Theodor Vierck

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Theodor "Theo" Vierck (born December 4, 1910 in Ausackerholz ; † January 5, 1998 in Kiel ) was a German Protestant pastor, long-time director of the Heimvolkshochschule on Koppelsberg and a member of the Confessing Church in Schleswig-Holstein .

Life

family

Theodor Vierck was married and had several children. During the war and the construction of the parsonage in Moorrege , his wife lived temporarily in Bad Bentheim , where the children were born. After his professional change to Schleswig, the family lived in the St. John's Monastery outside Schleswig . Theodor Vierck is the father of the archaeologist Hayo Vierck .

Theological position in National Socialism

Theodor Vierck adhered to members of the Confessing Church early on and finally joined the “Confessional Community of the Evangelical Lutheran Church ”. Landeskirche Schleswig-Holstein ” , but was not drafted into military service. Vierck was Otto von Dorrien's companion and later reported on him as an eyewitness in publications such as the Breklumer Hefte or “Zeit, die Narrien ” .

Professional activity

After his ordination on June 31, 1935 in Kiel, he was first assistant chaplain in Uetersen , before he took over the 3rd parish of the parish Uetersen "Am Kloster" in 1936, from which the parish Moorrege-Heist emerged. Under his leadership, the foundations for the parish, which became independent in 1954, were laid and the pastorate with the church hall was built in 1938/39. After the end of the Second World War, he moved to the Diakonissenanstalt Flensburg as a hospital chaplain in 1946 and then to the state hospital in Schleswig in 1952 . In 1955, Vierck took over the management of the newly founded Evangelical Lutheran Landvolk University in Koppelsberg, succeeding Otto von Stockhausen, and expanded it further, so that the entire school building could be inaugurated in 1961. Until his retirement on July 1, 1976, Vierck had been pastor of the Flintbek parish since 1966 .

literature

  • Theodor Vierck: 10 years of Ev. Luth. Landvolk-Hochschule Koppelsberg , Sönksen (Plön), 1964.
  • Theodor Vierck: An open evening with Professor Caspari. In: Writings of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History. Series 2. Vol. 43 (1987) p. 175 f.
  • Theodor Vierck: Friedrich Ernst Peters. Thoughts and poems - a memory . In: Rendsburger Jahrbuch 1990. pp. 4–23.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Bierbrauer , Obituary for Hayo Vierck in: Early Medieval Studies. Vol. 23, 1989, pp. 478-485. accessed on July 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Prehn (ed.), Time to take the narrow path: Witnesses report on the church struggle in Schleswig-Holstein, Lutherische Verlagsgesellschaft Kiel, 1985.
  3. ^ Dahl, Miterlebte Kirchengeschichte , p. 125, accessed on July 22, 2020.
  4. ↑ Little Church Guide from St. Michael Moorrege-Heist p. 2, accessed on July 22, 2020.
  5. ↑ Obituary notice GVOBl 1998/3 p. 82, accessed on July 22, 2020.
  6. ↑ From the rural community college to the academy on the lake. Chronicle accessed on July 22, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Vierck, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vierck, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Ausackerholz
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1998
Place of death Kiel