Eduard Kneifel

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Eduard Kneifel (born November 14, 1896 in Rosterschütz , † March 9, 1993 in Markt Indersdorf ) was a German Lutheran clergyman and church historian.

Life

Kneifel was a son of the tannery owner Eduard Kneifel. He attended the German Protestant elementary school in his hometown Rosterschütz, then the Russian high school in Kalisz . He passed the Abitur in 1918 at the German-Polish high school von Braun in Łódź . He then studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig from 1919 , and in Rostock in 1921 . On November 4, 1923, he was ordained in the St. John's Church in Łódź by the then general superintendent Juliusz Bursche . In 1923/24 he was vicar at the St. Trinity Church in Łódź. In 1924, Kneifel was elected pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Brzeziny . Ten other preaching sites in the outlying villages belonged to his congregation. To support the population, he founded a Volksbank in Brzeziny and a branch and a goods cooperative in Koluszki .

In addition to his pastoral work, Kneifel dealt with the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poland. In 1929 he was the only German in Poland to be accepted into the Polish Historical Society in Warsaw, of which he was a member until 1939. From 1926 to 1928 he was co-editor of Weg und Ziel , the monthly of the German Pastoral Conference in Łódź. From 1938 to 1939 he published the weekly Luthererbe in Polen .

After the collapse in 1945, Kneifel came to the Federal Republic. On November 30, 1956, he received his doctorate in theology from the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Hamburg . Most recently he lived in southern Germany.

Awards

Works

  • The Evangelical Augsburg congregations of the Kalisch Diocese. 1937.
  • History of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. Niedermarschacht 1964, DNB 452466342 ( PDF; 17.3 MB ).
  • The pastors of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. Eging 1967, DNB 457237694 ( PDF; 32.6 MB ).
  • The Evangelical Augsburg congregations in Poland. A parochial history in individual representations 1555–1939. 1971.
  • The Evangelical Church in the East of Wartheland (Łódź). How they were built up and how they dealt with National Socialism 1939–1945. Vierkirchen 1976.
  • The development and growth of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland 1517–1939 . Vierkirchen 1988, DNB 881495409 ( PDF, 14 MB ).

literature

  • Adolf Schendel, in: Ostdeutsche Gedenktage 1986. Personalities and historical events , p. 178f.

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personal data
SURNAME Kneifel, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Rust contactor
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1993
Place of death Market Indersdorf