Ernst Dryander

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Ernst Dryander. Photography by Wilhelm Fechner

Ernst Dryander , since 1918 by Dryander (born April 18, 1843 in Halle / S. , † September 4, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German theologian and politician .

family

Dryander came from an educated middle-class family in Halle, son of the theologian Hermann Ludwig Dryander and Marie Franziska Delbrück. His mother came from the Delbrück family , who had contact with the royal family through the prince educator Friedrich Delbrück .

Dryander married Magdalene Paula Hedwig Emilie Roedenbeck on January 21, 1876, daughter of the public prosecutor and later Consistorial President Paul Rudolf Siegfried Roedenbeck and Hedwig Pauline Robertine Freiin von Eberstein. In addition to the later member of the Reichstag and civil servant Gottfried von Dryander, four other children resulted from the marriage.

Life and work

Ernst Dryander studied theology in Halle and Tübingen a. a. with August Tholuck , Johann Tobias Beck and Willibald Beyschlag . Through Tholuck's mediation, he came to Hamburg in 1865 as a private tutor to a family of merchants, before completing his training on trips to the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Italy and with a two-year visit to the Cathedral Candidate Foundation in Berlin. In 1870 he became assistant preacher at the Berlin Cathedral and adjunct , before he worked as a deacon in Torgau for two years in 1872 and as pastor in Bonn from 1874. Dryander met the prince and later Kaiser Wilhelm in Bonn .

In 1882 Dryander returned to Berlin as pastor at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Berlin and at the same time superintendent of the Synod Friedrichswerder. He rose further in the hierarchy of the Evangelical Regional Church of the older provinces of Prussia and became a member of the Provincial Synod and the Brandenburg Consistory in 1887 and, from the end of 1890, initially as a substitute (final in 1897), Castle Preacher , in 1892 General Superintendent of the Kurmark , and in 1897 Ephorus of the Cathedral Candidate Foundation and in 1898 Oberhof Preacher. Dryander accompanied Wilhelm II on several trips, including in 1898 during the emperor's trip to the Orient to inaugurate the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem .

Now close confidante of the imperial couple, Dryander gave his two eldest sons, Crown Prince Wilhelm and Eitel Friedrich, confirmation lessons and confirmed them in 1898 in the Friedenskirche in Potsdam . In favor of his position as court preacher, Dryander gave up the general superintendent and was instead appointed a member of the Evangelical Upper Church Council in 1903 and its spiritual vice-president in 1906. Despite his proximity to the court, Dryander tried to ensure that the old Prussian regional church was independent of state supervision. In the last years before the war he traveled several times to the diaspora, as well as to soldiers in Russia, Belgium and northern France and interned prisoners in Holland during the war.

Dryander experienced the collapse of the monarchy with Empress Auguste Victoria and held the farewell service on November 14, 1918 in front of the house community in the New Palace in Potsdam. In May 1920 he went to Haus Doorn to consecrate the completed building and later also visited the imperial family. Dryander held the funeral services after the death of Auguste Victoria in Doorn and the funeral service in the small temple rotunda in Sanssouci Park.

Memorial stone on the Berlin Cathedral Cemetery II

Honors and Public Offices

Dryander was appointed to the Prussian mansion by Wilhelm II in 1901 out of special trust , to which he belonged until its dissolution in 1918. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the emperor's reign, Dryander received the Order of the Black Eagle on June 15, 1918 , which was also associated with the elevation to the hereditary Prussian nobility.

Works

  • The Gospel of Marci, in sermons a. Homilies , 1890 ff.
  • The 1st letter of John, in sermons , 1896;
  • The Life of the Apostle Paul, in Sermons , 1905;
  • Protestant speeches in difficult times , 1914 to 1918;
  • German. Sermons from the Years of Patriotic Need (1918–1922) , 1923;
  • Our way to God (compiled from the estate by Martin Thorn), 1924;
  • God u. Human. Sermons and Speeches (compiled by Carl Grüneisen), 1926;
  • Memories from my life, 1922.

literature

predecessor Office successor
Rudolf Kögel General superintendent of the Kurmark in the old Prussia. Church Province of Brandenburg
1892 - 1903 		David Hennig Paul Koehler
personal data
SURNAME Dryander, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dryander, Ernst von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and politician, MdH
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1922
Place of death Berlin