Arthur Rhode

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Arthur Carl Theodor Rhode (born December 13, 1868 in Podzamcze , Posen Province (South Posen), † June 23, 1967 in Woltorf ) was a German Protestant theologian and historian .

Rhode, a son of the police district commissioner Heinrich Rhode (1836–1886), studied Protestant theology after graduating from high school in Ostrowo in Breslau . He completed his vicariate in the economically weak southern part of the church province of Posen, which belongs to Prussia . As a pastor in Ostrowo, he founded a magazine ( Posener Heimatgrüsse ) in 1903 and an aid organization for emigrants and returnees of German origin in 1905. In 1916 he became superintendent of the Schildberg church district . In 1919 he was arrested and interned several times by the Polish authorities. Nevertheless, he stayed in the Polish Republic and in October 1920 took over a pastor's office at the Christ Church in Poznan, combined with the office of superintendent of the parish of Poznan I. From 1921, he also lectured on the Old Testament and church history at the Theological School in Poznan , a training center of the Uniate Evangelical Church in Poland, which was founded after the separation from Prussia in 1920 . From 1922 to 1940 he published the monthly Posener Evangelisches Kirchenblatt . As a representative of the German minority in the Posener Land, Rhode was arrested again by the Polish authorities in September 1939. In 1942 he retired, in 1945 he fled to Germany .

The theological faculty of the University of Tübingen awarded Rhode an honorary doctorate in 1931 . On his 90th birthday he was honored by a festschrift.

The historian Gotthold Rhode was his son.

Publications (selection)

  • The Protestant Germans in Russian Poland, their impending demise and the possibility of their rescue. Ebbecke, Lissa i. P. 1906
  • With the Mariavites. Impressions of a new Roman-free Catholic Church. Runge, Lichterfelde-Berlin 1911 digitized
  • Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Protestant churches Posen-Lazarus and Posen-Wilda, the Christ Church and the Matthäikirche. [sl]: [sn] Poznań [Posen] (: Papierodruk), 1932
  • History of the Evangelical Church in the Posener Lande (= Marburger Ostforschungen Bd. 4). Holzner, Würzburg 1956.
  • History of the Protestant Church in the Posener Land. Holzner, Würzburg 1956.
  • A guide to the oldest Polish Ostpolitik: Bruno von Querfurt (970–1009). In: Kurt Lück , Viktor Kauder : German-Polish Neighborhood. Pictures of life of German helpers in Poland (= publications of the Göttingen working group, 178). Holzner Verlag, Würzburg 1957.
  • Contributions to the history of the Evangelical Uniate Church in Poland. [Community Evang. Posener], Hanover 1981
  • The Evangelical Church in Posen and Pomerania: Experiences and experiences in three decades 1914–1945. Community of Evangelical Posener (Aid Committee) eV "Poznan Voices" Lüneburg, 1984
  • Memories of the wartime in the Poznan Province 1914–1920. Martin Opitz Library , Herne 2003.
  • Schildberger memories. Poznański Klub Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Ziemi Ostrzeszowskiej, Poznań 2004.
  • Adelnauer memories. Biblioteka Publiczna im. Stefana Rowińskiego, Ostrów Wielkopolski 2017.
  • Ostrowoer memories. Biblioteka Publiczna im. Stefana Rowińskiego, Ostrów Wielkopolski 2017.

literature

  • Harald Kruska (Ed.): Festgabe for Arthur Rhode on the 90th birthday on December 13th. 1958. Forms and Ways of the Church in the East. Our way, Ulm 1958.
  • Martin Sprungala: The "Heimatgruss" - A greeting from home then and now. In: Heimatgruß No. 200 of the Heimatkreis Meseritz e. V. , 2012, pp. 7-9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Rhode: The Evangelical Church in Posen and Pomerania: Experiences and experiences in three decades 1914-1945 . Community evang. Posener, Lüneburg 1984, DNB  850206596 (Community of Protestant Posener (Aid Committee) eV " Posenerimmen ").
personal data
SURNAME Rhode, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhode, Arthur Carl Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Podzamcze , Poznan Province (South Poznan)
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1967
Place of death Woltorf