Preachers' seminar Soest
The Soest Preachers' Seminar , most recently the Preachers' Seminar of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , was a preachers' seminar for post-university training for pastors in the Westphalian regional church . It existed for 107 years and was located in Soest in the immediate vicinity of the Neu-St. Thomä. The location was closed on January 31, 1999 and the seminar initially continued as a department in the institute for education, training and further education of the Westphalian regional church in Haus Villigst in Villigst . Since 2009, four West German regional churches have been running the seminar for pastoral training in Wuppertal as a joint seminar for preachers.
The Predigerseminer Soest is or was not identical with the Church seminar abroad in Soest.
background
The Protestant regional church of the older provinces of Prussia opened the Protestant seminary in Soest on February 26, 1892 in the buildings of the Minorite monastery, which was secularized in 1814 . Between 1819 and 1881 the teachers' seminar for Westphalia was located here . The seminary founded in 1817 in Wittenberg should serve as a model for the establishment of the seminary . The original responsibility of the seminary extended to the Westphalian and Rhenish church provinces . Initially, the Evangelical Reformed candidates were also among the addressees of the training. In 1929 an Evangelical Reformed Candidate Foundation was founded for them in Wuppertal- Elberfeld . For the candidates of the Rhenish church province there has also been a separate seminar since 1930, which was initially in Düsseldorf, then in Bad Kreuznach .
During the so-called Third Reich, the split in the old Prussian Protestant Church also affected the work of the Preachers' Seminar: The Soest Seminary was closed from 1934–1937. During this time there was a seminar of the Confessing Church in Bielefeld-Sieker . In the following years there were at times several training locations, such as the seminar of the Old Prussian Evangelical Higher Church Council in Bünde- Dünne from 1937 to 1941 and the seminar of German Christians in Burgsteinfurt from 1938 to 1939 .
After severe war damage (December 6, 1944 and March 7, 1945), seminars no longer took place or were held at a different location ( Brackwede near Bielefeld ). On July 23, 1953, the Westphalian regional synod decided in a battle vote for the Soest location. This can also be seen as a reaction to the Catholicism that grew stronger in Soest after the Second World War. The new buildings of the seminar were occupied on November 15, 1955. At the same time there was another seminar in Dortmund from 1959 to 1971.
Women had been admitted to the seminary since 1961.
Seminar directors
- Theodor Nottebohm 1891–1901
- Gotthold Müller 1901–1909
- Otto Zänker 1912-1924
- Karl Winter 1924–1936
- Wilhelm Bartelheimer 1937 (acting)
- Friedrich Schauer 1937–1945 / 47
- Edmund Schlink , 1945-1946
- Hans-Heinrich Wolf , 1946 (acting)
- Hans Thimme 1947–1957
- Werner Danielsmeyer 1957-1965
- Alex Funke 1965–1968
- Peter Stolt 1971–1982
- Rolf-Walter Becker 1982–1992
- Werner M. Ruschke 1993-1999
Other people who taught at the seminar
- Wilhelm Möller , 1900 inspector of the seminary
- Johannes Hymmen , 1903 inspector of the seminary
- Friedrich Büchsel , 1907–1909 inspector of the seminary
- Hermann Schaffs , 1909–1910 inspector of the seminary
- Hermann Werdermann , 1913 study inspector at the seminary
- Reinhard Mumm , had a teaching position at the seminar from 1960–1967
- Martin Stiewe , 1962–1967 study inspector at the seminary
- Siegfried Kettling , study inspector at the seminary
- Gnana Robinson , 1987–1993 visiting professor at the seminary
literature
- Ulrich Rottschäfer: 100 Years of the Preachers' Seminar in Westphalia 1892-1992. Bielefeld 1992.
- Werner M. Ruschke: Seminary in Soest 1892–1999 - a piece of town history comes to an end! In: Soester magazine. 11/1999, pp. 116-134.
- Peter Stolt: The history of the seminary of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia. In: Yearbook for Westphalian Church History 75 (1982), pp. 69–95.
swell
- ↑ Werner M. Ruschke: Preachers' seminar in Soest 1892–1999 - a piece of city history comes to an end! In: Soester magazine. 11 1999, p. 118 and 122, here with reference to Theodor Nottebohm.
- ↑ Werner M. Ruschke: Preachers' seminar in Soest 1892–1999 - a piece of city history comes to an end! In: Soester magazine. 11 1999, p. 130.
- ↑ Werner M. Ruschke: Preachers' seminar in Soest 1892–1999 - a piece of city history comes to an end! In: Soester magazine. 11 1999, p. 131.