Karl Wilhelm Moritz Snethlage

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Karl Wilhelm Moritz Snethlage , also Carl Wilhelm Moritz Snethlage (born September 23, 1792 in Hamm , † February 17, 1871 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian who last served as court preacher in Berlin.

family

Snethlage was a son of the pedagogue Bernhard Moritz Snethlage (1753-1840) and his wife, the pastor's daughter Johanna Christina Luisa Achenbach (1763-1855). On September 23, 1821 he married Louise (Luisa) Engels (* November 23, 1799 - February 25, 1845), a daughter of the Barmer factory owner Johann Caspar Engels , whose son Friedrich Engels senior had been with Elisabeth (Elise) Franziska Mauritia since 1819 van Haar (1797–1873), a daughter of the pedagogue Gerhard Bernhard van Haar and cousin Snethlages, was married. Snethlage was thus in a double connection with Friedrich Engels , at whose baptism on January 18, 1821 he acted as godfather and in whose life he took part again and again.

Snethlage and his wife had eight children:

  1. Luise (1822–1878), from 1841 married to the Barmer factory owner (and brief mayor) Christian Hermann Siebel (1808–1878);
  2. Bernhard (1825-1843);
  3. Karl (1827–1891), lawyer and most recently consistorial president of the church province of Rhineland ;
  4. Agnes Johanna (1828–1906), from 1855 married to pastor Hermann Leipoldt (1827–1862);
  5. Pauline (1830–1856), from 1852 married to the grammar school teacher Otto Heinrich Immanuel Nitzsch (1828–1906), son of Karl Immanuel Nitzsch ;
  6. Johanna Constanze (1831-1868);
  7. Ernst Moritz (1833–1898), manor owner;
  8. Ernst Caspar Jakob (1834–1907), government councilor and administrative court director in Erfurt.

In his second marriage, Snethlage married Marie Charlotte Hudtwalcker on April 20, 1847 (* September 16, 1818 - May 8, 1892), a daughter of the Hamburg Senator Martin Hieronymus Hudtwalcker . They had two more daughters:

  1. Maria Charlotte (1848–1917), from 1874 married to the judge of the appellate court Otto Broicher (1844–1913), also known as a writer and translator herself
  2. Luise Marie (1851–1872).

Life

Snethlage grew up first in Hamm, where his father ran the grammar school , and then in Berlin, where his father took over the management of the Joachimsthal grammar school in 1802 . After graduating from this school, Snethlage studied Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen from 1810 and moved to the University of Tübingen in 1812 . In 1813 he volunteered for the Wars of Liberation and fought in the 2nd Pomeranian Infantry Regiment . After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , he passed his theological exam in Berlin, but then took part again in the last battles against Napoleon under the command of General von Bülow . This was followed by a three-year practical training at the Domkandidaten-Alumni Institute in Berlin and a three-year educational trip through Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

In 1821 he took up his first pastor's position in the Reformed parish in Baerl (now a part of Duisburg ). In 1822 he became - alongside a Lutheran colleague - pastor of the United Evangelical Church Congregation Unterbarmen , in which his father-in-law was the most important donor. Later he was appointed by the consistory as a part-time superintendent of the Elberfeld church district and was elected to this office in 1835 after the Rhine-Westphalian church order had given the district synods the right to vote.

Because of his advocacy of a presbyterial-synodal church order (on the older presbyterial church orders of the countries Jülich, Berg, Cleve and Mark , he presented a monograph in 1837 which earned him the title of Dr. theol. ), Minister of Education Friedrich Eichhorn brought him in 1842 as Employee with the title of consistorial councilor in the Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs in Berlin. In the following year Snethlage was appointed to the post of preacher at the Berlin Cathedral , which had become vacant through the death of Friedrich Ferdinand Adolf Sack . As usual, Snethlage began on the lowest level as the 4th court and cathedral preacher and rose when a colleague left, so that from 1863 he held the title of court preacher. As early as 1845 his position in the ministry was upgraded to the title of senior consistorial councilor. When the Evangelical Upper Church Council was created in 1850 to manage the internal affairs of the Evangelical Church in Prussia , Snethlage was also appointed to it and was primarily concerned with personnel issues. In addition, he campaigned for the establishment of the German Evangelical Church Conference (Eisenach Church Conference) and took an active part in the Protestant church days .

