Karl Schwedhelm (musician)

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Trumpet free time in Hanover, right Schwedhelm (1930)

Karl Schwedhelm (born November 4, 1891 in Hanover ; † October 6, 1981 ibid) was a German deacon , organist and trombonist . With his activity he stood in opposition to National Socialism .

Life

Schwedhelm's parents were the Catholic worker Karl Schwedhelm and his Reformed wife Anna, née. Armor He had four siblings and was the oldest son. He was baptized on November 15, 1891 in the St. Marien Church (Hainholz) . From Easter 1898 to Easter 1906 he attended the Evangelical Citizens' School in Hanover. He was confirmed on April 8, 1906 in the Reformed Church (Hanover) . For three years he worked as a coachman in an uncle's trucking business. By visiting the youth club , he came into contact with deacons of St. Stephen's Foundation . To become a deacon himself, he entered this monastery on October 4, 1909.

soldier

After four years he was called up in October 1913 as a substitute recruit for the Infantry Regiment "von Manstein" (Schleswigsches) No. 84 . As a musketeer , he went into the field in August 1914. Less than four weeks later he broke the metatarsal in Esternay . He was considered missing, but was in French captivity in Corsica for three years. Used in the infirmary, in the courier service and in road construction, he contracted malaria . From September 1917 to July 1918 he was interned in Switzerland by the International Red Cross . He was allowed to attend classes at the Basel Mission . Exchanged to Germany in Konstanz , he came to a Schleswig-Holstein convalescent company. He was given leave of absence on September 1, 1918, and was released from the Prussian Army on March 16, 1919 .

Schneverdingen

On September 1, 1919, he came to Schneverdingen as a parish deacon and organist . Ten villages belong to the parish. The congregations were in the Louis Harms revival area . Shortly after taking office, he married his “old” girlfriend Wilhelmine Stadius at the Stephansstift. There he was consecrated as a deacon on November 2, 1919. In 1920 their son Karl was born in Schneverdingen.

Mecklenburg

Appointed by the regional association of Protestant young men and trombone choirs of both Mecklenburgs, he took up the post of regional trombonist on November 1, 1925 in Wismar . The second son Gustav-Hermann was born there in March 1926. In April 1926 the family moved to Dettmannsdorf . In Güstrow, Schwedhelm got his motorbike (1926) and car (1928) driving license. The pastor of the Belitz village church wrote to him on February 25, 1926 in the host book :

“If the walls of Jericho once fell before the trumpets, shouldn't other walls still fall in front of them today, namely the walls of lack of faith, indifference and churchlessness in our Mecklenburg country? But this also requires the field shout “Play the Lord”, then something new will come through our choirs, a revival to life. God bless your work! "

- Gottfried Kleiminger

In May 1927, Elisabeth was born as the third child. On March 1, 1929, he moved to Güstrow . The Ministry of the Interior of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin granted him state recognition as a welfare officer on April 5, 1932 . In the time of National Socialism , Schwedhelm was part of the Confessing Church of Mecklenburg. On November 1, 1935, he was to sign a commitment to unconditional obedience to the imperial church government and the National Socialist-oriented Mecklenburg church leadership, amending his employment contract. His rejection meant that the Oberkirchenrat at the Mecklenburg Trumpet Association tried to enforce his resignation as state trombonist. When that did not succeed, his salary, to which the regional church had committed, was suspended from November 1935. This led to legal disputes over several years. Schwedhelm continued to work. The salary was raised by the Confessing Church, the Trumpet Association and various donors. The Oberkirchenrat withdrew the trombone association's recognition as a bearer of Mecklenburg trumpet work. Two trumpet attendants belonging to the German Christians were discontinued. On behalf of the Upper Church Council, they performed "regional church" trumpet work against Schwedhelm. After personal defamation he applied for a leave of absence on May 1, 1939. The VI. On November 8, 1939, the civil senate of the Reich Court awarded Schwedhelm the continued payment of his salary.

Hanover

He moved to Hanover and worked from May to August 1939 in the office of the Evangelical Luth Confessional Community. Regional Church of Hanover . For the duration of the entire Second World War - from September 1, 1939 to October 31, 1945 - he held the vacant pastorate of the Evangelical Lutheran. Michaelis parish in Ricklingen , first as parish deacon, then as parish deacon. As a workers' community, Ricklingen was oriented towards National Socialism. There were no church rooms. Schwedhelm moved to Hemmingen-Westerfeld in December 1939 and to Oberricklingen on June 17, 1942 . From November 1, 1945 to June 30, 1958 he was managing director of the newly created city association for Inner Mission Hanover. The flow of refugees had to be dealt with : establishment of accommodation (train station bunker, youth bunker), construction of apprentice homes , recreation for children, care for Hungarian refugees and repatriates from Polish-occupied areas, distribution of CARE packages , collection of donations for Thanksgiving and much more. Schwedhelm retired on June 30, 1958, three months after his wife's death. From 1959 to 1969 he looked after Greek guest workers in Hanover and Lower Saxony . In the church of the Stephansstift he got his second marriage with Margarete Schrader geb. Arendt († 2001). She brought her daughter Erika Schrader from her first marriage. Schwedhelm died shortly before his 90th birthday.

Honors

literature

  • Martin Huss , Elisabeth Schwedhelm: Karl Schwedhelm (1891–1981) state trombonist in Mecklenburg. Trumpet work of Ev.-Luth. State Church of Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian Evangelical Church 2011.

Remarks

  1. ^ Karl fell in the Russian campaign after Christmas 1941 near Kaluga.
  2. ↑ Gustav-Hermann had a fatal accident in the mountains on Lake Thun in 1958.
  3. ↑ Karl Schwedhelm's host book
  4. ↑ Like her father, Elisabeth became a church musician and deacon.
personal data
SURNAME Schwedhelm, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deacon and trombonist, state trombonist in Mecklenburg
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1981
Place of death Hanover