Eduard Schweingruber

Eduard Schweingruber (born February 9, 1899 , † December 1, 1975 in Lenzburg , resident in Rüeggisberg ) was a Swiss theologian , psychologist and author .

Life

C. F. Meyer house in Kilchberg , where Pastor Schweingruber's official residence was

Burial of Thomas Mann : Pastor Schweingruber in his gown at the grave (second from right)

Following family tradition, Eduard Schweingruber attended the Free Gymnasium in Bern and then the Preachers' Seminar of the Evangelical Community in Reutlingen.

As a psychological advisor, he and his wife, the Alsatian doctor Alice Schweingruber-Hütt (1902–1989), ran the Kurhaus Kardia in Gais in Appenzell in the 1930s . After studying theology at the University of Zurich, he was ordained as a reformed pastor of the regional church in 1941 .

From 1942 Schweingruber was a parish helper, from 1947 until his retirement in 1964 one of the two pastors of Kilchberg ZH . From 1943 he had his official residence in the former house of the poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer . The wife of his official colleague Gian Caprez, Greti Caprez-Roffler , who was the first woman to be elected pastor in Graubünden in 1931, he denied any activity as a theologian. In 1955 he gave the funeral sermon for Thomas Mann .

Eduard Schweingruber died in 1975 and was buried in the Kilchberg cemetery.

Works

Independent publications

The sensitive person - psychological advice on his lifestyle. Rascher, Zurich 1935; New edition: Kindler, Munich 1969.
- Swedish: Nervernas vardagshygien. Translated by Viktor Olson. Nature and culture , Stockholm 1952.
Cramped Christianity. Gotthelf, Zurich / Leipzig 1938; 4th edition 1962.
Frauenart - A psychological study from practical life for practical life. Gotthelf, Zurich 1940.
- Dutch: Het wezen van de frouw. Translated by Willem van Zoeterwoude. De Cyclus, Leiden 1957.
Luther's experience of unfree will. Gotthelf, Zurich 1947.
Puberty. Basic and practical information about adolescence and its Christian problems. Gotthelf, Zurich 1951.
Of God's reality. 14 Kilchberg sermons. Gotthelf, Zurich / Frankfurt am Main 1966.
Devotion is an event. A guide to the practice of becoming a Christian. Gotthelf, Zurich / Frankfurt am Main 1967.

Magazine articles

The woman in the man's point of view. In. Reformatio , Volume 7, 1968, pp. 362-367.

Individual evidence

↑ Schweizerische Lehrerinnenzeitung, 36 (1930/1931), Issue 9, p. 162. Digitized
^ Thomas Keller: Ernst Sommerlad 1895–1977, His tourist buildings. Thesis. ETH Zurich, 1998, pp. 25–33. Digitized
↑ Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt , Vol. 55, No. 246, November 1937, p. 2355, col. 2. Digitized
^ Appenzell Year Books , 69th issue. Trogen 1942, p. 96 f. e-periodica.ch
↑ Election of the parish back then. In: Kilchberger Kirchenbote, No. 20, October 25, 2013 ( digitized version ).
↑ Greti Caprez-Roffler: The pastor, memoirs of the first Grisons theologian, II. Episode and conclusion. In: Bündner Jahrbuch, New Series, 23/1981, pp. 94–112, here: pp. 103 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ See quotations from Gert Heine, Paul Schommer: Thomas Mann Chronik. As well as: Hans Bürgin, Hans-Otto Mayer : Thomas Mann - A chronicle of his life. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1965. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
↑ According to the catalog entry in the Thomas Mann Archive in Zurich. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
↑ Published: Funeral speech for Thomas Mann. In: Reformatio , 1955, No. 09, p. 519.
↑ The mourners on the way to the grave. Illustration in the Thomas Mann Archives.
↑ Discussed among other things in: Kirchenbote der Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche des Kantons St. Gallen. Edition November 1966. According to the table of contents ( Memento of December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Schweingruber, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss theologian, pastor and book author
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	heimatberechtigt Rüeggisberg
DATE OF DEATH	1st December 1975
Place of death	Lenzburg

[1] Schweizerische Lehrerinnenzeitung, 36 (1930/1931), Issue 9, p. 162. Digitized

[2] Thomas Keller: Ernst Sommerlad 1895–1977, His tourist buildings. Thesis. ETH Zurich, 1998, pp. 25–33. Digitized

[3] Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt , Vol. 55, No. 246, November 1937, p. 2355, col. 2. Digitized

[4] Appenzell Year Books , 69th issue. Trogen 1942, p. 96 f. e-periodica.ch

[5] Election of the parish back then. In: Kilchberger Kirchenbote, No. 20, October 25, 2013 ( digitized version ).

[6] Greti Caprez-Roffler: The pastor, memoirs of the first Grisons theologian, II. Episode and conclusion. In: Bündner Jahrbuch, New Series, 23/1981, pp. 94–112, here: pp. 103 f. ( Digitized version ).

[7] See quotations from Gert Heine, Paul Schommer: Thomas Mann Chronik. As well as: Hans Bürgin, Hans-Otto Mayer : Thomas Mann - A chronicle of his life. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1965. Retrieved January 17, 2018.

[8] According to the catalog entry in the Thomas Mann Archive in Zurich. Retrieved January 17, 2018.

[9] Published: Funeral speech for Thomas Mann. In: Reformatio , 1955, No. 09, p. 519.

[10] The mourners on the way to the grave. Illustration in the Thomas Mann Archives.

[11] Discussed among other things in: Kirchenbote der Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche des Kantons St. Gallen. Edition November 1966. According to the table of contents ( Memento of December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2018.