Franz Heinrich Koeltzsch

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Franz Heinrich Koeltzsch

Franz Heinrich Költzsch (born September 13, 1861 in Plauen , † June 1, 1927 in Dresden ) was a German Lutheran clergyman and politician of the DNVP .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Plauen , Költzsch studied Protestant theology in Leipzig from 1881 to 1884 . During his studies he joined the Lusatian Preacher Society there, which later became a free association and then the Sorabia country team. From 1884 to 1887 he worked as a senior teacher at the Staatsgymnasium Leipzig and the Gymnasium Zwickau. From 1887 to 1889 he was cathedral deacon in Freiberg . He received his doctorate in philosophy in Leipzig in 1889 and then worked as a deacon at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden until 1902 . In 1902 he became pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Churchconsecrated. First he worked at St. Jacobi in Chemnitz until 1910 and then for a year at the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden. In 1911 he returned to the Dresden Kreuzkirche as superintendent and was also appointed to the senior consistorial council.

MP

Költzsch was a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/20 . There he spoke out on July 16, 1919 for theological reasons in favor of maintaining the death penalty . Whoever sheds human blood, whose blood should also be shed by people, the Bible already demands. On the same day he spoke out in favor of protecting the population from "dirty and trash literature" through a constitutional regulation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minutes of the 58th session of the National Assembly on July 16, 1919, page 1588 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Költzsch, Franz Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1927
Place of death Dresden