Paul Gerhardt Möller

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Paul Gerhardt Möller (born June 4, 1903 in Basel , † January 27, 1998 in Burgwedel ) was a German Protestant clergyman, missionary and theological author.

Life

Möller was ordained on October 5, 1927 in Conow , Mecklenburg , where he was introduced as a pastor. In 1932 he became a pastor in Wettmar . In 1936 he came to the Berlin City Mission as a pastor . In 1946 he became a pastor in Bad Liebenzell , in 1950 with the German Evangelical Mission Council, 1951 with the Volksmission Bayern, 1954 Loxstedt, where he was also appointed superintendent in 1955. In 1959 he became the state representative of the men's work in the office for community service of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover . In 1965 he switched to the Zurich City Mission as director. He retired on July 1, 1971.

Pastor in the Berlin city mission

Möller took over the leadership of the Neukölln city mission congregation in Berlin on October 26, 1936, which went hand in hand with the inauguration of a new church hall, which was built by converting the former gymnasium of the house of the "Free Youth / YMCA South". At the same time Möller became inspector of the Berlin city mission . He belonged to the Confessing Church like his superior, City Mission Director Walter Thieme . At the beginning of the 1940s, as pastor of the Berlin city mission congregation, he put his protective cover over a Jewish family and hid them in the attic. In a commemorative publication for the 100th anniversary of the Neukölln City Missionary Congregation in 2006, Möller was honored in particular for his public advocacy and his help for fellow Jews “at the beginning of Nazi rule”.

Works

  • When he got me. Encounters with Christians from the Far East (Berlin 1952)
  • Why they became Christians. Encounters in East Asia (Bad Salzuflen 1962)
  • Christians in the Far East. Risk and Chance (Stuttgart 1967)
  • How we started again in: "God loves this city. 100 years of the Berlin City Mission; 1877 - 1977" / [Ed .: Siegfried Dehmel,], publisher Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin 1977, pp. 105-107
  • There is joy in you (Hermannsburg 1980)

literature

  • Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover 4/1998, p. 63

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ parish almanac for the ecclesiastical province Mark Brandenburg. Published by the Evangelical Consistory of the Mark Brandenburg. As of April 1, 1939 (changes after going to press taken into account if possible) . Verlag Trowitzsch & Sohn Berlin 1939, "Section VII. Clergy of the Outer and Inner Mission", p. 441, see on P. Paul Gerhardt Möller .
  2. ↑ 100 years of the Berlin City Mission Neukölln. 1906–2006, [Editor: Elke Schmidt-Bayer / Siegfried Dehmel / Klaus Vesper] Publisher: Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin 2006, p. 40 (time table regarding Möller) and photo: Paul Gerhardt Möller, on p. 11
  3. ↑ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: "It is asked to monitor the church services ..." Religious communities in Berlin between adaptation, self-assertion and resistance from 1933 to 1945 , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 1914, p. 235 f .; ISBN 978-3-86732-184-6
  4. ↑ 100 years of the Berlin City Mission Neukölln. 1906–2006, [Editor: Elke Schmidt-Bayer / Siegfried Dehmel / Klaus Vesper] Publisher: Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin 2006, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Paul Gerhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical clergyman, missionary and theological author
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1998
Place of death Burgwedel