Emil Hardrat

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Emil Hardrat , completely Christian Heinrich Carl Emil Hardrat , in the USA Emil H. Hardrat (born February 11, 1810 in Loitz , † November 24, 1886 in Detroit ) was a German-American Lutheran clergyman and 1848/50 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives .

Life

Hardrat was a son of Christian (Martin Siegfried) Hardrat, district legal advisor in Loitz, and his wife Wilhelmina Agnesa Sophia, geb. from Rußdorf. He attended high school in Greifswald and Neubrandenburg . He studied Protestant theology first for one year at the University of Greifswald and from April 1830 at the University of Rostock . After completing his studies, he opened a private school in Ticino and Stavenhagen in 1833 . In 1845 he came to the village church of Basse in Basse, now part of Lühburg , as assistant preacher to his uncle, pastor Ferdinand August Ludwig von Rußdorf (1774–1847) . On August 28, 1846, he married his niece, Friederica Dorothea Augusta Antonett von Rußdorf, who lived there and was the daughter of Georg Ludwig Theodor von Rußdorf , who was in foreign service .

He won many followers among the day laborers in the 11 villages belonging to the parish, because he explained to them that the existing order was by no means intended by God, and showed ways and means of changing the conditions that had become unbearable. He did not pass a short-term second exam before the consistory in Schwerin, which led to unrest in the village. However, the landlord of Lühburg und Basse and church patron , Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye , stood up for him so that he could stay in Basse and was given a deadline to retake the exam before another commission. But it did not get to that.

In the election on October 3, 1848, he was elected to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin constituency 65 : Ticino as a member of the Mecklenburg House of Representatives. Here he joined the Reform Party and its faction on the left .

In the same year he tried, so to speak, as a precedent for the separation of church and state called for by the reformers, to found a free congregation in Basse. During the vacancy after Pastor von Russdorf's death, most of the parishioners (1100 from 1200 after Vick) left the regional church, formed a free congregation with elders as the church council and elected Hardrat as their pastor. The new congregation group made a claim on the use of the church. The church administration, on the other hand, requested military troops in 1849 in order to protect the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the possession of the Church in Basse to which it was entitled , as the government then reported to the Assembly of Representatives when asked . Protected by hundreds of soldiers under the command of Lieutenant and later General Viktor von Stenglin (1825-1897), the Church Commission had Carl August Starck elected as legal pastor in 1849.

Hardrat had to leave the community; he is said to have preached on the streets in the surrounding villages for a while. The Grand Duke got him a farmer's post in West Mecklenburg, to which he had to withdraw after the dissolution of the Assembly of Representatives and the victory of the reaction after the Freienwalder arbitration award .

At the beginning of the 1870s he emigrated to the USA with his son Carl Hardrat, now a widow. Here he was first pastor in Michigan City (Indiana) and from 1879 until his death the founding pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Detroit .

literature

  • Julius Wiggers : The Mecklenburg constituent assembly and the preceding reform movement: A historical account. 1850
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War: with comments on the previous pastors since the Reformation. Volume 1, Wismar: self-published 1924
  • Karl-Heinz Vick: Dr. Emil Hardrat: An upright Mecklenburg clergyman and democrat. in: Neue Mecklenburgische Monatshefte 2 (1957), Issue 3, pp. 180-184

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Marriage entry in the Basse church register, accessed via ancestry.com on February 2, 2019
  4. ↑ Vick (Lit.), p. 181
  5. ↑ Wiggers (lit.), p. 62
  6. ↑ Vick (Lit), p. 182
  7. ↑ Wiggers (lit.)., P. 135
  8. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  9. ↑ For details, see Wiggers (Lit.), pp. 133–135
personal data
SURNAME Hardrat, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardrat, Christian Heinrich Carl Emil (full name); Hardrat, Emil H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American Lutheran clergyman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Loitz
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1886
Place of death Detroit