Oskar Schabert

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Oskar Albert Karl Schabert (born November 27, 1866 in Grobin / Kurland , † January 7, 1936 in Bad Nauheim ) was a Baltic German theologian and pastor. He was best known for his Baltic Martyrs Book , with which he set an ecumenical memorial for pastors murdered by Bolsheviks (including Traugott Hahn ) .

Life

Schabert was born on November 27, 1866 in Grobin in Courland. His parents were the cantor Albert Schabert and Caroline, geb. Eilenberg. He received his education first at the Gouvernements-Gymnasium in Riga and later at the University of Dorpat , where he studied theology. He got his first employment with the city ​​mission in Berlin , then with the seaman's mission in Hamburg . When he became pastor of the St. Gertrud Congregation in Riga in 1894 , he took on the idea of ​​the Inner Mission and founded various aid associations, including a seaman's mission, associations for Inner Mission and the “Brotherly Aid for Russia”. He himself was exiled to Siberia from 1915 to 1917 and was imprisoned in Bolsheviks in 1919. He then worked in Hamburg, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald and in 1929 became Vice President of the International Association for Internal Mission.

His publications made him known. In addition to the Baltic Martyrs Book , he made many contemporary testimonies available to the German public in the Russian Evangelical Press Service (R. Ev. P., also: Evangelium und Osten ).

family

Schabert was married twice: in 1894 he married Elise (Elsa von) Kaull , who died in 1932; In 1934 he married Adelheid Löhe.

Works

  • The Inner Mission and its related endeavors in Riga. A sketch (Church Chronicle), 1898
  • Dr. Martin Luther's 1st letter to the Livlanders , Riga 1904 (as editor)
  • 2. Letter to the Christians in Riga and Livonia
  • Cīņa pret ubagošanu un nabadzību [The fight against begging and poverty]
  • The St. Gertrud home and life in it , 1908
  • The Riga City Diakonie. History and report , 1911
  • Martyr. The suffering of the Baltic Christians , 1920
  • The inner mission in the Baltic countries. Lecture at the general community evening on July 17, 1922 in Riga
  • Twenty-five years of the Riga City Mission [1901–1926]. History and reports , Riga 1926 ( digitized version and PDF; 14.28 MB in the LNB )
  • Baltic Martyrs Book. Furche-Verlag, Berlin 1926 ( digitized at dspace.ut.ee)
  • The Wedding Vow, What It Contains, and How We Can Keep It , 1929
  • What Bolshevism has to say to Christians , 1929
  • De Baltic arbeid voor Rusland , 1931
  • Godsdienstvervolgingen in the Soviet Republic , 1932
  • The martyr D. Traugott Hahn, Dorpat , 1932
  • Faith's hardship and victory in Russia. Sermons and Addresses , 1936

literature

  • Koos-jan de Jager: Food Packages as Anti-Communist Weapons: Oskar Schabert, the Baltic Action for Russia and the Mobilization of Christians in the Netherlands, 1924-1936 . In: Journal for East Central Europe Research 69 (2020), 2, pp. 183–207.
  • Anna Katterfeld : Oskar Schabert. A caller from God. A picture of life. Erlangen 1936.
  • E. Steinwand (Ed.): Pastor DOS to the memory , Riga 1936.
  • Rita Bočarova (ed.): Letonikas grāmatu autoru rādītājs (1523-1919) , Riga 2005 ( Latvian ).
  • Christian Weise: Oskar Schabert in the BBKL .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital copies of the 1939 issues in the LNB .
personal data
SURNAME Schabert, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schabert, Oscar Albert Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German theologian, founder of a seaman's mission, author of the Baltic Martyrs' Book
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Grobin , Courland
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1936
Place of death Bad Nauheim