Werner Brockmann

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Werner Ludwig August Brockmann (born November 25, 1908 in Erfurt ; missing since January 23, 1943 in the Stalingrad area ; declared dead in 1970 on December 31, 1945) was a German pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria and a member of the Confessing Party Church during the National Socialism .

Life

The year after he was born, his parents moved with him to Munich , where his four younger siblings were born until 1921. In 1926 Werner Brockmann passed his Abitur at the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich and enrolled in the summer semester of 1926 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich to study Protestant theology. From 1927 to 1931 he continued his studies in Erlangen at the Friedrich Alexander University . In January 1928 his father died after a long illness. From 1932 to 1933 Werner Brockmann attended the Preachers' Seminar in Nuremberg . After vicar positions in Zirndorf and Fürth , he passed the employment test in 1935 and in 1937 took over the pastoral position in Sickershausen and Michelfeld , Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Kitzingen . His first wife Liselotte, whom he married in 1935, died in 1939 of pneumonia. In 1940 he married her sister Berta. A surviving daughter comes from this second marriage.

Church work

In the list of candidates for pastoral posts to be filled in 1936, he was characterized as "most decidedly belonging to the Confessing Church". Also in the appraisal of his time as vicar, written in 1937, his dean certified that he (takes) a decisive and manly attitude on the side of the professing church in "the church debates of the present (...) and (...) in it absolutely reliable (is). "

Because of the sharpness and clarity of his statements about the ruling National Socialist regime, he was more and more offensive and for a long time ran the risk of losing his license to give religious education in state elementary schools. After a complaint by the Gestapo in November 1940 for continued violations of the “ Ordinance for the Protection of the People and the State ”, he was sentenced to a fine in a penalty order in February 1941. In December 1941, the order was made to remove two bells from the 14th and 18th centuries from the tower of the Sickershausen Church of St. Johannes and to take them to a bell cemetery , which Pastor Brockmann protested in his Christmas sermon. Nevertheless, the bells were removed on December 30, 1941. However, Pastor Brockmann was denounced by a visitor to the service and then drafted into the Wehrmacht on January 15, 1942 . In May 1942 his regiment was transferred to the Eastern Front. Since January 23, 1943, he was missing as a private in the battle of Stalingrad . In 1970 he was declared dead by the Kitzingen District Court on December 31, 1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Written information from the PA department of the Federal Archives 2019
  2. ↑ Regional church archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, file number LKR 0.2.0003 - 50281
  3. ↑ Regional church archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, file number LKR 0.2.0003 - 50281
  4. ^ Church chronicle Sickershausen, page 29d
personal data
SURNAME Brockmann, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brockmann, Werner Ludwig August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1945