Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer

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Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer (born November 15, 1837 in Lentschen near Posen , † December 7, 1902 in Magdeburg ) was a German Protestant pastor and founder of the Pfeiffer Foundations in Magdeburg.

Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer

Life

Pfeiffer was the son of the teacher Friedrich Pfeiffer. After graduating from high school in Züllichau, he studied Protestant theology in Berlin .

Pfeiffer found his first job as a teacher at the grammar school in Züllichau, later he was a private tutor. In 1866 he became the second pastor in the church Kripplein Christi in Fraustadt . In 1869 he became the first pastor and was a member of the first Poznan Provincial Synod. In 1870 he became superintendent of the diocese of Fraustadt and Lissa . In 1875 he was a member of the first general synod. There he founded the group of the Positive Union , of which he later became chairman. In the middle of 1881 Pfeiffer took over the superintendent of the church district Jerichow I and the pastorate at the Sankt-Briccius-Kirche in Cracau near Magdeburg.

Here Pfeiffer was confronted with the social hardship among workers in the Magdeburg suburb of Cracau, which is mainly inhabited by industrial workers' families. He paid particular attention to children, the elderly and the disabled. In 1882 he founded a toddler school with the Patriotic Women's Association . A community care station was also built.

In 1889, the Johannesstift nursing home was established , which is now the Pfeiffer Foundation . In addition, the Dorotheenhaus for debilitating children was added in 1891 and a nursing home for men in October 1893. Pfeiffer was committed to establishing a central welfare system for the physically handicapped and in 1894 started a corresponding national initiative. Various collections of money were made to achieve the goal. In 1899 a church, the Samaritan House and three other houses were opened on the foundation's premises . Deaconesses were installed in the facilities , for which a deaconess mother house was established in May 1900.

In the fall of 1898 Pfeiffer traveled with his wife to Jerusalem for the dedication of the Church of the Redeemer .

Pfeiffer died of chronic gastric sleepiness . His body was laid out in the Saint Briccius Church. Since the Pfeiffer Foundations' cemetery did not yet exist, it was buried on December 11 at around 1.30 p.m. in today's Ostfriedhof in Magdeburg-Cracau. Pastor Siebert from Prester spoke in the rectory, General Superintendent Vieregge in the church and Pastor Fischer from Dahlenwarsleben at the cemetery . His listed grave is still in the east cemetery today.

Honors

The foundations have had the name of their founder since August 28, 1902, and thus still during Pfeiffer's lifetime, and are called "Pfeiffer Foundations in Magdeburg-Cracau". An adjacent street is also called Pfeifferstrasse .

In 2002, a monument made of Persian limestone was erected in the Pfeiffer Foundations in honor of Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer and inaugurated with a ceremony.

literature

  • Ursula Pape: Pfeiffer, Gustav Adolf. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Otto Riecke, Chronik Prester-Cracau, self-published, Magdeburg 1932, page 47
  2. ↑ Willy Otto Riecke, Chronicle Prester-Cracau, self-published, Magdeburg 1932, page 48
  3. ↑ Willy Otto Riecke, Chronicle Prester-Cracau, self-published, Magdeburg 1932, page 48
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, founder of the Pfeiffer Foundations in Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Lentschen at Posen
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1902
Place of death Magdeburg