Hermann Georg Fritsche

Hermann Fritsche

Hermann Hans Georg Fritsche (born December 20, 1846 in Bielitz , Austrian Empire ; † October 8, 1924 in Biała Krakowska , Second Polish Republic ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , pastor and superintendent in Galicia (1897-1924). He was church president of the Evangelical Churches A. and HB in Lesser Poland (1920-1924).

Life

Hermann Georg Fritsche was born the son of the chemist Gustav Fritsche and his wife Ida in Bielitz, Silesia. He attended grammar school in Teschen and studied Protestant theology in Vienna (1866–1869), Jena and Berlin (1869–1872). Then he worked as a teacher for religion, German language and geography in the Evangelical Realschule in Bielitz.

In 1872 he was ordained and was vicar in Biala. In 1874 he became pastor in Wiener Neustadt , in 1883 in Bielitz and in 1885 in Biala. He initiated the establishment of two schools and founded an orphanage in Biala with his wife. In 1896 he was first elected President of the General Synod of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria in Vienna. In 1897 he became superintendent of the Protestant superintendent AB in Galicia .

In 1920 he and others founded an independent German Evangelical Church A. and HB in Lesser Poland in the new Polish state and became its church president. In 1923 a successor was elected. Hermann Fritsche died in Biała in 1924.

Grave of Hermann Fritsche in Bielsko-Biała

family

Hermann Fritsche was married to Laura Gertrud Seeliger (* 1850), a daughter of Rudolf Seeliger, Mayor of Biala.

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna , 1911
• Franz Joseph Order (Commander)
• Order of the Iron Crown (Knight)

literature

• Fritsche Hermann Georg . In: Jacek M. Majchrowski (ed.): Kto był kim w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej . Warszawa 1994. ISBN 83-7066-569-1 . P. 189

Web links

• Dr. Hermann Hans Georg Fritsche Galician Germans