp. 173-174 ( ISBN 3 -87503-027-3 )
  • Heinrich Asmus, Werner Hauschildt, Peter Höhne: Update of "The History of Aukrugs" from 1978 and supplements, Aukrug 1995
  • Karl Ludwig Kohlwage, Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “What is right before God”. Church struggle and theological foundation for the new beginning of the church in Schleswig-Holstein after 1945. Documentation of a conference in Breklum 2015 . Compiled and edited by Rudolf Hinz and Simeon Schildt in collaboration with Peter Godzik, Johannes Jürgensen and Kurt Triebel, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-7868-5306-0 .
  • Presidium of the Confession Synod (ed.): Church! Second Confessional Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein on August 18, 1936 in Bredeneek / Preetz Castle , Westerland / Sylt: Office of the Confessional Community 1936.
  • Paul M. Dahl: Experienced church history. The time of the church committees in the Ev.-Luth. State Church of Schleswig-Holstein 1935–1938 . Manuscript completed in 1980, revised for the Internet and edited. by Matthias Dahl, Christian Dahl and Peter Godzik 2017 (online at geschichte-bk-sh.de) .
  • Friedrich Hammer : Directory of the pastors of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church 1864–1976. Edited by the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History , Neumünster: Wachholtz 1991
  • Klauspeter Reumann: The church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein from 1933 to 1945 , in: Schleswig-Holstein Church history. Vol. 6/1: Church between self-assertion and external determination , Neumünster 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Printed in: Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (Ed.): Ökumenisches Jahrbuch 1936–1937 , Zurich and Leipzig: Max Niehans 1939, pp. 240–247.
  2. ↑ http://www.geschichte-bk-sh.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Breklumer_Hefte/Nordmark.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Tramsen, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Gremmerup
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1943
Place of death Aukrug