Franz Georg Ferdinand Schläger

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Franz Georg Ferdinand Schläger, before 1867

Franz Georg Ferdinand Schläger (born June 27, 1781 in Quickborn , † October 22, 1869 in Hameln ) was pastor in Lauterberg and Hameln. He is better known for his title as "senior racket".

Life

Schläger studied theology from 1801 to 1805 with Gottlieb Jakob Planck at the University of Göttingen . In 1805 he became private tutor in Kolbow near Grabow in Mecklenburg and in 1806 city preacher in Minden . As a pastor in Hannoversch Münden , he devoted himself to poor relief and founded a girls' college and an industrial and trade school.

Under Napoleonic rule, Schläger was appointed general director of the canton schools in the Napoleonic kingdom of Westphalia . He was also court preacher to the Westphalian queen and superintendent in Rinteln.

For health reasons he went to Lauterberg as pastor in 1815 , where his son Hermann Schläger was born in 1820 . Here he published the Christian miner and smelter .

Statue on the Hamelin Münsterkirchhof

From 1822 to 1869 he was a senior (main pastor) at the city church in Hameln , as well as a pastor in the local state penal workhouse. Here, too, he was active as a writer and journalist and founded other magazines, such as the Hamelnschen advertisements for the best of the poor , the first Hamelin newspaper in 1823 , as well as the Hanoverian school friend and the non-profit papers . In addition to the journalistic side, the purpose of this newspaper was always to raise money to support the poor.

After he had founded a Sunday school in 1823, he called in the newspaper in September 1823 for the establishment of a new daughter's school, and in April 1824 the Schläger institute started teaching.

From 1831 there were disputes with Philipp Spitta at the Hamelin garrison church.

He took care of the blind and the deaf and dumb and provided pensions for parishioners. So he suggested the construction of the institution for the blind in Hanover, which opened in 1843 (cf. Landesbildungszentrum für Blinden Hannover ), where Schlägerstrasse was named after him in 1845.

His son Eduard Schläger studied philology and theology, joined the leftist movement during the revolutionary years of 1848/1849 and became a publicist. He emigrated to the United States in 1849, where he worked as a publicist and journalist (mainly in Chicago).

Honorable memory

Next to the Schlägerstraße in Hanover, the Senior-Schläger-Platz in Hameln is named after him. There is also a monument to Franz Georg Ferdinand Schläger at the Münsterkirchhof in Hameln. The "Senior Schläger Haus eV" also exists in Hameln. This association runs the Senior Schläger Haus, which offers help for homeless, homeless people and people at risk of housing shortages in the Hameln-Pyrmont district.

Publications

  • The current dangers of the evangelical church: a sermon given on the Reformation celebrations in 1853 ( online )
  • Brief plan of the girls' school in Münden ; Münden, Caspar, 1807
  • About the industry of the city of Hameln in 1824 (edited by M. Börsch, Hameln 1985)
  • The 300th anniversary of the Church Reformation in Hameln 1840 ; Hanover 1841 (reprint Hameln 1990)
  • Wonderful fates, of Martin Speelhoven ; 1858 ( online )
  • The penitent: a book of edification, for guilty people, for convicts in prisons and public penal institutions ; 1828 ( online )
  • Foreword in the memories of a soldier from the campaigns of the royal German legion ; 1846

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Georg Ferdinand Schläger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Böttcher: Hannoversches biographical lexicon
  2. ^ Hans-Walter Krumwiede: Church history of Lower Saxony ; Part 1; P. 307
  3. ↑ Hamberger, Meusel: The learned Teutschland ; Vol. 20, p. 123; with catalog raisonné
  4. ^ Göttingische learned advertisements, part 3, p. 1519
  5. ^ Klahr: Faithfulness: Carl Johann Philipp Spitta ; P. 160
  6. ↑ http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/jportal_jparticle_00045793
  7. ↑ a b c o. V .: Schläger, Franz Georg Ferdinand in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of December 10, 2015, last accessed on May 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Racket, Franz Georg Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pastor in Lauterberg and Hameln
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Quickborn
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1869
Place of death Hamelin