Christhard Mahrenholz

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Christhard Mahrenholz (at the table, 1st from right) with Hans-Otto Wölber (2nd from right), Friedrich Hübner (3rd from right) and Rudolf Brinckmeier (4th from right) at the general synod of the VELKD in 1965.

Konrad Andreas Christian Reinhard (called: Christhard) Mahrenholz (born August 11, 1900 in Adelebsen ; † March 15, 1980 in Hanover ) was a German musicologist , pastor, abbot and lyricist. He was the father of Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz and Hans Christhard Mahrenholz .

Life

The pastor's son Mahrenholz enjoyed piano and organ lessons from 1915. From 1919 to 1925 he worked as an organist and choirmaster in his home community. From 1919 he studied first in Marburg , then Protestant theology and musicology in Göttingen and Leipzig . He became a member of the Göttinger and Leipziger Wingolf . With a study of the church musician Samuel Scheidt , Mahrenholz received his doctorate in philosophy in 1923.

He then found a job as an assistant librarian at the Göttingen University Library. In 1925 he was ordained a pastor in Hildesheim and then worked as an assistant chaplain in the St. Marien parish in Göttingen. The Furtwängler organ , which he arranged at this time, is the starting point of the organ movement , with which Baroque organ music and its intonation experienced an international renaissance. In 1926 Mahrenholz moved to Groß Lengden as parish pastor . In 1930 he was appointed to the regional church office in Hanover and was given a teaching position at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 1933 he was promoted to the Oberlandeskirchenrat. In the same year he became Reich Chairman of the Association of Evangelical Church Choirs in Germany (VeK) and head of the student council for Protestant church choirs and trombone choirs within the Reich Chamber of Music . In May 1933 he was one of the signatories of a manifesto with the rejection of the "corrosive forces of liberalism and individualism" and a commitment to the "community-bound strength of all church music" and the "popular basis of all church music". In October 1933 Mahrenholz became an advisory board member of the Reich Office for Church Music of the Protestant Church , which was subordinate to the National Socialist Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller . In 1935 Mahrenholz became a member of the Reich Church Committee of the German Evangelical Church formed on the basis of an ordinance by Reich Church Minister Hanns Kerrl .

After the Second World War, Mahrenholz was appointed chairman of the Committee for the Return of Bells (ARG). In 1946 he was appointed honorary professor for church music at the Theological Faculty of the University of Göttingen , which awarded him an honorary theological doctorate in 1948 . Between 1949 and 1975 the Neue Bachgesellschaft had him as chairman, succeeding Karl Straube . In 1953 he was appointed clergyman conductor in the regional church office, and in 1965 clergyman vice-president.

He was one of the initiators of the liturgical renewal and the organ movement and instrumental in the formation of the Evangelical Church hymnal 1950. He coined the Gloria Patri -Schlussstrophe the hymn I want, as long as I live : Ehr is in heaven ( EC 276). In 1955 he co-founded the Liturgy and Hymnology Yearbook . From 1969 to 1973 he was the Protestant chairman of the Working Group for Ecumenical Songs (AÖL). In addition to church music and liturgy, Mahrenholz was also connected to church art and handicrafts, including as a long-time member of the board of the Lower Saxony Parament Association.

In 1960 he was elected by the Church Senate of the Ev.-luth. Regional Church of Hanover appointed abbot of the Amelungsborn monastery . After almost fifty years of vacancy, he was the main co-founder of the local evangelical brotherhood, which feels particularly committed to maintaining the Lutheran liturgical tradition. In 1971 he resigned from this position. His successor was the Osnabrück regional superintendent Kurt Schmidt-Clausen .

Christhard Mahrenholz found his final resting place in Amelungsborn.

Awards

Mahrenholz was awarded the Great Lower Saxony Cross of Merit in 1971 and the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1977, the latter primarily for his services to the New Bach Society.

Publications (selection)

  • Samuel Scheidt , his life and his work. Leipzig 1924
  • The organ registers, their history and their construction. Kassel 1929
  • Luther and church music. Kassel 1937
  • The Evangelical Church Hymn book, a report on its prehistory, its development and the principles of its design. Kassel 1950
  • Musicologica et Liturgica. Collected essays , ed. v. Karl Ferdinand Müller , Kassel 1960 (Festschrift)
  • Regulations of the Amelungsborn monastery. Berlin 1961

As editor:

  • Jacob Adlung : Musica mechanica organoedi. (Berlin 1768) Kassel 1931
  • Ernst Pepping : Choral Book. Mainz 1931
  • Samuel Scheidt: Works. Hamburg 1932ff.
  • Handbook of German Protestant Church Music. Göttingen 1935ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 385–386.
  2. ↑ Complete quotation from Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 196.
  3. ↑ Hans-Walter Krumwiede: Church history of Lower Saxony: Vol. 2 19th century - 1945 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996, p. 515, ISBN 978-3525554326
predecessor Office successor
Karl Straube President of the New Bach Society
1949–1974 		Hans Pischner
personal data
SURNAME Mahrenholz, Christhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahrenholz, Konrad Andreas Christian Richard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, pastor and lyricist, abbot of the Amelungsborn monastery
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelebsen b. Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1980
Place of death Hanover