Martin Sinemus

Signature (1921)

North view of the Kleinich Church when Sinemus took office (1913)

Martin Friedrich Wilhelm Sinemus (born March 26, 1881 in Andernach , † October 3, 1964 in Heusweiler ) was a German pastor and historian .

Life

Martin Sinemus was born as the sixth of fourteen children in March 1881 in Andernach on the lower Middle Rhine and was baptized Protestant on April 21, 1881 . His father Georg Karl Christian Sinemus (1843–1927) had been pastor in Andernach since 1872 and in 1872 married Wilhelmine Prümers (1851–1929). On February 13, 1904, he finished attending the Andernach high school with the Abitur . In the same year he started at the University in Greifswald with the study of Protestant theology . In 1905 he attended the university in Bonn , in 1906 he moved to the university in Halle / Saale , and then returned to Bonn in the winter of 1906/07. Sinemus financed his studies by working as a private tutor in Schwelm (1907) and Kleinhelmsdorf (1908). On April 28, 1908, Sinemus passed the first theological exam (examen pro licentia concionandi) before the consistory of the Rhine Province in Coblenz (today Koblenz). He then completed his vicariate in Speldorf , on April 20, 1910, he passed his second theological examination (examen pro ministerio) in Coblenz. Sinemus remained with the community in Speldorf until he began his military service in Mülheim an der Ruhr . He then went to Barmen as an assistant preacher in 1911 , where the ordination of Sinemus was held on June 18, 1911 by Superintendent Bausch . Between 1912 and 1913 he worked in the auxiliary service in Sterkrade .

In 1913 Sinemus succeeded Friedrich Becker in Cleinich (today Kleinich), who had been pastor in the Hunsrück community for 15 years. There he was mainly active in youth work. At the beginning of the First World War , Sinemus, whose attitude is described as "national Protestant", volunteered as a soldier and worked as a paramedic and military chaplain in Traben-Trarbach and Ahrweiler . Subsequently, Sinemus worked as a hospital pastor in Trier , Engers and Neuwied . In 1917 he went to Bulgaria as a field preacher , later to Macedonia and the Western Front . In 1918 Sinemus was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Cross of Merit for War Aid, in 1935 he was awarded the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters and three years later the Hungarian World War II Commemorative Medal. Since 1914, his now over 70-year-old father, Karl Sinemus, had taken over the representation of his son as Kleinich parish priest, for which he was also awarded the Cross of Merit for War Aid. In 1919, Martin Sinemus initiated the erection of a war memorial in the cemetery in Kleinich. After his return to the Hunsrück he researched the history of the Kleinich parish , and in 1925 his first of a total of over 50 publications was published. In 1925 Martin Sinemus went to Hamm an der Sieg, where he held the pastoral office until 1928 , when he moved to the Saar area, which was under the administration of the League of Nations . In choosing arbitration , the pastor took his last pastorate, 1942 he was at the age of 61 years emeritus . After the death of his wife Elisabeth, born Kruse (1882–1955), whom he married on July 18, 1911, Sinemus withdrew. To a complaint from the church leadership in Düsseldorf that he would no longer take part in parish life, the pastor emeritus responded in 1960 with the words: "Even a retired miner no longer drives into the pit." Sinemus lived until his death in October 1964 in Heusweiler , a neighboring community of electoral arbitration. He had three daughters and three sons and died at the age of 83.

Publications

At the Association for Rhenish Church History in Düsseldorf , a total of 53 publications by Martin Sinemus are listed under the signature "ZH073". The selection below is taken from the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon, a full list can be found in the 2012 home yearbook of the Altenkirchen district.

• The history of the parish of Cleinich. Self-published, Cleinich 1925.
• The history of the Protestant parish Hamm an der Sieg. Hamm 1927.
• M. Reinhard Susenbethus, General Inspector of the County of Sayn 1605-1612. In: MEKR , Volume 25 (1931), pp. 40-49 ( online ).
• The examination of the reformed candidates in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) 1745-1763. In: MEKR , Volume 25 (1931), pp. 113–118.
• The homage speeches of Pastors Pfender and Streccius on February 26th and 27th, 1765 in Trarbach. In: MEKR , Volume 25 (1931), pp. 119–122.
• Stately ordinances for the rear county of Sponheim 1590-1714. In: MEKR , Volume 25 (1931), pp. 244–250.
• The history of the Protestant congregations in the Altenkirchen church district (Westerwald). Saarbrücken 1933.
• The history of the Protestant parish Dirmingen-Urexweiler (Saar). In: MEKR , Volume 29 (1935), pp. 97-104 ( online ).
• The history of the villages of the High Court and the Protestant parish Wahlschied-Holz. Saarbrücken 1949.

literature

• Joachim Conrad:  Martin Sinemus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 1395-1397.
• Horst W. Overkott: Martin Sinemus: pastor and historian. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch of the Altenkirchen district and the neighboring communities. Volume 55 (2012), pp. 269–277.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andernacher Pfarrer 1854-1972 , in: ev-kirche-andernach.de , accessed on August 22, 2013.
2. ↑ Lothar Alter: A cemetery tells history. Evangelical cemetery Bad Niederbreisig. ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2013 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. In: Heimatjahrbuch des Kreis Ahrweiler 1988 , p. 167 ff.
3. ↑ Family tree of the Sinemus family: Karl Christian Georg Sinemus , in: heinemann-me.de , accessed on August 22, 2013.
4. ↑ Erik Zimmermann: The parish of Kleinich. Nine villages in the Hunsrück. Kleinich 2009, pp. 235-236.
5. ↑ Family tree of the Sinemus family: Martin Sinemus , in: heinemann-me.de , accessed on August 22, 2013.