Albert Bacmeister

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Albert Bacmeister

Karl Albert Wilhelm Bacmeister (born October 25, 1845 in Neckartailfingen , † June 28, 1920 in Stuttgart ) was a German Protestant pastor and senior church councilor and dean in Geislingen an der Steige and in Ludwigsburg .

Life

Bacmeister was the son of the Nürtingen notary Christoph Heinrich Wilhelm Bacmeister (1795–1867) from the Württemberg line of the Bacmeister family, originally from Lower Saxony, and his second wife Heinrike Neuffer (1808–1855). The Stuttgart administrative officer Eduard Bacmeister was his half-brother from his father's first marriage.

After graduating from high school, Albert Bacmeister attended the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen . He was then appointed parish priest from 1872, first of Niederstetten and from 1879 of Öhringen . In Öhringen he found the time to write most of his publications and to work as an employee of the Württemberg State Gazette.

In 1886 Bacmeister succeeded the prelate v. Blum took a position as a military pastor in Ludwigsburg. Three years later, Bacmeister was transferred to Geislingen an der Steige, where he was given the dean's office for the Geislingen church district . During his tenure there, which lasted until 1896, Bacmeister made significant contributions to the renovation, renovation and beautification of the Evangelical City Church in Geislingen . He also campaigned vehemently for the goals of the local organization of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk .

Bacmeister received another assignment in Ludwigsburg in 1904, where he was appointed as the successor to Christoph von Kolb as the first city pastor and dean of the Ludwigsburg church district . Here, too, Bacmeister enjoyed the highest recognition and was promoted to senior church council in 1914. Bacmeister has been awarded several high orders and medals of merit for his significant social and charitable commitment, especially during the First World War .

Gradually with health problems, Bacmeister submitted his official retirement from church service in 1917 and moved his retirement home to Stuttgart. Nevertheless, until shortly before his death in 1920, he appeared several times as a pulpit speaker or held Protestant masses as a substitute.

Honors

family

Karl Albert Wilhelm Bacmeister was married to Luise Auguste Gantz (1845–1929), daughter of the Fürstlich Hohenlohe-Oehringschen forester Friedrich Gantz, since 1872. He had two sons with her, the first-born, Walther Bacmeister (1873–1966), became a senior public prosecutor in Stuttgart and was also a profound expert on ornithology , on which he produced more than 240 publications. The second son, Richard (1873–1874), died just a few months after he was born.

Works

  • The biblical story for use by the middle classes of the Protestant schools in Württemberg. 1881.
  • The pessimism and the moral doctrine with special consideration of Eduard von Hartmann's Phenomenology of the moral consciousness. Gütersloh 1882.
  • Ceremonial speech for Luther's 400th birthday. spoken on November 11, 1883 in the collegiate church in Öhringen.
  • Moral progress. Gotha 1886.
  • Wilhelm II, King of Württemberg, his royal ancestors, his people and country. 1898.

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personal data
SURNAME Bacmeister, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacmeister, Karl Albert Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and senior church councilor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Neckartailfingen
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1920
Place of death Stuttgart