Franz Dohrmann
Franz Dohrmann (born October 4, 1881 in Großlübbichow near Frankfurt (Oder) , † April 19, 1969 in Munich ) was a German Protestant theologian , military chaplain and Protestant field bishop of the Reichswehr , later of the Wehrmacht .
Life
After his ordination in 1908, Dohrmann was pastor and military chaplain in Potsdam and Bromberg until 1919 and at the front during the First World War . From 1920 to 1933 he worked as a military district pastor of the military district command II and as a consistorial councilor in Stettin. From 1934, when he succeeded Field Provost Erich Schlegel , until 1945 he was Protestant Field Bishop of the Reichswehr or (since 1935) of the Wehrmacht. In this function he held the field service on October 2, 1935 for the funeral of the late Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in the Tannenberg memorial . Dohrmann had his official seat as field bishop in Berlin-Mitte. At the beginning of the Second World War, Dohrmann asked the pastor of the Berlin city mission, Hans Dannenbaum , to become pastor of Berlin , and so Dannenbaum was withdrawn from the direct reach of the Gestapo in 1939/40. Dohrmann was a pastor in Munich from 1946, where he died on April 19, 1969.
Honors
- Honorary doctorate
- The now closed conference center of the Ev. Military chaplaincy Bonn was named after him "Feldbischof-Franz-Dohrmann-Haus"
literature
- Hermann Kunst (Ed.): God does not allow himself to be scoffed at. Franz Dohrmann, field bishop under Hitler . Hanover 1983.
- Franz Dohrmann . In: Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger (Hrsg.): Person lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , p. 63
- Carsten Nicolaisen , Ruth Pabst: Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949. Organs - Offices - Associations - Persons. Vol. 1: Supraregional institutions . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-647-55784-7
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Dohrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Evangelical field bishop of the Wehrmacht . Holdings of the Federal Archives, accessed on July 15, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Franz Dohrmann . In: Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger (eds.): Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , p. 63.
- ^ A b Carsten Nicolaisen, Ruth Pabst: Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949. Organs - Offices - Associations - Persons . Vol. 1: National institutions, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-647-55784-7 , p. 450 f.
- ↑ The archive . Reference book for politics, economics, culture. Issues 19-21 (1936), p. 965.
- ↑ Frommelstrasse 1 according to the Berlin address book 1941. Using official sources . Third volume, Part IV, p. 259, column 3; The building was owned by the Treasury , the administrator was the Army Site Administration I.
- ↑ Hans Dannenbaum: Becoming and growing and growing a mission church. Experience and factual report from the work in the service of the Berlin City Mission 1926-1947 . Schriftenmissions-Verlag, Gladbeck 1950, p. 180
- ↑ Arnd Gaudich: Purchase price 1.5 million Marienheider Rüstzeitheim is for sale , Oberbergische Volkszeitung, September 25, 2017, accessed on April 10, 2018
- ^ Website of the conference site ( memento of August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 15, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dohrmann, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant military chaplain and field bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Großlübbichow near Frankfurt (Oder) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1969 |
| Place of death | Munich |