Ferdinand Schröder (pastor)
Hans Wilhelm Ferdinand Schröder (born September 10, 1892 in Nortorf ; † September 8, 1978 in Schorndorf ) was a German Lutheran pastor and senior church councilor .
Life
Ferdinand Schröder attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Husum from 1905 to 1912 and passed his Abitur there. From 1912 he studied theology at the universities in Strasbourg and Erlangen. After the outbreak of World War I , he became a soldier in 1914 and a lieutenant in the reserve in 1916 .
It was not until the Weimar Republic that Ferdinand Schröder continued his theology studies in Kiel in 1919, where he passed both theological exams until 1921. In the same year, on July 10, he married Margarete , née Eggers, and then went to Brazil for four years ; first to Sertão Santana , 1923 to September 1925 to São Leopoldo .
Back in Germany, he worked as a pastor in Neuenbrook (Holstein) from 1925 to November 1931 , but obtained his doctorate in philosophy in April 1931.
In November 1931 he went to Schönefeld near Berlin as a pastor , where at the beginning of 1932 he initially ran the management of the Evangelical Emigration Service in Berlin on a part-time basis, and in the German Reich from October 1936 until after the start of the Second World War until March 31, 1940, full-time . On March 1, 1940, he was given the title of senior church councilor . At the same time, Ferdinand Schröder was from August 26, 1939 to April 26, 1941 "Department Commander in the 205 Artillery Regiment as Captain of the Reserve ", then until April 1945 as Major of the Reserve, interrupted only by a four-month hospital stay from December 1942.
Entry into Heilbronn , 1940
The major in the Third Reich
As senior church councilor in 1945
From May 1 to August 1, 1945, Schröder performed an honorary parish service in Isny (Württemberg). In August 1945 he was parish administrator , from December of the same year to June 30, 1946 in Frankenbach .
On July 1, 1946, Ferdinand Schröder became a consultant in the central office of the Aid Organization of the Evangelical Church in Germany , where he set up a department for emigration and became head of this department that same year; a position that he held until 1959 (1955 to 1959 central office for evangelical emigration care ).
In 1959 Ferdinand Schröder retired, but in the same year became a member of the emigration committee of the World Council of Churches in Geneva . Schroeder was also a member of the South - Committee of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany .
Awards
- May 1915: Iron Cross 2nd class
- June 25, 1940: Clasp for the Iron Cross 2nd Class and Iron Cross 1st Class
- July 20, 1942: Medal Winter Battle in the East 1941/42 (Eastern Medal)
- Jan. 30, 1944: War Merit Cross, 2nd class
- July 13, 1956: Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Works and Estate
Ferdinand Schröder's daughter, Ingrid Grüninger , offered the estate to the Federal Archives in the form of 28 archive units (approx. 1 running meter) . Apart from a few pamphlets and watercolors by the father, a finding aid was created for the estate N 1606 Schröder, Ferdinand . “For the volumes with the shelfmarks N 1606 / 1-5 , the copies of memoirs, diaries and letters are also available in digital form in the responsible department. A number of photographs were taken from the estate and can be accessed under the shelfmarks picture 146/2006/207 to 216 in the picture archive of the Federal Archives. The photographs are listed after the finding aid for inventory N1606 Ferdinand Schröder. "
Through a cooperation between the Federal Archives and the Wikimedia Foundation , digitized images by Ferdinand Schröder were made available to the general public via Commons.
Web links
- Biography Hans Wilhelm Ferdinand Schröder, Dr. phil., Protestant pastor about the archive software Midosa of the archive school Marburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Biography of Hans Wilhelm Ferdinand Schröder .. (see web links) of the Marburg archive school
- ↑ see Commons
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schröder, Ferdinand |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schröder, Hans Wilhelm Ferdinand (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian (Protestant), senior church councilor |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1892 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nortorf |
DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1978 |
Place of death | Schorndorf |