Johannes Burckhardt


Johannes Burckhardt was a German Protestant minister, who founded an organisation for female young Protestants, and for a mission at stations, .

Life and work

Born in Altena, Westphalia, Burckhardt was the son of the Protestant minister Eduard Burckhardt and a great-grandson of the writer. He studied theology in Bonn and Tübingen. In 1880, he became Vereinsgeistlicher of the Inner mission in Bielefeld, where he collaborated closely with Friedrich von Bodelschwingh Sr.. From 1889, he was a parish minister in Berlin..
Burckhardt founded in 1893 a national organisation for young female Protestants, the Vorständeverband der evangelischen Jungfrauenvereine Deutschlands, later called the Evangelischer Verband für die weibliche Jugend Deutschlands in Barmen. In 1894, he founded the first Protestant Bahnhofsmission in Germany, in Berlin.
In 1913/14, he built the Burckhardthaus in Dahlem. It housed the publishing house of the same name which published the magazine Deutsche Mädchen-Zeitung. Burkhard died in Dahlem.

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