Erich Schlegel
Erich Schlegel , complete Friedrich Gottlob Erich Schlegel (* February 24, 1866 in Zechin ; † April 28, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant clergyman and from 1919 to 1933 as field provost , from November 1933 to March 1934 as field bishop the leading Protestant clergyman the military chaplaincy in Germany .
Life
After studying Protestant theology at the University of Berlin , Schlegel joined the Prussian army chaplaincy in early 1892. From 1892 to 1893 he was a garrison assistant preacher in Berlin. In 1893 he was appointed pastor of the 34th Division in Metz . In 1896 he moved to the 5th Division in Frankfurt / Oder in the same function . In 1902 he came to the Invalidenhaus Berlin as a pastor . In 1911 he was promoted to pastor in the IV Army Corps . As a consistorial councilor, he was associated with this in the consistory of the church province of Saxony .
On September 1, 1917, he was transferred to the General Government of Belgium as a military pastor . With the retirement of field provost Max Wölfing from active service, Schlegel was entrusted with the management of the field provost's business on August 16, 1918 and was appointed field provost of the Prussian army with effect from January 1, 1919.
From the spring of 1920 Schlegel was field provost of the Imperial Army and remained so during the entire Weimar Republic . He personified the continuity of the military chaplaincy, for whose continued existence in the republican Reichswehr he resolutely advocated. In 1929, after negotiations with the regional churches, “a new, uniform and content-wise purged” Protestant military church service order for the Reichsheer and the Reichsmarine (EMD) appeared . From 1929 he was also responsible for the Reichsmarine . When the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge was founded, he became its vice-president. He was a member of the college of the Evangelical Upper Church Council , the highest administrative authority of the Church of the Old Prussian Union, and from 1924 to 1930 a member of the German Evangelical Church Congress .
As a result of the conclusion of the Reich Concordat , the management of the military chaplaincy was rewritten on both the Catholic and Protestant sides. Schlegel was appointed field bishop by decree of the Reich President in November 1933 . Soon afterwards he retired at his own request on March 31, 1934. His successor was Franz Dohrmann .
Schlegel died in 1938 and was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof . The tombstone for him and his wife Margarete, geb. Kleedehn, has been preserved and shows the Luther rose . The stone also commemorates his son, the Colonel Doctor Martin Schlegel, who went missing in the Battle of Stalingrad .
Awards
- Order of the Red Eagle , 4th grade (1904)
- Royal Crown Order (Prussia) , 3rd Class (1912)
literature
- Ernst Rudolf Huber / Wolfgang Huber : State and Church during the Weimar Republic. (= State and Church in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Documents on the History of German State Church Law 4), Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-428-06362-8 , pp. 261-264
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. his article Militärseelsorge, Deutsche , in: RGG , 2nd edition, Volume 4 (1930), pp. 14-16
- ^ Patrick Oliver Heinemann: Legal history of the Reichswehr 1918–1933. (= War in History 105) Paderborn: Schöningh 2017 ISBN 9783657787852 , p. 226
- ^ Heinz Boberach, Carsten Nicolaisen, Ruth Pabst: Handbook of the German Protestant Churches, 1918 to 1949: Supraregional institutions. (= Work on contemporary church history: sources) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010 ISBN 9783525557846 , pp. 55, 247
- ↑ Laurenz Demps : Between Mars and Minerva. Signpost for the Invalidenfriedhof. A list of the grave monuments still existing on the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-345-00659-6 , p. 102
- ^ Military weekly paper 1904, Col. 2750
- ↑ Military weekly paper 1912, Col. 2362
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Max Wolfing |
Evangelical field provost of the Prussian Army 1919–1933 |
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlegel, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlegel, Friedrich Gottlob Erich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant clergyman and as field provost, from November 1933 to March 1934 as field bishop the leading Protestant clergyman of the military chaplaincy in Germany (1919–1933) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zechin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1938 |
| Place of death | Berlin |