Maurus Gerner-Beuerle

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Maurus Wilibald Gerner-Beuerle (born January 28, 1903 in Hausen im Wiesental , † August 10, 1982 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor and long-time cathedral preacher at Bremen Cathedral . He was considered an important representative of the people's church after the Second World War . He was also active as an author and poet and wrote some of his works in Alemannic dialect.

Life

Maurus Wilibald Beuerle was born in the southern Baden village of Hausen im Wiesental as the son of the Protestant pastor (1901–1933) Oskar Beuerle and his wife Ella, a née Kupfer. He grew up in his place of birth and attended secondary school in the neighboring small town of Schopfheim (today Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium ). In 1921 he was adopted by a relative of his mother, Sophie Christina, née Gerner and widow of a Maurus Betz, and from then on bore the double name Gerner-Beuerle .

After graduating from high school, he worked as a bricklayer and carpenter for some time before he began studying theology in 1923 . He studied at the universities of Heidelberg , Kiel , Tübingen and Marburg ; he spent a semester as an exchange student in Finland . After completing his studies, an illness-related stay for medical treatment followed in Davos in Switzerland and a private tutoring at Elmau Castle in Upper Bavaria. There he also met his future wife Erna Moritz (1905-2004) from Nordenham in Oldenburg . She worked as a house daughter at Schloss Elmau .

Bremen Cathedral

Gerner-Beuerle completed his candidate period in Heidelberg and his subsequent vicariate in Wertheim and Karlsruhe . In 1931 he was ordained in his home church - the Protestant church in Hausen, where his father was still the local pastor at the time. He took over various pastoral posts in Baden and worked in particular as a diaspora pastor in St. Blasien . In 1938 he and his family moved to the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Here he was initially active as a pastor at the Hohentors Congregation in Bremen Neustadt . In 1946 he was appointed cathedral preacher at the Bremen Cathedral of St. Petri and held the office until his retirement in 1971.

In addition to his work as a pastor and later in retirement, Gerner-Beuerle wrote and published numerous poems, some of which he wrote in the Alemannic dialect of his original homeland in addition to standard German . He also brought out some prose works and also published religious and ideological writings as well as some of his sermons . He dealt particularly with the "relationship between science and religion ", this was also a main theme of his sermons and writings.

Maurus Gerner-Beuerle was married to Erna Gerner-Beuerle and had several children. He was buried in a family grave in the Riensberg cemetery .

Public work

In Bremen, Gerner-Beuerle used “as a member of a multicolored college of cathedral preachers the opportunity to have one's own theological orientation” in the sense of a “liberal cultural Protestant theology”. He was regarded as an "important Bremen cathedral preacher" and as one of the "authoritative representatives of the national church that reestablished itself after 1945".

Honors

Gerner-Beuerle was awarded the Johann-Peter-Hebel- Badge in 1971 for his poetic work .

Works

  • Radegunde of Thuringia. Novella from the 6th century. Publishing house for folk art and education, Richard Keutel, Lahr in Baden 1934.
  • The evangelical parish of St. Blasien . In the past and present. Publishing house for folk art and education, no location in 1936.
  • Life from god. Sermons from the time of the breakdown. Anker Verlag, Bremen 1947.
  • Funeral service [for the gynecologist] Dr. Franz Perlia: April 9, 1887 - November 24, 1947. Chapel Riensberger Friedhof. Bremen, November 28th, 1947 . Bremen 1947.
  • Redeemed art. Sermon for the 28th German Bach Festival on September 9, 1951 in Bremen Cathedral. Text Luke 7, 11-17 (The youth at Naïn ). Self-published, Bremen 1951.
  • Elmauer diary. Story of an encounter. Elmau Castle / J. P. Himmer Verlag, Augsburg 1952.
  • Sermon given in Bremen Cathedral on September 6, 1953.
  • Christian responsibility today. Sermons. Anker Publishing House. Bremen 1954.
  • Nietzsche's attack on Christianity. Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1960.
  • In the Hebeldorf Huuse, mym Chinderland. Self-published, 1960 (Alemannic).
  • Evangelical alphabet. Commission publishing house Dürerhaus / Gottfried Gerhold, Bremen 1961.
  • Creative life. published for the 100th birthday of Johannes Müller . Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, Munich 1964.
  • Colorful autumn. Poems in standard German and Alemannic. Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1965.
  • Herrgottsbrünnli. Alemannic and High German poems. Self-published, Bremen 1980 (Alemannic, German).
  • My way to the cathedral pulpit. From Hebeldorf Hausen im Wiesental to Bremen 1917–1971. Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1995 (Biographical collection of documents as a "life story" by Maurus Gerner-Beuerle, published posthumously by his widow Erna Gerner-Beuerle; review by Peter Ulrich at SuUB ).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Wilhelm Kosch et al. a. (Limit); Konrad Feilchenfeldt u. a. (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual (= Volume 11: Gellert – Gorski ). Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-908255-11-6 , p. 132 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Schubring : Pastor and poet. Maurus Gerner-Beuerle (January 28, 1903– August 10, 1982) . In: Ders .: Ortschronik from 1985, online on the website of the municipality of Hausen im Wiesental ; accessed on March 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c Peter Ulrich: Gerner-Beuerle, Maurus: My way to the cathedral pulpit. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Volume 76. 1997 (= section reviews ). Published by the Bremen State Archives in conjunction with the Bremen Historical Society . Self-published by the Bremen State Archives / Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1981, ISSN 0341-9622 , pp. 250–251 ( online at SuUB ). 
  4. ↑ a b Erika Thies: "I can only guess what it will mean". From Hebeldorf to Bremen's cathedral pulpit: Erna Gerner-Beuerle published her husband's memories. In: Weser-Kurier of October 22, 1995, p. 12. *
  5. ↑ a b See information on the tombstone (photo) in the tombstone project of the genealogy database genealogy.net (Germany); Retrieved on March 30, 2015 (Note: The inscription on the gravestone for Maurus Gerner-Beuerle reads, inter alia: “Domprediger von 1946–1971”).
  6. ↑ (eb): Pastor Gerner-Beuerle died at the age of 79. In: Weser-Kurier of August 12, 1982, p. 16. *
* Available online via the digital newspaper archive of Bremer Tageszeitungen AG (subject to a charge).
personal data
SURNAME Gerner-Beuerle, Maurus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerner-Beuerle, Maurus Wilibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, pastor and dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hausen in Wiesental
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1982
Place of death Bremen