Consistory of the Province of Pomerania

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The Consistory of the Province of Pomerania , also the Royal Consistory of the Province of Pomerania (until 1918), the Evangelical Consistory of the Province of Pomerania and the Szczecin Consistory , was the administrative authority ( consistory ) for the Evangelical Church in the Province of Pomerania from 1815 to 1945 .

history

As part of a reorganization of the Protestant church administration in Prussia , consistories were formed in the Prussian provinces as administrative authorities for the Protestant church, for example the consistory of the province of Pomerania with its seat in the provincial capital Stettin in the province of Pomerania . The consistory of the province of Pomerania replaced the previously responsible consistory. Previously, for Neuvorpommern the Greifswald consistory been responsible for the city of Stralsund , the Stralsund's consistory , for Altvorpommern and Western Pomerania the former Szczecin Consistory and for eastern Pomerania the Kösliner consistory . The Greifswald consistory and the Stralsund consistory remained limited to their duties as spiritual courts until 1849. The old Stettin consistory had also been moved to Stargard in Pomerania in 1814 and continued to exist as a spiritual court for some time.

Seal of the Pomeranian Consistory in Stettin

The consistory of the Province of Pomerania initially consisted of the President of the Province of Pomerania as President and other officials. In 1825 it was divided into a department for ecclesiastical affairs and a department for school affairs, until the latter became an independent authority in 1845 as a provincial school college .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the consistory was relocated to Altentreptow and Züssow on March 1, 1945 before the advancing Red Army . After the Second World War, the Evangelical Consistory Greifswald was established in the newly formed Pomeranian Evangelical Church in 1945/1947 .

The files of the consistory of the province of Pomerania (3.5 running meters) are now in the Greifswald State Archives .

Seal of the Presidium of the Pomeranian Consistory

President

  • 1816–1831: Johann August Sack (as senior president)
  • 1831–1835: Moritz Haubold von Schönberg (as senior president)
  • 1835–1852: Wilhelm von Bonin (as senior president)
  • 1847–1859: Ernst Jacob von Mittelstaedt
  • 1859–1889: Johann Friedrich Heindorf
  • 1889–1907: Wilhelm Richter
  • 1908–1925: Karl Friedrich Goßner
  • 1925–1946: Paul-Gerhard Wahn

literature

  • Norbert Buske :  The old Greifswald consistory - 300 years of church jurisdiction. Appendix A. The other Pomeranian consistories, brief historical overview . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series vol. 76, NG Elwert, Marburg 1990, pp. 73-76 ( digitized version ).
  • Heiko Wartenberg: Archive guide on the history of Pomerania until 1945. Verlag Oldenbourg, Oldenburg 2008, pp. 87–88. ( Online )