Friedrich Karl Oehler

Friedrich Karl Oehler (born August 19, 1844 in Weisweil ; † March 12, 1910 in Heidelberg ) was a Protestant theologian and prelate of the Evangelical Church in Baden .

Life and work

Oehler grew up in Wittenweier (today the municipality of Schwanau ) in southern Baden, where his father was a municipality and district councilor. He attended elementary school there and then the Lyceum in Lahr / Black Forest , later in Karlsruhe . Then he studied theology in Halle (Saale) and Heidelberg . During his studies he was a member of the 1863 Schwarzenburg Bund - connection Tuiskonia Hall . After completing his studies he was vicar in Betberg (today part of Buggingen ), where he also met his future wife Mathilde Werner, as well as in Laufen (now part of Sulzburg ) and Meßkirch . His first parish was offered to him in St. Georgen in the Black Forest , but in 1879 he came to Pforzheim for many years . From there he was appointed to the Oberkirchenrat in 1894. During his activity there he continued to work as a pastor.

In 1904, Oehler was appointed as the successor to Albert Helbing , who took over the office of President of the Upper Church Council, as prelate and thus spiritual head of the Evangelical Church in Baden . Oehler and Helbing together formed the leadership of the Baden regional church, which at that time was headed by the respective Grand Duke of Baden as "summus episcopus" .

In 1909 Oehler resigned from office. His successor as prelate of the Evangelical Regional Church in Baden was Ludwig Schmitthenner , who was the spiritual director of the regional church beyond 1918 (the elimination of the state church regiment ).

Oehler died in Karlsruhe in March 1910, just one year after leaving as prelate.

Web links

• Speeches by Friedrich Oehler in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 76, no.1637.