Albert Heym

Albert Wilhelm Heym (born November 1, 1808 in Lieberose , Niederlausitz , † December 9, 1878 in Potsdam ) was a German pastor. He was court preacher and pastor of the four last Prussian kings.

Albert Heym

Life

Heym was the son of the mayor and judiciary Michael Friedrich Erdmann Heym . The Heym zu Suhl and Lieberose family produced a number of lawyers, mayors and officers. They go back to Johann Heym , born in 1550 , who was a court lord and wine merchant in Suhl . Albert Heym's great-nephew is the poet Georg Heym .

Heym first studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig , where he became active in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig in 1828 . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . He became the tutor of Prince Friedrich Karl , the son of Prince Carl . In 1844 he became the first pastor of the Savior Church at Port of Sacrow ordained . As castle chaplain , he lived on the upper floor of Sacrow Castle . For over 30 years, from 1848 to 1878, he was court preacher and first pastor at the Friedenskirche (Potsdam) . He was closely associated with the court of the Prussian kings and German emperors . He became the pastor of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Wilhelm I and Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm .

Role in Wilhelm II.

Heym baptized and confirmed the future Kaiser Wilhelm II. In his memoir Wilhelm II wrote that Heym was "a simple, straight character, the darling of the entire older generation of the royal family". With the “older generation of the royal family”, Wilhelm alluded to a protracted conflict between his parents. This and his tutor Georg Ernst Hinzpeter had chosen the Potsdam theologian Conrad Persius (1836–1903) for the confirmation lessons of the heir to the throne . However, Persius was a member of the German Protestant Association and was considered too liberal by both grandparents and the Prussian court . At the instigation of Kaiser Wilhelm I and Empress Augusta , Heym therefore took over the last three months of confirmation classes. Heym was more important to the future emperor than Persius, who he thought was mentally immobile. Wilhelm's confirmation met with great sympathy in the Reich and abroad. Edward VII attended the ceremony as Prince of Wales .

Aftermath

Sacrow Castle - Heym used the bel étage as a rectory

Heym's grave is in the Bornstedter Friedhof , part II. The congregation commemorated his 200th birthday on November 2nd, 2008 with a service .

See also

• List of the rulers of Brandenburg # Kings of Prussia

literature

• D. Rippold: In memory of the Potsdam court preacher Heym . Deutsch-Evangelische Blätter, Halle (Saale) 1908, issue 11, pp. 768–776.

swell

The following documents on Heym are preserved in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage :

• I. HA Rep. 76 Ministry of Culture, II Sect. 39 Lit H No. 10 Heym, candidate for preaching office, later court preacher, 1840–1868
• I. HA Rep. 89 Secret Civil Cabinet, more recent period, No. 1576 Awarded the title of court preacher, 1831–1913.
• Brandenburg-Prussisches Hausarchiv (BPH), Rep. 50 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV., J No. 586 b Heym, undated

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nina Schneider: On the banks of the blue day. Georg Heym, his life and work in pictures and personal reports . Böckel, Glinde 2000, p. 9.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3/258; there as a home , correct spelling Heym , cf. Richard Andree : History of the Corps Lusatia at Leipzig 1807 to 1898 . Leipzig 1899, p. 259.
3. ^ Journal of the Association for the History of Berlin, Volumes 46–48, 1929, p. 46.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Hartmut Benner: The rays of the crown. The religious dimension of the empire under Wilhelm II against the background of the Orient trip in 1898 . Tectum, Marburg 2001, pp. 63-66.
5. ^ Kaiser Wilhelm II .: From my life 1859–1888 . Leipzig 1926/1927, p. 94.
6. ^ John CG Röhl : Young Wilhelm. The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888 . Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 197 ff.
7. ^ Friedhelm Wizisla: Albert Heym on the 200th birthday . Municipality journal of the north region of the Potsdam church district (Bornim-Bornstedt-Eiche-Golm-Grube-Pfongst-Sacrow) No. 10/11 (2008)