Paul Lütge

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Senior Pastor Paul Lütge

Paul Lütge (born May 25, 1863 in Lübeck ; † December 16, 1921 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor at St. Aegidien .

Life

origin

He was born as the son of the pastor at St. Jacobi Friedrich August Johann Lütge and his wife Helene, née Gädeke, and grew up with three sisters in a very happy home. About the father's favorite words: "The joy in the Lord is my strength" ( Nehemia 8:10  LUT ) he was later to give his funeral oration.

career

Lütge was shaped by the personality and management of his father and his conviction that genuine religiosity never leads to head-hungry brooding , but is something joyful.

After Lütge had left the Katharineum in 1883 with the school leaving certificate , he spent his academic years in Erlangen , Göttingen , Berlin and Tübingen . During his studies he joined the Christian student union Uttenruthia , to which his father was a Philistine , as a freshman , and befriended his brother Ernst Troeltsch . Among his academic teachers, the New Testament researcher , D. Carl Weizsäcker in Tübingen and the native of Schleswig-Holstein , with Professor D. Julius Kaftan, was to be bound by a lifelong cordial friendship, especially in Berlin.

Back in Lübeck, Lütge was accepted as one of the candidates for the Ministry of Spirituality . In the fall of 1888 he was initially hired as the personal vicar of his aging father at the Jakobikirche and ordained as such on September 28th . The following summer the St. Aegidiengemeinde elected to be their pastor .

Even as a young pastor, Lütge's preaching style was very attractive to his audience. The number of listeners gathered under his pulpit grew steadily. They also came from other communities . He captivated them with peculiar and aptly chosen texts. He always won new pages from well-known biblical passages and, by placing them in a new light, made them fruitful for religious life. He was passionate about the moral demands of the gospel . He enjoyed a general respect among his fellow officials or a personal friendship with them. Even those who viewed church life from a different theological or ecclesiastical point of view appreciated the seriousness of his religious convictions and the purity of his convictions.

Like Fritz von Uhde , whom Lütge valued very much, he placed Jesus with his demands and promises among his contemporaries in order to achieve them. The gifted preacher was known for carefully elaborating and honing all of his sermons and official speeches. As a pastor he had the gift to put himself in the mood of others and to elevate, edify or comfort himself through simple, deep and always meaningful words. Here, a visit to the community took a significant part of both his time and labor in claim . In addition, he was pastor of the Sisterhood of the Patriotic Women's Association of the Red Cross .

Lütge influenced other church circles with his work in the synod . He was their secretary from 1905 to 1914. When main pastor Holm retired in 1914, the parish council appointed him as his successor and since then has been deputy and from 1916 chairman of the synod. He accompanied and promoted all innovations taking place in the church field with lively sympathy.

In the non-profit organization , Lütge was a member of the Lübeckische Blätter committee for several years .

In Lübeckischen country Warriors Association Lütge was for years a regular speaker operates. Until his death, even in the time when it was not opportune, he was a passionately professed “ German ”. His behavior in that regard for the " heroic death " of his son in the spring of 1918 in one of his obituaries laudable been called.

He had still worked on the work of the Constitutional Commission, which had been entrusted with the preparation of a new church constitution, often pointing to new and good things. However, he was no longer able to lead the debate on the new constitution in the synod. The infirmity had already tied him to the bed.

As chairman of the synod, he traveled to the preparatory church convention in Kassel and the Luther Festival in Worms .

The first signs of a heart condition made themselves felt in Lütge as early as 1911 and forced a break of several months. After the death of his son in the spring of 1918, the end of the war and a busy winter, he collapsed on the Saturday before Palm Sunday . After he returned in autumn 1919, the disease returned in summer 1920. He gave his last sermon on August 7, 1920. His sermon, which was already prepared for August 14th, on the text “He took him particularly from the people” ( Mark 7.33  EU ) was published in January 1922 as Lütge's last greeting.

family

Shortly after Lütge became a pastor, he married Sophie, a née Plitt, on September 3, 1889 in Erlangen .

HL Back then - Johannes Lütge.jpg

His son, Johannes, born in 1894, attended the Katharineum until Easter 1913. to study theology in Tübingen and at the same time to fulfill his military duties. In the war , he moved on September 6, 1914 in the direction of Poland into the box and was already on 28 October 1914, the Iron Cross . Before Kutno he was severely wounded in the foot. In the spring of 1915 in the Vosges , in the autumn of 1916 in Romania . For storming a hilltop there he received the EK I. After he was in Lorraine , he was deployed in Flanders near Poelkappelle . In the spring offensive , Lieutenant d. R. to his machine gun company (MGK) when he was seriously wounded on March 28, 1918 ( Maundy Thursday ), died a " heroic death " in the Gouy field hospital on Good Friday and was buried in the Férin military cemetery on Easter Sunday .

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Lütge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf: Ernst Troeltsch: Critical Complete Edition: Troeltsch, Ernst, Bd.13: Reviews and Critiques (1915-1923): Volume 13 ; Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2010, page 129, ISBN 978-3110221992
  2. ↑ In theology, however, the honorary doctorate is not abbreviated to "hc", honoris causa, but "D."
  3. ↑ Honor roll. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1918, number 18, edition of April 28, 1918.
personal data
SURNAME Lütge, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1921
Place of death Lübeck