Hermann von Wicht

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Hermann von Wicht (born October 21, 1879 in Kirchhatten ; † January 3, 1942 in Berlin - Lankwitz ) was a German Protestant theologian. He was involved in several evangelical associations and organizations.

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Hermann Richard Ludwig von Wicht came from the old East Frisian chief dynasty tho Wicht , who had their original seat in Lintel near Norden and in Osterwichte (near Blandorf-Wichte , today part of the municipality of Hage ). He was the oldest of eight children of the pastor Alfred Anton Melchior von Wicht and his wife Katharine Sophie Wilhelmine Adeline, nee Strohmeyer. In 1884 the v. Family moved Wicht to Malente , where the head of the family took over a pastor's position. Hermann attended grammar school in Eutin and passed his Abitur there. He then studied theology in Erlangen , Berlin , Halle and Kiel, among others . During his studies in Kiel, the theology student did his one and a half year military service. After his ordination, v. Wicht Seemannspastor at the German Evangelical Congregation in Marseille . On November 1, 1907, he received a position as vicar provincial in Bovenau . On October 27, 1908, v. Wicht the major's daughter Marie Schenck. The newlywed couple went to Belgrano (Argentina). There was v. Wicht is the 3rd seaman pastor. The couple returned to Germany just 18 months later. In mid-January 1911, v. Wicht, “initially provisional, a pastor's position in Garstedt near Hamburg (...). Here he encountered the alcohol shortage in shocking experiences ”. From then on he became involved in the abstinence movement .

V. Wicht held until he took over the pastoral position in St. Simeon in Berlin-Kreuzberg in April 1918 . From 1920 he was executive chairman of the Evangelical Association for Child Care in Berlin and from 1922 co-founder of the Evangelical Reich Association for Child Care, from 1926 its executive chairman. He campaigned for Protestant child care “with all his enthusiasm for work in addition to his pastoral work [...]”. He was also treasurer of the German Confederation of abstinent pastor and executive chairman of the Berlin-Brandenburg regional group. In 1919 v. Wicht joined the German People's Party (DVP), but left again three years later. In 1935 he became a member of the Reich Air Protection Association and in 1937 a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV). In the story of the von Wicht family, which he wrote, he represented National Socialist ideas. He wrote there among other things

"Only our time, with its fundamental return to Germanic legal ideas and German prehistory, can again measure what extraordinary folklore, race-bound and own research path-seeking work is here [...]."

- about Matthias von Wicht (1694–1778) and his work related to the publication of the East Frisian Land Law (1937)

Elsewhere in the article mentioned it says:

"Loosened the ideas that had emerged from the French Revolution in constitutional and sociological terms, centuries-old ties and in many cases detached the individual, as well as in our family [von Wicht], from the soil of their homeland, with which they had grown together through blood and morals the gospel proclaimed a strong bulwark against all spiritual and ethnic foreign infiltration. "

- About the pastoral services of his grandfather and father

Despite his closeness to the National Socialist worldview, during the Nazi dictatorship, along with Otto Ohl, he was one of the outstanding personalities of the Diakonie who tried to prevent the NSV from taking over the Protestant day-care centers (crèche, kindergarten and after-school care center) by mobilizing the communities urged.

Works (selection)

  • Maternity leave, infant and young child care . In: Beutel, H. (Ed.): Church and Youth Welfare, Berlin 1925
  • 150 years of Protestant child care. Review and outlook . In: Sonniges Kinderland (4) 1929, pp. 5–12
  • Nature and meaning of Protestant child care . In: Evangelische Frauenzeitung (30) 1929, pp. 166–168
  • Evangelical education in the National Socialist state. Guiding principles . In: Die christliche Kinderpflege (42) 1934, pp. 250-251
  • The service of Protestant child care as a permanent task for the national community and the church . In: Innere Mission (31) 1936, pp. 118-123
  • The path of the Wicht family through the centuries in the service of home and people . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden (25) 1937, p. 73

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  • Rainer Bookhagen: Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism . Volume 1: 1933 to 1937, Göttingen 1998, pp. 77 ff. And 622.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Leiner: Panorama district north . Norden 1972, pp. 71-73
  2. ↑ Bookhagen 1998, p. 79
  3. ↑ Bookhagen 1998, p. 84
  4. ↑ Hermann von Wicht: The way of the family von Wicht through the centuries in the service of home and people . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden (25) 1937, p. 83
  5. ↑ Hermann von Wicht: The way of the family von Wicht through the centuries in the service of home and people . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Art and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden (25) 1937, p. 87
  6. ↑ cf. Bookhagen 1998
personal data
SURNAME Wicht, Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchhatten
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1942
Place of death Berlin - Lankwitz