August Wilhelm Fresenius
August Wilhelm Fresenius (born June 25, 1896 in Wiesbaden , † October 5, 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Protestant theologian.
life and work
August Wilhelm Fresenius was the son of the Wiesbaden chemist Remigius Heinrich Fresenius (1847–1920) and his wife Eva Maria Charlotte, b. v. Heusch (1851-1930). His grandfather was the chemist Carl Remigius Fresenius .
He attended the humanistic grammar school in Wiesbaden , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1905. He then studied Protestant theology in Heidelberg , Berlin and Marburg . After a vicariate in Frankfurt am Main, he was pastor in Diethardt from 1913 to 1918 , and in Nassau an der Lahn from 1918 to 1923 . From 1924 until his retirement in 1956 he was pastor at the Frankfurt Katharinenkirche .
From 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the state brotherhood council of the Confessing Church Nassau-Hessen and, along with Pastor Karl Veidt, was one of the most prominent opponents of the German Christians in the Frankfurt church struggle.
literature
- Jürgen Telschow, Elisabeth Reiter: The Protestant pastors of Frankfurt am Main . Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt, 1985.
- Joachim Proescholdt (Ed.): St. Katharinen zu Frankfurt am Main . Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-7829-0240-8 .
- Konrad Fuchs : FRESENIUS, August Sigismund Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 423-424.
Web links
- Literature by and about August Wilhelm Fresenius in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fresenius, August Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fresenius, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 1971 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |