Paul Le Seur

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Memorial plaque on the Hainstein house in Eisenach

Paul Le Seur (born July 18, 1877 in Berlin , † March 13, 1963 in Potsdam ) was a German Protestant theologian , journalist and university professor .

Live and act

Le Seur studied Protestant theology and became a pastor and evangelist on June 12, 1904 ordained . From 1909 to 1925 he was inspector of the Berlin City Mission and, as the successor to Adolf Stoecker, Preacher at the City Mission Church. He became editor of the monthly newspaper Der Hochweg . In 1925 he was in Greifswald to the doctor of theology doctorate .

Activity in the Berlin city mission

Paul Le Seur received a letter from the Berlin city mission inspector Ernst Bunke on behalf of Adolf Stoecker with the offer to take up an open position as assistant preacher / pastor with the spiritual inspectors in the Reich capital in 1905. Le Seur and Stoecker met at an event in Rostock in which Le Seur and the writer Margarete von Oertzen (* 1854; † 1934) took part as the chairman of the meeting. After he had come to the conclusion that Stoecker was politically active, but that the city mission did not pursue any political purposes and that he, as city mission director, kept it free from any political action, Le Seur accepted the call to Berlin. He worked in the immediate vicinity of Stoecker and supported him in the field service in 1906 and after his death he took over his preaching service in the city mission church. When Pastor Karl von Scheven was spiritual inspector and board member of the Berlin City Mission as well as secretary of the board, Le Seur exercised the function of deputy secretary. Previously, Le Seur himself was the secretary.

Looking back, Le Seur admired Stoecker's knowledge of human nature. He assesses its anti-Semitism in a differentiated manner: “His anti-Semitism has nothing in common with Hitler's racial madness . Even back then, some muddleheads represented him, but he kept them away. He greeted the Jew, who had actually become a Christian, as a brother. He just wanted to fight back the overpowering influence of the Jewish spirit on our public life. ”Of his spiritual colleagues at the city mission, he was particularly taken with the inspector, Pastor Walter Thieme , whom he described as his friend. He valued city ​​mission inspector Ernst Buhnke for his “courage to be honest ” and for Inspector Max Braun later his “family evenings ” to attract “young and old” by singing sacred songs, performing instrumentals and poetry.

Le Seur worked for the Berlin city mission for 20 years, including the war years 1914–1918, until his appointment as head of a Christian youth leadership school in July 1925 on the Heinsberg - also known as Predigerberg - in Eisenach . His motto was: "Jesus and the youth belong together", which he first announced to the public at the inauguration of the city mission home "Free Youth" in Berlin in the Neukölln district on September 20, 1912. He was connected to the YMCA through his local youth work and especially since 1908 through orders to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ primarily to the youth in travel service, which he did in addition to his work until 1944.

Work in Eisenach

From 1925 to 1933 he headed the youth college on the Hainstein in Eisenach . During this time he joined the "Social Working Group of Protestant Men and Women of Thuringia", of which he became director in 1927. Although adjusted socially conservative, he looked after Carl Vogl the Social Democracy in analogy to the biblical "Good Samaritan" and thus a challenge for the Church . The number of members of the working group rose from 500 to 800 under Le Seur. Already in a lecture in 1927 he described "the social question as the leader question" - that is the subject of his lecture.

After 1945 he worked in West Berlin as a pastoral theological writer. Towards the end of his life his interest shifted to the desire to know about the future of the deceased.

Works

Title page of the 3rd edition of "Rulers, rule! Calls and sketches" (1913).
  • Ruler, rule - calls and sketches , Verlag Martin Warneck, Berlin, 1911
  • The master question in building the Evangelical Church. A word to the faithful among friends and to the pious among those who despise the Church , Hochweg-Verlag, Berlin, 1924
  • The indictment against the Christians , Hochweg-Verlag, Berlin , 1925
  • D. Adolf Stoecker - A memory and a call , Hochweg-Verlag, Berlin, 1928
  • Jesus. Three speeches from the Savior , Hochweg-Verlag, Berlin, 1929
  • Adolf Stoecker, the prophet of the Third Reich: memories ; Revised: Paul LeSeur; Hochweg-Verlag, Berlin, 1933
  • Heroic lifestyle and the Christian message , Hochweg-Verlag, Berlin, 1935
  • Epheser-Kolosser-Philemon , Gustav Schloeßmanns Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig, Hamburg, 1936
  • Why do we believe in Christ? , Hochweg-Verlag, Berlin, 1936
  • Adolf Stoecker. Personal memories , Hochweg-Verlag, Wuppertal, 1938
  • Confession - a forgotten means of grace , Hochweg-Verlag, Wuppertal, 1939
  • From the experience of the self to the experience of God , Hochweg-Verlag, Wuppertal, 1939
  • You carry Germany's honor! . A warning to the German soldiers to start the war; Kassel: Oak Cross, 1939
  • After dying. Questions to the Bible and its answers , Hochweg-Verlag., Wuppertal, 1953
  • The letters to the Ephesians, Colossians and Philemon , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (East) Berlin, 1954
  • From my life's picture book ; 3rd edition, Oncken Verlag , Kassel, 1957
  • The future of the dead after they die. Bible Answers ; edited by Siegward Busat; Wuppertal: Aussaat, 1974, ISBN 3-7615-0186-2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Le Seur: From my life's picture book . Verlag JC Oncken, Kassel 1955, p. 51
  2. ↑ 50 years of work in the service of faith and love. Anniversary publication of the Berlin city mission . Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt, Berlin (1927) [Ed .: Walter Thieme], p. 87 (with portrait photo of Pastor Le Seur)
  3. ↑ Guide through the Protestant Church and the ecclesiastical love work in Berlin. Edited and published by the office of the Berlin Main Association for Inner Mission. 19th edition. 1910/1911. Publishing house by KJ Müller, Evangelical book and art dealer. (Owner C. Lützkendorf.) Berlin, 1910, keyword: Berliner Stadtmission
  4. ↑ Guide through the Protestant Church and the ecclesiastical love work in Berlin. Edited and published by the office of the Berlin Main Association for Inner Mission. 18th edition. 1909/1910. Publishing house by KJ Müller, Evangelical book and art dealer. (Owner C. Lützkendorf.) Berlin, 1909, p. 140
  5. ↑ Paul Le Seur: From my life's picture book . Verlag JC Oncken, Kassel 1955, p. 57
  6. ↑ Paul Le Seur: From my life's picture book . Verlag JC Oncken, Kassel 1955, p. 65
  7. ^ Ernst Evers: The Berlin city mission. Verlag der Buchhandlung der Berliner Stadtmission , Berlin 1902, p. 91
  8. ↑ Paul Le Seur: From my life's picture book . Verlag JC Oncken, Kassel 1955, p. 67
  9. ↑ Quotation in: 100 Years of Neukölln City Mission , Editor: Siegfried Dehmel et al .; Self-published by Berliner Stadtmission, Druck u. Layout: Druckbasis GmbH Berlin, Berlin 2006, p. 8
  10. ↑ Paul Le Seur: From my life's picture book . Verlag JC Oncken, Kassel 1955, p. 79
personal data
SURNAME Le Seur, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1963
Place of death Potsdam