Wilhelm Philipps (theologian)

Wilhelm Philipps (the elder) (born December 11, 1859 in Opherdicke , Unna district , † May 22, 1933 in Heilsbronn ) was a German Protestant theologian and politician.

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Memorial plaque , Schönwalder Allee 26, in Berlin-Hakenfelde

His parents were the pastor in Opherdicke Wilhelm Philipps (1831-1894) and Mathilde von Velsen (1836-1872).

After studying theology and doing his doctorate as D. theol. he worked as an assistant preacher in Greifswald . From 1886 to 1890 he was city mission inspector of the Berlin city mission set up by Adolf Stoecker in 1877 , after which he was clergyman of the Evangelical Association for church purposes for two years . From 1892 to 1912 he worked as a board member of the Evangelical Johannesstift , which was founded in 1858 by Johann Heinrich Wichern based on the model of the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg with the task of educating and caring for the physically handicapped and difficult to educate as well as a training center for deacons in Berlin. From 1907 to 1910 the monastery was moved from Plötzensee to Spandau , built as a new facility according to his ideas and inaugurated on September 18, 1910. For this he managed to win financial sponsors, whereby his family connections were also helpful, because his wife was Lydia Bolle (1868–1927) from the family of the entrepreneur Bolle . After his departure, Philipps remained connected to the monastery as a curator . In 1917 he was appointed head of the Berlin city mission and chairman of the association of the same name, and he retained this office until 1933. The city missionary and inspector Erich Schnepel , hired by Philipps at the end of 1918, remembered a first personal interview with his superior, through which the city mission director Philipps "(became) an infinitely loyal fatherly friend" and "was a special kind of support for the struggles in the east of Berlin . " After 1918 he was a member of the Positive Union and the Old Prussian General Synod . He was also co-editor, together with Ernst Bunke , of the Berlin church newspaper Die Reformation , which was produced in the then printing house of the Berliner Stadtmission Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt . As a nearly 70-year-old Philipps wrote down his memories of Stoecker for the public because he had “been asked” repeatedly not to “take them to the grave” and he hoped to encourage “a number of readers” to “engage with him in more detail too busy ...".

Politically, he was one of the supporters of Adolf Stoecker's Christian social movement. From 1912 to 1916 he was chairman of the Christian Social Party , for which he initially ran unsuccessfully in 1913 in constituency 54 (Charlottenburg), but was elected as a member of the Prussian House of Representatives on September 20, 1918 through a substitute election in constituency 71 ( Köslin 1) . In 1919 he became a co-founder of the German National People's Party (DNVP), in 1927 chairman of the German Protestant labor organizations and vice-president of the Church-Social Federation as well as a member of the Federal Committee of the German Evangelical People's Association for Public Mission of Christianity (DEVB). Philipps was one of the major church politicians of the Weimar Republic. He always viewed the service in the Berlin City Mission as service to the Protestant Church. Especially in the last year of his life, Philipps campaigned for the founding of city mission congregations, called "mission stations" in his time, in the areas affected by settlement activity in the city of Berlin.

Pastor's family

Pastor Wilhelm Philipps and his wife Lydia, née Bolle, their son Johannes was born on May 28, 1891 in Berlin. The parental home enabled the son to attend a humanistic high school. After graduating, Johannes Philipps studied mathematics, physics and chemistry in Göttingen, Berlin, Cambridge Jena and Marburg. With the financial support of his parents for his livelihood, son Johannes was able to write a doctoral thesis and in 1919 was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD at the Philipps University of Marburg . After Johannes Philipps had worked in the private insurance industry for the first time from 1920, he worked from 1925 to 1928 as a consultant and government councilor in the Reich Supervisory Office for Insurance. After leaving this Reich authority, Johannes Philipps became director and board member of what was then Mannheimer Lebensversicherungs-Bank AG in Berlin.

Pastor Wilhelm Philipps found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

His nephew Dr. Wilhelm Philipps (the younger; * 1892; † 1982), headed the Johannesstift from 1932 to 1939.

Fonts

• Bad housing conditions, a source of immorality , lecture given at the conference of moral associations in Germany in Kassel on August 20, 1889, Berlin 1889
• The necessity of an organized struggle against immorality , lecture held at the first public meeting of men of the men's association for the promotion of public morality in Breslau on June 22, 1890, Berlin 1890
• Moral Police , Berlin 1892
• What can be done to effectively counter prostitution? (= Historical sources on the women's movement and gender issues. 40), presentation for the District Synod Berlin II, which met on May 4, 1896, Berlin 1896
• Festschrift for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Evangelical Johannesstift in Plötzensee-Berlin , Berlin 1908
• Festschrift for the inauguration of the Evangelical Johannesstift in Spandau on September 18, 1910 , Berlin 1910
• Germany, the executor of divine will (sermon), Berlin 1915
• Work report on the first decade 1916/1926 - Conference of German Protestant Labor Organizations , Berlin 1927
• Memories of Stoecker , Berlin 1932

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Section VII. Clergy of the Outer and Inner Mission, in: Pfarralmanach für die Kirchenprovinz Mark Brandenburg. Published by the Evangelical Consistory of the Mark Brandenburg
2. ↑ Guide through the Protestant Church and the ecclesiastical love work in Berlin . Edited and edited by the Evang. Association for church purposes, connected with the Berlin main association for internal mission. 24th edition, year 1920, keyword: "Association for Berlin City Mission (legal person)"
3. ↑ Schnepel, Erich: Letters from the East of Berlin , first volume, Verlag "Junge Gemeinde", Stuttgart, 1953, p. 19
4. ^ Philipps, D. Memories of Stoecker , Verlag "Die Reformation", Berlin (1932), foreword
5. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 299 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 252-255.
6. ^ Obituary with portrait photo in: Berlin Church Calendar 1934 . Verlag Agentur des Rauen Haus, Hamburg, p. 183
7. ↑ Keyword: Philipps, Johannes. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .

literature

• Jochenjacket: Church between monarchy and republic , Hamburg 1976
• Bernhard Mann: Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 , Düsseldorf 1988, p. 299 (No. 1736)
• Carsten Nicolaisen : Wilhelm Philipps In: Religion in Past and Present , 4th edition, Tübingen 2003, p. 1280 (Volume 6)
• B. Moeller, B. Jahn: German Biographical Encyclopedia of Theology and Church , Munich 2005, p. 1052f (Volume 2)
• Helmut Bräutigam: Courage for small deeds. The Evangelical Johannesstift 1858–2008 , Berlin 2008