Albert Hackenberg

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Pastor Albert Hackenberg

Peter Albert Hackenberg (born January 11, 1852 in Lennep ; † October 30, 1912 in Hottenbach , Hunsrück ) was a Protestant pastor , member of the Prussian state parliament , church politician and poet .

education

Albert was a son of the businessman Johann Peter Albert Hackenberg and his wife Juliana von Polheim. After attending elementary school, he first went to the high school in Lennep. In 1866 he moved to the secondary school in Lippstadt (today: Ostendorf-Gymnasium), which was run by the teacher and school reformer Julius Ostendorf (1823–1877). Since 1869 he attended the (today so called) high school on the city wall in Bad Kreuznach . After graduating from high school in 1872, he studied theology at the universities of Erlangen (1872–1873), Berlin (1873–1874) and Bonn (1874–1876) and graduated in October 1876 with the First Theological Examination. AsAs a one-year-old volunteer , he went to Berlin in April, where he did his military service in the Guard Fusilier Regiment ( cockchafer regiment ). In April 1878 he began his practical training as a pastor as a vicar in the Hunsrück community of Hottenbach. After passing the second exam, he was also elected unanimously there to succeed the deceased pastor Gustav Lang and on July 1, 1879 ordained . He remained pastor of the Evangelical Community of Hottenbach until his death on October 30, 1912, despite various supraregional church and political contacts and activities.

Act

In his parish, he campaigned for church music in addition to confirmation classes and youth work . On Palm Sunday 1888 and 1889 he performed the St. Matthew Passion by Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) with the choral society , which brought Hottenbach the reputation of an Oberammergau im Hochwald in the newspaper .

Hackenberg later worked on the Protestant hymn book for Rhineland and Westphalia, which was largely created in the Hottenbach rectory. Thanks to his commercial skills, it was a great sales success: from its introduction (1893/94) to 1911, a record profit of 1,120,000 marks was achieved. For his work on the hymn book and other services, Hackenberg received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1902 . In 1897 he wrote the texts for the work of Max Bruch Gustav Adolf (Opus 73), which was premiered on May 22, 1898 in Barmen .

Hackenberg was also concerned about the welfare of his farming community. In 1880 he fetched the post, in 1884 the telephone in remote Hottenbach. Later, on the basis of his initiative, a local group of the Hunsrück farmers' association (1894), the Raiffeisen association (1896) and the dairy (1898) were founded. A special concern of Hackenberg was the development of the Hunsrück by rail, for which he repeatedly raised his voice in the state parliament. Hackenberg intensively promoted the special talents of his parishioners; so he supported the artistic training and career of the painter Max Müller-Heid . Because of his social commitment he was revered by his contemporaries as the Hochwaldkönig and soul of the Hunsrück .

In addition, Hackenberg, who actually wanted to work as a seminar teacher for a few years after graduating, was a teacher friend. In 1885 Hackenberg was appointed district school inspector. He not only promoted the teachers of his district school inspection, which included around 30 elementary schools around Hottenbach, but also campaigned for greater freedom and better salaries for teachers, both literarily and later in the state parliament.

Hackenberg was also involved in the Evangelical Federation in the Rhine Province , of which he had been a member of the board since it was founded in 1887. Hackenberg was a sought-after speaker who promoted the goals of the federal government in many cities. In 1894 he was elected chairman of the influential Rhenish main association, which has a large number of members. In addition, Hackenberg belonged to the central board of the entire federation. In 1909 he gave up the office of Rhenish chairman and was elected honorary chairman.

Since 1884 Hackenberg was a member of the Rhenish Provincial Synod of the Uniate Prussian Regional Church . From 1899 he was a member of the board and was elected President in 1905 . For the first time in the history of the Rhenish synod, the presidential election became the choice of direction in which Hackenberg, as the representative of the middle party, faced a conservative candidate. The term of office as President was overshadowed by the case of the liberal Cologne pastor Carl Jatho (1851-1913), who was relieved of his pastor's position in 1911 due to the teaching objection law that came into force shortly before. Since 1900 Hackenberg was also a member of the board of directors of the Prussian General Synod, i.e. the leadership of the entire regional church.

Hackenberg was shaped by the national and right-wing liberal middle class of his hometown Lennep . During his studies, he was mainly influenced by his Erlangen teacher Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann (1810–1877), who had sat for the liberal progressive party in the Bavarian state parliament and believed that one of the civic duties of a Christian was to take responsibility for the community . In 1898, for example, Hackenberg ran in the Kreuznach-Simmern-Zell constituency for the National Liberal Party for election to the Prussian state parliament , to which he belonged until his death in 1912. He was mainly involved in church and school matters. In 1904 he was involved in the school compromise between conservatives and national liberals. As a result, school maintenance was reorganized, but also the precedence of the denominational school was established, which some liberal party friends resented Hackenberg. Because of their clarity, their richness of images and their humor, Hackenberg's speeches were among the highlights of the negotiations. Because of his measured behavior, Hackenberg was the first bourgeois politician to whom the social democratic forward devoted an obituary.

His poems with religious and national themes are numerous ( Hoch auf den Kaiser , 1871). Hackenberg was a popular representative of Rhenish cultural Protestantism and a brilliant pulpit speaker. In addition to the few printed lectures, numerous handwritten sermons have been preserved.

family

Hackenberg was married to Elisabeth, née Ost († 1910), acquaintance since 1872, betrothal in 1881. During this time, he wrote poems songs of separation , 1872–1878. The two had two daughters: Juliane Elisabeth ("Else") (1882–1883) and Frieda (1888–1938).

Works

  • Handbook for the Evangelical Hymnal for Rhineland and Westphalia , Dortmund 1894

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. The basis of the article is the u. a. Website of the EKiR archive, accessed July 11, 2008