Adolf Wuttig

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Friedrich Ludwig Adolf Wuttig (born January 16, 1844 in Berka / Ilm , † April 20, 1929 in Magdeburg ) was a German Protestant pastor. He was the founder of the first Raiffeisen cooperative in what was then the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen and is also considered the founder of the Thuringian Raiffeisen Association .

life and work

Adolf Wuttig was the son of a court clerk . He studied theology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the University of Leipzig . During his studies in Jena in 1864 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . He passed his second state examination in Leipzig in 1869. During his exams and some time afterwards he worked as a tutor and collaborator in Weimar. In 1870 he became pastor of Roda near Ilmenau . he married on October 11, 1870 Emilia Charlotte Ackermann (1844-1908). With her he had four sons and two daughters.

From 1877 he was pastor in Frankenheim / Rhön . After several failed crops and a typhus epidemic that time there were recommendations to the government of the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, given the catastrophic conditions in the population to America to ship and let the buildings fall. Wuttig recognized that the main cause of poverty was the rampage to which the population was defenseless, as there were no banks at the time. In search of solutions, he read about the aid associations that Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen had set up in the Westerwald to eradicate poverty. After exchanging letters with Raiffeisen, Adolf Wuttig founded a loan association for Frankenheim and Birx in 1879 . He also initiated the establishment of a cattle insurance association based on the Raiffeisen principle based on mutual help. These were the first associations in what is now Thuringia to be organized according to the cooperative concept .

Thanks to a grand ducal foundation, particularly at the instigation of Karoline von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , medical care and childcare were improved at the same time. There was also help with building wells and roads. Adolf Wuttig founded a brush factory in Frankenheim to create work and income opportunities. Soon 90 people were employed there. With the help of the foundation and the loan association, a housing program was set up that made it possible for poor families to build a small house. In 1887, at the instigation of Wuttig, a regional Raiffeisen association was founded for the area.

During his commitment to eradicating poverty in Frankenheim, Wuttig first came into contact with members of the Inner Mission . At the annual general meeting of the Thuringian Conference for the Inner Mission in 1887, he gave a lecture about his experiences with loan associations in Frankenheim. He recommended them as "highly important institutions [...] for improving the economic and moral conditions of the community." In March 1888 the lecture was published in the monthly magazine of the Inner Mission.

After the amendment of the Cooperative Law by the Reichstag in the summer of 1889, Wuttig was asked by the Central Committee of the Inner Mission to write a new document to advertise the loan association associations, taking into account the new legal requirements. In August 1890 the first edition of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen and the rural loan associations named after him appeared . Six expanded and revised editions of the font had appeared by 1921.

As pastor, Adolf Wittig moved to Auma in 1891 as senior pastor and superintendent and then from 1903 to Allstedt. As early as 1892 he was appointed an honorary member of the church council. In 1920 he retired.

Honors and memories

  • 1908: Honorary doctorate from the theological faculty at the University of Jena
  • Honorary citizen of Allstedt
  • 1970: Memorial plaque at the rectory in Frankenheim
  • "Memorial corner" in the Karolinenheim in Frankenheim

Works

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen and the rural loan fund associations named after him -: A wake-up call and reminder call to all who love our people , Neuwied, Agricultural Central Loan Fund for Germany, 6th revised and expanded editions between 1890 and 1921
  • Memories from the life of an eighty-year-old , Weimar, R. Wagner, 1925

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Friedrich Meinhold: Pfarrerbuch - Volume 8: Grand Duchy of Saxony (-Weimar-Eisenach) Weimar region with Jena and Neustadt / Orla (Neustadt district) , draft online as a pdf, p. 1392 (accessed on October 29 2016)
  2. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 227.
  3. ^ A b c d Michael Klein : Life, work and aftermath of the founder of the cooperative, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen: (1818 - 1888) , Pulheim, Rheinland-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-7927-1682-3 , pp. 163–166
  4. ↑ Johannes-Michael Scholz et al .: Archive and library of the Evangelical Lutheran parishes in Frankenheim and Birx , 2006, p. 86 (online as pdf; accessed on October 31, 2016)
  5. ^ Website of the Karolinenheim ( Memento from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mad, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wuttig, Friedrich Ludwig Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Berka / Ilm
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1929
Place of death Magdeburg