Friedrich Kentmann

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Friedrich Kentmann as a student in Dorpat

Friedrich Eduard Kentmann (born January 26, 1878 in Kusal, Estonian Kuusalu , † September 15, 1953 in Hamburg ) was a German-Baltic Evangelical-Lutheran clergyman. During the time of National Socialism he was state superintendent in Güstrow .

Life

Friedrich Kentmann came from a German-Baltic pastor dynasty and was the son of Woldemar Friedrich Kentmann (1833–1901), pastor in Kusal and provost of East Harrien , and his wife Amalie, née. Grobmann. The general superintendent Wilhelm Kentmann (1861–1938) was his oldest brother.

He attended the knight and cathedral school in Reval as well as the private grammar school of Dr. Wiedemann in Saint Petersburg . From 1898 to 1904 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Dorpat . Here, like his father and brother before, he became a member of the Baltic Corporation Estonia Dorpat . In 1905 he was ordained pastor in Reval ; He got his first job here as an adjunct at the Johanniskirche . From 1908, as an inspector , he headed the private pre-school classes for the cathedral school, which was also known under his name as the Kentmann preparatory school . From 1911 to 1918 he taught religion and Latin at the cathedral school, at the same time he was parish administrator in Reval in 1915/16. During the German occupation in 1918, the German General Command 68 appointed him city ​​school council.

As a result of the events at the end of the First World War and the Estonian War of Freedom , he emigrated to Germany in early 1919 and became a pastor in Rüstringen . In 1923 he changed to the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg and came to the Holy Spirit Church (Rostock) .

In 1933 he joined the German Christians and the NSDAP . In September 1933 he denounced the Rostock professor of practical theology Helmuth Schreiner , which led to his temporary suspension. In October he temporarily took over the office of Rostock state superintendent instead of the deposed Friedrich Voss (1859-1954). On June 1, 1934, the regional church leader Walther Schultz appointed him in place of Johannes Schwartzkopff, who had been forcibly transferred to Mölln (Mecklenburg), as cathedral preacher at Güstrow Cathedral . At the same time, he was to be the successor of the Güstrow regional superintendent Walter Kittel (1870-1936), who had been forced into retirement. However, the latter refused to recognize his transfer to retirement, and so Kentmann's appointment could not take effect until Kittel's death on July 22, 1936. In addition, from 1935 he was a member of the regional church examination commission. Kentmann took possession of the state superintendent by force; the pastors who belonged to the Confessing Church refused to cooperate with him. In 1937 Kentmann commissioned the removal of the memorial Der Schwebende by Ernst Barlach from the cathedral. At the end of 1941 he was listed on a list of new employees of the German Christian Eisenach Institute for the Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life .

After the end of National Socialism and the Second World War in 1945, he was relieved of his position as state superintendent and suspended from the parish office. His successor as state superintendent became the Güstrower BK pastor Sibrand Siegert (1890-1954) with effect from October 1, 1945. In 1950 Kentmann was dismissed from the service of the Mecklenburg regional church.

Since 1905 he was married to Ellen, b. from Striedter.

Works

  • A vintage morning devotions for children. Reval 1908
  • From the Savior. Biblical stories for children. Reval: Association of Lutheran Pastors of Estonia 1912

literature

  • Erik Amburger : The pastors of the consistorial district of Estonia: 1885-1919. Cologne: Böhlau 1988 ISBN 9783412011888 . P. 57f
  • Responsibility for the church. Stenographic notes and transcripts from regional bishop Hans Meiser . Vol. 2 (1935-37): Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1993 ISBN 3-525-55755-8 , p. 668

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Kentmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Woldemar Friedrich Kentmann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Wilhelm Eugen Leonhard Kentmann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  3. ↑ Paul Blosfeld (ed.): History of the cathedral school at Reval. 1906-1922. Reval and Leipzig 1923 ( digitized version ), p. 25
  4. ↑ Estonorum album. Tallinn 1939
  5. ↑ Paul Blosfeld (ed.): History of the cathedral school at Reval. 1906-1922. Reval and Leipzig 1923 ( digitized version ), p. 25
  6. ↑ Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich: A biographical lexicon. (= Texts and materials on contemporary history 16) Berlin: de Gruyter 2007 ISBN 9783110957303 , p. 364
  7. ^ Niklot Beste : The church struggle in Mecklenburg from 1933 to 1945: history, documents, memories. Berlin (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt) / Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, licensed edition; works on the history of the church struggle, supplementary series; 9) 1975 ISBN 3-525-55533-4 , p. 60
  8. ↑ Responsibility for the Church (lit.), p. 574
  9. ^ New employees , in: Association announcements No. 5/6, December 15, 1941, p. 133
  10. ↑ Church Official Gazette for Mecklenburg 1946, p. 4 ( digitized version )
  11. ↑ On Siegert see House of the Church Sibrand Siegert , accessed on August 12, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kentmann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kentmann, Friedrich Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Kusal, Estonian Kuusalu
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1953
Place of death Hamburg