Otto Veeck

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Otto Veeck (born June 8, 1860 in Hettenrodt in the Birkenfeld district , † September 20, 1923 in Bremen ) was a German theologian .

biography

Veeck was the son of an agate cutter and dealer. He attended high school. Due to the loss of his father's fortune, he studied theology at the University of Strasbourg , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Jena . In 1887 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. on a religious studies topic. He was theologically oriented towards a liberal faith and interested in historical questions from an early age.

After completing his studies, he was a pastor in the area where he was born in Birkenfeld. Politically, he was active in the National Liberal Party . In 1890 he applied for a position as a preacher at Bremen Cathedral , but failed. In the same year the Michaelis congregation in Bremen appointed him pastor. There, in 1900, he managed the rebuilding of the neo-Gothic Michaeliskirche at Doventor in Bremen-Mitte , which was destroyed in 1943 and 1944.

Since 1896 Veeck also wrote as an editor for the German Protestant Journal . From 1898 to 1907 he was chairman of the German Protestant Association . Here, too, Veeck took a position of renewing the Protestant church in the spirit of evangelical freedom against an orthodox orientation, but also against the theological radicalism of Bremen , as represented by Oscar Mauritz , Albert Kalthoff and Friedrich Steudel and the Monisten . In 1907 he was a co-founder of the Liberal Church Committee .

From 1905 to 1920 Veeck took the office of secretary of the Bremen Evangelical Church (BEK), which represented the highest theological position in the BEK. Veeck wanted the church tax to be introduced, as it did in 1922.

He was also active in other church groups. His most important work in 1909 was the history of the Reformed Church in Bremen .

Works

  • Presentation and discussion of the basic religious and philosophical views , 1888
  • Buddha and Christ , R. Lesserverlag, 1893
  • Imagination and Religion , 1896
  • The position of the modern ethical movement on religion , 1899
  • History of the Reformed Church in Bremen . Bremen 1906
  • The Reformation in Bremen: a memorial book for 1917 . Bremen 1917
  • What the world needs to know about war! , 1921

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ online at the SuUB Bremen: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46:1-157
personal data
SURNAME Veeck, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Hettenrodt
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1923
Place of death Bremen