Martin Boyken

Martin Boyken (born February 1, 1908 in Hamburg ; † September 12, 1983 in Hildesheim ) was twice mayor of Hildesheim, president of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover and director of the Andreanum .

Life

Boyken grew up as the son of a business school director in Hamburg. He studied Protestant theology , history , German and philosophy in Hamburg and Marburg . After completing his state examination, he worked in school and was dismissed from the Confessing Church in 1936 . From 1936 to 1944 he served in the naval artillery and from 1944 to 1947 he was a prisoner of war in North Africa.

Between 1947 and 1955 he was teacher at the Athenaeum in Stade , then headmaster at the school Andreanum in Hildesheim. From 1959 he was Hildesheim City Councilor for the CDU , between 1964 and 1968 mayor and from 1960 to 1964 and from 1968 to 1972 mayor of the city. From 1959 to 1974 he served as president of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and in 1973 he became president of the 5th General Synod of the united Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany .

Since the 1930s he has published a number of romantically and religiously colored volumes of poetry. In addition, he published art history studies. Due to his professional and political stress, he finally stopped his writing.

Boyken received the Ring of Honor of the City of Hildesheim and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. On October 10, 1974 he was granted honorary citizenship. In the district of Itzum the Martin-Boyken-Ring is named after him.

Works

• Torso of the year . Hamburg 1936
• Coat of arms of the cities . Hamburg 1938
• The compass rose . Stade 1950
• The paintings in the government building in Stade . Stade 1950
• The wreath . Stade 1951
• Tiles and tiled rooms from the 17th and 18th centuries . Darmstadt 1955
• How PeterMenken stole the Stader key. A carnival fairy tale . Stade 1957
• The motto tiles from Wrisbergholzen . Hildesheim 1966
• "How Peter Menken stole the Stader key. Fairy tales and legends I", Stade 2012, Schaumburg, 79 p., (978-3-87697-101-8)
• "The legend of the Wilhaditurm. Fairy tales and legends II", Stade 2013, Schaumburg, 87 p., (978-3-87697-102-5)

literature

• Hildesheim Literature Lexicon from 1800 to today . Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Olms 1996, pp. 35f., ISBN 3-487-10238-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Boyken in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Also on the following: Hildesheimer Literaturlexikon , pp. 35f.
2. ↑ http://www.stadtarchiv-hildesheim.de/geschichte/ehrenbuerger.htm , accessed on February 15, 2008 at 12:11 am.
3. ↑ http://www.stadtarchiv-hildesheim.de/strassen/strassen_M.htm , accessed on February 15, 2008 at 12:10 a.m.

predecessor	Office	successor
Paul Lienke	Mayor and Lord Mayor of Hildesheim 1960–1964	Friedrich Nämsch

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Nämsch	Mayor and Lord Mayor of Hildesheim 1968–1972	Friedrich Nämsch