Gustav Zwernemann

Gustav Heinrich Zwernemann (born July 4, 1872 in Vienna ; † August 5, 1958 there ) was an Austrian Evangelical Reformed pastor. From 1925 to 1946 he was the superintendent of the Evangelical Church HB in Austria .

Life

His father Heinrich Zwernemann came from a Hesse - Huguenot family and worked as an insurance director, his mother was a Viennese. Gustav Zwernemann studied Protestant theology at the University of Vienna and with Martin Kähler at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. Like him, he became a member of the Hallenser Wingolf . During his student days he was involved with the YMCA and worked in Sunday school . He initially supported the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Wien-Landstrasse in their Lower Austrian branch communities, including in the parish of Floridsdorf , until he himself became pastor in the evangelical parish of Banja Luka in 1897 . In 1901 Zwernemann moved to the newly created Evangelical Reformed preaching station in Vienna West as a pastor . From 1913 until his retirement in 1946 he was pastor of the Reformed City Church in Vienna.

Zwernemann's grave at Vienna's central cemetery

Gustav Zwernemann was elected an extraordinary member of the Oberkirchenrat HB in 1919 and successfully campaigned for the independence of the Evangelical Church HB from the Evangelical Church AB . In 1925 he was elected superintendent of the Evangelical Church HB as the successor to Friedrich Otto Schack . Zwernemann was also a member of the Executive Committee of the World Reformed Federation . His successor as superintendent, Johann Karl Egli , was married to Zwernemann's daughter. Gustav Zwernemann was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery at Vienna's Central Cemetery .

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna (1922)

See also

• List of Protestant superintendents in Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ August Winkler: Vademekum Wingolfitikum , Wingolfsverlag, Wolfratshausen 1925, p. 218.
2. ^ Peter Karner : Reformed pastors and teachers . In: Peter Karner (Hrsg.): The evangelical community HB in Vienna . Deuticke, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7005-4579-7 , pp. 142-143.
3. ^ Herbert Posch: Honorary doctorates from the University of Vienna in the 20th and 21st centuries . Website of the University of Vienna, published on July 9, 2012, accessed on September 7, 2012.