Fredy Sutermeister
Friedrich Sutermeister (born January 29, 1873 in Aarau ; † July 16, 1934 ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and religious socialist .
Life
Sutermeister was a son of Ernestine Moehrlen and Otto Sutermeister . He spent his childhood in st. Gaulish monastery in Mariaberg , before the family moved to Bern in 1880 , where he attended the Sulgenbach school and grammar school. At the age of sixteen he switched to the Basel grammar school ; in the Rebhaus he got to know the Konviktleben ; in the Concordia grammar school he made friends with Albert Barth . From 1892 he studied theology at the Universities of Basel , Bern and Berlin , where he a. a. Attended lectures by Bernhard Duhm , Adolf von Harnack and Friedrich Paulsen . After the state examination , he worked for a few years as a private tutor in the Quarles van Ufford family in the Netherlands . In 1899 he returned to Switzerland, settled in Rued and married Marie Hunziker (1875–1947) in 1901. In 1910 he joined a parish in Feuerthalen . During these years he wrote articles a. a. for the magazines New Paths and Der Freie Schweizer Arbeiter .
«[1910] Friedrich Sutermeister pointed out the devastating consequences of the imperialist division of the world in a two-part article on the Congo question : the expropriation of the country, the working conditions, 'which are desperately similar to slavery' and created by an 'armed power' [...] be forced. In the second part he dealt in detail with the ' atrocities' […] of the Belgian colonialists , took up the missionaries 'responsibility for upholding human rights and deplored their naivete:' It is almost touching to see how even the missionaries have not for a long time wanted to believe in the existence of a state system in these atrocities. ›[…] When asked what to do, there was one answer above all:‹ There remains only the power of public opinion . To influence them in the direction of a reaction of justice and brotherly love towards the immense rape of a part of humanity, that is our task. ›[…] The article is followed by an editorial call for joining the Swiss League for the Protection of Natives in the Congo. »
In 1921 he joined a parish in Binningen , where he also worked in the Blue Cross and took over the « poor people care » from Wilhelm Denz .
Sutermeister played the viola and made house music ; with his son Heinrich (1910–1995) he played “often four-handed piano ”; his friendship with Walter Courvoisier contributed to his son's career. His son Hans (1907–1977) made him a tragic fictional character in his novella Between Two Worlds .
literature
- Paul Wernle : To my friend Fritz Sutermeister . In: Kirchenblatt . tape 32 , no. 38 , 1917, ZDB ID 516795-4 .
- In memory of Pastor Friedrich Sutermeister, born January 29, 1873, died July 16, 1934 . Obituary . Buchdruckerei Rolt, Schinznach 1934, OCLC 730561996 ( online [accessed February 13, 2013] with a contribution by Paul Jucker ).
- Hans Martin Sutermeister : Between two worlds. Novella . Mettler & Salz AG, Bern 1942, ISBN 978-3-226-00030-6 .
Web links
- «Portrait of Fritz Sutermeister-Hunziker». Images, map collection of the Basel University Library .
- Letters from Fredy Sutermeister in the burger library in Bern .
- Letters from Fredy Sutermeister to Rudolf Stähelin-Stockmeyer in the Basel-Stadt State Archives .
Individual evidence
- ^ Steven A. Sutermeister (in collaboration with Robert A. Sutermeister and Robert L. Sutermeister): Sutermeister family register . Steven A. Sutermeister, Flushing (Michigan) 1987 (American English, Helveticat ).
- ↑ a b c d e f g In memory of Pastor Friedrich Sutermeister, born January 29, 1873, died July 16, 1934 . Obituary . Buchdruckerei Rolt, Schinznach 1934, OCLC 730561996 ( online [accessed February 13, 2013] with a contribution by Paul Jucker).
- ↑ Willy player , Stefan Howald , Ruedi Brassel-Moser : For the freedom of the word: New ways through a century in the mirror of the journal of religious socialism . Theological Publishing House Zurich , Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-290-17415-6 , p. 340 .
- ^ Dino Larese : Heinrich Sutermeister . Amriswiler Bücherei, 1972, LCCN 72-313314 , p. 10-14 .
- ^ Günter Birkner : Heinrich Sutermeister, the way of the stage composer . In: New Year's Gazette of the Zurich General Music Society . tape 169 . Zurich 1985, LCCN 85-146797 , p. 6 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Master sitter, Fredy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sutermeister, Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss reformed pastor and religious socialist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1873 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Aarau |
DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1934 |