Karl Hesselbacher

Karl Eduard Ludwig Hesselbacher (born May 29, 1871 in Mückenloch , † January 11, 1943 in Baden-Baden ) was a German Protestant clergyman and writer .

Life

Karl Hesselbacher came from a pastor's family . He grew up in Mückenloch, Sinsheim and Neckarau and attended high school in Mannheim and Lahr . From 1890 to 1894 he completed a study of Protestant theology at the universities in Halle an der Saale , Leipzig and Heidelberg , he with the second theological state exam completed. From 1894 to 1895 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in Karlsruhe . Then he was vicar in Heidelsheim , Schwetzingen and Karlsruhe.

Memorial plaque in the Evangelical City Church of Baden-Baden

In 1898 Karl Hesselbacher took over a pastorate in Neckarzimmern . In 1905 he moved to Karlsruhe. From 1914 he was a member of the General Synod . During the First World War , Hesselbacher was a hospital chaplain . From 1919 until his retirement in 1938 he worked as a pastor in Baden-Baden ; from 1930 he was a member of the church council and from 1933 dean of the Baden-Baden church district .

In addition to sermon texts , pastoral theological treatises and biographies, Karl Hesselbacher published numerous popular stories , which are often based on experiences from his pastoral work or deal with topics from the history of German Protestantism .

Karl Hesselbacher was awarded the Baden War Merit Cross in 1916 . 1917, he was from the University of Heidelberg , the honorary doctorate of theology awarded. In Baden-Baden the "Karl-Hesselbacher-Straße" is named after him.

