Georg Friedrich Schlatter

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Georg Friedrich Schlatter (* 16th December 1799 in Weinheim (Bergstraße); † 3. November 1875 ) was a Protestant pastor and the oldest member of the Baden revolution Parliament of 1849, he therefore as traitors convicted and was released from the church service.

Career as a pastor

Memorial plaque for Georg Friedrich Schlatter at the rectory in Eppingen-Mühlbach

Schlatter studied theology in Heidelberg , where he became a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft in 1818 , and was vicar in Dallau from 1820 . From 1827 he held a pastor's position in Linkenheim . In the so-called “Baden Catechism Controversy” in 1831 he defended the introduction of a rationalist catechism against a protest group of pastors around the revival preacher Aloys Henhöfer . From 1832 he worked in Heddesheim , where he was also a school visitator and administrator of the deanery . Because, as a representative of liberalism , he criticized the prevailing conditions in church and state, he was transferred to Mühlbach in 1844 . After the Baden Revolution , which he had supported as a member of parliament, failed, he was dismissed from church service in addition to being condemned secularly.

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the revolution, the Baden regional church mentioned Schlatter on behalf of the “friends of the democracy movement 1848/49 inside and outside the church”, who had suffered from their “uncomprehending dealings that even surpassed the repression of the authorities in harshness”.

Schlatter was married twice and had 17 children. His first wife, the daughter of the Dallau pastor, died in 1826 while giving birth to their first child. His second wife Eva Margareta Ludwig, whom Schlatter had met as a confirmation student, gave birth to a child almost every year from 1827 to 1847. The large family lived in financial need, and after Schlatter was convicted of being a traitor, she was missing her father. Some children emigrated to America.

In the time after his release from prison, Schlatter campaigned for equal rights for Jews after witnessing the persecution of Jews.

Career as a revolutionary

In the revolutionary years of 1848/49 Schlatter was a member of the Baden revolutionary parliament, which was made possible by the initial successes of the March revolution. In this "constituent state assembly" in Karlsruhe , of which he was age president , Schlatter was one of the moderates around Lorenz Brentano . But after the revolution had failed and overthrown, Schlatter was tried in Rastatt and sentenced to ten years in prison for high treason. After he had served six years in solitary confinement in the Bruchsal prison , he was released through a general amnesty . He, who meanwhile lived as a private teacher in Mannheim and published books and writings, was again awarded a salary from a church fund.

Schlatter wrote a book about his experiences in solitary confinement, which he criticized as a system of penal execution. In other writings he opposed the death penalty .

In Heddesheim is the evangelical community center named in Eppingen-Mühlbach a street after him.

Works (selection)

  • The Prussian church agendas in relation to the Evangelical-Protestant Church in general and to the unified Church of Baden in particular; together with assessment of the provisional introduction of the same in the city and rural diocese of Karlsruhe , 1830
  • Pietism, mysticism and orthodoxism , Mannheim 1845
  • The constitution of the Evangelical-Protestant Church in Baden as it is and as it should be , Karlsruhe 1848
  • The system of solitary confinement in special relation to the new penal institution in Bruchsal: Voice of a prisoner about penitentiaries , Mannheim 1856 online in the Google book search
  • Dungeon flowers , o. O. 1857
  • Penitentiary Studies, The Fruit Of A Six Year Solitary Confinement , 1857
  • The injustice of the death penalty , Erlangen 1857 online Bayerische Staatsbibliothek digital
  • The emancipation of the Israelites. A demand of justice, state wisdom, humanity and saving love , Mannheim 1858 online at the Frankfurt University Library
  • State, Church, Concordat , Ulm 1860 online in the Google book search
  • That the constitutional existence of the Evangelical Protestant Church is in no way dependent on creeds and symbolic books , 1862

literature

  • Gerhard Kaller:  Schlatter, Georg Friedrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 236-238.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Karl Dettling: Georg Friedrich Schlatter from Weinheim (1799–1875). A life for freedom and human dignity . In: Mühlbacher Jahrbuch 1980 , pp. 89–141.
  • The Rhine-Neckar area and the revolution of 1848/49. Revolutionaries and their opponents . Edited by the working group of archives in the Rhine-Neckar triangle. Regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-64-9 , pp. 268-272.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 243-244.
  • Konrad Fischer: Georg Friedrich Schlatter (1799–1875). In: Life pictures from the Evangelical Church in Baden. Volume 2: Church Political Directions, Heidelberg - Ubstadt-Weiher 2010, ISBN 978-3-89735-510-1 , pp. 35–55.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 243.
  2. ↑ Konrad Fischer: Prophet and martyr of the upright gait. Pastor Georg Friedrich Schlatter from Weinheim . Lecture on the occasion of his 200th birthday in the Stadtkirche Weinheim, December 16, 1999, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Schlatter, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor, senior president of the Baden Revolutionary Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinheim
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1875
Place of death Weinheim