Otto Armknecht

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Otto Armknecht and his wife Cäcilie Armknecht, b. Lyssmann
Lutheran Gold , Confessions, Hanover, 1910, Verlag Heinrich Feesche ; Artist signature : C. Wenzel
The oldest preserved tomb in the Ricklingen city cemetery is the honorary grave for the pastor of the Zionskirche in Linden-Süd, which was set up for the duration of the cemetery existence
“I know that my Redeemer lives ”; Inscriptions on the memorial for Otto and Cäcilie, née Lysmann (* February 6, 1860; † August 4, 1941)

Heinrich Adolf Otto Armknecht (born November 16, 1853 in Clausthal , † October 25, 1908 in Linden ) was a German Protestant clergyman , an important pastor for the poor and benefactor .

Life

Born at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , Otto Armknecht enrolled in the year of the proclamation of the German Empire on April 25, 1871 to study theology at the University of Leipzig . In the same year the university punished him with a day in the dungeon for "nocturnal mischief ".

In the budding industrial city Linden and as the successor of the pastor Gustav Heinrich Karl Tovote which it found in only three years Linden-South had held, had Otto Armknecht there from 1883 until his death in 1908, charitable to the poor around the community of Zion Church.

The popular preacher wrote numerous very short devotions in popular language, which were later selected by his widow from his estate and summarized in bound sermon collections.

Otto Armknecht was buried in the Ricklingen city cemetery , where he was given the first honorary grave in the cemetery. The inscription contains the clergyman's motto :

" I am the resurrection and the life ,
I know that my Savior lives."

Armknecht's former place of work, the Zionskirche, was renamed at the time of National Socialism , when - in the middle of World War II - the Nazi women in 1943 demanded a renaming instead of the "[...] too Jewish " sounding name of the church (" Zion ") . The newly chosen name Erlöserkirche was based on the motto often used by Otto Armknecht.

After Armknecht's death in 1909, the mission preacher Otto Oehlkers succeeded him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Seven mission sermons. (in Gothic script ), Verlag der Missionshandlung, Hermannsburg 1897.
  • Lutheran gold. From the Lutheran confessions. Multiple editions. 4th-14th Thousand. Verlag Heinrich Feesche, Hanover, 1910
  • Zion rays. Daily devotions. Selected from the estate of Otto Armknecht. With a foreword by Regional Bishop D. Ihmels, Leipzig. 4th edition, Bookstore of the Nordbund, Hamburg [o. D., 1930].
  • Praise God you pious Christians! A Lutheran devotional book for every day (the Zion rays second part) selected from the estate of Otto Armknecht, former pastor at the Zion Church in Hannover-Linden. With a foreword by Regional Bishop D. Marahrens, Abbot of Loccum. 1st - 3rd Tausend, Hamburg: Bookshop of the Nordbund, 1938.

Literature (selection)

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hanoverian biography. Vol. 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 (in Gothic script), Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, p. 330.

Web links

Commons : Otto Armknecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Bettelheim (ed.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. With the constant participation of Guido Adler, F. von Bezold, Alois Brandl ... et al. , Berlin: G. Reimer, 1910, p. 402; Preview over google books
  2. ^ A b Peter Schulze : Ricklingen City Cemetery. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 587 f .; books.google.de
  3. ^ Contributions to Otto Armknecht in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ a b c d Ella Weber (text), Silke Beck, Cordula Wächter, Klaus Helmer (ed.): Stadtfriedhof Ricklingen. Ed .: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, the Lord Mayor, Green Space Office in cooperation with the Press and Information Office, Hannover 2002, p. 28; downloadable (PDF)
  5. ↑ Jens Blecher (responsible): Karzerstrafen / The Karzer and the students. Insight into our databases on the website of the Leipzig University Archives , last accessed on December 8, 2015
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 406 ff.
  7. ↑ a b c Torsten Bachmann: Linden's churches. In other words: Linden: Forays through history. Pp. 53-74, here: pp. 60 f .; books.google.de
  8. ^ EW Bussmann : Arm servant, because. Pastor Otto: Zion rays. In: Theological literary newspaper. 1926, p. 191; digizeitschriften.de
  9. ↑ Torsten Bachmann : Linden trees. Forays through history , Sutton, Erfurt circa 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-112-5 , pp. 60f .; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Arm servant, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armknecht, Heinrich Adolf Otto; Armknecht, Heinrich Adolph Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor for the poor and benefactor
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Clausthal
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1908
Place of death Linden trees