Rudolf Jungklaus

The grave of Rudolf Jungklaus and his wife Gertrud née Degener in the former Pankow I cemetery in Berlin.

Rudolf Albert Felix Jungklaus (born April 17, 1882 in Stettin ; † July 5, 1961 in Berlin-Pankow ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Jungklaus studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin theology and was on March 28, 1909 ordained . In 1911 he began as an assistant preacher in the Berlin-Pankow congregation including Alt-Pankow. After the inauguration of the Pankow Hope Church on Lindenpromenade (today Elsa-Brändström-Straße ) on September 12, 1913, Rudolf Jungklaus took over a pastor's position there.

Jungklaus belonged to the Pankow Confessing Church , the second largest after Dahlem. He was also one of the ten leading committee members of the Society for the Promotion of Christianity Among the Jews . Pastor Rudolf Jungklaus secretly baptized Jews and thus saved their lives. Of 35 baptisms of Jewish people in Pankow between 1933 and 1943, 32 of which took place in the Hoffnungskirche and three in the Old Parish Church, Pastor Jungklaus alone carried out 23. He worked there until April 1, 1960. Jungklaus died in 1961 and was in the cemetery I was buried in Pankow, Wilhelm-Kuhr-Strasse / Kreuzstrasse.

The street behind the church was named after him. The public naming took place on June 21, 1999 with the participation of his daughter Sieghild, first pastor of the regional church Berlin-Brandenburg.

literature

• Chronicle of the hope parish, parish council member

Web links

• Pfarrer-Jungklaus-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )