Alfred Horn (pastor)

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Alfred Horn , completely Hermann Karl Alfred Oscar Horn (born September 29, 1847 in Wolfshagen (Uckerland) , Mecklenburg-Strelitz , † April 16, 1912 in Schönberg (Mecklenburg) ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and local researcher.

Life

Alfred Horn was the son of the chief inspector of the Count's Schwerin property Wilhelm Horn (1800-1859), who was later bailiff and domain leaseholder in Groß Daberkow . He attended high school, first in Prenzlau 1858/59, then in Friedland to Michaelis in 1867, and studied until 1872. Protestant theology at the universities of Berlin, Leipzig and Tübingen, interrupted by the campaign in the Franco-German War 1870-71, he in 3 Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 71 participated.

After graduating, he worked as a private tutor for the von Ferber family on Melz for a year and a half . From 1873 to 1879 he was a secondary school teacher in Schönberg.

St. Marien, Selmsdorf

In 1879 he became a pastor in Reddemin . After just one year, he was appointed pastor of St. Marien Church in Selmsdorf in 1880 , where he worked until he retired after a stroke in 1907. During his term of office, the installation of a church heating system, the donation of the altarpiece in 1885 and the restoration of the community chapel of the infirmary in front of Dassow (destroyed in 1972/73) fall .

From 1901 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

Over the years, Horn collected extensive material for a broad history of the parish of Selmstorf , of which only the first volume appeared during his lifetime.

Alfred Horn was buried in Selmsdorf; his tombstone is preserved on the south side of the church.

He was married to Elisabeth, born in 1876. Schmidt. The son of the same name Alfred Horn (born May 20, 1877) became a career officer; he fell as a captain in the First World War when his airship LZ 47 / LZ 77 was shot down on February 21, 1916.

Works

  • On the history of the Selmstorf parish in the Principality of Ratzeburg.
    • Volume 1, 1909
    • Volume 2, ed. by Fritz Buddin 1925
    • Volume 3, ed. by Heinrich Sterley 1934

literature

  • Georg Krüger : The pastors in the Principality of Ratzeburg since the Reformation. Schönberg 1899, p. 73 f
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4419 .

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personal data
SURNAME Horn, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, Hermann Karl Alfred Oscar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfshagen (Uckerland)
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1912
Place of death Schoenberg (Mecklenburg)