Johannes Burckhardt

Johannes Burckhardt (20 October 1853 – 27 January 1914) was a German Protestant minister, who founded an organisation for female young Protestants, and for a mission at stations, Bahnhofsmission [da; de].

Born in Altena, Westphalia, Burckhardt was the son of the Protestant minister Eduard Burckhardt (died 1886) and a great-grandson of the writer Anna Schlatter-Bernet [de].

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.

[1] 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.