Constantin Frick

Constantin Frick (born March 5, 1877 in Magdeburg , † February 19, 1949 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant pastor , clergyman with the Inner Mission and politician.

Life

Frick was the son of a pastor. After finishing school in Barmen , he studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle and the University of Greifswald . After the first theological exam he was first tutor in Courland . He completed his studies in Berlin. He then worked as an assistant preacher in Cannes and traveled through Austria and the Baltic countries.

In 1904 he became a clergyman at the Inner Mission in Bad Godesberg . From 1905 he worked for the Inner Mission in Bremen and expanded the mission considerably. In 1914 he became managing director of the Central Aid Committee at the Red Cross in Bremen. In 1916 he was appointed head of the Diakonissenhaus and pastor in the Diakonisches Werk in Bremen. At the same time he became a pastor at the Church of Our Lady in Bremen . From 1926 he was able to expand the Diakonisches Anstalten in Bremen considerably.

From the 1920s onwards, Frick was active in the German People's Party (DVP) and in many welfare organizations. From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship for the DVP . In 1934 he became President of the Central Committee of the Inner Mission in the German Reich.

After the Second World War , Frick made a statement for the Central Association of the Inner Mission on August 23, 1945:

“The war is over. ... We now have to endure all suffering, body and soul, that is imposed on defeated peoples. ... Church and Inner Mission share the need of our people. With the Church, the Inner Mission acknowledges complicity in the heavy guilt that our people have incurred. ... "

He tried to find a replacement hospital for the deaconess house destroyed in the war. In 1947, due to old age, he resigned from the management of the new Lloydtheim on Hemmstrasse in Bremen- Findorff .

He was buried at the Emmaus Church at the Diakonissenhaus Bremen on Adelenstrasse, as was his wife Clara Frick, née Schniemind (* June 11, 1881; † July 2, 1965).

His son was the lawyer Dr. Constantin Frick (1904–1997) in Bremen.

Honors

• The Constantin-Frick-Straße in Bremen-Mitte in the station suburb was named after him in 1966.

literature

• Georg Bessell:  Frick, Friedrich Emil Heinrich Constantin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 430 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Christoph Gerner-Beuerle: Constantin Frick as President of the Central Committee for Internal Mission from 1934-1946. His confrontation with the state and the party with special consideration of the struggle against the National Socialist People's Welfare . BDW. D 30, Heidelberg 1994.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 51 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
• Jochen-Christoph Kaiser : Constantin Frick and Bodo Heyne - two pastors from Bremen and the Inner Mission between 1933 and 1945 in the Evangelical Church and Social State - Diakonie in the 19th and 20th centuries , pp. 201–215; Verlag W. Kohlhammer.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Peter Reinicke : Frick, Constantin , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 185

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jochen-Christoph Kaiser : The Second World War and German Protestantism . P. 1.