Georg Froboess

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Georg Froböß (born April 22, 1854 in Breslau ; † March 26, 1917 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Georg Froböß was the youngest son of the businessman Adolf Froböß († 1857) and his wife Marie, b. Franke.

He attended Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau and passed the Abitur exam in 1872; then he began studying theology and philosophy at the University of Leipzig , which he continued at the University of Erlangen . At the University of Leipzig he heard lectures from Franz Delitzsch , Karl Friedrich August Kahnis , Christoph Ernst Luthardt and in Erlangen from Johann von Hofmann and Gerhard von Zezschwitz .

In 1876 he took the first and, after a private tutoring in the house of the manor owner Friedrich von Schierstaedt on the Skyren estate near Messow in the district of Crossen , the second theological examination in 1878.

After he was ordained on July 4, 1878 , he followed a call from his hometown as assistant preacher at St. Catherine's Church . Two years later, in 1880, he became pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Alt Kranz in the district of Glogau , before he was appointed pastor in the congregation in Schwirz in the district of Namslau in 1886 . In order to be able to work here as a preacher and pastor, however, he first had to learn the Polish language and was only then able to exercise his office there until 1896.

In 1896 he was appointed to the church council in the main office in the Oberkirchenkollegium (OKK) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Prussia and therefore moved back to Breslau. In 1906 he was elected director of the OKK.

As a supporter of the Lutheran Confessional Church , he cultivated and strengthened the connections to other Lutheran regional and free churches and can be seen as the father of the closer ties between them. His efforts above all, it is thanks to that the negotiations with the state authorities a greater recognition of the Old Lutheran parishes of Prussia by the Law of May 1908 had the success that the whole of the area under the control of the upper church college towns corporation rights acquired.

He had made significant contributions when he carried out the reunification of the Lutheran Immanuel Synod with the Old Prussian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1904), as well as his efforts to bring about the unification of the Lutheran free churches.

During the First World War, he saw it as his task to help the Lutheran congregations of Poland through two trips to the occupied territory through advice and action to maintain their Lutheran creed.

He directed and published the church gazette he developed for the Evangelical Lutheran congregations in Prussia ; he also wrote political articles in the Schlesische Zeitung and entertaining articles in spring water for the German house . He wrote various literary works and was also a collaborator on the 3rd edition of the Herzog'schen Realenzyklopädie .

Georg Froböß married Elisabeth, born on August 8, 1884. Berndt, the daughter of his predecessor in the Altkranzer parish. Together they had three daughters and a son who, however, died in January 1915 of a shrapnel wound that he received as a war volunteer . The names of his children are known:

  • Johann Froböß (born January 31, 1891 in Breslau; † January 30, 1915), volunteer in the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 229, 7th Company;
  • Annemarie (* 1892; † unknown), married to Werner Elert , Lutheran theologian .
  • Elisabeth, married to Johannes Winkler , Lutheran theologian and rocket engineer.

Georg Froböß died on the railway between Sommerfeld and Guben during a business trip to Elberfeld, which he undertook for the funeral of a deceased member of the Oberkirchenkolleg.

Memberships

Georg Froböß was a member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture .

Fonts (selection)

from the text History of St. Catherine's Church in Breslau

Literature (selection)

  • Georg Froboess . In: 95th annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture , 1917, 1st volume. Breslau 1918. p. 18 f.

Web links

  • Froböß, Georg , index entry: German biography.
  • Portrait of Georg Froböß on the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hamburg .

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ List of casualties: Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 229, Part 1. Accessed May 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Froboss, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Froböss, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical clergyman and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1917