Konrad Bussemer

Konrad Bussemer (born March 19, 1874 in Eberbach ; † December 16, 1944 ) was a German pastor in the Federation of Free Evangelical Congregations in Germany , theological teacher and author.

Life

Konrad Bussemer was born as the son of the miller and farmer Friedrich Bussemer and his wife Wilhelmine in poor circumstances. His father's sister financed the visit to the “Higher Citizens School” in Eberbach. He then attended high school in Saarbrücken , where he lived with a childless widowed aunt in St. Johann . He received his Abitur in 1893. In St. Johann, Bussemer met the nurse Johanna Thom (1856–1915), who was largely responsible for the development of a Free Evangelical Congregation. During an evangelism event there, Bussemer decided to believe in Jesus Christ without having experienced a significant conversion experience. In the parish in St. Johann he met Gustav Friedrich Nagel , who encouraged him to attend the free evangelical preaching school in Basel . Bussemer completed his theological training there from 1893 to 1898 . He then worked from 1898 to 1899 as a preacher for the Free Evangelical Congregation in Homberg. He refused a service in the regional church out of theological conviction. In 1899, at Friedrich Fries' request, he moved to Witten, where, in addition to the community service in Langendreer, he took over the editing of the magazine Der Gärtner . In May 1901 he married Johanna Assmus, a deaconess . The couple had eight children. In 1908 Bussemer left Witten and, together with his family, accepted a call as pastor in the Free Evangelical Congregation in Lüdenscheid , which at that time was the largest congregation in the Federation of Free Evangelical Congregations. From 1912 he taught part-time as a teacher at the Preacher's School of the Free Evangelical Congregations in Vohwinkel , where he finally moved in 1929 and from then on worked exclusively as a lecturer . In 1913 Bussemer took over the leadership of the evangelization work (today Inland Mission) of the Association of Free Evangelical Churches from his late colleague Otto Schopf .

After the outbreak of World War II , the preacher's school had to close and Bussemer had to give up teaching. From 1939 to 1944 he took a job in the Free Evangelical Congregation in Cologne and was a member of the board of the West German Evangelical Alliance during this time . After a serious illness, Bussemer died on December 16, 1944 and was buried in Lüdenscheid.

Works

• Justification and sanctification ; in: Der Gärtner 14/1903, Witten 1903, pp. 276–294.
• The church of Jesus Christ. The nature of the church of Jesus according to the New Testament especially with regard to its members and their order. Witten 1905.
• Karl Engler. Teacher and Mission Inspector , Barmen 1925.
• The freedom of God's children. The essence of freedom ; in: Der Gärtner 32 and 33/1928, pp. 498… 514.
• Friedrich Fries. A servant of the church of Jesus from among the people. Witten 1929.
• Leopold Bender (1833–1914) former evangelist and preacher in Cologne a. Rh., Witten 1934.

literature

• Hartmut Weyel: Living in the Spirit of Scripture. Konrad Bussemer (1874–1944). In: Christianity today . 2/2005, pp. 26-28.
• Hartmut Weyel:  Bussemer, Konrad. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. 171-177.
• Hartmut Weyel: The community of Christ. Konrad Bussemer (1874–1944). Pastor, theological teacher and author. In: Same: The future needs a past. Lively portraits from the history and prehistory of the Free Evangelical Churches. Vol. II (= History and Theology of the Free Evangelical Congregations. 5.5 / 2). Bundes-Verlag, Witten 2010, pp. 289-302.
• Wilhelm Wöhrle: Konrad Bussemer, a teacher of the word of God. Bundes-Verlag, Witten 1948.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hartmut Weyel: The future needs a past . Biographical portraits from the history and prehistory of free evangelical communities. Ed .: Wolfgang Heinrichs, Michael Schröder, Hartmut Weyel. tape 2 , no. 2 . Bundes Verlag, Witten 2010, ISBN 978-3-933660-03-9 , pp. 293 .