Hermann von der Goltz

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Hermann Alexander Georg Maximilian Freiherr von der Goltz (born March 17, 1835 in Düsseldorf , † July 25, 1906 in Berlin ) was a Protestant theologian and church politician.

origin

Hermann von der Goltz came from the noble Goltz family . He was the second son of the Prussian lieutenant colonel and theological-philosophical writer Alexander Ferdinand Philipp von der Goltz (1800-1870) and Marie Goebel. His brother Alexander (1832–1912) was President of the Imperial Council of Alsace-Lorraine, his brother Theodor (1836–1905) was an agricultural scientist. Major General Alexander Wilhelm von der Goltz was his grandfather.

Life

Goltz studied from 1853 to 1858 in Erlangen , Berlin , Tübingen and Bonn . After passing his exams in 1859, he became tutor for the children of Colonel von Roeder on Lake Geneva . In 1861, at the instigation of the then Minister of Education, Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg, he became a Prussian legation preacher in Rome, where Goltz actively campaigned for the establishment of a German Protestant school and implemented it in a small setting in the Palazzo Caffarelli . In August 1863 he married Anna von Delius, daughter of the royal Prussian government vice-president of Koblenz . Appointed associate professor for biblical and systematic theology in Basel in 1865 , he was promoted to full professor in 1870 and took over the rectorate of the University of Basel in 1872 . In 1873 Goltz became a professor in Bonn and finally moved to Berlin in 1876 as a full honorary professor, a full member of the Old Prussian Evangelical Church Council and provost of St. Petri . His office and residence was the Palais Happe at Brüderstraße 10 in Berlin-Mitte . From 1883 he was a full professor of dogmatics at the theological faculty of the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin .

In 1879 he founded the "Theological Society" in Berlin to promote the exchange of ideas between the theologians at the university and the pastors in the community service, which he led until the end of his life. In addition, he was involved for decades as a member of the Berlin Wednesday Society .

In the St. Petri parish, Goltz, together with his wife, organized the parish care in an exemplary manner, which was finally housed in the parish hall built in 1892 at Neue Grünstrasse 19, the first in Berlin. In 1888 he was appointed by Empress Auguste Viktoria to the select committee of the newly founded Evangelical Church Aid Association and in 1889 took over the management of the Berlin branch association. The Westphalian general superintendent Wilhelm Zoellner described him as "the living soul of the entire association". Under the energetic leadership of the von der Goltz couple, fourteen nursing stations for home care have been set up in Berlin since 1890. Von der Goltz had won over the first women to volunteer for his congregation to support deaconesses . The name "Frauenhülfe" appears for the first time in 1890 as a description of the home nursing care that women in the St. Petri community in Berlin had taken on. Thereupon Goltz founded and organized in 1892, within the framework of the Evangelical Church Aid Association, the women's aid for practical support of the nursing stations in Berlin. Under the protectorate of Empress Auguste Viktoria and Goltz 'decisive participation, the Evangelical Women's Aid was finally extended to the entire empire. After Albert von Levetzow's death in 1903, he took over the overall chairmanship of the Evangelical Church Aid Association and held it until his death.

In addition to his extensive social work, Goltz was primarily active in church politics. He was one of the founders and leaders of the Evangelical Association , an influential church party in Prussia. From 1892 until his death Goltz was clergyman vice-president of the Evangelical Upper Church Council and thus the highest-ranking clergyman in the Prussian regional church. With his friend Paul Kleinert he drafted the revision of the Prussian agendas , the main features of which were adopted by the General Synod in 1894 and introduced in 1895. He dealt in detail with the organization of church supplies for German Protestant communities abroad. In 1898 he took part in Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Palestine and, as the highest spiritual representative of the church regiment, took part in the inauguration of the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem . He worked actively for the Association of German Regional Churches, which came about in 1903 through the establishment of the German Evangelical Church Committee , a forerunner of the EKD .

Goltz has a grave of honor in the St. Petri cemetery in Berlin .

family

He married on August 26, 1863 in Koblenz Anna Helene Bernhardine Elise Friederike von Delius (1837-1909), a daughter of the government vice-president in Koblenz Eduard Delius (1809-1861) and granddaughter of the district president of Cologne Daniel Heinrich Delius . The couple had three sons and two daughters:

  • Marie Charlotte Anna Bertha (born January 15, 1868 - † June 10, 1906)
  • Eduard Alexander (* July 31, 1870 - † February 7, 1939), since 1912 Professor of Theology in Greifswald ⚭ 1898 Marie Bechmann
  • Alexander Karl Ernst (* 23 August 1872; † 19 October 1951), senior councilor ⚭ 1912 Elsbeth Möller
  • Otto Alexander Adolf Hermann (born June 8, 1875 - † January 7, 1903)
  • Anna Charlotte Luise Wilhelmine (May 30, 1878 - December 25, 1960) ⚭ 1908 Arthur Muthmann (April 24, 1875 - January 8, 1957)

Publications

  • The Reformed Church of Geneva in the 19th century . Geneva 1861, also in French
  • God's revelation through sacred history . Basel 1868
  • About the moral appreciation of political characters . Gotha 1872
  • The basic Christian truths . Gotha 1873, vol. 1
  • The limits of freedom of teaching . Bonn 1873

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noack: Das Deutschtum in Rom since the end of the Middle Ages , vol. 1, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 1927, p. 554
  2. ^ Fritz von der Heydt: Hundred Years of Evangelical Women’s Association Koblenz , Stiftsdruckerei St. Martin, Koblenz 1934, p. 45
  3. ↑ Brinkmeier, p. 131
personal data
SURNAME Goltz, Hermann von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goltz, Hermann Alexander Georg Maximilian Freiherr von der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1906
Place of death Berlin