Daniel Runge (pastor)

Daniel Ewald Friedrich Runge (born April 14, 1804 in Brunn (Mecklenburg) ; † beginning of March 1864 in Germantown, today German Township, Vanderburgh County , Indiana ) was a German Protestant theologian , pastor von Woldegk and member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives from 1848/50 .

Life

Daniel Runge was born as the son and third of eleven children of the landlord David Runge (* 1773) and the landlord's daughter Sophie, b. Otto (1785–1853), born in Brunn. He was a nephew of the painter Philipp Otto Runge .

Runge spent his childhood and youth in Ludorf bei Röbel, where the family lived from 1808. Taught by private tutors from 1811 to 1820, he attended the school of scholars in Friedland from the fall of 1820 and passed his Abitur there at Easter 1824. He took an active part in the Friedländer gymnastics movement; In 1822/23 he was named as a gymnast. Runge studied Protestant theology in Halle from 1824 and in Rostock from autumn 1826 . During his studies in 1824 he became a member of the Old Halleschen Burschenschaft and the beer county of Halle . From Easter 1827 to 1828 he worked as private tutor for Dr. Franz Crull (1787–1848) in Rostock, then as a teacher at a Rostock private school. In 1828 he acquired the permission to preach for Mecklenburg-Strelitz , but initially did not find a job and from 1829 to 1832 again worked as a private tutor with Philipp von Stenglin on Gelbensande , then with the tenant family Meyer on Mandelshagen near Ribnitz . In 1832 Runge passed the theological exam with Superintendent Johann Kleiminger in Sternberg . After he had repeatedly unsuccessfully applied for permanent employment as a teacher, deputy principal or rector in Sternberg, Goldberg and Kröpelin from 1830 to 1832 , Runge found his first position in the summer of 1832 as an adjunct to Pastor Ernst Asmis in Woldegk. In 1835 he was elected as his successor in office.

Daniel Runge aroused in 1845 with a liberal attitude through a magazine article The decisive hour for our century has struck ... and through public polemics against church doctrine quickly the displeasure of his superior authority, which resulted in official investigations. In 1839 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( gymnastics father Jahn ), with whom Runge had known since his gymnastics days in Friedland, mentioned him in a letter as the editor of the songbooks, which he no longer cares about and which he entrusts to a younger brother who is now in charge in Jena dedicated to medicine . In the revolutionary movement of 1848/49 Runge developed into a leading representative of the Woldegk reform movement. In April 1848 he was elected as secretary to the twelve-person board of the Reform Association and called in the newspaper to participate in a meeting of the Köthener Friends of Light , which again earned him official criticism.

In the years that followed, Runge often used his ministry to spread revolutionary ideas. He was named by the Rostock Reform Association as a candidate for the state parliament and in 1848 in the electoral district of Woldegk he was elected as a second member of the constituent assembly of representatives. Daniel Runge belonged to the parliamentary left and campaigned, among other things, for a contemporary urban order.

Even after the failure of the revolution, Daniel Runge remained true to his political convictions despite rapid reprisals . Under the impression of a suspension proceeding against him , he resigned his pastor in mid-1851 and, like many Forty-Eighters, followed his brothers to America with the entire family in early 1852. Runge later lived in and near Evansville, Indiana .

Daniel Runge had been married since 1835. Four sons and a daughter were born in Mecklenburg until 1851, all of whom emigrated with their parents.

Works

• from 1825 editor of a selection of German songs (Leipzig, FA Serig, nine editions until 1860)
• Obituary for Robert Blum (whom he knew personally). In: Mecklenburgischer Landtagbote from November 17, 1848

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 217-218.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Date of death according to the Archive for Regional Studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg and Revüe der Landwirtschaft 16 (1866), p. 407
2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ↑ Frank evening paper of April 4, 1845 (No. 1370)
4. ^ Letter to Ernst Heinrich Zober dated July 16, 1839.
5. ↑ An association of liberal pastors, teachers and professors from Saxony-Anhalt . See the Neubrandenburg weekly newspaper of April 21, 1848

Web links

• Literature about Daniel Runge in the state bibliography MV