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Pastor Traugott Hahn

Gotthilf Traugott Hahn (* 1 February . Jul / 13. February  1875 greg. In Rauge , Livonia ; † 14. January 1919 in Tartu , Estonia ), Latvian Traugots Hans , was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and pastor . In Estonia he is considered a hero of the Estonian liberation struggle and, as for the Evangelical Church in Germany , a Christian martyr .

Life

Traugott Hahn came from a Baltic pastor's family. His father Elieser Traugott Hahn was a pastor and people's missionary, his grandfather Carl Hugo Hahn was a missionary to the Herero in German South West Africa . His mother was Rosalie "Lalla" Hahn, née Paling (1850–1904), who was just as much a pastor in the father's church as her husband. He was the oldest of six surviving children in the family.

Hahn studied from 1893 Protestant Theology at the University of Tartu and Göttingen , was born on May 16, 1899 ordained , 1902 University Pastor in Tartu, received his doctorate there with a church historical work on Tyconius was Associate Professor and in 1909 Professor of Practical Theology.

In 1903 he married Anny von zur Mühlen (1878–1974). The marriage had four children: Annemarie, Elisabeth (1907), Wilhelm Traugott Ferdinand (1909) and Beate Frieda Rosalie (1913).

The University of Dorpat was Russified by the Russian Empire between 1882 and 1893 . The theology faculty was excluded from this, but there was still a climate that excluded and disadvantaged non-Russians. In so-called house groups, Germans gave their children private lessons. Hahn's work as a pastor, preacher and professor was therefore not carefree: his appointment as professor was hindered by his colleague Ján Kvačala , who after Wilhelm Bergmann's death in 1907 also the election of Hahn as his successor as professor of practical theology until the year 1909 reared.

The Estonian national church and German theologians did not come under increasing police harassment until 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War . Hahn was taken into Russian custody in 1915, but released again after interventions by his student body. On the return trip from the prison in Saint Petersburg Hahn was able to see his father, who was also arrested, before he was transported to Siberia . In 1916 the theological faculty in Dorpat was also Russified, with the exception of practical theology, in which German, Latvian and Estonian could continue to be taught. This allowed Hahn, unlike many professors who had fled, to continue teaching in Dorpat.

Gravestone Traugott Hahn in Tartu

During the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 he was forced to flee and into hiding in January, but returned to the city on February 24, 1918, before Dorpat was occupied by German troops. The German University of Dorpat was reopened and the previously banned corporations were re-established. Hahn joined the Christian Wingolf association Arminia Dorpatensis in 1918, like his father had before in 1867 . When the German troops withdrew after the armistice with the Entente and the approach of the Bolshevik Red Army was imminent, many Germans and Estonians fled Dorpat. Hahn, who wanted to stay with his community, stayed.

When all church events were banned by the Bolsheviks, Hahn preached in the rectory and in the apartments of the parishioners, aware of the danger of arrest and execution. He was finally arrested on January 3, 1919. In the prison of the Red Army soldiers he immersed himself in prayer and also gave pastoral care to his fellow prisoners. On January 14, Estonian troops liberated Dorpat and around 300 prisoners. In the so-called murder cellar , the body of Traugott Hahn, who had been shot shortly before the communists left, was found among 23 others.

The victims of the murder cellar also included Russian Orthodox clergy, including the Bishop of Riga , Platon Kulbusch , and the priests Michael Bleive and Nikolai Beschanizki ; another evangelical clergyman among the victims was Moritz Wilhelm Paul Schwartz .

Commemoration

In Estonia, Hahn is still considered a national hero for the liberation of Estonia and a Christian martyr. The Evangelical Church in Germany also commemorates him as a martyr of the Christian faith; His feast day in the Evangelical Name Calendar is January 15th .

View of the house of Arminia Dorpatensis named after Hahn

In memory of Hahn and other Baltic martyrs, the Riga Martyrs Stone was erected in the Great Cemetery in Riga in the 1920s next to the New Chapel . It was a black granite obelisk with the names of the pastors killed in the Riga Central Prison in the upper area (see the article about Marion von Klot , who was also killed in the process) and in the lower area the names of 32 other clergymen Victims, including Hahn, were listed. Destroyed after the Second World War , the stone was rededicated in 2006.

The new house of the student association Arminia Dorpatensis ( Wingolfsbund ), which was re-established in 1994, was inaugurated as the Traugott Hahn House in Dorpat in 1995 in the presence of Traugott Hahn's son , Wilhelm Hahn , the former Minister of Culture of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

Publications (selection)

  • Tyconius studies. A contribution to the church and dogma history of the fourth century , Leipzig 1900.
  • Is the demand for a modern Christianity and a modern theology justified? Lecture on the existence of the Betharaba Association , Riga 1903.
  • Evangelism and community care. With special consideration of the Lutheran Church of Russia. Part I: The Evangelism , Reval 1909.
  • The Biblical Criticism in Religious Education (= Biblical Time and Controversial Issues, 6th series, 2nd issue) , ed. by Prof. D. Kropatschek, Berlin 1910/1911, 37–54.
  • Believe in the light. A vintage sermon and appendix , Gütersloh 1920.
  • Serve the Lord with joy. Seventeen sermons , Gütersloh 1921.
  • "Come O my Savior Jesus Christ, the door of my heart is open to you". Children's sermons based on notes from the estate of Prof. Pastor D. Theol Traugott Hahn , Gütersloh 1922.
  • God still love! Sermons from difficult times , Breklum 1955.
  • Dare with Christ! 14 sermons , Wuppertal 1955.
  • Yet I always stay with you. Sermons from difficult times , Metzingen 1976.

literature

Web links

Commons : Traugott Hahn  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  Hahn, Traugott. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 475-476.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ Traugott Hahn: Memories from my life, Volume 2. Belser-Verlag , 1923
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Erik Thomsen: Witnesses of the present God , Volume 64 u. 65: Traugott Hahn. A martyr of the Baltic Church. Brunnen-Verlag , 1954.
  4. ^ The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia. 1914. ( Memento of April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ August Winkler (Ed.): Vademekum Wingolfitikum. 7th edition. Wolfratshausen 1925, p. 287.
  6. ↑ Traugott Hahn in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Traugott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Traugott Gotthilf; Hans, Traugots (Latvian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic theologian and evangelical martyr
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Rauge
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1919
Place of death Dorpat , Estonia