Wolfgang Schiesches

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Wolfgang Arthur Detlef Schiesches (born November 25, 1931 in Königsberg , East Prussia , † August 19, 2010 in Bremen ) was a German theologian and pastor of the Bremen Evangelical Church .

biography

Wolfgang Schiesches

Schiesches studied in Glasgow , Hamburg and Göttingen . 1964 was his inauguration as pastor of the new Protestant Dietrich Bonhoeffer congregation in the Bremen district of Huchting . He has also been in charge of this new building community since it was founded.

From 1968 onwards he transformed the life of the parish in a revolutionary way. The reason for him was the low interest of the parishioners in the Sunday service. A radical reorganization should ensure more influx. Schiesches justified this as follows: “We deliberately alienate those who are loyal to the Church. We lose two percent in Bremen. But with 98 percent of people outside the church, an active congregation can be set up. ”He takes off his gown and only wears this traditional clothing“ to funerals, for example, out of consideration for the old people who need it ”. Instead of the Sunday morning service, there were discussions in the church on Sunday evenings. For him, the traditional Sunday morning church service was “such an outdated relic that there was nothing left to be reformed”. With a new congregation order, he wanted to make people who had left the church again members of his congregation. His community consisted of 4,500 mostly young people in the new building district on the southern outskirts of Bremen.

In 1969 he took part in a four-day conference with 200 Protestant and Catholic theologians and theology students in Bochum, which later became known as the 2nd Celler Conference . At this conference, Vicar Rolf Trommershäuser from Frankfurt propagated the following goals: “The destruction of capitalism. The smashing of the church is only a desired secondary goal. ”Critics accused Schiesches of repurposing the local church council according to the socialist model and infiltrating left and ultra-left people.

Schiesches was suspended from duty in January 1971. Until his final impeachment in 1972, he was given leave of absence. Henning Scherf was appointed as the provisional director of the community .

From 1991 he was active in a voter initiative We bike-euphoric Epicureans + We creative evolutionaries , which ran several times unsuccessfully for citizenship elections. He was a member of the EVG Bremen and ran a full-time print shop in Mozartstrasse, house number 31.

Schiesches had three children from his first marriage.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.klausdede.de/index.php?content=weserundjade&sub=69
  2. ↑ Beer for bees . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1968 ( online ).
  3. ↑ http://www.tristan-abromeit.de/pdf/67.2%20Jesus%20Gedanken%20Schiesches.pdf
  4. ↑ Red Bibles . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1969 ( online ).
  5. ^ Beatings from the sexton . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1972 ( online ).
  6. ^ Announcements from the regional returning officer of July 11, 1991

literature

  • Robert Gildea, James Mark, Anette Warring: Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt . Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • Wolfgang Schiesches, Dawn of Freedom ; Klartext-Verlag, 1975
  • Wolfgang Schiesches, It will be a laugh ; Klartext-Verlag, 1987
personal data
SURNAME Schiesches, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiesches, Wolfgang Arthur Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and pastor of the Bremen Evangelical Church
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2010
Place of death Bremen