Ferdinand Euler

Ferdinand Euler (born September 7, 1862 in Schlitz , † March 15, 1925 in Darmstadt ) was a German Protestant theologian and member of parliament .

family

Euler was the son of the pastor in Schlitz Johann Konrad Euler (1827-1891) and his wife Auguste Caroline Wilhelmine Eleonore nee Fresenius (1829-1879). His brother Karl Euler (1858-1924) became the director of the Philippinum Weilburg grammar school . He married on August 28, 1888 in Aschaffenburg Helene, born Henkelmann (born November 1, 1863 in Munzenberg near Butzbach, † March 10, 1931 in Erfurt), the daughter of the pastor in Messel Ludwig Henkelmann (1824-1887) and Sophie, born Freybe (1831-1889). Their son, Adolf August Karl Moritz Ferdinand Euler, born in 1898, became a pastor in Erfurt.

Life

Euler attended his father's private school and then the Fulda high school. After graduating from high school, he studied theology at the Universities of Gießen and Leipzig from 1882 . In 1884 he attended the Friedberg seminary .

1886–1889 he was the parish administrator in Langen , 1889–1894 pastor in Langen, 1894–1898 pastor in Wersau and 1898–1907 pastor in Gießen . In the years 1907–1925 he was senior consistorial councilor and superintendent of the province of Rheinhessen . In 1913 he was honored with the title of a secret senior consistorial councilor .

In 1914 he became a prelate and thus spiritual director of the Evangelical Church in Hesse . Associated with the function of prelate was a virile vote in the first chamber of the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . On December 16, 1914, he took his deputy oath. The mandate ended with the November Revolution of 1918.

In 1921 he was supported by the University of Giessen Dr. theol. hc doctorate. With the conversion of the senior consistory into the regional church office, he became senior church councilor in 1922. In 1923 he resigned as a prelate and Wilhelm Diehl was his successor.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 296.

Web links

• Euler, Ferdinand in the Hessian biography