Julius Bode

Julius Bode (born October 4, 1876 in Lüneburg , † April 11, 1942 in Bremen ) was a German pastor and politician .

biography

Bode was the son of a senior seminar teacher. He studied theology at the University of Göttingen and the University of Erlangen . After his ordination , he was pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran main church St. Cosmae et Damiani in Stade from 1903 to 1908 . Here he was also the pastor at the institution for the deaf and dumb . In 1908 he became pastor at the St. Ansgarii Church in Bremen. As a preacher he was popular because of his social outlook. He was also an active Freemason in the Friedrich Wilhelm zur Eintracht Lodge and was considered a political pastor. During the First World War he took an extremely nationalist point of view.

In 1919/20 he was a member of the constituent Bremen National Assembly . Here, too, he was a staunch opponent of the communists and socialists. But he also rejected the emergence of National Socialism and expressed himself critically about this development in public.

Works

"Sermons of War":

• Holy Fatherland! Five sermons of war. Vlg. Heinr. Drewes, 1914
• German all the way! New war sermons from Julius Bode, pastor of Bremen, 1914
• Stay strong! War sermons by Julius Bode, pastor of Bremen, 1915
• Von Deutschtum: New war sermons by Julius Bode, Pastor of Bremen, 1915

Other works:

• In holy power . Zopfs and Son, Leer 1930 (?).
• Wodan and Jesus . Verlag Frei-Deutschland, Sontra, 1920.
• From the spiritual legacy of German heroic fathers Bremen, Friedrich & Co., 1920
• The will to German tomorrow - a wake-up call . Friedrich & Co., Bremen 1921.
• Freemasonry and Building . In: The Invisible Temple . Verlag Ernst Reinhardt, Munich 1920.
• Monism and religion . In: Hamburger Logenblatt , 1911.
• German Freemasonry and the German Reformation . In: Hamburger Logenblatt , 1917.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Emil Hackländer in: Gustav Dehning : The Historical Society Bremen and the State Archive Bremen (ed.) Bremische Biographie 1912-1962 , Bremen 1969, p. 52 Col. 1–53 Col. 1.