Heinrich Roemmich

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Heinrich Roemmich (born May 12, 1888 in the German colony of Worms, Beresan colonist district, Russian Empire ; † September 26, 1980 in Stuttgart , Germany ) was a Lutheran pastor, teacher, high school director in Bessarabia, and a Russian-German politician.

Life

After graduating from the Zettelmann grammar school in Dorpat , Roemmich studied theology in Dorpat between 1908 and 1915, interrupted by his work as a tutor in the Crimea and Odessa. On September 1, 1916, he was ordained pastor's adjunct in Glückstal near Odessa . After two years as a pastor in Glückstal. In 1917 he fled to Bessarabia , where he took the position of religious teacher at the boys' grammar school in Tarutino . From 1919 to 1932 he was the director of this school. The school commission of the German minority of Bessarabia elected him in 1922 to head the three-person board with Daniel Haase and Andreas Widmer . In addition to his meritorious work in the school field - with his help, this school was converted into a secondary school with German as the language of instruction - Roemmich was active in the top organizations of Germanness in Bessarabia: in the church organization (consistory), the völkisch (German People's Council) and the German press (Deutsches Volksblatt). After Bessarabia was annexed to Romania, Tarutino emerged as the seat of all these important institutions.

During his activity as a pastor in Possendorf , Saxony (1932 to 1945), he looked after his compatriots and worked with a lot of empathy in the resettlement camps. Roemmich is the spiritual father of the country team of Germans from Russia . Soon after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, he got in touch with the leading Russian-German representatives and, in 1950, became co-founder and chairman of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Ostumiedler”. That was the name of the country team until 1955. Roemmich was its first chairman in 1950, managing director from 1952, spokesman from 1954, and honorary president from 1968.

As a retired pastor, Roemmich worked for the Church in the East (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).

Publications (selection)

  • German private boys' high school with public rights in Tarutino. Report on the school year 1921/22. 1922.
  • Ignaz Lindl . A contribution to the history of the Germans of Bessarabia. Leipzig 1927.
  • (with Karl Liebram) Political life of the Germans [in Bukovina]. In: Carl Petersen et al .: Concise dictionary of German border and foreign countries . Vol. 1. Breslau, 1933 (p. 411 f.)
  • The tragedy of the German ethnic groups in Russia. 1958, in: Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Rußland . Stuttgart, 1958
  • The rose and the sickle. Survival of the Lutheran Church in Russia. Saskatoon 1984.
  • with Johannes Schleuning , Eugen Bachmann: And see, we are alive! The path of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia in 4 centuries. Erlangen 1977. ISBN 978-3-87513-014-0 .
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia under Soviet rule , in: Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Rußland , 1961, pp. 81–110.
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia in the past and present , in: Joseph Schnurr, The churches and the religious life of the Russian Germans. Evangelical Part , Stuttgart 2nd revised and improved edition 1978, pp. 1–62.
  • The Russian Germans in the Revolution 1917 , in: Eastern Europe , No. 9, 1967, pp. 672–680.
  • The German school system in the Soviet Union , in: Heimatbuch 1960 , pp. 59–73.
  • Origin of Ukrainian Stundism , in: Heimatbuch 1967/68 , pp. 65–80.

literature

  • Joseph Schnurr: Pastor Heinrich Roemmich - In grateful memory , in: Heimatbuch 1985–89, pp. 11–15.
  • Luminiţa Fassel: The German School System in Bessarabia (1812-1940) . Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 2000 ISBN 978-3-883-56122-6
  • Cornelia Schlarb: Tradition in Transition: the Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in Bessarabia 1814-1940 . Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar, 2007 ISBN 978-3-412-18206-9
  • Johann Kampen, Hans Kampen: Home and Diaspora. History of the compatriot of Germans from Russia . Stuttgart, 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Schlarb: Tradition in Transition: the Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in Bessarabia 1814-1940 (2007)
  2. ↑ see employee directory in volume 14/1971, ISBN 978-3-525-56369-4
personal data
SURNAME Roemmich, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Lutheran pastor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1980
Place of death Stuttgart