Ernst Ahlers

Ernst Christian Gottlieb Ahlers , to differentiate himself from his father also Ernst II. Ahlers (born March 20, 1850 in Rostock , † December 30, 1939 in Burg Stargard ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, educator and author.

Life

Ernst Ahlers was the eldest son and eldest of eleven children of the lawyer and Stargardian state syndic Ernst (Christian) Ahlers (1818–1903) and his wife Minna, born. Kirchstein (1827-1882). One brother, Rudolf (Hermann Hans Karl) Ahlers (1857–1931), became a doctor. Ernst Ahlers was a great cousin of the Neubrandenburg mayor and museum co-founder Wilhelm Ahlers (1810–1889).

Ernst Ahlers attended grammar school in Neubrandenburg until his Abitur in 1870 and during this time he had contact with Fritz Reuter , about which he later published memoirs. Immediately afterwards he was a war volunteer with the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" No. 90 in the Franco-German War . From 1871 he studied Protestant theology at the universities of Leipzig , Erlangen and Tübingen . In 1877 he passed the theological exam in Neustrelitz .

He was first rector of the Stargard City School in 1878; In 1880 he became second pastor at the Neustrelitz town church . In 1884 he went to the parish Wulkenzin with Passentin as pastor and was elected here in 1908 as a preposition of his district. During his tenure in Wulkenzin in 1887 his rectory burned down with part of the village. He represented Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the highest church court in Rostock . From 1909 to 1917 he worked as provost at the Ratzeburg Cathedral in Ratzeburg. In 1917 he came back to Neustrelitz as a pastor at the town church. At the same time he was appointed to the consistorial council. From 1920 to 1926 he worked full-time as a senior church councilor in the management of the regional church of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Ahlers spent his retirement in Burg Stargard and found his final resting place in the local cemetery.

Since 1879 he was married to Alice, geb. Brunton (1847-1920), a daughter of British naval officer John Brunton from Morpeth , Northumberland, who participated in and described the North Pole expedition under William Edward Parry . The marriage produced six daughters, the last of whom died in 1963.

Works

Ahlers was primarily active as a local researcher as a writer. In his essays on the history of Neubrandenburg and the region as well as on people from Fritz Reuter's time , he also processed memories of his youth, such as the historian Franz Boll . Most of his publications appeared as essays. In addition, he was an employee of the Church Hand Lexicon .

Large parts of his estate are in the collection of the Regional Museum in Neubrandenburg , including his only partially edited memoirs and a larger group of drawings with impressions from his numerous trips.

Awards

• Landwehr service award
• War memorial for the campaigns 1870–71 (German Empire)

Fonts

• Oath and oath. Lectures held by counselor [Ernst Christian] Ahlers and Pastor [Ernst] Ahlers zu Wulkenzin. Greve, Neubrandenburg [1886].
• From the Warnow to the Sarthe. Memories of the war of 1870/71. Wagner, Neustrelitz 1932

literature

• Georg Krüger : The pastors in Stargard since the Reformation. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 69 (1904), pp. 1–270 ( full text ), pp. 244f
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 83 .

Web links

• Literature about Ernst Ahlers in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Ernst Ahlers in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ His grave has since been leveled.