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, "". Life and work. Born in Altena, Westphalia, Burckhardt was the son of the Protestant minister Eduard Burckhardt (died 1886) 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.