August Wessel
August Wessel , also Weßel , (born October 1, 1861 in Schötmar , † January 16, 1941 in Detmold ) was a German Protestant clergyman and politician ( DNVP ). From 1901 to 1930 he was general superintendent of the Lippische Landeskirche and in 1919 a member of the Lippischen Landtag .
Life
The son of the general superintendent August Wessel from Lippe attended high school in Detmold and from 1880 studied Protestant theology in Erlangen , Basel and Berlin . In 1883 he graduated with the first theological exam. In June 1885, after passing the second theological examination, he was ordained in Almena . He then worked briefly as a parish administrator in Almena and as a parish assistant in Langenholzhausen , before he was given a position as second pastor at the Reformed community in Lage at the end of 1885 . From 1890 he had a position as a Protestant pastor in the East Frisian Lehe.
Wessel was appointed general superintendent of the Lippe regional church on November 1, 1901. He was very conservative, cultivated an authoritarian leadership style and was seen as an opponent of church democratization. During his tenure, the Lippe regional church council was founded in 1918 and in 1922 he signed the confederation treaty of the German Protestant regional churches. On June 30, 1930 he resigned as general superintendent.
Furthermore, Wessel was politically active. In the state elections in 1919 , he was elected to the Lippe state parliament for the DNVP, to which he belonged until his resignation on July 18, 1919. The next day, Walter Baumgarten took his place in Parliament.
literature
- Erich Wenneker : Wessel, August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 1554-1555.
- Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates for the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 239.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Hüls: Voters and voting behavior in the state of Lippe during the Weimar Republic. (= Special publications of the natural science and historical association for the state of Lippe. 22). Detmold 1974, p. 147.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wessel, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weßel, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant clergyman and politician (DNVP), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schötmar |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1941 |
| Place of death | Detmold |