August Heinrici
Carl Friedrich August Heinrici (born August 18, 1812 in Wicken , Friedland district , † December 26, 1881 in Gumbinnen ) was a German pastor in East Prussia.
Life
August Heinrici grew up as the son of the landowner Johann Samuel Heinrici in Ramsen . He attended the Collegium Fridericianum . After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In the winter semester of 1832/33 he was active in the Corps Masovia . After graduating in 1835, he first worked as a private tutor for various families and as an unpaid assistant preacher , became a parish priest in Karkeln in 1842 , then cantor in Werden and finally in 1847 an ordained pastor in children . There he promoted the ascetic Lithuanian awakening movement of the Maldeninkers. From 1849 until his resignation on November 16, 1850, he represented the constituency of Königsberg i. Pr. In the Prussian House of Representatives (2nd legislative period). He belonged to the Centrum faction . In 1850 he received the pastor's position in Kaukehmen , which he administered until 1858 when he became pastor at the Old Town Church in Gumbinnen and at the same time superintendent and consistorial councilor in the Gumbinnen district , the easternmost administrative region of the German Empire.
He was married three times, first to Ida born in 1843. Kempfer, a pastor's daughter from Piktupönen at Tilsit . Her eleven children included the theology professor Georg Heinrici and the superintendent of Königsberg Paul Heinrici (1859–1938), father of General Gotthard Heinrici . Through his daughter Karoline, he was the grandfather of the behavioral scientist Otto Koehler . After Ida's death in 1867, August Heinrici married her older sister Mathilde, and when she died in 1871, Amalie Schirrwagen. Both marriages remained childless.
See also
literature
- Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 123.
- Veronika Janssen: Georg Heinrici and his family background (pdf, accessed on October 23, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Lippold (ed.): List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 1960 . Kiel 1962.
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 141/163.
- ↑ Kinten Pastor List
- ↑ Gustav Adolf Benrath: The awakening within the German regional churches , in: Ulrich Gäbler (ed.): History of Pietism. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries . Göttingen 2010, pp. 1560-271; P. 174
- ↑ Entry in the Karkeln local family book
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinrici, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor and member of parliament in East Prussia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wicken , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1881 |
| Place of death | Gumbinnen , East Prussia |