Alfred Depuhl

Alfred Depuhl (born March 4, 1892 in Mannheim , † April 13, 1957 in Hanover ) was a German Protestant theologian and author .

Life

Depuhl was the son of a merchant. He attended the secondary school in Mannheim and then studied political science in Heidelberg from 1910 to 1913. He then attended the local seminary for a year and passed both theological exams in 1913 and 1914. He was ordained on May 2, 1915 in Ziegelhausen near Heidelberg . During the First World War he served as a field chaplain and hospital pastor. In 1919 he became an assistant chaplain in Münster and obtained his doctorate from the University of Münster. rer. pole. In 1920 he married

From 1920 to 1927 he was syndic of the association of metal industrialists, then the clergyman (chief executive) of the state association for internal mission in Hanover. For a time he was also in charge of the Reich Association for Protestant Old-Age and Infirmary Care. In 1933 he was a member of the 68th Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover for the DHP and People's Service and the Leer constituency .

Depuhl's estate is in the State Church Archives in Hanover .

Works

• The old person's right to life (with Christine Bourbeck and Walter Meis, Stuttgart 1956)
• Our old age help before new tasks (1955)
• Century of Child or Age? (Hanover 1952)
• Inner Mission and the German Labor Front (Berlin 1936)
• The Christian and the sport. A word about the 1936 Olympics (Berlin 1936)
• The social and religious America. Travel impressions (Hanover 1933)
• The Christian Social People's Service - a gathering or splinter “party”? (2nd edition, Hanover around 1931)
• Achievement and importance of church care for babies and young children (1925)

literature

• Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover 13/1957, p. 88
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 82-83.