Erwin Freytag

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Erwin Alexander Klaus Adelbert Freytag (born April 16, 1907 in Wesselburen ; † June 13, 1987 in Reinbek ) was a German author and Evangelical Lutheran theologian .

Life

He was born as the son of the musician and managing director Georg Louis Alexander Freitag and his wife Margarethe Dorothea. Sievers born. After graduating from middle school in Wesselburen, he learned to be a banker. After completing his apprenticeship, he attended secondary schools in Neumünster and Heide, where he passed his school-leaving examination in 1929. He then studied history and theology at the universities of Marburg , Jena , Bethel , Gießen , Kiel and Erlangen . After passing the second theological exam and ordination in 1936, he was assistant chaplain in Schlichting ( Dithmarschen district ) and from 1940 pastor in Sieverstedt . In 1939 Freytag was called up for military service. On July 23, 1943 Freytag married Christa Reimers (1921-2016) in Wesselburen. From this marriage there were four sons and one daughter. From 1944 he worked as a divisional pastor on the island of Rhodes. From 1945 to 1948 he was a prisoner-of-war camp pastor in the British Suez Canal district. After returning from captivity, he resumed his post in Sieverstedt until he was appointed to Uetersen in 1953 . Erwin Freytag worked here until he retired on October 1, 1971.

He has always been enthusiastic about the Low German language and from 1957 to 1967 he held the Low German morning prayers on the NDR and also preached Low German in many other places. Freytag moved to Ertinghausen (Solling) in 1971 and from there devoted himself to studying medieval history at the nearby University of Göttingen. In 1981 he and his wife moved to their last residence in Reinbek.

Even before and in addition to his pastoral work, Freytag had always dealt with history, in particular with the historical auxiliary sciences of diplomats , genealogy and heraldry . As a scholarship holder of the “Scholarship Harmsianum” Freytag was able to work several times in the Imperial Archives and in the Royal Library in Copenhagen. In 1974, in retirement, he visited the Vatican Archives, the Vatican Library and the German Historical Institute in Rome.

Freytag developed a rich literary activity as early as 1929 and wrote numerous essays and works from the field of history and church history. His best-known local history work is the 1951 Chronicle of the Sieverstedt Parish, which was re-published in 1983 in a revised edition. He also published a large number of works that relate to genealogical relationships, especially sources, which were published in the journal of the Hamburg genealogical society. Erwin Freytag was one of the oldest and most active members of the Schleswig-Holstein Society for Family Research and Heraldry.

In 1962 and 1963 he published the scientifically conclusive genealogy of the Knights of Barmstede , one of the oldest South Holstein noble families. A long series of works followed until shortly before his death, such as the one on Theodor Storm's ancestors , the house brands in Meldorf and genealogical sources in Schleswig-Holstein.

In the late autumn of 1986 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon by the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .

Works

• On the Origin of the Hebbel Family (1933)
• Thieves and burglars in the Flensburg Office (1953)
• The original hooves and old cottages in Süderschmedeby (1954)
• The importance of western fishing in our Schleswig-Holstein national history (1955)
• The old farms of the village of Stenderup in Uggelharde (1956)
• The old farms in Sieverstedt and their owners (1957)
• Two Low German documents from the age of the Reformation (income of the churches in the Flensburg office) (1958)
• A world traveler by fishing. A report by Captain Hansen (1959)
• Clement von der Wisch . On the history of the von der Wisch family in the Rundhof (1963)
• The Low German Language in the Church's Annunciation (1964)
• To the older genealogy of the gentlemen von der Hude. In: Journal for Family Studies in Lower Saxony (1970)
• To the Chronicle of Sieverstedt. Comments and additions (1976)
• On the history of the three monasteries in the fishing region (1977)
• To the Chronicle of Sieverstedt (1979)
• Heinrich Harries, the poet pastor in Sieverstedt (1983)
• The Lords of Barmstede and the founding of the Uetersen monastery ( yearbook for the Pinneberg district 1970)
• The Lords of Haseldorf (yearbook for the Pinneberg district 1968)
• Castles and monasteries in Uetersen during the Middle Ages yearbook for the Pinneberg district