Rufus Flügge

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Rufus Flügge (center) in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church in Roderbruch in Hanover on the occasion of his 80th birthday;
in conversation with the dean of the Catholic St. Martin community there , Bernd Galluschke

Rufus Flügge (born September 11, 1914 in Hamburg , † April 21, 1995 in Hanover ) was a Protestant theologian who was also privately socially critical as well as diaconal and engaged in the peace movement.

Life

Career

Rufus Flügge was born as the last of seven children to the Baptist clergyman Carl August Flügge and Maria Flügge-Novotna from Prague . He grew up in Kassel , where he shortly after the seizure of power by the National Socialists took off in 1933 at Easter graduated from high school. He then studied Protestant theology and art history at the Royal Albertus University in Königsberg i. Pr. , But quickly got into conflict with the "Sturmabteilung" ( SA ) in Königsberg and therefore switched to the University of Erlangen for a short time after the first semester . In autumn 1934 Flügge went to Switzerland , where he studied at the University of Zurich and Basel with Emil Brunner and Karl Barth . It was also in Basel that he met Marianne Oeri , and through her also many artists, writers and philosophers. But Flügge returned to Germany to take his exam in Erlangen with Paul Althaus .

In 1938 and 1939 Rufus Flügge attended the Baptist seminary in Hamburg and married Marianne Oeri in Basel on July 17, 1939. His wife, who had previously organized Swiss refugee aid for children in need in the Spanish Civil War , advised him to stay in Germany and "[...] take political responsibility against the Nazi demon" there.

Although Flügge was not drafted into the military due to a heart defect, he took up one of the six preaching posts in Königsberg on September 1, 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War . There he and his wife soon belonged to the circle of friends around the art historian Wilhelm Worringer , in which people gathered to preserve at least their internal independence or democratic traditions.

As a member of the army he worked as a sanitary - sergeant in a military hospital and escaped with this 1945 at the time of the Battle of Königsberg . However, Flügge was interned in Denmark , where he worked as a pastor for other refugees and was involved in a work for religious instruction in the refugee camps .

The Israeli author and rabbi from Jerusalem Elazar Benyoëtz in 1995 in the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer parish in Hanover-Roderbruch after his speech during the funeral for Rufus Flügge

In 1946 Flügge came to Lower Saxony and in the same year joined the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . The following year, in 1947, he became a pastor in Clausthal-Zellerfeld and at the same time took on the position of student pastor at the Clausthal Mining Academy there.

In 1960, Flügge became superintendent in Celle , and in 1963 city ​​superintendent in Hanover . He worked intensively in the emerging peace movement, even after his retirement in 1979.

Gravestone in the Kirchrode district cemetery

After the death of Rufus fledging the funeral was held for the deceased in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church in Hanover district Roderbruch held with the participation of Rabbi Elazar Benyoëtz ( Jerusalem ), Pastor Wolfgang Raupach-Rudnick, organist Manfred Brandstetter and singers of the Bach Choir Hannover headed by Anne Brandstetter and Ulrich Frey from Aktion Sühnezeichen (AGDF).

family

Rufus Flügge was married to Marianne Flügge-Oeri (1911-1983). The lawyer Sibylla Flügge is his daughter.

Honors

  • During his lifetime, the capital of Lower Saxony honored the theologian and peace activist with the Hanover city plaque in 1981 .

Works

  • Michael A. Kielius, Robert Groteclaes (draftsman): Biblical history. For religious instruction in the German refugee camps in Denmark , with an appendix by Rufus Flügge, [Copenhagen]: Church Service for Refugees in Denmark, 1946

literature

Web links

Commons : Rufus Flügge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding , Jens Schmidt-Clausen wrote in the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon (sd): "[...] 1942 in Königsberg Baptist preacher."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jens Schmidt-Clausen: FLÜGGE, (3) Rufus (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c Thomas and Sibylla Flügge, Claudia Behr: curriculum vitae , in this: Rufus Flügge. * September 11, 1914, † April 21 , 1995 , brochure DIN A5 (36 pages), posthumously in memory, Berlin; Frankfurt am Main; Bristol: self-published, [o. D., 1995]
  3. ↑ a b see work information in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ NN : Funeral for Rufus Flügge ... , leaflet DIN A5 (6 pages), Hanover: Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Kirchengemeinde, 1995
  5. ↑ "We can change the world". In: frankfurt.de. City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on August 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fledglings, Rufus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and activist of the peace movement
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1995
Place of death Hanover