Theodor Werner (pastor)

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Theodor Werner (born June 12, 1892 in Homberg (Efze) , † November 10, 1973 in Celle ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor , liturgist , hymnologist and hymn writer .

Life

Theodor Werner grew up in Verden (Aller) from 1900 , where his father Otto Werner was pastor of the Zion congregation belonging to the Hanoverian Evangelical-Lutheran Free Church until 1940 . Theodor Werner studied Protestant theology , philosophy and music in Leipzig and passed the first theological exam there in 1914. Here he joined the Leipzig Wingolf . After the vicariate in the St. Pauli community in Gistenbeck and the second theological exam, he became pastor of the small cross community in Hermannsburg in 1916 . There he developed an intensive pastoral and church music activity, u. a. by founding a common choir of the (at that time) three Lutheran parishes in Hermannsburg, which were separated from each other.

In 1929 Werner changed to the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mecklenburg . He became pastor in Schloen and in 1932 pastor of St. Nicolai Church (Schelfkirche) in Schwerin . In the late period of the Weimar Republic he was a member of the national-conservative Christian-German movement . After the end of the war he became senior church councilor and obtained a license for the Mecklenburg church newspaper . From 1946 he was state superintendent and cathedral preacher in Schwerin , from 1948 at the same time lecturer in liturgy and hymnology at the state conservatory and at the regional church preacher's seminary in Schwerin. He was involved in the development of the Protestant church hymn book. In 1950 he became a member of the German Peace Committee .

In 1953 he went back to Lower Saxony and became pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover in Moringen . From 1960 he retired in Celle.

Theodor Werner was married twice. The first marriage had three children, the second two.

Hymn book songs

  • Stay with me, lord! The evening falls (1952), adaptation of Henry Francis Lyte's evening and death song Abide with me with the melody by William Henry Monk ( EG 488; EKG Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe 492)
  • To you, Lord, be praise and honor , Gloria-Patri -Strophe (EG Nordelbien 658)
  • To you, father, who you are forever , Gloria Patri stanza (EG Nordelbien 659)
  • God, be praise and honor to you , Gloria Patri stanza (EG Nordelbien 660)
  • O Jesus, you always want to see all of your loved ones around you (1952), adaptation of the Last Supper song O Jesu, än de dina by Frans Michael Franzén (EKG Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe 483)
  • This is the night that appeared to me, melody by Theodor Werner (1922), text: Kaspar Friedrich Nachtenhöfer (1684) (ELKG der SELK 32)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Zion Church in Verden
  2. ^ Christoph Weiling: The "Christian-German Movement". A study on conservative Protestantism in the Weimar Republic . Göttingen 1998, p. 345 .
  3. ^ TRE vol. 22, p. 316 sv Mecklenburg
  4. ^ Walter Bredendiek : Emil Fuchs and the beginnings of the Christian working group in the Peace Council of the German Democratic Republic. (Booklets from Burgscheidungen No. 112) Berlin 1964 online
  5. ↑ schloen-varchentin.de
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Ludwig Bernhard Wilhelm Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor, liturgist and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Homberg (Efze)
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1973
Place of death Celle