Fredy Sutermeister

Friedrich Sutermeister

Friedrich Sutermeister (born January 29, 1873 in Aarau ; † July 16, 1934 ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and religious socialist .

Life

Sutermeister was a son of Ernestine Moehrlen and Otto Sutermeister . He spent his childhood in st. Gaulish monastery in Mariaberg , before the family moved to Bern in 1880 , where he attended the Sulgenbach school and grammar school. At the age of sixteen he switched to the Basel grammar school ; in the Rebhaus he got to know the Konviktleben ; in the Concordia grammar school he made friends with Albert Barth . From 1892 he studied theology at the Universities of Basel , Bern and Berlin , where he a. a. Attended lectures by Bernhard Duhm , Adolf von Harnack and Friedrich Paulsen . After the state examination , he worked for a few years as a private tutor in the Quarles van Ufford family in the Netherlands . In 1899 he returned to Switzerland, settled in Rued and married Marie Hunziker (1875–1947) in 1901. In 1910 he joined a parish in Feuerthalen . During these years he wrote articles a. a. for the magazines New Paths and Der Freie Schweizer Arbeiter .

«[1910] Friedrich Sutermeister pointed out the devastating consequences of the imperialist division of the world in a two-part article on the Congo question : the expropriation of the country, the working conditions, 'which are desperately similar to slavery' and created by an 'armed power' [...] be forced. In the second part he dealt in detail with the ' atrocities' […] of the Belgian colonialists , took up the missionaries 'responsibility for upholding human rights and deplored their naivete:' It is almost touching to see how even the missionaries have not for a long time wanted to believe in the existence of a state system in these atrocities. ›[…] When asked what to do, there was one answer above all:‹ There remains only the power of public opinion . To influence them in the direction of a reaction of justice and brotherly love towards the immense rape of a part of humanity, that is our task. ›[…] The article is followed by an editorial call for joining the Swiss League for the Protection of Natives in the Congo. »

- Willy player; Stefan Howald; Ruedi Brassel-Moser (2009)

In 1921 he joined a parish in Binningen , where he also worked in the Blue Cross and took over the « poor people care » from Wilhelm Denz .

Sutermeister played the viola and made house music ; with his son Heinrich (1910–1995) he played “often four-handed piano ”; his friendship with Walter Courvoisier contributed to his son's career. His son Hans (1907–1977) made him a tragic fictional character in his novella Between Two Worlds .

literature

Paul Wernle : To my friend Fritz Sutermeister . In: Kirchenblatt . tape 32 , no. 38 , 1917, ZDB ID 516795-4 .
In memory of Pastor Friedrich Sutermeister, born January 29, 1873, died July 16, 1934 . Obituary . Buchdruckerei Rolt, Schinznach 1934, OCLC 730561996 ( online [accessed February 13, 2013] with a contribution by Paul Jucker ).
Hans Martin Sutermeister : Between two worlds. Novella . Mettler & Salz AG, Bern 1942, ISBN 978-3-226-00030-6 .

Web links

Wikisource: Fredy Sutermeister - Sources and full texts

Commons : Fredy Sutermeister - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

«Portrait of Fritz Sutermeister-Hunziker». Images, map collection of the Basel University Library .
Letters from Fredy Sutermeister in the burger library in Bern .
Letters from Fredy Sutermeister to Rudolf Stähelin-Stockmeyer in the Basel-Stadt State Archives .

Individual evidence

^ Steven A. Sutermeister (in collaboration with Robert A. Sutermeister and Robert L. Sutermeister): Sutermeister family register . Steven A. Sutermeister, Flushing (Michigan) 1987 (American English, Helveticat ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g In memory of Pastor Friedrich Sutermeister, born January 29, 1873, died July 16, 1934 . Obituary . Buchdruckerei Rolt, Schinznach 1934, OCLC 730561996 ( online [accessed February 13, 2013] with a contribution by Paul Jucker).
↑ Willy player , Stefan Howald , Ruedi Brassel-Moser : For the freedom of the word: New ways through a century in the mirror of the journal of religious socialism . Theological Publishing House Zurich , Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-290-17415-6 , p. 340 .
^ Dino Larese : Heinrich Sutermeister . Amriswiler Bücherei, 1972, LCCN 72-313314 , p. 10-14 .
^ Günter Birkner : Heinrich Sutermeister, the way of the stage composer . In: New Year's Gazette of the Zurich General Music Society . tape 169 . Zurich 1985, LCCN 85-146797 , p. 6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Master sitter, Fredy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sutermeister, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss reformed pastor and religious socialist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 29, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aarau
DATE OF DEATH	July 16, 1934

[1] Steven A. Sutermeister (in collaboration with Robert A. Sutermeister and Robert L. Sutermeister): Sutermeister family register . Steven A. Sutermeister, Flushing (Michigan) 1987 (American English, Helveticat ).

[nachruf-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g In memory of Pastor Friedrich Sutermeister, born January 29, 1873, died July 16, 1934 . Obituary . Buchdruckerei Rolt, Schinznach 1934, OCLC 730561996 ( online [accessed February 13, 2013] with a contribution by Paul Jucker).

[3] Willy player , Stefan Howald , Ruedi Brassel-Moser : For the freedom of the word: New ways through a century in the mirror of the journal of religious socialism . Theological Publishing House Zurich , Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-290-17415-6 , p. 340 .

[4] Dino Larese : Heinrich Sutermeister . Amriswiler Bücherei, 1972, LCCN 72-313314 , p. 10-14 .

[5] Günter Birkner : Heinrich Sutermeister, the way of the stage composer . In: New Year's Gazette of the Zurich General Music Society . tape 169 . Zurich 1985, LCCN 85-146797 , p. 6 .