Wilhelm Kieckbusch

Wilhelm Paul Carl Kieckbusch (born May 28, 1891 in Hamburg ; † March 26, 1987 in Stockelsdorf ) was a German teacher, Evangelical Lutheran pastor and bishop of Eutin .

Life

Kieckbusch came from a small family and, after attending the teachers' seminar in 1912, first became a primary school teacher in Hamburg-Bergedorf . He was seriously wounded in the First World War in 1915, graduated from high school in 1916 while recovering in Hamburg, and began studying theology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in 1916 . In the same year he was drafted again and was taken prisoner by the French until 1920. He then continued his studies and passed the first theological exam in Hamburg in 1922. In 1924 he was ordained there after the second exam and pastor at St. Michaelis . In 1929 he became pastor in Malente-Gremsmühlen in Holstein , which was part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Province of Lübeck in the Free State of Oldenburg . After the death of the leading clergyman of this small regional church, Provost Paul Rahtgens , Kieckbusch was elected his successor in 1930. Wilhelm Kieckbusch was referred to as a " Stahlhelmpastor " and a "national agitator" because of his strong German national and anti-Semitic attitude. District President Heinrich Böhmcker , who had to leave the church for political reasons in 1937, tried in vain to convince Kieckbusch to join the NSDAP .

Kieckbusch remained in office during the time of National Socialism and afterwards until his retirement in 1977, from 1961 with the title of bishop of his regional church. His attitude to National Socialism remains ambivalent. On the one hand, he rejected the German Christians because they wanted to abolish the Old Testament and the associated Jewish influence in the Bible, but after the Second World War he refused to recognize the Stuttgart confession of guilt .

Sermons

Wilhelm Kieckbusch also preached in the Low German language.

• Plattdütsche sermon; in: “Yearbook of the Eutin District ” ( Eutin home association ); Eutin 1970 (pages 9-14)
• Lord, bliew bi us (Low German sermon); in: "Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde - Eutin" ( Heimatverband Eutin ); Eutin 1979 (pages 152-154)
• “Wi sünd nu Gott sien Kinner” - Low German sermon from December 31, 1980; in: "Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde - Eutin" ( Heimatverband Eutin ); Eutin 1981 (pages 8-11)
• Christmas sermons from 1945 and 1980; in: "Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde - Eutin" ( Heimatverband Eutin ); Eutin 1988 (pages 156-161)
• Thanksgiving Sermon 1958; in: "Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde - Eutin" ( Heimatverband Eutin ); Eutin 1989 (pages 226-229)

literature

• Hansjörg Buss:  Kieckbusch, Wilhelm Paul Carl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. 787-795.
• Otto Rönnpag: Bishop Wilhelm Kieckbusch - 90 years. In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde - Eutin ( Heimatverband Eutin ); Eutin 1981, pp. 107-109
• Otto Rönnpag: Bishop Wilhelm Kieckbusch on the 100th birthday. In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde - Eutin ( Heimatverband Eutin ); Eutin 1991, pp. 127-132

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lawrence D. Stokes: Small town in National Socialism, sources and research on the history of Schleswig Holstein, ed. from the Society for Schleswig Holstein History. Volume 82, p. 636, 1984. Karl Wachholtz Verlag Neumünster.
2. ^ Provost Kieckbusch

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Kieckbusch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Kieckbusch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Provost Kieckbusch in: National Socialism in Eutinian. A project of the advanced history course in grades 12 and 13. Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gymnasium, Eutin

predecessor	Office	successor
Paul Rahtgens	Provost of the Ev.-Luth. Regional Church of the Province of Lübeck in the Free State of Oldenburg 1930–1937	he himself
he himself	Provost or bishop (from 1961) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Eutin 1937–1977	Friedrich Hübner ( as bishop of the Holstein-Lübeck district of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church )