Paul Jacobshagen

Paul Hermann Friedrich Jacobshagen (born August 29, 1889 in Hämelschenburg , † January 10, 1968 in Hanover ) was a German Protestant theologian , during the time of National Socialism a local politician of the NSDAP and temporarily in leadership positions of the faith movement loyal to the regime, German Christians .

Life

Paul Jacobshagen was born as the son of a superintendent . He studied in Göttingen and Tübingen and then attended the preachers' seminar in Loccum monastery . In the middle of the First World War , he first worked as a vicar , in 1915 in Misburg and from 1916 in Lehe , before he then worked as a pastor in Imbshausen from 1919 .

During the Weimar Republic he joined the NSDAP in 1925 and in 1927 became pastor at the Hanover Garden Church , in whose congregation he worked until his retirement in 1960. In 1931, under his leadership, 50 to 60 of the 1,000 or so clergymen of the Hanoverian regional church gathered for the Hanoverian Conference of Völkischer Pastors , which the historian Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann describes as "the ideological core" of the emerging German Christians .

In the year of the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Paul Jacobshagen was elected district councilor for the NSDAP. In the same year he was appointed the Hanoverian regional leader of the Faith Movement German Christians and worked from September 1933 to July 1934 as acting general superintendent for the district of Hanover . Although Jacobshausen was a Nazi by conviction , he soon opposed Alfred Rosenberg's efforts to de-Christianize . In July 1934 the pastor resigned from the German Christian organization and was expelled from the NSDAP in 1941.

After the end of the Second World War , Jacobshagen was denazified in 1946 . He remained pastor of the garden church congregation until he retired in 1960.

literature

Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann : From the “old fighter” to the church opponent. The broken life story of Pastor Paul Jacobshagen in the time of National Socialism. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 43 (1989), pp. 179–198.
Karl-Friedrich Oppermann : Jacobshagen, Paul Friedrich Hermann. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 185; online through google books .
Karl-Friedrich Oppermann: Jacobshagen, Paul Friedrich Hermann. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 320.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Karl-Friedrich Oppermann: JACOBSHAGEN, Paul Friedrich Hermann (see literature).
↑ Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann: “Kirchenkampf” or Modus vivendi? On the behavior of pastors, parishes and church leadership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover during the years of the National Socialist dictatorship. In: Heinrich Grosse, Hans Otte , Joachim Perels (eds.): Preserving without confessing. The Hannoversche Landeskirche under National Socialism. Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7859-0733-8 , pp. 223-252, pp. 227 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Jacobshagen, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jacobshagen, Paul Hermann Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian, politician (NSDAP), temporarily member of the "German Christians"
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hämelschenburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1968
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Karl-Friedrich Oppermann: JACOBSHAGEN, Paul Friedrich Hermann (see literature).

[2] Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann: “Kirchenkampf” or Modus vivendi? On the behavior of pastors, parishes and church leadership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover during the years of the National Socialist dictatorship. In: Heinrich Grosse, Hans Otte , Joachim Perels (eds.): Preserving without confessing. The Hannoversche Landeskirche under National Socialism. Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7859-0733-8 , pp. 223-252, pp. 227 f .