Hermann Krafft

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Hermann Paul Christian Krafft , nickname Hermann , (born May 8, 1861 in Elberfeld , † January 28, 1934 in Barmen-Gemarke ) was a German pastor .

Life

Hermann Krafft was one of eight children of the Protestant pastor Karl Krafft and his wife from the pastor family Hermann. He attended high school in Elberfeld. After graduating from high school in 1880, his parents sent him to St. Chrischona for the St. Chrischona pilgrimage mission there , which had become an evangelistic school . Kraft initially worked there as a gardener and then began studying Protestant theology at the University of Basel . He moved to the University of Leipzig and finally in 1882 to the University of Bonn , where his uncle Wilhelm Ludwig Krafft taught. Hermann Krafft was particularly influenced there by Theodor Christlieb . In 1884 he passed the first theological exam in Koblenz , whereupon the Reformed Elberfeld congregation elected him to be the personal assistant preacher of his sick father. In preparation for the second exam, he became personal vicar to August Ebrard in Erlangen , with whom he alternately preached in the French Reformed community.

After the second exam, Krafft was elected preacher by the Baer community , so that he began his service there in 1886. In 1892, the Reformed parish of Barmen-Gemarke appointed him to its new fourth pastorate. During his sermons the church was regularly overcrowded, as it had been with Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher . Krafft was less up to the administrative tasks.

For a long time, Krafft was active in the fashion name of the Reformed Covenant . On the occasion of the Calvin Jubilee in 1909 , he paid tribute to Calvin with the essay The Significance of Calvin for Protestantism as a whole . He worked with the German Evangelical Alliance and eventually became chairman of the West German branch.

Krafft retired in 1931 but remained active, continuing to preach, give lectures, and conduct evangelism in many locations .

literature

  • Martha Krafft: In memory of Pastor i. R. Hermann Krafft . Wuppertal-Barmen district 1934, 28 pp.
  • Robert Steiner: Pastor Hermann Krafft . In: Wuppertal Biographies 1st episode . Contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal Volume 4, Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1958, pp. 51–59.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Georg Ulrichs: The Calvin Jubilee 1909. Part II (accessed on January 29, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Krafft, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krafft, Hermann Paul Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1934
Place of death Barmen mark