Gotthold Donndorf

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Gotthold Christoph Martin Gotthilf Donndorf (born April 29, 1887 in Alach ; † February 25, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German Protestant pastor and head of the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg.

Life

Donndorf studied Protestant theology in Bonn and Berlin from 1908 to 1911 and then became a pastor in Sollstedt near Nordhausen . From 1921 to 1934 Donndorf was the first youth pastor of the newly founded church youth welfare office in Hamburg, in this capacity he fought against the integration of the Protestant youth association into the Hitler Youth . From 1934 Donndorf was head of the regional church office for internal mission, and from 1939 until his retirement in 1957 he was head of the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg, whose reconstruction he had a decisive influence on after the Second World War . This also included the rebuilding of the Wichern School (1956/7). The Gotthold Donndorf Foundation of Diakonie Hamburg was named after Donndorf . His brother was the painter Siegfried Donndorf , for whose Dresden artist group he made possible the first self-contained exhibition of East German artists in the western part of Germany after the Second World War in 1955 in the Rauhen Haus.

Honors

literature

  • Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance 1933–1945: reports and documents . Frankfurt am Main: Röderberg, 1969. 650 S, pp. 54-69.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Silent painters from Dresden in Die Zeit , July 21, 1955, number 29
personal data
SURNAME Donndorf, Gotthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donndorf, Gotthold Christoph Martin Gotthilf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and head of the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Alach
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1968
Place of death Hamburg