Wolfgang Wehowsky (theologian)

Wolfgang Fritz Hans Wehowsky (born June 12, 1912 in Triebel (after 1945 Trzebiel ), †  April 4, 1981 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant theologian. From 1954 to the end of 1973 pastor at the St. Martini Church in Bremen, member of the Confessing Church between the wars, representative of the Bremen Evangelical Church (BEK) and among others in the Broadcasting Council of Radio Bremen .

Life

Wehowsky was born in 1912 as the son of the teacher Fritz Wehowsky and his wife Klara, geb. Goy, born in Triebel. There he attended school and high schools in Crossen , Forst , Landsberg and Frankfurt , where he graduated from high school in 1931. In the same year he began studying theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1933 he went to Greifswald and completed his studies there in 1936. He took the 1st theological exam in Stettin and the 2nd theological exam in Bremen, where he had previously been ordained in December 1937. As assistant pastor he was in the municipalities Oberneuland and as Dankeskirche newly built Melanchthon Church active in Bremen-Osterholz.

Wehowsky has a daughter from his first marriage to Sigrid vom Bruch († 1942) from Bremen. In 1946 he married Helene Winter from Bremen, and the marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

Theological disputes

Wehowsky's appointment to the pastoral office of the Dankeskirche was vigorously pursued by the National Socialist regional bishop Weidemann , which caused tension in the Melanchton community. In addition, Wehowsky headed the propaganda unit of the Coming Church and published the article in December 1939: Völkischer Sieg und dendenden Erbe . After returning from English captivity - Wehowky remained a pastor in Melanchton during his time as a soldier - the congregation tried to separate from him because of his activities for the German Christians and in the Coming Church . During the denazification process from February 1946 to January 1948 he was a pastor on hold and in 1948 - after the process was over - he received the status of assistant preacher for special use (Hp. Z. B. V.).

Change to St. Martini and other offices

When the St. Martini Pastor Oberhof was suspended in December 1950, Wehowsky took over the official representation and was appointed to the office of 1st preacher (P. primarius) on March 1, 1954. The St. Martini Church was still in ruins at this point in time, so its name is closely linked to the gradual construction of the church in the following years. For the inauguration of the restored church in Advent 1960, Wehowsky published the book St. Martini zu Bremen - A community and a church through the ages. In the afterword he goes into the Protestant obligation of the community.

In the years from 1949 Wehowsky took on other tasks in addition to the function of broadcasting officer of the BEK (1949-1969). He was chairman of the Broadcasting Council of Radio Bremen (1952-1968), was part of the management of the radio and press office of the BEK, was a member of the editorial board Einkehr and in the Protestant film department in Bremen, member of the Chamber for Journalism of the EKD , chairman of the specialist theater committee EKD and editor of the information service of the Evangelical Academy for Radio and Television (until its dissolution in 1970) and temporarily chairman of the conference of Evangelical radio work at the broadcasters of the Federal Republic and Berlin .

For health reasons, Wehowsky took early retirement on December 31, 1973. Wehowsky lived as emeritus in Bremen and died on April 4, 1981 at the age of 69.

literature

• Eberhard Hagemann: The St. Martini pastors as reflected in the history of the church in Bremen - 1525–2011 . Hauschild, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89757-497-7 , pp. 230-233 .
• Wolfgang Wehowsky (Ed.): St. Martini zu Bremen, A community and a church through the ages . Bremen 1960

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hagemann, pp. 230 + 233
2. ↑ Hagemann, pp. 231-232
3. ↑ Hagemann, pp. 231-232
4. ↑ Hagemann, p. 232
5. ↑ Hagemann, p. 232
6. ↑ Hagemann, p. 233