Works

• From the village church , Tübingen
  • 1 (1905)
  • 2 (1909)
  • 3 (1913)
• Bells strikes from my village church , Berlin 1906
• The love for our village home - the source of public health , Berlin 1906
• Pastoral care in the village , Göttingen 1908
• The struggle for happiness in the country , Neuwied 1909
• Silhouettes of recent Baden poets , Heilbronn 1910
• With gold gun , Stuttgart 1911
• Our village home - our pride , Berlin 1912
• From the Fatherland of Loyalty , Stuttgart 1912
• I had a comrade , Berlin [u. a.] 1914
• Mother and Child , Potsdam 1914
• The Heinerle , Stuttgart 1915
• With weather storm and flame signs , Potsdam 1915
• Why the Grenzer-Karl loves roses , Stuttgart 1915
• In the toughest dispute , Stuttgart 1916
• Stayed at home , Heilbronn 1917
• The woman from Kirchner , Heilbronn 1917
• Winner over hardship , Stuttgart 1917
• Faithful to the post , Heilbronn 1918
• At the fountain in the City of God , Berlin-Steglitz 1919
• Holy Morning , Berlin-Steglitz 1919
• The Marienkind and other stories , Heilbronn 1919
• Passed by , Berlin-Steglitz 1919
• Without religious instruction , Berlin-Steglitz 1920
• Paths to Joy , Potsdam 1920
• On the invisible gold thread and other stories , Heilbronn 1922
• The woman - the heart of the house , Potsdam 1922
• Shining eyes , Berlin-Dahlem 1922
• The blondes and the blacks , Heilbronn 1924
• A christening book , Heilbronn 1924
• The Russen-Räpple , Stuttgart 1925
• What do the growing children expect from their mother? , Potsdam 1925
• Fortune children , Heilbronn 1926
• The Heinerle and other stories , Bielefeld 1926
• We parents , Berlin-Steglitz 1926
• Lord at your behest , Herborn 1927
• Life journeys , Heilbronn 1927
• The town clerk of Strasbourg and other stories from bygone days , Stuttgart 1927
• The old Erkeling , Gütersloh 1928
• The certificate comes from home , Leipzig 1928
• The view from above , Potsdam 1928
• A golden boy and other stories , Stuttgart 1929
• The certificate comes from home , Herborn 1929
• Always home , Herborn 1929
• Mother's joy, mother's duty , Potsdam 1929
• The book - Blessing and Curse for People and House , Leipzig 1930
• In your light we see the light , Herborn-Dillkreis
  • 1. O blessed house , 1930
  • 2. In God's Peace , 1930
• In God's hand in God's land , Potsdam 1931
• A child is born to you today! , Leipzig [u. a.] 1931
• The silver pendant and other stories , Stuttgart 1931
• Stronger than death , Stuttgart 1931
• Christmas joy , Dresden 1931
• The Huguenot's mug , Wuppertal-Barmen 1932
• Stories from grandfather Ledderhose , Heilbronn 1932
• The favorite saying and other stories from bygone days , Heilbronn 1932
• Protestantism and the Church , Stuttgart 1932
• The golden eagle , Gütersloh 1932
• Across the ocean , Hanover 1932
• Christmas stories , Basel 1932 (together with Helene Christaller)
• The Salzburger's Bible , Wuppertal-Barmen 1933
• The birch and other stories , Stuttgart 1933
• Martin Luther, the hero of God , Hamburg 1933
• From the house bread of life , Potsdam 1933
• A Christmas Eve with Ludwig Richter , Dresden 1933
• The fifth evangelist. The life of Johann Sebastian Bach , Quell-Verlag Stuttgart 1934
• A hero , Stuttgart 1934
• Luther's Käthe , Stuttgart 1934
• With the white sail! , Potsdam 1934
• Life is beautiful , Riga 1934
• The orphan's Christmas carol , Wuppertal-Barmen 1934
• Hold on, give it to me! , Potsdam 1935
• "Stand up!" and other stories , Stuttgart 1935
• Lord, I am waiting for your salvation , Herborn 1935
• The cross in Rosen , Wuppertal-Barmen 1935
• The Schnorrgiggel and the Paulale , Gütersloh 1935
• Peace people , Baden-Baden 1936
• Proven in the fire , Stuttgart 1936
• In the Sunday silence , Kaiserslautern 1936
• The carol singer from St. Nikolai , Wuppertal 1936
• Paul Gerhardt, the singer of happy faith , Leipzig [u. a.] 1936
• Wandering comrades , Herborn 1936
• The wooden candlesticks from Ricklinsberg , Wuppertal-Barmen 1937
• Rejoice, dear Christians! , Dresden 1937
• All sorts of boarders to our Lord , Baden-Baden 1938
• Lift up your hearts! , Kaiserslautern 1938
• Homesickness for God , Dresden 1938
• I think Stuttgart 1938
• The new day of life of Maria Lachenmann , Wuppertal-Barmen 1938
• The call of the master , Stuttgart 1938
• To the championship , Meiringen [u. a.] 1938
• We parents and our children , Berlin-Steglitz 1938
• The refugee , Wuppertal 1939
• The Bubenmüller , Heilbronn 1940
• A German craftsman's house a hundred years ago , Stuttgart 1940
• God let us see your salvation! , Leipzig [u. a.] 1940
• The helper in the Gängeviertel , Wuppertal-Barmen 1940
• Otto Funcke, a happy wanderer , Stuttgart 1940
• How Doctor Grunelius found peace. Homecoming , Stuttgart 1940
• At the source of life , Meringen 1943
• Light from home , Meiringen 1944
• Stronger than death and other stories , Meiringen 1948
• The Friedebringer , Bielefeld 1952
• In the cave of the Camisarden , Lahr in Baden 1953
• The arrival of Andreas Bodenstein , Wuppertal 1960
• The mother bell on the Grauhaldenhof , Gütersloh 1959
• The favorite saying , Stuttgart 1963
• Nothing can snatch me from his hand , Neuffen 1974

Editing

• In the flame of great times , Stuttgart
  • 1 (1915)
  • 2 (1915)
  • 3 (1916)
  • 4 (1917)
• Howdy God, my Badnerland! , Lahr in Baden 1917 (published together with Heinrich Mohr)
• Happy exit, blissful journey home , Heidelberg 1927 (published together with Hermann Poppen)

literature

• Hans Hermann Gaede (ed.): Cross and laurel. Stuttgart 1931.
• Christoph Burba: Listener orientation as a hallmark of Karl Hesselbacher's village sermons. Tuebingen 2004.

Web links

• Karl Hesselbacher at LEO-BW
• Karl Hesselbacher on the website of the Evangelical Church Community Baden-Baden