Karl Stoevesandt

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Karl Stoevesandt (born August 9, 1882 in Bremen ; † July 4, 1977 there ) was a German physician and theologian .

biography

Stoevesandt was the son of the doctor and hospital director Johann Stoevesandt (1848–1933). After attending the old grammar school in Bremen, he studied medicine in Tübingen , Berlin and Leipzig . As an assistant doctor at the Hygiene Institute in Kiel, he wrote his dissertation. From 1913 until old age, Stoevesandt practiced as a resident doctor in Bremen with a practice at Kohlhökerstraße 56.

Stoevesandt had been married to the nurse Dorothee Köster since 1913 and had six children. The eldest three sons died in World War II . The youngest son Hinrich (1931–2018), a doctor of theology, was the director of the Karl Barth Foundation in Basel .

As an active Christian, Stoevesandt was involved in the Church of Our Dear Women in Bremen. Initially as a deacon, he worked there from 1938 to 1967 as an administrative client . He was friends with Karl Barth since 1922 . The lifelong dialogue and correspondence entered literature. He was an opponent of liberal currents. Politically, he was conservative and a member of the right-wing German National People's Party (DNVP).

During the National Socialist era , Stoevesandt resolutely opposed the work of the German Christians . The Gestapo repeatedly took him into protective custody for several days because of his theological writings . In his private house in Bremen on Kohlhökerstraße, Karl Stoevesandt founded the Confessing Community of Bremen with like-minded people in 1934 , was a member of the Confessing Synod and chairman of the State Brotherhood Council . As a minister of the Church, however, he had to come to terms with the political realities.

As a kind of settlement with his political opponents, he wrote a book about his experiences during the church struggle in Bremen with the title Confessing Congregation and German-Believing Bishop Dictatorship in the History of the Church Struggle in Bremen 1933-1945 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1961.

Honors

  • In 1952 he was awarded the title of professor by the Bremen Senate for his TB research .
  • In 1952 he received an honorary doctorate from the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Mainz .
  • In 1953 he was awarded the Paracelsus Medal by the Presidium of the German Medical Association.
  • The Stoevesandtstraße in Bremen - Sebaldsbrück was named after the family of doctors.

literature

  • Stefan Holtmann, Peter Zocher (ed.): As laypeople take over the leadership of the confessional community, letters from the church struggle by Karl Barth and Karl and Dorothee Stoevesandt (1933–1938). Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft 2007, ISBN 978-3-7887-2251-7 .
  • Herbert Black Forest : Famous Bremer. P. List 1972, ISBN 3-471-78718-6
  • Herbert Black Forest: The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Weser-Kurier 23, August 9, 1967: High service as a doctor and churchman. Repeatedly honored as a scientist.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Diether Koch:  Stoevesandt, Karl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1519-1523.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ Bremer Pfarrerbuch Volume 2, Verlag HM Hauschild Bremen, 1996, ISBN 3-929902-96-6 , p. 166.
  3. ^ Hans-Walter Krumwiede: Church history of Lower Saxony. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995, p. 565.

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personal data
SURNAME Stoevesandt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1977
Place of death Bremen