August Kortheuer
August Kortheuer (born January 3, 1868 in Wiesbaden , † May 31, 1963 in Königsfeld in the Black Forest ) was a German Protestant pastor.
Career
After studying theology in Greifswald, Halle and Marburg, Kortheuer held various pastoral positions. In 1911 he became pastor in Wiesbaden, in 1919 part-time consistorial councilor , and in 1920 chairman of the Nassau regional association of the Inner Mission . From 1925 to 1933 he was regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Nassau . Because he opposed the seizure of power by the German Christians in his regional church and the unification with the two other churches in southern Hesse, he was ousted from office by August Jäger in September 1933 and retired. From 1945 to 1947 he was again chairman of the provisional church leadership of the Evangelical Church in Nassau-Hessen .
He found his final resting place in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden .
Honors
- 1927: Honorary doctorate from the Philipps University of Marburg
- 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1958: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography: short biographies from 13 centuries. - Wiesbaden: Self-published by the Historical Commission for Nassau, 1992.
- Reiner Braun: August Kortheuer. Evangelical pastor and regional bishop in Nassau 1893–1933. Darmstadt / Kassel 2000.
- Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006, p. 143 ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 .
- Reiner Braun: August Kortheuer (1868–1963). A life for church and diakonia in four epochs of German history. In: Hermann Otto Geißler, Klaus-Dieter Grunwald, Sigurd Rink , Roger Töpelmann (eds.): Truth and Confession. Church fight in Wiesbaden 1933-1945 (= writings of the Wiesbaden city archive, vol. 12). Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 203-225.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kortheuer, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1963 |
| Place of death | Königsfeld in the Black Forest |