Karl Nicol

Karl Ludwig Dietrich Nicol (born July 1, 1886 in Willmars , Lower Franconia, † 1954 ) was a German Protestant theologian. From 1919 he was rector of the Rummelsberg Deacon and Educational Institution .

Career

Nicol studied Protestant theology at the universities in Erlangen , Rostock and Berlin and then spent two years in the preacher's seminary in Munich. He joined the Christian student union Uttenruthia Erlangen in the Schwarzburgbund in the winter semester of 1904/05. His 7 brothers were also active in the Uttenruthia and his father received the ribbon of honor in the SS 1908. In 1909 he was ordained . After a short vicariate in Munich, he was city vicar in Bamberg from 1910 to 1913. In 1913 he came to Gleisenau (Lower Franconia) as a pastor . His pastoral work was interrupted by the First World War, in which he served as a hospital pastor for 14 months.

In 1919 he took over the management of the State Deaconry Rummelsberg as rector, which remained his place of work. From 1934 he was also chairman of the regional association for internal mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . After the National Socialists came to power, who tried several times to close the Rummelsberger Anstalten, he was repeatedly exposed to political persecution from 1933 onwards.

When the active association of the Uttenruthia had to break up on January 31, 1936 under the pressure of the National Socialists , the state association of the Inner Mission, whose chairman was Karl Nicol, took over the Uttenreutherhaus at Friedrichstrasse 19 in Erlangen and converted it into a "Theological Study Center" . On December 5, 1938, the regional church bought the house from the Philistine Association of Uttenruthia, which still existed at that time, in order to transfer it back to them in 1951.

After the end of the Second World War, he was the chief executive and deputy authorized representative of the Evangelical Relief Organization in Bavaria, a member of the Executive Committee of the Evangelical Relief Organization in Germany (American zone) and a member of the Central Committee for Internal Mission of the Evangelical Church in Germany . In 1948 he became president of the newly founded regional association for internal mission in Bavaria.

Honors

• 1948: Honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Erlangen
• Security badge for merit in the field of Inner Mission
• 1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

• The office of sexton in the Protestant church. - Erlangen: Martin Luther-Verlag, 1939
• Out of grace and pure kindness! - Munich: Claudius-Verlag, 1954
• Articles in the magazines Das Diakonenblatt , Volksmission , Kirche und Kunst among others

literature

• Friedrich Forssman (ed.): You were Uttenreuther. Life pictures of former Erlangen students . Philistine Association of Uttenruthia, Erlangen, 1993

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Nicol in the catalog of the German National Library