Werner Marienfeld (pastor)

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Werner Siegfried Marienfeld (born June 6, 1908 in Talskeim , Bartenstein district , † May 20, 1989 in Dortmund ) was a Protestant pastor.

Life

Pastor Marienfeld took up his first pastor's position in the Church of the Birth of Mary in Wielitzken or Wallenrode , Treuburg district , around 1934 . There he refused to adopt the Führer principle and turned to the Confessing Church . He held this pastoral position until 1938.

During the years 1945 to 1948 he was noticed by his human and pastoral support in Siberia , when he took care of abducted women, girls and “boys”. For this purpose, the brochure Abducted (women and girls from East Prussia to Siberia) was published in 1979 in collaboration with his fellow sufferers at the time.

In 1949 he was pastor of the St. Katharinen parish in Brandenburg an der Havel . In September 1953 he fled to West Berlin after he was accused of participating in the uprising of June 17, 1953 .

Shortly afterwards he took over a pastor's position in Dortmund-Marten . Here a dispute arose around 1954 about denominational schools and Christian community schools, in which Marienfeld also participated.

On July 27, 1964, he was a founding member of the Association of Evangelical East Prussians . V. in Leverkusen .

From 1974 to 1984 he was treasurer and deputy chairman of the East Prussia Foundation.

Awards

Fonts

  • Evangelical Church, where to? Thoughts on the theology of the revolution , Evang. Notgemeinschaft in Deutschland e. V. Saxony near Ansbach 1975
  • Community of Evangelischer Ostpreußen eV: We were helped anyway. Sermons and devotions by East Prussian pastors. , edited by Hans Hermann Engel and Werner Marienfeld, Rautenberg, Leer 1984

literature

  • Ernst-August Marburg: He was a loyal shepherd of his flock. (PDF) In: Ostpreußenblatt . June 3, 1989, p. 23 , accessed August 23, 2018 .
  • Hermann-Ulrich Koehn: Werner Marienfeld (1908–1989). A pastor from East Prussia from Dortmund is involved in the issue of expellees. In: Church in the Revier. 24, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary notice. (PDF) In: Ostpreußenblatt . June 3, 1989, p. 22 , accessed August 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Obituary notice. (PDF) In: Ostpreußenblatt . June 10, 1989, p. 18 , accessed August 23, 2018 .
  3. ^ Gisa Bauer: Evangelical Movement and Evangelical Church in the Federal Republic of Germany: History of a Basic Conflict (1945 to 1989) , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012; Christian Halbrock: Evangelical Pastor of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church 1945–1961: Official Autonomy in the Guardian State? , Lukas Verlag, 2004
  4. ↑ Hermann-Ulrich Koehn: Protestantism and the public in Dortmund 1942/43 - 1955/56: on the interdependence of Protestantism and public life in a time of fundamental political and social upheaval , Münster: Lit-Verlag 2008, ISBN 9783825809485 , page 255 f.
  5. ↑ Benedikt Kranemann: Liturgy and Migration: The Significance of Liturgy and Piety in the Integration of Migrants in German-speaking Countries , Kohlhammer 2012, p. 113
  6. ↑ From person to person. (PDF) In: Ostpreußenblatt . October 1, 1983, p. 18 , accessed August 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Marienfeld, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marienfeld, Werner Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Talskeim , Bartenstein district
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1989
Place of death Dortmund