Friedrich Schünemann-Pott

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Friedrich Schünemann-Pott (born April 5, 1826 in Hamburg , † July 1891 in St. Helena , California ) was a German-American free thinker and theologian.

Life

Schünemann-Pott studied theology at the University of Marburg ; u. a. he was a student of Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer . Through this Schünemann-Pott got in contact with circles of the free community of light friends .

On September 6, 1847 at a meeting he met Eduard Baltzer , Rudolf Benfey and Carl Schilling . Convinced of these, he resigned from the regional church in the same year and joined the friends of light.

In the years 1847 to 1849 he acted as spokesman for the Free Community of Nordhausen . Immediately afterwards he worked in Quedlinburg until November 1851 . From there he was sent to Lübeck as spokesman for the community until June 1854 . There Schünemann-Pott was also the editor of the papers for free religious life .

This journalistic work threatened him from December 1848 on trial for high treason and lese majesty, but the charges were only dropped two years later. From 1850 the authorities threatened Schünemann-Pott with the expulsion.

Baron Ernst von Pott adopted the revolutionary theologian and in honor of his adoptive father, Schünemann called himself Schünemann-Pott from now on.

The reprisals by the authorities increased so that on July 16, 1854 Schünemann-Pott decided to emigrate with his family to the USA . They reached New York on August 28, 1854 .

The following year the Philadelphia Free Church appointed him its spokesman. As such, he published his sheets here again between 1856 and 1872 .

In 1867 Schünemann-Pott was in Boston , Mass. elected President of the Free Religious Association .

Friedrich Schünemann-Pott died at the age of 65 in July 1891 in St. Helena, Cal.

Works

  • The free church. 1861.
  • The story of my life. 1867.
  • Jesuitism and Jesuit Fear. 1853.
  • Songs and poems for use in congregations, schools, and home free churches. 1855.

literature

  • Bettina Goldberg: German-American freethinkers in Milwaukee 18771890. Organization and socio-political orientation. Self-published, Bochum 1982, OCLC 26849172 .
  • Max Henrici: The Book of the Germans in America . Walther, Philadelphia 1909, DNB 579266702 .
personal data
SURNAME Schünemann-Pott, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schünemann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American free thinker and German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 1891
Place of death St. Helena , California