Heinrich Rodewald

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Heinrich Rodewald

Heinrich August Siegmund Rodewald (born November 24, 1869 in Bremen ; † December 11, 1939 in Reetz , Neumark ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian.

Life

Rodewald in 1890

Rodewald was the son of the teacher Heinrich August Rodewald and his wife Anna Elisabeth, b. Dierkes, and grew up in his native Bremen. From 1881 he attended the old grammar school , where he - u. a. together with Fritz Overbeck - graduated from high school at Easter 1889. After studying Protestant theology in Marburg , Göttingen and Bonn , Rodewald passed the theological exam in front of the consistory in Koblenz and entered the service of the Rhenish Provincial Church . He was appointed assistant preacher to Valentin Umbeck , who was first president and later general superintendent of the Rhenish Church in Kreuznach . He then worked in Bonn and for a while as a private teacher until 1901 when he was appointed to the parish of the Irmenach parish . He married Else Enders (actually Elisabetha Paulina Luise Enders), the sister of Germanist Karl Friedrich Enders, in Bonn on November 14, 1902 . There are two daughters from this marriage, one of whom, however, died as an infant.

He soon began researching the history of Irmenach and the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim . From 1909 he published numerous works in the monthly bulletins for Rhenish Church History , of which he later became co-editor for a few years. In addition, there were other publications in numerous other journals and some monographs. For a work on the Count Palatine Georg Wilhelm he was awarded a lic. theol. PhD.

With his research, Rodewald makes the Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim “the best-worked area of ​​the Rhenish Oberland [...] We owe him many thorough and loving representations of circumstances and events behind Sponheim , princely and other people. It was his special gift to wrest their treasures from archives at home and abroad. "

In 1928 Rodewald retired as pastor and was appointed the first full-time director of the provincial church archive of the Rhenish Church in Bonn . In addition to organizing and expanding the archives, he began preparing a Rhenish pastor's book, which was only published under his successor Albert Rosenkranz .

On July 1, 1939, Rodewald had to retire for health reasons and moved to Reetz to live with his daughter Anneliese's family , where he died on December 11, 1939. Originally he was to be buried in Irmenach at the side of his wife, but since the Reichsbahn no longer carried out the transfer of corpses due to the war , he had to be buried in Reetz. His grave in the Reetz cemetery can no longer be found. In the Irmenach cemetery, the stone of the family grave reminds of Rodewald.

From literature

"Heinrich Rodewald, the historian of Hintern Grafschaft Sponheim, creates in the quiet parsonage and forms the memories of the past from many small colored stones into a large, living picture."

- Ludwig Mathar

Fonts (selection)

  • Works . Edited by Christian Justen. Books on Demand, Norderstedt.
  • Count Palatine Georg Wilhelm von Birkenfeld and his struggles for Lutheranism in the rear county of Sponheim in the years 1629–1630 . Heuser, Neuwied 1925. Bonn, Univ., Diss.
  • Goethe in Trarbach and his visit to Ludwig Böcking . [1926]. Edited by Christian Justen. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2017. ISBN 978-3-7460-1347-3 .
  • The Herzog Wolfgang House. From days gone by . Feickert, Meisenheim 1935.

literature

  • Günther Böse: Pastor Lic. Heinrich Rodewald (1869–1939), the historian of the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim . In: Annual publication of the working group for local history Middle Moselle and Moselle-near Hunsrück and Eifel areas, 10 (1992), pp. 7-17. Also abbreviated in: Yearbook of the Bernkastel-Wittlich District 1990, pp. 341–347.
  • Günther Böse: Directory of the writings by and about Lic. Heinrich Rodewald . In: Annual publication of the working group for local history Middle Moselle and Moselle-near Hunsrück and Eifel areas, 10 (1992), pp. 17-24.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Program of the Gymnasium in Bremen (department of the secondary school) , Bremen 1889. ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Hugo Fröhlich: The Church History of the Rhenish Oberland . In: Ernst Gillmann (Ed.): Our Church in the Rhenish Oberland . Simmern: Glaube und Heimat, 1954, pp. 101–398; Quote: p. 381.
  3. ^ Albert Rosenkranz: The Evangelical Rhineland. A Rhenish parish and pastor book , volume 2: The pastors ; Series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History 7; Düsseldorf: Press Association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, 1958.
  4. ^ Ludwig Mathar : The Moselle . Cologne: Bachem, [1924]; P. 305.
personal data
SURNAME Rodewald, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodewald, Heinrich August Siegmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1939
Place of death Reetz , Neumark