Amandus Weinreich

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Amandus Weinreich , completely Amandus Friedrich Wilhelm Weinreich (born November 22, 1860 in Offendorf, today a district of Ratekau ; † March 1, 1943 in Schwerin ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university professor.

Life

Amandus Weinreich was the son of a farmer's and blacksmith in time for the Principality of Luebeck in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg belonging Offendorf. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school in Easter 1881 and studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Erlangen, Berlin, Greifswald and Kiel as a scholarship holder of the Schabbel Scholarship Foundation . At Michaelmas 1885 he passed his theological exam in Kiel. In 1887 he was ordained pastor in Stettin ; from 1887 to 1890 he worked as a deacon (2nd pastor) at the Nikolaikirche in Gützkow and from 1890 to 1893 as a compastor in Neumünster. Since July 9, 1893 he was pastor of the northern district of the Christian Church in Ottensen and from 1898 first pastor of the newly built Kreuzkirche (Ottensen) .

On April 21, 1907, he was appointed as the successor to Franz Rendtorff as monastery preacher at the Preetz monastery and director of studies at the preacher's seminary for Schleswig-Holstein in Preetz . On February 6, 1913, the theological faculty of Kiel University awarded him the degree of Lic. Theol. honorary. On February 25, 1913, he completed his habilitation in practical theology , and on March 19, 1913, the royal government awarded him the title of professor . In 1921 he was awarded a teaching position for practical theology as an honorary professor .

In 1924 he switched back to the community service and was pastor in Sterup in fishing . Heinrich Rendtorff was his successor in Preetz . Weinreich retired in 1929, initially living in Schleswig and, after his wife's death in 1933, with his daughter in Schwerin. He also preached here.

Weinreich was a delegate of the German Evangelical Church Congress at its meetings in 1924 in Bethel and in 1927 in Königsberg .

He was particularly interested in the Low German language in the church. In 1935 he published a collection of Low German sermons.

Works

  • The result of the war for the religious, moral, etc. ecclesiastical life of our communities. 1915
  • Plattdütsche sermons. Schwerin: Railway 1935

literature

  • Friedrich Volbehr , Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel 1665 to 1915 (October 5th); plus an appendix: the lecturers, teachers of the arts and university librarians. Kiel 1916 ( digitized version ), p. 22f
  • Joachim Heubach : From the history of the Preetz seminary , in: Kurt Juergensen, Friedrich-Otto Scharbau, Werner H. Schmidt (eds.): Praise God that is our office. Contributions to a key word (memorial by Johann Schmidt) , Kiel 1984, pp. 213–223;
  • Claus Jürgensen: The Preetz seminary from the beginnings to the 2nd World War , in: Gothart Magaard, Gerhard Ulrich (Hrsg.): 100 years Preetz seminary. Eine Festschrift , Kiel 1996, pp. 9–57 (online at vikariat-nordkirche.de)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 821
  2. ↑ Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - Associations - People. Vol. 1: Supraregional institutions (= work on contemporary church history. Series A: Sources; 28). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010 ISBN 9783647557847 , p. 52
  3. ↑ See Kay Dohnke, Norbert Hopster and Jan Wirrer (eds.): Low German in National Socialism. Studies on regional culture in fascism. Hildesheim: Georg Olms 1994 ISBN 9783487098098 , p. 430 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Weinreich, Amandus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinreich, Amandus Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Offendorf, today part of Ratekau
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1943
Place of death Schwerin