Otto Strecker (Pastor)

Otto Karl Edmund Strecker (born December 16, 1851 in Barver , † October 20, 1927 in St. Andreasberg ) was a German Lutheran clergyman and publicist. At the end of the 19th century he was the main organizer of the trumpet work of the Hanoverian regional church and founder and first chairman of the general association of Hanoverian trombone clubs, from which today's trumpet work of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover emerged .

Life

Strecker was born in Barver in 1851, where his father, Georg Strecker, was a pastor at the time. From 1866 he attended the Johanneum in Lüneburg and passed the school leaving examination there in 1873. He then studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Göttingen and Leipzig . In Göttingen he was a member of the "student choir of Georgia Augusta" (today StMV Blue Singers ). After temporarily working as the rector of the school in Dornum and completing his military service, Strecker became a parish collaborator in Salzgitter , then a pastor in Varlose and, from 1880, at the Johanniskirche in Arenshorst . In 1890 he moved to the third pastorate in the city of Gifhorn , which included the Kästorf workers' colony in particular . In 1891 he was appointed first cleric of the Evangelical Association for Inner Mission and editor of the Hanover Sunday newspaper. In 1902 he became pastor in Göttingen-Grone . In 1924 he retired, but finally took over the administration of the pastor's office in St. Andreasberg, where he died in October 1927.

With the establishment of the trombone choirs in the parishes of Herringhausen (1886) and Bohmte (1887), which belong to the parish of Arenshorst, Strecker made an early contribution to the trombone work. At the end of the 1880s he became the first chairman of the newly established Osnabrück District Association of Trumpet Choirs. During his time as a clergyman of the Evangelical Association, in 1898 he managed the merger of the district associations to form the “General Association of Hanoverian Trombone Associations” and also took over the chair there. In 1899 he published the “Choralbuch zum Ev.-luth. Hymn book of the Hanoverian regional church ”.

Works

• History of the trombone clubs in the Hanoverian Lutheran Church in their first 50 years (Hanover 1899)
• The History of the Church Supply of German Seafarers Driven by the Associated Lutheran Associations for Inner Mission (Hanover 1899)
• Three days from the life of Pastor Johann Philipp Rosenbach in Grone. Story from the Thirty Years War (Göttingen 1912)

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Lange: "His praise resounds in the trumpet sound ..." The history of the trombone choir work in the Hanoverian regional church . Münster 1999, pp. 27–30 [1]
• Wolfgang Schnabel: The Evangelical Trombone Choir Work: Origin and Order . Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993, p. 118 [2]