As a pastor, Snethlage had a close relationship with King Friedrich Wilhelm IV , especially in his last years of life, which were marked by illness. He stood by him in the hour of his death and gave a memorial sermon in the cathedral. After the king's death, Snethlage's health also deteriorated until he was unable to exercise his offices after a stroke in 1868.

Memorial stone on the Berlin Cathedral Cemetery II

In addition to his service in the court and cathedral parish as well as the church authorities, Snethlage also held numerous honorary positions, e. B. (from 1845 as "Stiftspropst") spiritual curator of the Fräuleinstift von Heiligengrabe or in the board of trustees of the Bethanien Deaconess Hospital founded in 1847 .

Fonts

  • Speech at the mission festival in Elberfeld in June 1835 . Barmen 1835.
  • Wilhelm Leipoldt: Comments on the two writings of Messrs JFE Sander and Ed in the matter of the “Preacher Bible”. Hülsmann . Edited by K. Snethlage, Protestant pastor in Unterbarmen. Stone house, Barmen 1836.
  • Canonical examination of the declaration of the pastors of the Dortmund District Synod concerning the Schwelmer preacher election issue . Stone house, Barmen 1836.
  • Speech on June 18, 1836, commemorating the Battle of Belle Alliance . C. Simons (Ed.). Barmen 1836.
  • The older prosbyterial church ordinances of the states of Jülich, Berg, Cleve and Mark in connection with the new church ordinance for the evangelical communities of the province of Westphalia and the Rhine province . Karl Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1837 MDZ Reader (2nd unchanged edition 1850)
  • Ceremonial sermons by W. Leipoldt, preacher at the Protestant congregation Unterbarmen. After his death, ed. by Dr. Snethlage, K. Ober-Consistorial-Rathe u. Court chaplain. Karl Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1845.
  • Speech at the open coffin of His Majesty King Friedrich Wilhelm the Fourth on the day before the solemn burial on Sunday, January 6, 1861 in the presence of the mourning royal family of Dr. Snethlage, royal court and cathedral preacher . Decker, Berlin 1861.

literature

  • Paul Tschackert :  Snethlage, Karl Wilhelm Moritz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 522-527.
  • Michael Knieriem : About Friedrich Engels. Private, public and official. Statements and testimonies from contemporaries . ceres, Wuppertal 1979. (= news from Engels-Haus issue 2) Friedrich Engels sen. on Snethlage December 1, 1820; Friedrich Engels senior on Snethlage January 6, 1821
  • Michael Knieriem: "I really like that Friedrich speaks of his father". Statements about Friedrich Engels from 40 previously unknown family letters from 1820 to 1858 . In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 11 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-320-01252-5 , p. 283 ff. Snethlage to Friedrich Engels sen. December 9, 1820; Snethlage to Friedrich Engels sen. January 2, 1821; Snethlage to Friedrich Engels sen. January 16, 1821; Snethlage to Friedrich Engels sen. March 6, 1821. ISSN  0232-6132

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann-Günther König: Friedrich Engels. The Bremen years 1839-1841. Kellner, Bremen, 2008, p. 12, etc.
  2. ↑ Information on the family according to A. Snethlage: Snethlage, de Duitse tak . In: De Nederlandsche Leeuw. Maandblad van het Koninklijk-Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde 99 (1982).
  3. ↑ Snethlage's first work as a ministerial official was a draft that advocated the introduction of a presbyterial-synodal church order for the entire monarchy; see. Martin Friedrich : The Prussian regional church in Vormärz. Spenner, Waltrop 1994, p. 155; for further elaborations by Snethlage with the same tendency cf. ibid., p. 198f. 283f.
  4. ↑ Werner von Kieckebusch: Chronicle of the monastery to the Holy Grave: from the Reformation to the middle of the 20th century. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 175f.
personal data
SURNAME Snethlage, Karl Wilhelm Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Snethlage, Carl Wilhelm Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, court preacher in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1871
Place of death Berlin