Adolf Kottmeier

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Adolf Kottmeier

Adolf Wilhelm August Kottmeier (born July 22, 1822 in Lamstedt , † January 8, 1905 in Buxtehude ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and founder and first director of today's Rotenburg Works of the Inner Mission.

Life

Kottmeier came as the son of pastor August Julius Friedrich Kottmeier (1794–1871) and his wife Wilhelmine Elise ( Minna ) born. Jäger (1803–1881), a descendant of Johann Hinrich Pratje , was born in Lamstedt. He was raised by his grandfather Adolph Georg Kottmeier . He attended grammar school in Bremen and Stade.

After studying theology in Halle , Berlin and Göttingen , he established a higher boys' school in Scharmbeck before becoming vice rector in 1851 and soon afterwards rector of the higher school in Buxtehude. In Zeven he was pastor from 1862 to 1874, where he managed the renovation of St. Viti Church.

Then Kottmeier went to Rotenburg (Wümme) as superintendent , where he lived in the superintendent's building, which still exists today. After he became aware of an epileptic child, he and other men from the community founded an “Association for the Care of Epileptics”, from which an institution emerged in 1880, today's Rotenburg Works of the Inner Mission, of which he became the first director. The works grew rapidly, so that some pastors came to the place for support. Due to the structures created, the Hamburg Bethesda Sisters also founded a mother and hospital in 1905, the current Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg , which still exists today parallel to the Rotenburg works of the Inner Mission.

In 1897 Kottmeier was retired. He spent the rest of his life in Buxtehude, where he died on January 8, 1905. In Rotenburg and Buxtehude streets are named after him.

From her first marriage with Anna Dorothea Wilhelmine geb. Uhlhorn (1829–1856), the daughter Martha survived childhood (* 1855 in Buxtehude, † 1934 there), from her second marriage to Elisabeth, née. Rademacher (1839–1917) the four children Sophia married. Fellmer (* 1860 in Buxtehude, † 1947 in Blankenburg (Harz) ), Adolf (* 1862 in Zeven, † 1937 in Hildesheim ), Frieda m. Brockmann (* 1870 in Zeven, † 1945 in Hildesheim) and Helene, married. Wischmann (* 1872 in Zeven, † 1959 in Rotenburg), mother of Adolf Wischmann .

literature

  • Irmgard Kottmeier: Adolph Georg Kottmeier (1768–1842), cathedral preacher in Bremen: his ancestors and descendants. Degener, Insingen 1984.
  • Ewald Albers, Adalbert Droßbach, Karlheinz Krause: Adolf Wilhelm August Kottmeier (1822–1905). A teacher and pastor takes care of the disabled . In: Hans-Georg Blank, Bernd Utermöhlen: Heimatliches Buxtehude, Vol. 5 . Heimatverein, Buxtehude 1997.
  • Inke Wegener: Between courage and humility. The female diakonia using the example of Elise Averdieck . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004. P. 566ff.
  • Uwe Kaminsky: About life in the Christian colony. The Deaconess Mother House Rotenburg, the Rotenburg Institutions of the Inner Mission and the role of their leaders 1905 - 1955. Edition Falkenberg, Rotenburg Wümme 2016, online pdf text .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Superintendent on the website of the municipality of Rotenburg
  2. ↑ Entry of historical overview on the website of the Rotenburger Werke
  3. ↑ Sponsors & Funders with a brief history on the Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum website
personal data
SURNAME Kottmeier, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kottmeier, Adolf Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Lamstedt
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1905
Place of death Buxtehude