Albrecht Schöler

Albrecht Julius Schöler (born February 11, 1819 in Winningen , † January 5, 1863 in Andernach ) was a German Protestant pastor , publicist and liberal theologian. He drove the inner mission in the Hunsrück .

Life

Schöler was born as the son of the Winningen pastor and later superintendent of Koblenz Albrecht Ferdinand Schöler and his wife Julia. Möller, daughter of Pastor Gottfried Möller from Breckerfeld (Grafschaft Mark).

Weak from birth, Albrecht Schöler suffered from an eye disease in his youth. On the doctor's orders, he often had to spend weeks in a dark room. Often his childhood friend, the Winningen teacher's son Friedrich Otto, later superintendent of the Trier Synod , kept him company. Both would later be linked by a lifelong friendship. Schöler first attended the Diaconate School in Winningen, later the Gymnasium in Koblenz and finally the Gymnasium in Duisburg , until he began his studies in Bonn at Easter 1841 .

In Koblenz he was a member of the Euterpia student association , which included Karl Wilhelm Arnoldi , Julius Baedeker , Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , Friedrich Otto and the teacher's sons Karl and Heinrich Bungeroth, with whose parents he lived.

In the summer semester of 1841, Schöler enrolled in Protestant theology at the University of Bonn . There he came into contact with a theologian bar, a loose association of theology students, whose president was his friend Heinrich Bungeroth. When this changed into a student union on December 18, 1841, Schöler also joined it. At his instigation, the connection took on the name Wingolf . During this time, Schöler not only distinguished himself through his poetry, in addition to the covenant song of the connection, he composed the reception song You are now opening our chests, but also through polished speeches.

Schöler was also a member of the cockchafer association founded by Gottfried Kinkel .

On February 12, 1845, Schöler passed the 1st theological exam with the grade "fairly good" and then performed the mandatory military service from April 1, 1845. However, he was released from this service on June 6, 1845. In a life-threatening break-in into the frozen, but not sufficiently frozen, Moselle, which occurred while skating, Albrecht Schöler's lungs were more severely attacked than had initially been assumed. Lung bleeding developed, which not only made him incapable of military service, but also made it necessary to protect his health for life.

In April 1846, Schöler passed the 2nd theological exam again with the grade “fairly good”. He spent the candidate period in his parents' house in Winningen until 1848. In December 1848 he was appointed parish vicar in Horn (Hunsrück) and ordained on January 10, 1849.

On July 18, 1853, Schöler married Adelheid Heuberger, daughter of the former district administrator of St. Goar, Hans Carl Heuberger . The marriage should result in a total of six children, three sons and three daughters. At the end of 1853 he applied for the first new pastoral position in Andernach . The congregation had been built up by the Gustav-Adolf-Werk in the diaspora field. His duties there included Sunday preaching at Rheineck Castle , two hours away , which belonged to the privy councilor and later Prussian minister Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg , as well as preaching at the “insane custody” of St. Thomas. In the absence of a church, the services in Andernach took place in the dining room of the local artillery barracks until the former Franciscan church was assigned to the community by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In 1855.

On January 5, 1863, Schöler died suddenly and unexpectedly of complications from a chest and abdominal infection.

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Through his brother Willibald Beyschlag , he came into contact with Gottfried Kinkel while he was still a student and was accepted by him into the cockchafer association ; in its "magazine for non-philists" he participated diligently. In the articles in the May bug magazine, Schöler identified himself as a liberal theologian who made fun of the pietist-minded theology professor Karl Heinrich Sack . On the other hand, like his originally Reformed father, he was completely on the ground of the union of the two Reformation confessions, which was significantly influenced by Carl Immanuel Nitzsch . Nonetheless, he has repeatedly made clear his roots in the Reformed tradition of his parents' home and his appreciation for the Heidelberg Catechism .

Role in the Inner Mission

In 1849 Schöler wrote a call for the establishment of a rescue house for neglected young people on the Hunsrück , which he also sent to Franz Ludwig Zahn, the director of the Moers teachers' college , who was known to him from his candidate days. He not only published the appeal in his village chronicle, but also had offprints made, which he had published under the title Hunsrücker Chronik. The Hunsrück was an impoverished rural area and a Protestant diaspora.

Also in 1849 an association for internal mission was founded in the Protestant Church of the Rhineland . The synod in Simmern also founded a corresponding association. At the General Assembly on November 21, 1849, at the suggestion of Zahn, the latter decided to found a publication organ under the name "Hunsrück Chronicle". Albrecht Schöler was entrusted with the editing. The first booklet appeared as early as January 1850, in which Schöler familiarized with the goals of the inner mission and outlined the tasks. He also described the planned rescue house, which should give help for confirmed youth on their way into life, help for strangers, endangered journeyman journeys, for the poor and the sick, etc. The goal of the Hunsrück Chronicle was to “speak the word to the best of our ability” for this mission. From 1859 the external mission was added, which is why the title was now called the Hunsrück Chronicle for Evangelical Mission . Reports about the rescue house built in the autumn of 1857 on the Schmiedel near Simmern and the confirmation institution also built there in 1857 had absolute priority in the reporting. The primary aim of the Hunsrück Chronicle was to acquire the necessary financial resources from the citizens for these two projects, because the official church did not provide any funds for this. Nevertheless, the Hunsrück Chronicle also served the people's mission. In the course of time she also became an increasingly strong inter-church link.

The chronicle also served to network, for example, via the Gustav Adolf women's associations . Schoeler campaigned for Raiffeisen's efforts to build up a credit fund with the Heddesdorf charity. Schöler's chronicle was also praised for its folklore and poetic considerations. WO von Horn took over the chronicle after Schöler's early death.

The Hunsrück Chronicle made Schöler known far into the Rhineland. Contributions were also printed in other flying papers , such as the Rauhe Haus in Hamburg. In addition, Schoeler wrote intellectual reflections in the Essen newspaper published by his friend Baedecker , the Kaiserswerther Volkskalender and for the Berlin and Barmer Traktatgesellschaft. Finally, he produced a text about the 300-year anniversary of the Reformation in Simmern on July 15 and 16, 1857, which was printed and widely distributed by Baedeker in Essen and which is of importance for the history of the Rhenish church to this day.

literature

• Ekkehard Krumme: The "Hunsrücker Chronicler" Albrecht Schöler 1819–1863. In: Monthly Issues for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland 36, 1987, pp. 127–163.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Krumme, 1987, p. 129.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Krumme, 1987, p. 130.
3. ↑ Krumme, 1987, p. 136.
4. ↑ ^{a b} W. O. von Horn : The Rhine: History and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries and cities. Niedner, 1875, p. 405
5. ↑ Krumme, 1987, p. 137.
6. ↑ Krumme 1987, p. 150, note 47.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Krumme, 1987, p. 139.
8. ^ Michael Klein: Life, work and aftermath of the founder of the cooperative, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888): presented in connection with German social Protestantism . Rheinland-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-7927-1682-3 ( google.com [accessed February 14, 2016]).
9. ↑ Max Schöler: The Scholer / Scholer / Scholler families, including further writing differences . Flamm Druck Wagener, January 1, 1992, p. 255 ( google.com [accessed February 15, 2016]).
10. ^ Rauhes Haus (Horn Hamburg): Flying leaves from the Rauhes Haus zu Horn near Hamburg: Organ of the Central Committee for the Inner Mission of the German Evangelical Church . Agency d. Rauhen Haus, January 1, 1850, p. 77-78 ( google.com [accessed February 15, 2016]).
11. ↑ Krumme, 1987, p. 142.