Gottfried Asselmann

Gottfried Asselmann

Gottfried Karl Wilhelm Asselmann (born August 10, 1851 in Hacheney near Hörde , † March 30, 1917 in Lübben ) was a German Protestant clergyman and local researcher .

Life

Gottfried Asselmann was born as the son of the mine manager Gottfried Asselmann and Auguste Büsche. He attended grammar school in Dortmund, where he graduated from high school in autumn 1870. He studied at the Universities of Marburg and Bonn . He was the parish administrator in Fürstenberg (started November 23, 1877, until February 1, 1880). He was ordained on April 2, 1879, and assistant preacher that same year. From 1882 to 1889 he was pastor in Sandow , Weststernberg district . He then became pastor in Schlepzig , Lübben district , where he worked until his retirement on January 1, 1910.

In Schlepzig he founded a rural cooperative based on the model of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen in 1889 . In 1904, on his initiative, a memorial for Johann Georg Hutten was erected on the Wussegk near Schlepzig. In the same year he was the organizer of Schlepzig's 900th anniversary. Asselmann also emerged as a local researcher. He was particularly concerned with Paul Gerhardt , whose date of death (May 27, 1676) he was able to document. Before that, the day of burial, June 7, 1676, was often taken as the day of death. He started an initiative to set up a Paul Gerhardt Museum in Lübben - which was never realized - and to erect a memorial to Paul Gerhardt that was created by Friedrich Pfannschmidt and unveiled in 1907. Asselmann also tried to clarify the fate of missing soldiers during the First World War.

On September 30, 1890 he married Antonie Kubale, the daughter of the pastor Friedrich Wilhelm August Alexander Kubale in Wabnitz in Silesia.

Works

• A word about the more recent Paul Gerhardt literature and a memorial to the poet in Lübben. 1889
• Folk tales from the Unterspreewald. A contribution to home studies. [Trowitzsch & Son], Frankfurt a. O. 1898
• Wussegk in the Unterspreewald and its importance for the church and cultural history of the Lower Lusatia margravate. Research on home studies in particular of the Lübben district using undedr. Swell. Trowitzsch & Son, Frankfurt a. O. 1901
• In memory of G [eorg] A [ugust] Grotefend [1832–1903], Royal Privy Councilor. Based on notes from his estate with portrait and facsimile. Self-published, Lübben 1904
• The Hutten monument on Wussegk in the Unterspreewald near Schlepzig. In: Evangelical Church Gazette for Lower Lusatia. No. 31-33, 1904
• Paulus Gerhardt and the Unterspreewald. In: The Reichsbote . Berlin, February 23, 1907, 1st supplement to no.47
• Greetings to the rural cooperatives of the Raiffeisen organization for the Association Day in Lübben. December 2, 1908. Richter and Munkelt, Lübben 1908
• The 300th anniversary of Hohenzollern in the county of Mark on Hohenfyburg. A memorial sheet. o. O., 1909
• For 20 years Foundation ceremony of the rural cooperative in Schlepzig. Luebben 1909
• To Fritz Reuter . Us' Fritzing. 1810-7. Nov. - 1910. Richter & Munkelt, Lübben [1910]
• The Inner Mission and the Rural Cooperative System. Lecture by PG Asselmann-Lübben at the general assembly of the Provincial Committee for Inner Mission in Berlin on December 7, 1910. Unger, Berlin [1910–11]
• The Inner Mission and the Rural Cooperative System. Guiding principles. Dr. d. Sunday paper, Berlin [1910]
• About the last journey of Queen Luise in 1810. In: Association for the history of Berlin: Messages of the association for the history of Berlin. Berlin 1914, pp. 36, 37
• In memory of the Count von der Schulenburg . Free rulers on Lieberose, died Jan. 17, 1911. Lübben 1911
• From the festival of the dead to Advent. The sermon of the dying man. Luebben 1911
• New research on the poet Paulus Gerhardt. In: Daily maintenance paper of the Reichsbote . No. 291, December 12, 1911
• 1815 1915. To the German Chancellor Prince Otto v. Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke v. Lauenburg. A memorial sheet z. 100j. Birth anniversary d. great German chancellor. April 1, 1915. In: Lübbener Zeitung. No. 39 April 1, 1915.

literature

• Otto Fischer: Evangelical pastor's book for the Mark Brandenburg. List of clergymen in alphabetical order. Berlin 1941, p. 17
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bauks: The Protestant pastors in Westphalia from the Reformation period to 1945 (= contributions to Westphalian church history, Volume 4). Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 1980, ISBN 3-7858-0264-1 , p. 11, no. 138 ( digitized version )
• Rolf Ebert: On the history of the city of Lübben (Spreewald). Chronological outline. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2003, ISBN 3-929600-27-7 , pp. 292–293 (December 18, 1911) and p. 311 (March 30, 1917)
• fs / red: Remembering history with a festival service. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 22, 2004 (with picture, digitized version )
• Gerlinde Strohmeier-Wiederanders: The Paul-Gerhardt-Monument in Lübben. In: Winfried Böttler (Ed.): Paul Gerhardt: Memory and Presence. Contributions to life, work and impact. Frank and Timme, Berlin 2006 (contributions from the Paul Gerhardt Society, Volume 1) ISBN 978-3-86596-062-7 , pp. 139–146, especially p. 140 ( digitized version )