Karl Schmaltz

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Karl Schmaltz, around 1930 (self-portrait)

Karl Friedrich Johannes Schmaltz (born September 11, 1867 in Schlieffenberg , † November 3, 1940 in Hagenow ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Life

Karl Schmaltz was born in 1867 as the first child of Pastor Bernhard Otto Schmaltz (1828–1839) and Friederike Henriette Anna Schmaltz (1842–1922; née Chrestin) in Schlieffenberg (Mecklenburg). Initially, his father taught Karl and his siblings at home, while his mother taught him and other children in the neighborhood free-hand drawing. After confirmation, Karl moved into the Friderico-Francisceum in Doberan in 1882 , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1887 . In the same year he and his younger brother Friedrich Schmaltz (1868-1949) moved to the University of Leipzig and began studying Protestant theology. In the summer semester of 1888, the brothers moved to the University of Tübingen . Karl completed the winter semester 1888/89 again at the University of Leipzig and the next four semesters at the University of Rostock .

In 1891 he passed the first theological exam before an examination committee of the Schwerin Oberkirchenrat, but then spent another semester at the University of Erlangen with his brother Friedrich . In the following years Karl Schmaltz worked as tutor and archivist with Heinrich Freiherr Langwerth von Simmern in Eltville on the Rhine and Wichtringhausen , in social services in the Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten in Bethel and as tutor in Leoni on Lake Starnberg. After the second theological exam in 1895, he was employed in 1896 as an assistant teacher at the large city school in Wismar . In 1899 Karl Schmaltz became assistant preacher at the Schwerin Castle Church , and in 1902 second pastor at the town church in Sternberg .

A scholarship enabled him to stay at the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies of the Holy Land in Jerusalem in 1911 . Writings written afterwards led in 1919 to the award of an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Greifswald. Because of his writings on Mecklenburg church history, the Philosophical Faculty of Rostock University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1926.

On January 1, 1913, Karl Schmaltz was appointed pastor of the mental hospital and community in Schwerin-Sachsenberg, today's Carl Friedrich Flemming Clinic . In the course of the establishment of the rule of the National Socialists in the state and church of Mecklenburg, he was released from all official duties on May 1, 1934 and retired. The pastor's position was not filled again. In the same year he was a co-founder of the Kessiner Brotherhood , a circle of the Confessing Church . After the beginning of the Second World War, he represented drafted officers, most recently his son-in-law Dietrich Karsten in Döbbersen .

On November 30, 1940, Karl Schmaltz died of complications from pneumonia in the Hagenow hospital.

family

On September 29, 1899, Karl Schmaltz married Elisabeth Zander (1874–1953), the daughter of the local pastor Heinrich Zander, in the Stavenhagen town church. Their children were Bernhard (1900–1962), Margarethe (1902–1984, later married Hemleben), Gertrud (1904–1989, later married Gothe), Charlotte (1908–2000, later married Weißenstein) and Anna-Marie (1912–1992 , later married Karsten).

Publications

Essays

  • The foundation and development of the church organization of Mecklenburg in the Middle Ages. 1907/1908
  • The holy fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in connection with the church liturgy and the ancient rites of light. 1917
  • The three “mystical” Christ caves of the birth, the consecration of the disciples and the grave. 1919
  • The history of the Güstrow cathedral. 1926

Books

  • History of the court community in Schwerin. Schwerin 1903
  • Mater ecclesiarum. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Studies on the history of church architecture and iconography in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Strasbourg: Heitz 1918
Digitized in the Internet Archive
  • The church buildings in Mecklenburg. Schwerin 1927
  • Church history of Mecklenburg. Vol. 1 (Middle Ages). Schwerin 1935
  • Church history of Mecklenburg. Vol. 2 (Reformation and Counter-Reformation). Schwerin 1936
  • Church history of Mecklenburg. Vol. 3 (posthumously). Berlin 1952

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Gothe: Karl Schmaltz. Life and Work (1867–1949). Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940207-67-8 , pp. 9-14 .; see also: Registration of Karl Schmaltz in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Johannes Gothe: Karl Schmaltz. Life and Work (1867–1949). Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940207-67-8 , pp. 16–46.
  3. ^ Johannes Gothe: Karl Schmaltz. Life and Work (1867–1949). Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940207-67-8 , pp. 46–51.
  4. ^ Johannes Gothe: Karl Schmaltz. Life and Work (1867–1949). Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940207-67-8 , p. 55.
  5. ^ Johannes Gothe: Karl Schmaltz. Life and Work (1867–1949). Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940207-67-8 , p. 64f.
  6. ^ Gerhard Voss: In memoriam Karl Schmaltz. In: Karl Schmaltz: Church history of Mecklenburg. Volume 3 (posthumously), Berlin 1952, p. 518
  7. ^ Johannes Gothe: Karl Schmaltz. Life and Work (1867–1949). Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940207-67-8 , p. 75.

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personal data
SURNAME Schmaltz, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmaltz, Karl Friedrich Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlieffenberg
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1940
Place of death Hagenow