Paul Gerhard Johanssen

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Paul Gerhard Johanssen (born March 12, 1903 in Hohenfriedeberg , German East Africa ; † September 19, 1981 in Husum ) was a German Lutheran pastor and member of the Confessing Church in Schleswig-Holstein.

Life

Johanssen was born as the son of the German missionary Ernst Johanssen and his wife in 1903 in the East African Hohenfriedeberg (today Mlalo / Tanzania ), which was named after the Silesian Hohenfriedeberg . Mlalo is located in the Usambara Mountains in what is now Tanzania.

Johanssen was ordained on May 6, 1928 in Hamburg-Altona and initially appointed as provincial vicar in Nienstedten . On December 23, 1928 he became pastor in Lockstedter camp , on November 5, 1933 pastor in Kiel-Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf . In December 1933, together with 139 other pastors, he signed the declaration of no confidence in the Schleswig-Holstein regional bishop Adalbert Paulsen .

From August 25, 1935, he held the pastoral position in Osterhever - Poppenbüll - Westerhever and wrote several popular missonary writings ( Breklumer Hefte 6, 10, 14 and 17) for the Confessing Church in Schleswig-Holstein . He also took part in the writing against Gustav Frenssen with his own contribution : The North Mark in the Faith Struggle. An answer from the church to Gustav Frenssen , edited by Johannes Lorentzen , pastor in Kiel.

Since April 14, 1946 he was pastor at the parish of Itzehoe IV, since October 15, 1950, pastor in Hemme and since September 5, 1954 at the parish of Wesselburen I. His last employment as a pastor began on July 31, 1960 in the Diakonissenanstalt in Flensburg and from November 3rd 1968 in Aventoft . He was retired on April 1, 1973.

Publications

  • The hidden treasure in the baptismal sacrament (Breklumer booklet No. 6), Breklum: Office for People's Mission 1936.
  • How will it go on? In: Johannes Lorentzen (Ed.): The North Mark in the Faith Struggle. An answer from the Church to Gustav Frenssen , Breklum 1936, pp. 75–78.
  • Pray. A word on the 3rd main part (Breklumer Heft No. 10), Breklum: Office for People's Mission 1936.
  • To die? On the glory of Christian hope (Breklumer booklet no.14), Breklum: Office for People's Mission 1937.
  • Handout for confirmation classes. Considerations and experiences , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1937 (together with Reinhard Wester ).
  • The church in the house (Breklumer booklet No. 17), Breklum: Office for People's Mission 1938.
  • Order of church life. Draft , in: Junge Kirche 7 (1939) 52–58; 138-144; 231-237; 361-365; 456-462; 548-554; 650-656.
  • One day tells the other. The art of growing old , Hamburg: Agency des Rauhen Haus 1958 (18th edition 1974, again 1978).
  • Faith healings in the young churches (Christ and the World, Book 21), Bad Salzuflen: MBK- Verlag 1964.
  • Friede , Breklum: Breklumer Verlag 1965 (8th edition 1981).
  • Luck. The mother on the birth of her child , Breklum: Christian Jensen Verlag 1966 (6th edition 1979).
  • Should I not sing to my God , Hamburg: Agentur des Rauhen Haus (4th edition 1970, again 1976).

literature

  • Peter Godzik : Paul Gerhard Johanssen and his contributions to the Breklumer Hefte , in: Karl Ludwig Kohlwage , Manfred Kamper, Jens-Hinrich Pörksen (eds.): “You will be my witnesses!” Voices for the preservation of a denominational church in urgent times. The Breklumer Hefte of the ev.-luth. Confessional community in Schleswig-Holstein from 1935 to 1941. Sources on the history of the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein . Compiled and edited by Peter Godzik, Husum: Matthiesen Verlag 2018, pp. 501–504.
  • Friedrich Hammer : Directory of the pastors of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church 1864–1976 , ed. from the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History, Neumünster: Wachholtz 1991, p. 183 (with incorrect spelling Johannsen )
  • GVOBl of the NEK of 1981 (No. 20, page 187): obituary (with correct spelling Johanssen )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume II, p. 568 ff .: “... eight German mission societies in German East Africa . The Bielefelder Missionsgesellschaft , founded especially for this colony (1886) ... has two areas of work, in Usambara since 1887 with 7 stations - including Hohenfriedberg with 810 baptized the largest and Rwanda since 1907 with 5 stations. It employs 15 missionaries, 14 non-ordained (1 teacher, 13 deacons), 73 indigenous assistants and counts 1678 baptized people. ” (Online at ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de) ; P. 585: “Mlalo, large village of the Waschambaa ... in n. West Usambara, German East Africa, 1450 m. ü. d. M., in a protective position on a steep mountain cone above the Umba river. Close by is the Hohenfriedeberg mission station . M. is also called the whole landscape through which the upper Umba ... flows. " (Online at ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de)
  2. ↑ http://bbs3-hannover.de/uploads/media/2010-Tansaniaprojekt-Teil_3-HistorischeueberMlalo.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.bethel-historisch.de/index.php?article_id=33
  4. ↑ http://www.geschichte-bk-sh.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Personen/Misstüberserklaerung_von_140_Pastoren_an_Landesbischof_Paulsen.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.geschichte-bk-sh.de/index.php?id=347
  6. ↑ http://www.geschichte-bk-sh.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Breklumer_Hefte/Nordmark.pdf
  7. ↑ Reprinted in: Kohlwage, Kamper, Pörksen (ed.): “You will be my witnesses!” ... , Husum 2018, p. 115 ff.
  8. ↑ Reprinted in: Kohlwage, Kamper, Pörksen (ed.): “You will be my witnesses!” ... , Husum 2018, p. 231 ff.
  9. ↑ Reprinted again in: Kohlwage, Kamper, Pörksen (ed.): “You will be my witnesses!” ... , Husum 2018, p. 261 ff.
  10. ↑ Reprinted in: Kohlwage, Kamper, Pörksen (ed.): “You will be my witnesses!” ... , Husum 2018, p. 324 ff.
  11. ↑ Reprinted in: Kohlwage, Kamper, Pörksen (ed.): “You will be my witnesses!” ... , Husum 2018, p. 373 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Johanssen, Paul Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenfriedeberg , German East Africa
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1981
Place of death Husum