Erich Pfalzgraf

Erich Pfalzgraf (born November 25, 1879 in Hünfeld , † November 29, 1937 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant theologian and preacher .

biography

Pfalzgraf was the son of a savings bank director. He attended high school in Lauterbach in Hesse and Darmstadt until 1898 . He studied theology at the University of Marburg and at the University of Berlin. During his studies in 1899 he became a member of the Arminia Marburg fraternity . From 1905 to 1907 he served as a seaman's pastor in South Shields, England, and from 1907 to 1913 as pastor of the German congregation in Kingston upon Hull . In 1913 and 1914 he was a preacher and pastor at the Easter Church in Berlin - Wedding .

In 1914, Pfalzgraf received his appointment as cathedral preacher at Bremen Cathedral . During the First World War he was a division pastor from 1917 to 1918 . He was active in many church history and political issues. From 1919 he published the Protestant newspaper together with Alfred Fischer and Curt Stage . He was a co-founder of the Dom youth association . Since 1924 he belonged to the Freemason Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm zur Eintracht in Bremen . From 1933 he was a member of the church committee of the Bremen Evangelical Church (BEK). In the church book of the Bremen parish there are contemporary, conservative songs by him, including the EKG 478 with the beginning of the text: "You gave us in the wide world the people from whom we come". He was hostile to the racist German Christians .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 370.