Julius Köhler (theologian)

Julius Köhler (born September 9, 1869 in Hanover , † July 9, 1947 in Goslar ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , first court and palace preacher and secret consistorial councilor in Hanover.

Life

Born as the son of the rent master Friedrich Köhler, Julius Köhler attended Lyzeum I in Hanover and studied theology at the universities of Tübingen , Leipzig and Göttingen . During his candidate period he was a tutor in Bredenbeck am Deister . After graduating as Lic. Theol. (Tübingen 1895) and a visit to the Seminary on the Erichsburg he was on 11 November 1895 ordained and as a collaborator at the Holy Trinity Church hired in Hanover. In 1898 he became second court and palace preacher and consistorial assessor in Hanover, in 1901 first court and palace preacher, consistorial councilor and member of the royal consistory in a secondary position. In 1910 he was appointed a full member of the state consistory and the committee for the first and second theological examinations. In 1913 he was given the character as Geh. Consistorial Council awarded. In 1914 Köhler was appointed to the board of trustees of the Erichsburg seminary.

Since 1924, a member of the newly established Hanover regional church office , Julius Köhler retired on January 1, 1935 as an upper regional church councilor. In the fall of 1937 he was at his own request as pastor emeritus . Köhler worked for almost forty years as court and palace preacher in Hanover and was one of the outstanding pastors of the regional church. His extensive collection of sermons and addresses was destroyed when his apartment was destroyed in October 1943 during World War II .

literature

• In memoriam , ed. by the union of former confirmands of the Schloßkirche Hannover (privy councilor Köhler circle), Göttingen 1947