Friedrich Zippel

Friedrich (Karl) Zippel (born October 25, 1887 in Altenroda , † April 12, 1960 in Aerzen-Groß Berkel ) was a German Protestant pastor , member of the Confessing Church (BK), Nazi victim and prisoner in Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Zippel grew up with his four years older brother (Friedrich Heinrich) Ludwig with his father, the pastor (Johann) Friedrich Zippel, and his mother Elisabeth Luise, née Holländer. After obtaining his university entrance qualification at the monastery grammar school Our Dear Women in Magdeburg , he studied Protestant theology in Halle , Tübingen and Leipzig . After successfully passing his exams, he was accepted into the vicariate and ordained pastor in Magdeburg on June 24, 1917 . From 1917 to 1918 he was an assistant preacher in Ziesaractive. From 1918 to 1927 he was in charge of the evangelical pastor's office in Bornhagen . In 1927 he moved to the pastorate of Tastungen . From 1930 to 1934 he was pastor in Deersheim .

He spent most of his pastor's life in the community of Grabe near Mühlhausen . Here he joined the Confessing Church and from then on came into conflict with the Nazi regime several times. On April 8, 1941, he was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the Gestapo prison on the Petersberg in Erfurt . From there he was taken to the Dachau concentration camp on June 13, 1941 and given prisoner number 26258.

After his liberation from Dachau concentration camp in April 1945, he returned to his pastoral position, which he held until his retirement on December 31, 1958. A little later he and his wife moved to the Federal Republic of Germany .

Zippel had been married to the pharmacist's daughter Erika Pistor since May 22, 1919 ; the two had five children.

literature

• Björn Mensing (Ed.): Names instead of numbers: Dachau images of life and memory work . 2nd Edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02488-9 , p. 233 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evangelical rectory Tastings: History overview. Retrieved September 21, 2012 .