Menno Smid

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Menno Smid (born January 1, 1928 in Negenbargen (today part of the city of Wittmund ), † September 20, 2013 in Emden ) was a German Lutheran theologian, clergyman and author of the standard work on East Frisian church history . Smid was married and had five children.

Life

Smid grew up in the Wittmund district . He passed his Abitur in 1947 in Jever . He then studied Protestant theology in Wuppertal , Tübingen and Göttingen . He served his vicariate from 1954 to 1956 at the clinic rectory in Göttingen, in the preacher's seminary at the Erichsburg , in Loccum and Nienhagen. After ordination in October 1956, Smid first became pastor at the Christ Church in Leer , from May 1957 in Pogum and from November 1966 in Logabirum . He submitted his dissertation in Göttingen. There he received his doctorate theologiae in 1976 . From October 1978 he was Superintendent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Emden and pastor of the first parish office of the Martin Luther parish in Emden. He held this office until he retired on January 1, 1993.

From 1971 to 1995 Smid was also a member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . There he was a member of the regional synodal committee for 14 years (1977 to 1990), nine of which (1982 to 1990) as its chairman. From 1990 to 1995 he was chairman of the finance committee of the regional synod.

Works

  • Menno Smid: East Frisian Church History . H. Risius, Weener 1974, p. 512, 517 (Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike, vol. 6).
  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger and Menno Smid: Frisian churches. Volume 3: In the independent city of Emden and in the district of Leer . Mettcker, Jever 1980, 2nd edition 1990
  • Menno Smid: Church between the castle and the town hall. A contribution to the history of the city of Emden and the relationship between state and church in Emden . In: College of the East Frisian Landscape (ed.): Res Frisicae. Harm Wiemann on his 75th birthday. (Treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, Volume 59), Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1978. pp. 131–150
  • Menno Smid: Haesbaert, Johann Wilhelm . In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , Volume III (Ed. Martin Tielke, i. A. der Ostfriesische Landschaft), Aurich 2001, pp. 188f
  • Menno Smid: Laski, Johannes . In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 657 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Menno Smid: Ligarius, Johannes . In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 547 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Menno Smid:  Laski, Jan . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE). Volume 20, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, ISBN 3-11-012655-9 , pp. 448-451.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning P. Juergens: Johannes a Lasco in Ostfriesland. The career of a European reformer. Tübingen 2002 - ISBN 3-16-147754-5 . P. 179.
  2. ↑ a b Hannegreth Grundmann: Retired Superintendent Dr. Menno Smid passed away. Obituary for the long-time chairman of the regional synodal committee from the district of Ostfriesland . Accessed November 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Smid, Menno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Nebulous barges
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2013
Place of death Emden