Karl Ludwig Schmitthenner

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Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Schmitthenner (born September 30, 1858 in Neckarbischofsheim , † June 11, 1932 in Königsfeld ) was a Baden theologian, prelate and court dean.

Life

Ludwig Schmitthenner was the third son of six grown up children of the Protestant pastor Heinrich Schmitthenner (* 1818, † 1893) and Mathilde Luise Schmitthenner, née. Herbst (* 1822; † 1894). The ancestors of the Schmitthenner family originally came from Nuremberg. The family produced Protestant theologians and pastors over several generations. Ludwig Schmitthenner's older brothers were the theologians Christian Heinrich Schmitthenner and Adolf Schmitthenner .

Ludwig Schmitthenner first attended the community school in Heidelberg and then from 1874 to 1879 the grammar school. In the winter semester 1879/80 he began studying Protestant theology at the University of Erlangen , then moved to the University of Tübingen and finished his studies in the winter semester 1881/82 at the University of Heidelberg with a certificate from the Evangelical Protestant Theological Seminar. On May 22, 1883, Ludwig Schmitthenner came to the parish candidates and became vicar in Baden-Baden that same year . On study trips he came to Northern Germany on behalf of the Inner Mission and in 1885 to England. He then took up the pastoral position in Meersburg and later switched to the position of city vicar in the Mannheim suburb of Neckar Gardens . On March 8, 1887, he came to the 28th Division in Rastatt as a military chaplain . On March 8, 1887, he was transferred as pastor to the 29th Division in Freiburg . From 1892 to 1909 Schmitthenner was pastor at the Christ Church in Freiburg. As the first pastor of this church, Schmitthenner succeeded in handing over a particularly lively congregation to his successor Hugo Schwarz. Schmitthenner also founded the Baden child service work and was the head of the Baden regional association of Protestant children's services and Sunday schools .

From 1909 until his retirement in 1924, Schmitthenner was a full member of the Evangelical Higher Church Council and prelate of the Baden regional church . At the same time he was also chairman of the Baden State Bible Society and the Baden State Association for Inner Mission. As a prelate of the Baden regional church, he was also a member of the First Chamber from 1909 to 1918 and thus a representative of the regional church in the Baden Estates Assembly . Since June 2, 1911, Ludwig Schmitthenner held the title of lecturer council . Schmitthenner was chairman of the Evangelical Diakonissenhaus in Karlsruhe and chairman of the Baden regional group of the association of pastors who abstained from alcohol. From 1917 to 1918 Ludwig Schmitthenner was also court dean of Grand Duke Friedrich II.

family

In 1887 Ludwig Schmitthenner married the factory director's daughter Luise Schrader from Mannheim. The marriage resulted in three sons and two daughters. Ludwig Schmitthenner died at the age of 73 and was buried on June 16, 1932 in Freiburg.

Honors

Publications

  • Three delicious things. An early summer greeting from Prelate D. L [udwig] Schmitthenner-Karlsruhe, edition 4, Ev. Blattvereinigung f. Soldiers and German prisoners of war, 1917

estate

Ludwig Schmitthenner's personal estate was lost in a bomb attack on Karlsruhe during World War II. Only in the regional church archive in Karlsruhe is there a small surviving legacy in the form of letters that the Prelate Schmitthenner exchanged with Grand Duchess Luise von Baden , Queen Victoria of Sweden and the grand ducal couple Friedrich II and Hilda between 1909 and 1928. The correspondence with Grand Duchess Luise in particular is characterized by a very close relationship of trust.

literature

  • Walter Schnaiter: The papers of Adolf Schmitthenner (1854–1907) and Karl Ludwig Schmitthenner (1858–1932) in the regional church archive. In: Journal of Church and Religious History in Baden (JBKRG) Issue 3 (2009), Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-020981-7 , pp. 341–348

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Until 1931 the city of Baden-Baden was only called Baden , or Baden in Baden
  2. ↑ The Christ Church in the Wiehre. Side lights from a hundred years 1891–1991. Reports, documents reminders. [Festschrift] Evangelical Christ Church, Poppen & Ortmann, Freiburg im Breisgau 1991


personal data
SURNAME Schmitthenner, Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitthenner, Karl Ludwig Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden theologian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Neckarbischofsheim
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1932
Place of death Koenigsfeld