Arndt von Kirchbach
Arndt von Kirchbach (born January 30, 1885 in Dresden , † February 28, 1963 in Goslar ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian. He was first a preacher at the Sophienkirche in Dresden and then cathedral preacher and superintendent in Freiberg .
Life
He came from the Saxon noble family von Kirchbach .
After attending school, Arndt von Kirchbach initially became an officer. He served as a transport manager during World War I and rose to become captain. In 1919 he took his leave to study theology and later became a royal Saxon major a. D. appointed. He began his studies at the University of Greifswald and continued it from 1920 at the University of Leipzig . Professors Karl Girgensohn , Ludwig Ihmels and Paul Althaus the Elder. Ä. made the strongest impression on him from his theological teachers. He also heard from Gerhard Kittel , Franz Rendtorff , Hermann Guthe and Hans Achelis . After completing his exams in 1922, he was first assistant chaplain to Pastor Erich Stange in Leipzig. In 1923 he went to Roßwein as vicar , where he was ordained . Then he was the pastor of the association for Inner Mission in Dresden. In 1927 he became cathedral preacher at the Sophienkirche in Dresden, and was also a student chaplain. In 1933 he was one of the first Saxon pastors to join the Pastors' Emergency League, which later became the Confessing Church . In that year he also joined the Michael Brotherhood . As a denominational Lutheran, he also campaigned for the constitution of an all-German Lutheran church in church politics. Kirchbach took part in the synod in May 1934, at which the Barmen Theological Declaration was adopted. Already briefly imprisoned several times, he was given leave of absence from office in autumn 1934, but was able to continue working. In 1936 he was transferred to Freiberg Cathedral as pastor and superintendent and represented his church in the Luther Council . However, he was already deposed the next year. Immediately after the start of the Second World War, he volunteered as a Wehrmacht priest. Released from American captivity in the summer of 1945, he was able to resume his offices in Freiberg. He retired in 1953 and moved to Goslar in 1962, where he died a year later.
On May 8, 1909, he married Sibylla Edle von der Planitz. After the suicide of his first wife due to a nervous breakdown, he married the widowed Countess Esther zu Münster-Langelage, born in Gersdorf bei Roßwein, on August 8th, 1921 . von Carlowitz , the daughter of the Royal Saxon Minister of War Adolph von Carlowitz, born in 1894 . From his first marriage he had two children, including Reinhard von Kirchbach , who after the death of his wife worked as a pastor. Arndt and Esther von Kirchbach had six children together during their marriage, including the later pastor Sieger von Kirchbach (1924-2014). In 1952 Arndt von Kirchbach married Elisabeth-Charlotte (called Lieselotte) von Carlowitz, the daughter of Hans Karl Adolf von Carlowitz, a relative of his second wife, who died in 1946.
estate
The estate of Arndt von Kirchbach is now in the Saxon State Archives .
literature
- Hans Hugo Graf von Kirchbach, Erwin von Kirchbach: The Kirchbach family 1490–1963 , 3rd expanded edition, Kassel 1963.
- Winner from Kirchbach: Arndt von Kirchbach in the Saxon church fight. In: Quatember 1971, pp. 75-77 ( online ).
- Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 133, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 .
- Hannelore Sachse: Esther von Kirchbach (1894–1946). "Mother of an entire regional church". A Saxon pastor's wife in the first half of the 20th century. Dissertation Oldenburg 2009, esp. Pp. 68-72. 84f. 135-139. 153f. ( PDF file ).
- Karl-Hermann Kandler : Arndt von Kirchbach , in: Konstantin Hermann / Gerhard Lindemann (ed.): Between Christ Cross and Swastika: Biographies of theologians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony during National Socialism . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, pp. 207–224.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirchbach, Arndt von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1963 |
| Place of death | Goslar |