Marcus Bade

Hans Peter Marcus Bade (born January 22, 1871 in Schlutup ; † May 29, 1936 in Aabenraa ) was a German Protestant provost and pastor .

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Marcus Bade was the son of Schlutuper fish smoker and canning manufacturer Jürgen Peter Marcus Bade (1840-1919) and his wife Maria Sophie Elisabeth, née Schütz (1840-1899) from Mechow . The family's ancestors originally came from the Lübeck Bay , where they had worked as fishermen.

Bade attended the village school in Schlutup and then the Katharineum in Lübeck , which he left with the Abitur at Easter 1890. He then studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Halle , Greifswald , Berlin and Kiel . He decided to enter the service of the Danish People's Church and received his practical training at preaching seminars in Copenhagen and Hadersleben , where he also learned Danish .

In 1899, Bade married Emmy Luise Dorothea Reuter, née Broacker (born February 6, 1871). The couple had a son and three daughters. From 1899 to 1903 he worked as a pastor in Ulderup , from 1903 to 1909 in Augustenburg . On December 7, 1905, his wife died in Sønderborg . In 1909 he turned down the offer to switch to church service in Lübeck . He made this decision because his late wife had belonged to the Propsthaus von Broacker, located in North Schleswig. Another reason was his passion for sailing, which he was able to pursue well in the Little Belt area .

In 1916, Bade married Clara Henriette Stieler, née Sauer (1885–1946), with whom he had three daughters.

From 1909 to 1936 Bade worked as a pastor in the parish of Aabenraa. In the same year he took over the post of provost under Theodor Kaftan , which he held until the separation of North Schleswig to Denmark in 1920. With the division, a Danish and a German community emerged. The members of the German congregation unanimously elected Bade as their pastor. The urban German parishes now belonged to the Danish state church, but numerous small, quickly new German free parishes belonged to the state church of Schleswig-Holstein . In 1926, Bade founded a working group in which the clergy from both churches work together for the first time. He himself took over the chairmanship until the end of his life and negotiated church issues with authorities in Denmark.

Bade was considered an exceptionally talented musician. He founded a chamber music group for pastors and teachers in Augustenburg, which he directed. He gave religion, history and music lessons at the teachers' college there and played piano concerts and recitals in the castle there every Sunday . He showed a similar musical commitment in Aabenraa. When the new church hymn book was introduced around 1930, he taught the parishioners new chants in short units after the services.

In 1916, Bade founded a small church choir that accompanied all main services for thirty years. He also founded an oratorio choir, which he conducted for ten years, which sang cantatas and oratorios such as Handel's Messiah and Joshua or Haydn's The Creation or The Seasons . The choir sang these works together with local choirs in Hadersleben , Sonderburg and Tondern . During the performances organized by Bade they were accompanied by the Flensburg City Orchestra and renowned soloists.

literature

• Liselotte Bade: Bath, Marcus . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 51-52

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 936