Helmut Hitzigrath

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Helmut Hitzigrath (born May 7, 1891 in Hamburg , † September 29, 1950 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant pastor in Berlin.

Hellmut Hitzigrath as Halle's Teutone

Life

Helmut Hitzigrath was the son of the Hamburg secondary school director Heinrich Hitzigrath . He attended the Johanneum's school of scholars . After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology from 1909 at the Friedrichs University in Halle . On October 18, 1909, he became a fox with Teutonia Halle , his father's corps . Received on July 7, 1910 and inactivated on August 1911 , he moved to the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Kaiser-Wilhelms-University of Strasbourg . On June 5, 1912, he reciprocated in the Corps Palaio-Alsatia and was awarded consenior , and for decades he maintained the cohesion of the Corps. Most recently he studied at the Royal University of Greifswald . On October 1, 1914, he passed his first theological exam in Münster. During the First World War he was a civilian educator at the main cadet institute in Lichterfelde from November 1914 to 1916 . On March 5, 1917, he passed the second theological test in Berlin with "good". On June 1, 1917, he became the parish administrator, and on July 22, 1917, he was pastor at the Bertikow village church , Uckerfelde .

On January 1, 1926, he came to the Johanniskirche in Berlin-Moabit as a “city pastor” . He stayed there for 24 years until the end of his life. In the time of National Socialism, he worked from the end of 1935 as deputy president in the Berlin-Brandenburg Brotherhood of the Confessing Church . He was Superintendent of Moabit and confidante of all confessional pastors in the parish of Berlin City II. With Franz-Reinhold Hildebrandt , Martin Niemöller , Will Praetorius, Eberhard Röhricht and Gerhard Jacobi , he was involved in the pastors' emergency association . As a thoughtful man of German nationality, he was not intimidated. He looked across the border of his congregation out. Relatives of fellow believers imprisoned in the Moabit correctional facility found accommodation in his rectory. The fact that he took part in forbidden theological examinations as a lecturer for students at the “illegal” church college in Berlin earned him arrest on March 15, 1941 and three months in prison. Five years later he began his service as superintendent of the parish of Berlin City II. He died in office at the age of 59.

Hitzigrath was married to the pastor's daughter Charlotte Stegemann from Göritz since 1922 . The marriage resulted in the children Friedhelm (* 1923), Sigrid (* 1925) and Rüdiger Hitzigrath (1929–2017). The son Siegwart, born at the beginning of the Thousand Year Reich, died at the end of it; the bombing raid on February 1, 1945 destroyed the rectory and St. John's Church.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GND 1022895060 Heinrich Hitzigrath (DNB)
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 57/303; 28/125
  3. ↑ a b c d Matriculation of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia Strasbourg from 1880–2015, p. 154
  4. ↑ Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Johanniskirche . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  5. ↑ a b Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Hitzigrath, Hellmut Heinrich August . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  6. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance 1933-1945 in Steglitz and Zahlendorf . (PDF) GDW
personal data
SURNAME Hitzigrath, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hitzigrath, Helmut Heinrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor in Berlin-Moabit
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1950
Place of death Berlin