Paul Humburg

Paul Humburg (1934)

Paul Humburg (born April 22, 1878 in Mülheim am Rhein , † May 21, 1945 in Detmold ) was a German Reformed theologian .

Life

Paul Humburg studied theology at the Universities of Halle , Erlangen , Bonn and Utrecht . In 1906 he took up his first parish in Dhünn in the Bergisches Land . From 1909 to 1919 he was pastor of the Evangelical Reformed Congregation in Elberfeld . In the war years 1915 to 1918 he completed "Peace Work in War" on behalf of the German Christian Student Association (DCSV) as a volunteer field preacher on the Eastern Front , and from 1919 to 1921 he was its general secretary at the association's headquarters in Berlin . From 1921 to 1929 Humburg was federal warden of the " West German Young Men Association " (today CVJM Westbund ) in Barmen (today Wuppertal ). From 1929 to 1942 he was pastor of the Evangelical Reformed Community of Gemarke in Wuppertal-Barmen. During this time, from 1934 to 1942, Humburg was President of the Confessional Synod of the Rhineland ecclesiastical province , and from 1934 to 1936 a member of the “Provisional Leadership of the German Evangelical Church”, which met in Berlin. On January 1, 1943, Humburg, meanwhile seriously ill, retired.

Honors

The University of Bonn awarded Paul Humburg the distinction of Lic. Theol. hc, later also an honorary theological doctorate .

Works

• From the source of the word , Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission , Bad Liebenzell 1985, ISBN 978-3-88002-269-0 .
• Eternal election and noble from the ground up . Francke, Marburg an der Lahn 1991, ISBN 3-88224-933-1 .
• "Peace Work in War" About the work in soldiers' homes in the east 1915–1918 , edited and commented by Jens Ebert and Martin Humburg, series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7749-3897-7 .

literature

• Gisela Hasenknopf: From the family life of Paul Humburg. Memories of his daughter . Archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-930250-41-1 (= writings of the archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , No. 29; = Rhenish autobiographies , No. 6).
• Werner Humburg, Arno Pagel: It happened in Barmen and Stuttgart in 1936. Paul Humburg's "Injustice Sermon" by Paul Humburg and its consequences. A documentation from the time of the church struggle . Francke, Marburg 1985, ISBN 3-88224-421-6 .
• Waldemar Humburg, Walter Schmidt:  Humburg, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 51 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Sigrid Lekebusch: Paul Humburg (1878–1945). "Perseverance" - pastors and fighters for the church . In: Jürgen Kampmann (Ed.): Protestantism in Prussia. Life pictures from his history , Vol. 4: From the First World War to the division of Germany . Hansisches Druck- und Verlagshaus, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-86921-036-0 , pp. 127-148.

Web links

Commons : Paul Humburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Paul Humburg in the catalog of the German National Library