Friedemann Goßlau

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Richard Friedemann Goßlau (usual: Friedemann Goßlau; born April 13, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 8, 2018 in Quedlinburg ) was a Protestant pastor of the cathedral parish in Quedlinburg. He was instrumental in the repatriation of the Quedlinburg cathedral treasure .

Life

Goßlau was born in Frankfurt am Main as the son of a pastor and a lawyer and grew up in Tangermünde . He studied Protestant theology at the Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin-Zehlendorf , in Heidelberg and in Basel . In Basel he was coined by Karl Barth .

He passed the church exams in 1953 and 1955 in Halle (Saale) . After his ordination on May 22, 1955, he was first assistant preacher, and from the following year pastor at the church in Wanzer in the Stendal district ( restricted area ).

In 1958 Goßlau wrote a letter to Karl Barth together with Pastor Reinhard Carstens, in which they asked "for an opinion on the Christian existence in the communist-led states". In response, the “Letter to a Young Pastor in the German Democratic Republic” appeared. It was only published as a single print in Zurich in 1958; reprinting was prohibited in the GDR .

From 1965 until his retirement in 1993, Goßlau was a pastor in Quedlinburg. There he was also a founding member of the Rotary Club . His marriage to his wife had three children.

His successor in the office of cathedral priest was Ekkehard Steinhäuser.

Connection to the Quedlinburg Cathedral Treasure

The Quedlinburg Cathedral Treasure was relocated to the outskirts of Quedlinburg during the Second World War, as a result of which parts fell into the hands of an American soldier. After his death, some of the pieces that were believed to be lost reappeared in an auction house. On January 6, 1991, Goßlau decided that the agreement on the repatriation of parts of the Quedlinburg cathedral treasure for an initial compensation of at least one million US dollars would be signed. He referred to the symbolic connection of Epiphany Day with the Three Kings and the three representatives of the US Department of the Interior, the German State Cultural Foundation and “his” church.

Honors

In 1998 he received honorary citizenship of the city of Quedlinburg. In November 2001 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit by Federal President Johannes Rau for his services to the return of the cathedral treasure . He received it in April 2002 from the then Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt , Reinhard Höppner .

Fonts

  • Friedemann Goßlau, Rita Süssmuth , Klaus Maurice: Lost, found, brought home: the reunification of the Quedlinburg cathedral treasure . Ed .: Quedlinburg Druck GmbH. Convent Quedlinburg, Quedlinburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-9806120-1-2 .
  • Friedemann Goßlau, Rosi Radecke: The collegiate church of Quedlinburg. A guided tour through the Romanesque sacred building and the cathedral treasure . Convent Quedlinburg, Quedlinburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-9806120-7-4 .
  • Friedemann Goßlau: The Quedlinburger Itala . In: Quedlinburger Annalen 2 . Quedlinburg 2004, p. 25-36 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minutes of the main and finance committee of the city of Quedlinburg. (PDF, 47 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Stadt Quedlinburg. City of Quedlinburg, May 15, 2009, p. 3f , formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 7, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www2.quedlinburg.de  
  2. ↑ a b Ev. Pastors' book for the Altmark , PDF
  3. ↑ called home minister, Friedemann Goßlau. January 9, 2018, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b Wolfgang Schuller : The German Revolution 1989 , 2010
  5. ↑ http://www.pollitz-online.de/Chronik/Chronik.pdf
  6. ^ Reports of the Magdeburg church leadership on the conferences of the Provincial Synod 1946–1989 . In: Works on contemporary church history . 1st edition. Row A, volume 10 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-55760-0 , p. 157 ( google.com [accessed on March 16, 2009] see footnote 2 there).
  7. ↑ http://www.rotary-quedlinburg.de/rotary/index.php?option=com_rotary&Itemid=49 , accessed on November 8, 2010
  8. ^ William H. Honan: Deal on Stolen German Art Meets With Mixed Reaction . In: New York Times (Ed.): New York Times . New York edition, January 9, 1991. New York Times, New York January 9, 1991, pp. 13 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 7, 2009]: Deal on Stolen German Art Meets With Mixed Reaction .).
  9. ↑ Weekly mirror 14/02. (PDF, 41 kB) (No longer available online.) State of Saxony-Anhalt, April 5, 2002, p. 9 , archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; Retrieved December 7, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.asp.sachsen-anhalt.de
personal data
SURNAME Goßlau, Friedemann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goßlau, Richard Friedemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor in Quedlinburg
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2018
Place of death Quedlinburg