Karl Wagenmann (theologian)

Karl Wagenmann (born March 8, 1867 in Göttingen , † September 22, 1938 ) was a German Lutheran theologian and clergyman vice-president of the Hanover regional church office of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

Life

Wagenmann was born as the second son of the Göttingen professor of church history Julius August Wagenmann . He attended grammar school in Göttingen, where he passed the final exam in autumn 1884. He studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and Göttingen . After the doctorate to D. theol. from 1891 he was a parish collaborator in Bückeburg and from 1893 pastor at the castle church in Hanover . In 1896 he became consistorial assessor, in 1899 superintendent in Bleckede , and in 1909 in Lüne . In 1910 he became consistorial councilor in the consistory in Hanover, and in 1914 a member of the state consistory. With the establishment of the regional church office in 1924, he was appointed spiritual vice-president. On July 1, 1932, he retired for health reasons.

Karl Wagenmann was deputy chairman from 1927, chairman in 1929 and honorary chairman in 1937 of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony. His final resting place is in the monastery cemetery in Loccum .

Fonts

• Pastoral care districts , Hinrichs, Leipzig 1913

literature

• Ph [ilipp] Meyer: D. Karl Wagenmann in memory . In: Journal of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 44 (1939), pp. 5–18.
• Dietrich Blaufuss (Ed.): Handbook of German regional church history. Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1999, p. 101, ISBN 3-7686-3066-8 .