Friedrich Wasmuth

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Friedrich Wasmuth (* 31 January 1882 in Bodenfelde ; † 1. March 1967 in Hannover ) was a Protestant pastor and head of the education home Birkenhof in Hanover.

Life

The Friedrich-Wasmuth-Haus in Stöcken , the first new building of a retirement home in the Birkenhof in 1968.

After studying theology, Friedrich Wasmuth passed his first theological exam in 1905 and his second in 1908, and did his military service in the same year.

On July 10, 1909 in Hildesheim ordained he was first curate in Holte near Osnabrück to 1913 as pastor first with the National Association for Home Mission Hannover to work, from 1920 in Kwidzyn (only since 1928 the district of Hannover). For part of the Marienwerder parish , the village of Stöcken incorporated in Hanover in 1907 , Wasmuth had a first auxiliary church (today the parish hall) built there in 1927 as the predecessor of today's Corvinus Church .

From 1929 Wasmuth was pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Diakonissenhaus Henriettenstiftung . There he was in particular responsible for the Birkenhof reformatory in the Kirchrode district and at the same time was a board member of the Evangelical Regional Association for Child Care in the Province of Hanover .

After the Second World War , Wasmuth was appointed head of the now independent Birkenhof in 1949. He retired on December 1, 1954.

Awards

  • In early 1952 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.
  • The first new old people's home of the Birkenhof eV was called Friedrich-Wasmuth-Haus in 1968 (in Hanover-Stöcken )

Fonts

  • Island on the edge of the big city: Girls' home Birkenhof Kirchrode 1879-1939. Hanover 1939.
  • Seventy-five years of Birkenhof. Evang. Welfare and hospitals e. V. Hannover 1954.

literature

  • Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism, retreat into the area of ​​the church. Volume 2: 1937 to 1945. Göttingen 2002, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 3-525-55730-2 , pp. 1079f., In the series: Works on contemporary church history , edited by Carsten Nicolaisen and Harald Schultze i. A. the Evangelical Working Group for Contemporary Church History; Row B: Representations, Vol. 30.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Mlynek in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 425.
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek in: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 606.
  3. ↑ Website of the Corvinus Church Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.corvinus-kirche.de
  4. ↑ Pastor Henning Brandes in: 25 Years Friedrich-Wasmuth-Haus in Hanover-Stöcken 1968 to 1993. Festschrift from "Birkenhof, Evangelical Youth Homes, Retirement Homes and Schools eV", Hanover 1993, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Wasmuth, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodenfelde
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1967
Place of death Hanover