Julius Kelber

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Julius Kelber (born February 18, 1900 in Aufseß , † March 27, 1987 in Nuremberg ) was a German Lutheran pastor.

Life

Julius Kelber was born as the son of the pastor of the same name Julius Kelber and his wife Pauline Kelber, née Ostertag. He made his Abitur at the Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nuremberg . He was then drafted into military service on the Western Front. After the war he studied theology in Erlangen and Leipzig . In 1922 he became a youth pastor in Bayreuth . Between 1924 and 1933 he was the second pastor in the regional association of the Inner Mission and a chaplain in the Juliusspital . Then he was pastor in Krögelstein, Ulsenheim and from May 10, 1939 in Treuchtlingen . Here the district leadership of the NSDAP became aware of him. From 1940 he was no longer allowed to give religious instruction in schools and on May 16, 1944 he was expelled from Treuchtlingen after a sermon about Stalingrad . He was used as a pastor for the Wolhynia Germans resettled in Warthegau and for the Plech community , while his wife stayed in Treuchtlingen.

After the liberation of Treuchtlingen by the Americans on April 24, 1945, he was able to return there. Under his leadership the Evangelical Settlement Work was founded in Treuchtlingen, in 1946 a workshop for the disabled in Pappenheim, Solnhofen and Langenaltheim and in 1954 the Treuchtlingen city mission. Between 1945 and 1950 there was a station mission in Treuchtlingen on his initiative . In 1946, due to his efforts, the license for the monthly church news was obtained . In 1951 he was the first chairman of the newly founded Diakonie Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen and from 1951 to 1954 the first managing director.

In addition to his office as parish priest, he was also a pastor for the deaf between Ansbach and Ingolstadt . On May 14, 1964 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Treuchtlingen and in 1965 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. In the same year he also moved to Nuremberg to spend his retirement there.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diakonisches Werk Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen: History. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ Treuchtlingen - thermal town in the Altmühltal nature park: Julius Kelber. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kelber, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Aufseß
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1987
Place of death Nuremberg