Hugo Karl Schmidt

Hugo Karl Schmidt (born November 22, 1909 in Łódź ; † January 19, 2009 in Büchenbach ) was a German Protestant pastor and author.

Life

Schmidt studied theology in Leipzig and Erlangen and then attended the Protestant pastors' seminar in Łódź, since the German theological training was not recognized in Poland. In 1935 he took up his first position as vicar in Rozyszcze in Volhynia . On 17th November 1935 he was appointed as priest ordained from 1936 bis 1939 he was pastor in Tuczyn . From here he looked after a large number of small evangelical communities in Volhynia.

In September 1939, Hugo Karl Schmidt was arrested by the Polish authorities and sent to the Bereza Kartuska concentration camp. Liberated a few weeks later, he was transferred to the Warthegau and became a pastor in Rypin . Here he was appointed superintendent in 1942 .

After the end of the Second World War , Schmidt first came to Erlangen in 1945 , soon afterwards to Roth (near Nuremberg) as pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and later to Katzwang near Nuremberg . In addition to his parish activities and after his later retirement, he dealt intensively with the evangelical church history of Volhynia and wrote several works on this topic.

Hugo Karl Schmidt was honorary chairman of the Historical Association of Wolhyniens eV

Publications

• The German evangelical settlements in Volhynia , in: Arthur Schmidt (ed.): German fate in Poland, Hannover-Linden 1953, pp. 96-109
• September 1939 - Volhynic experiences during the Polish war (in the Beresa Kartuska concentration camp) , Volhynische Hefte, 1st volume 1979, pp. 145–164
• Historical sources and the evaluation of reports from the generation of experiences , Wolhynische Hefte, 2nd part 1982, pp. 10-14
• The takeover of the Wolhynian Lutherans by the Warsaw Consistory and its consequences , Wolhynische Hefte, 5th episode, 1988, pp. 215–225
• Human in the midst of inhumanity , Volhynische Hefte, 5th part, 1988, pp. 244–248
• 15 Years of the Volhynian Historical Society , Volhynische Hefte, 6th edition 1990, pp. 9–13
• The resettlement of Germans from Polish Volhynia in January 1940. , Volhynische Hefte, 6th episode 1990, pp. 14–28
• German cultural work and its sponsors in Volhynia between the two world wars. , Wiesentheid 1992
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Volhynia , Marburg 1992, ISBN 3-7708-0979-3
• The state loyalty of the Wolhyniendeutschen , Wolhynische Hefte, 10th episode 1996, pp. 2-9
• Thoughts on resettlement 1940 , Volhynische Hefte, 12th volume 2001, pp. 157–158
• In fears - and see, we live: Memoirs of a Wolhynien pastor 1909-2009 (edited by Jürgen Joachim Taegert), BoD Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 3739238968

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Karl Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• VolynWiki: Hugo Karl Schmidt
• Historical Association Wolhynien eV
• Death report in the Roth-Hilpoltsteiner Volkszeitung from January 21, 2009
• Death report in the Schwabacher Tagblatt from January 22, 2009