Immanuel Hegel

Thomas Immanuel Christian Hegel (born September 24, 1814 in Nuremberg ; † November 26, 1891 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lawyer and civil servant. He worked from 1865 to 1891 as the Consistorial President of the Prussian Evangelical Church in Berlin.

Life

Hegel, the second legitimate son of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , studied philosophy, law and political science at the universities of Berlin , Munich and Heidelberg . In 1836 he entered the Prussian civil service as an auscultator , became a trainee lawyer in the government in Arnsberg in 1838 and an assessor in the government in Magdeburg in 1842 . In 1844 he came to the newly established trade office in Berlin as an "unskilled worker" and stayed there when it was raised to the trade ministry in April 1848 . In the office of the State Ministry since July 1848 , he was promoted to government councilor and head of the Central Office for Press Affairs in 1849 . In 1853 he was promoted to the Secret Government Council and Lecturing Council and in 1859 to the Secret Upper Government Council, after he had already taken over the office of curator of the state treasury in 1858 .

Immanuel Hegel's grave in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery, Berlin

In 1865, Hegel resigned from the State Ministry to take over the management of the consistory of the province of Brandenburg (as the successor to Ludwig Emil Mathis, who was promoted to President of the Evangelical Upper Church Council (EOK)) . As chairman of the Evangelical Association for Church Purposes , he was a representative of New Orthodoxy and, for example, repeatedly intervened in favor of the orthodox pastor Julius Kraft against the liberal parish council of the Zion community . Furthermore, he operated the dismissal of liberal pastors such as Adolf Sydow , Emil Gustav Lisco , Theodor Hossbach or Albert Kalthoff , who, however, - with the exception of the latter - were collected again by the Evangelical High Church Council. This moved Hegel to ask Kaiser Wilhelm I for his dismissal in February 1877 . However, the Kaiser supported Hegel's conservative course, which at the end of 1877 led to the EOK President Emil Herrmann's resignation (accepted in 1878) .

At the beginning of 1891, Hegel left his office at his own request and died a little later. He is buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery . His grave was dedicated to the city of Berlin from 1952 to 2009 .

Hegel, who initially kept the papers he left behind after his father's death, also intervened in the publication of the first edition of Hegel's works (1832–1845) and in the writing of the first biography by Karl Rosenkranz . Later he left the maintenance of the estate more to his older brother, the historian Karl Hegel , with whom he maintained a very close relationship throughout his life, as evidenced by the extensive personal estate of letters.

family

In 1845 Hegel married Friederike Flottwell (1822–1861), a daughter of the Prussian statesman Eduard von Flottwell . The following are known of children:

• Marie Hegel (* May 21, 1848 in Berlin; married 1872 to Rudolf von Bitter the Younger ; † November 27, 1925 in Hirschberg , Lower Silesia)
• Eduard Wilhelm von Hegel (1849–1925), government official and member of the German Reichstag.
• Clara Hegel (born March 3, 1853 in Berlin, † February 21, 1924 in Zehdenick), canon in the Zehdenick monastery

After Friederike's death, Hegel married her younger sister Clara (1825 - after 1907) in 1865.

Fonts (selection)

• Heinrich Gustav Hotho : Lectures on aesthetics or philosophy of beauty and art . Written and worked through by Immanuel Hegel. Berlin 1833 (new edition, edited and introduced by Bernadette Collenberg-Plotnikov. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2004).
• The Evangelical Church Constitution. Berlin 1868.
• History of the foundation and first 25 years of the St. Matthew Church in Berlin . Berlin 1871.
• Memories from my life . Berlin 1891.

literature

• Hegel, Immanuel in Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon , 14th ed., Vol. 8, 1895, p. 949.
• Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry . Arranged by B. Holtz u. a. Vol. 4/2. Olms, Hildesheim 2003, p. 582.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See The Battle in Zion. A record-based representation of the history of suffering of the Evangelical Church from the times of President [Immanuel] Hegel . Edited on behalf of the former elders and community leaders in Zion. KG Wiegandt, Berlin [1894]; Ulrich Mayer: The beginnings of the Zion Church in Berlin. An example of the emergence of parishes in large cities in the 19th century . Bielefeld 1988, pp. 91-129.
2. ↑ Bernd Satlow: Wilhelm I as summus episcopus of the old Prussian regional church. Personality, piety, church politics . Diss. Theol. masch., Halle (Saale) 1960, p. 194 ff.
3. ^ Berlin: Friedparks
4. ↑ Willi Ferdinand Becker: Questions and sources on the history of Hegel's estate. II. Hegel's bequeathed writings in the correspondence of his son Immanuel . In: Journal for philosophical research 35 (1981), pp. 592-614.
5. ↑ See especially Marion Kreis: Karl Hegel. Historical significance and scientific historical location. Göttingen 2012, passim; E-book & reading sample: http://www.vr.de/de/karl_hegel/t-1/1007100/ .
6. ↑ http://stiftsdamen.de/zehdenickLexikon.htm .
7. ↑ http://www.grimmbriefwechsel.de/service/pers/pers.html .