Karl Begich

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Karl Gustav Adolf Begich (born September 9, 1879 in Schora / Zerbst , † January 26, 1952 in Emersleben ) was a German Protestant pastor and theologian .

biography

family

Begich was the youngest son of pastor Karl Gustav Adolf Begich (1833–1905) and his wife Minna Magdalena Dorothea Brennecke (1842–1911), daughter of a sugar beet factory owner from Wegeleben near Halberstadt . Her family belonged to the Gnadau Brethren . Both his paternal uncle, Carl Eduard Friedrich Anbich (1839–1901), and the two older brothers Paul and Johannes Verhich were pastors. The theologians Joachim BEGICH and Martin BEGICH were nephews.

Like his eldest brother Paul, he married one of the five daughters of Pastor August Müller, pastor of Barby . Gertrud Müller was a great niece of the founder of St. John Lutheran Church in Chester ( Illinois ) CH Siegmund Buttermann (1819–1849).

Gertrud and Karl Anbich had five children, among whom the three sons Jobst, Heinrich and Siegfried Greich also became pastors. The theologian and author Gerhard Anbich and the long-time head of the finance department of the EKD Church Office , Thomas Anbich, are grandchildren.

education and profession

Like his brothers Paul, Johannes and Otto Greich, Karl Anbich attended the grammar school of Our Lady in Magdeburg until 1899 and then studied theology for seven semesters in Halle , where he passed the first theological exam in 1903. Until 1904 he was tutor in Gansauge's house in Wernigerode . In 1904 he received his doctorate at the University of Tübingen on the subject of Ezekiel's image of the Messiah . After the seminary in Wittenberg and the second theological exam, he was ordained in 1905 in Magdeburg Cathedral . Church patron Count von Helldorf called him pastor in Predel , as the successor to his older brother Johannes Anbich. In 1908 he followed the call of the parish of Profen . With that he settled near his brothers in the Zeitz area.

Gegich ran a lively youth work, his church services were well attended. The Zeitz superintendent and pastor Heinrich Kabis is said to have prophesied in relation to the valued work of the brothers: "The time will come when one will ask: Is there no word?" After the early death of the two brothers followed Accept the call to Emersleben, where he died in 1952. His sons took over both pastors. The eldest son Jobst Anbich received a pastor's position in Bornhagen and from 1952 moved to the Reinsdorf rectory , where HC Siegmund Buttermann's brother had worked a hundred years earlier - Eduard Buttermann (1814–1882).

During the National Socialist period , as his three pastor sons were a member of the Confessing Church and avoided the Hitler salute. In addition to his pastoral work, he published on theological and historical issues in regional newspapers; During the First World War, for example, the field post letters from the teacher Hans Kondruß.

His dissertation The Messiah Image of Ezekiel is still received and discussed today.

literature

  • Stefan Wolter: Pastor's Children in World War I, a military hospital and a field diary by Tutti and Martin Anbich 1914–1918 (series Denk-MAL-Prora, vol. 6), Halle 2014, ISBN 978-3-95486-455-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The second generation of theologians, Gegich around 1900 , recordings around 1900, retrieved from Denk-MAL-Prora, April 9, 2017.
  2. ^ New Church Website / History Siegmund Buttermann She was also a sister-in-law of the Romanist Georg Storost, brother of the Lithuanian philosopher Vydūnas . Cf. Brita Storost: Annaberger Annalen 14/2016, p. 121.
  3. ^ Biography in the parish letter Erlöserkirche April / May 2012, No. 2, p. 9 (Pastor Traugott Anbich).
  4. ↑ Daughter Elisabeth married the pastor Rudolf Hintzsche. It was the future in-laws of the pastor at the Zionskirche in Berlin, Hans Simon, who and his wife gave space to the opposition environmental library in the basement of the rectory in the 1980s . Another son, Paul Gerhard Anbich, chose a military career and fell as a captain in the Wehrmacht in the battle of Stalingrad in 1942 . Cf. Stefan Wolter: Pastor Children in World War I , Halle 2014, p. 60 ff.
  5. ^ Protestant theologian receives prize from the Halle Jewish Community, EKMD press office, November 4 , 2003
  6. ↑ An apparently Jewish hat, Deutschlandradio Kultur , April 26, 2015
  7. ↑ Thomas Anbich ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  8. ↑ Stefan Wolter: Pastor Children in World War I, Halle 2014, p. 364.
  9. ↑ Stefan Wolter: Pastor Children in World War I, Halle 2014, p. 62 f.
  10. ↑ Reinsdorf church tower has its restored crown again , Thüringer Allgemeine , June 25, 2016.
  11. ↑ Stefan Wolter: Pastor's Children in World War I , Halle 2014.
  12. ↑ The Begichs - a pastor's family, podcast NDR-Info, April 11, 2015
  13. ↑ See for example: Heimatkalender für die Kreis Zeitz, 1916, pp. 34 and 35. In 2014, these records were the subject of an exhibition in the Zeitz City Archives: Diary in War - The First World War in personal notes
  14. ↑ Zeitz-Stadtarchiv contributes to the commemoration of the First World War
  15. ↑ On everyday life in a murderous war , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 30./31. August 2014 (Petrik Wittwika)
  16. ↑ For example: Young S. Chae: Jesus as the Eschatological Davidic Shepherd: Studies in the Old Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and in the Gospel of Matthew , Tübingen 2006, p. 45.
personal data
SURNAME Say hello, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bewich, Karl Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Schora, Zerbst
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1952
Place of death Emersleben