Johann Georg Fehn

Johann Georg Fehn (born April 20, 1880 in Kreuzwertheim , † November 5, 1950 in Karlsruhe ) was a German pastor and politician.

Life

Georg Fehn was born the son of a shoemaker. After graduating from elementary school, he attended high school in Wertheim from 1890, where he graduated from high school in 1899. He then studied law for seven semesters at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich , and then from 1903 theology in Heidelberg. In 1906 he became vicar in Heddesheim and then at the Luther Church in Mannheim . In 1910 he took up his first pastorate in Sindolsheim . In 1916 he became pastor in Unterschüpf and from 1925 to 1934 he was in charge of the southern parish of the Matthäuskirche in Mannheim-Neckarau . Here he ran into hostility from the National Socialists because he advised not to vote for the NSDAP before the Reichstag election in March 1933 . He therefore moved to Karlsruhe-Rintheim as a pastor , where he remained until he retired in 1948.

From 1919 to 1921 Fehn was a member of the Baden state parliament , where he represented the DDP .

Web links

• Speeches by Georg Fehn in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

literature

• Wilhelm August Schulze: History of the Protestant community Neckarau. Mannheim 1970.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 386.