Friedrich Schmaltz

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Friedrich Schmaltz , completely Friedrich Paul Julius Ludwig Schmaltz (born September 26, 1868 in Schlieffenberg , † January 14, 1949 in Rostock ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Friedrich Schmaltz was born in 1867 as the child of the pastor at the Schlieffenberg Church Bernhard Otto Schmaltz (1828–1839) and his wife Friederike Henriette Anna, née. Chrestin (1842–1922) born in Schlieffenberg (Mecklenburg). Karl Schmaltz was his older brother. Initially, his father taught Friedrich and his siblings at home, while his mother taught him and other children in the neighborhood free-hand drawing. From 1882 he attended the Friderico-Francisceum in Doberan, where he passed his school leaving examination in 1887 . In the same year he moved to the University of Leipzig together with his brother Karl and began studying Protestant theology . In the summer semester of 1888, the brothers moved to the University of Tübingen . For the winter semester 1889/90 he came back to Mecklenburg to the University of Rostock . After his exams he worked as a private tutor like many clergymen of his time . In 1896/97 he was assistant preacher in Wittenburg . In 1897 he came to the Bethlehem Abbey in Ludwigslust , first as assistant preacher to the abbey preacher Johannes Krabbe and from 1901 as his successor.

He was suspended in 1904 because of deviations in the doctrine from the church confession (he had internally expressed doubts about the doctrine of the virgin birth and the bodily resurrection ); the Mecklenburg-Schwerin consistory sentenced him on October 26, 1904 to impeachment and removal from the church service. In the appeal proceedings before the Upper Church Court for both Mecklenburgs, the judgment was overturned on June 16, 1905 with the votes of the four legal members of the court against the three votes of the theological members. The Schmaltz case attracted national attention; According to his brother's assessment, it was the last blow of the orthodox neo-Lutheranism against the new in Mecklenburg.

Since the Schwerin Oberkirchenrat, despite the acquittal, was unwilling to give him back his pastor, Friedrich Schmaltz left Mecklenburg and in 1906 became pastor at the Evangelical Church of Beuern in Beuern (Buseck) in Hesse. From 1916 until his retirement in 1933 he worked as a chaplain in the correctional facility Oslebshausen of the Free City of Bremen in Oslebshausen .

Friedrich Schmaltz was married from 1897 to Magdalene Bertha Julie Zander (1869–1898) from Sülze, daughter of the later prepositus of Stavenhagen Heinrich Zander, and from 1902 to Anna Sophia Wilmanns (* 1879) from Vegesack, daughter of the doctor Johann Georg Wilmanns . He spent his retirement in Rostock. Friedrich Schmaltz was a long-time member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology and published essays in its yearbooks , such as the 1926 contribution Rostock marriages in old times .

Works

  • Sermons and speeches. Güstrow: Opitz 1904

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8788 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Both judgments were published in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Kirchenrecht. 16 (1906), pp. 154-176
  3. ^ Karl Schmaltz : Church history of Mecklenburg. Volume 3, Berlin 1952, p. 467
  4. ^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Volume 2, self-published, Wismar 1924, p. 909.
  5. ↑ full text
personal data
SURNAME Schmaltz, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmaltz, Friedrich Paul Julius Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlieffenberg
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1949
Place of death Rostock