Leopold Cordier

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Heinrich Leopold Cordier (born July 14, 1887 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † March 1, 1939 in Gießen ) was a German Protestant theologian and author of several writings focusing on youth and Protestant pedagogy and the Protestant hymn .

Life

Leopold Cordier was of Huguenot descent. After enrolling on October 24, 1906 to 1908, he studied Protestant theology at the United Friedrichs University in Halle-Wittenberg and then for one semester each in Leipzig , Berlin and Heidelberg . In Heidelberg he received his doctorate in philosophy and a licentiate .

In 1911 Cordier was a military assistant preacher in Karlsruhe .

The bells of the Protestant church in Eschelbronn are given to be melted down for military armor.

From 1914 Cordier was the Protestant pastor of the parishes of Eschelbronn and Neidenstein . From January 15, 1916, he published the Heimatbote , a monthly bulletin. In it he reported on community life in the two communities and announced news about the participants and victims of the First World War from both communities. The bells of the Protestant church had to be handed in during his term of office in June 1917 to be melted down for military armor. In 1917 he moved to Frankfurt am Main as a pastor and in 1922 to Elberfeld . In 1925 he received his habilitation and worked as a private lecturer in Bonn.

In 1926 he received the Doctor theologiae and an honorary doctorate from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In the same year he began to teach practical theology as a professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , which he did until 1939.

Cordier was also chairman of the German Huguenot Association and a leading member of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

Cordier had three daughters and two sons. He died of blood poisoning in 1939.

Protestant education and youth work

From 1917 Cordier worked for the Neulandbund , a Christian youth movement founded by Guida Diehl . In 1921 he founded the Christdeutsche Jugend with Pastor Lange, which split off from the Neulandbund and “turned against the religious activism of its original goals and the individualistic-pietistic attitude of traditional youth piety” and “struggled to shape Reformation piety”. As head of the movement, which was later renamed “ Bund Christdeutscher Jugend ”, he published their medium from 1921 to 1934, the Christian German Voices . He was also active in the Berneuchen movement in the 1920s . In 1934 the Christdeutsche Jugend was dissolved under pressure from the Hitler Youth.

During his stay in Giessen, he founded the Institute for Protestant Youth Studies and Protestant Education. This was closed in the time of National Socialism .

Works

  • Evangelical pedagogy , Bahn, Schwerin
  • Our children's service , German Sunday School Bookshop, Berlin 1910
  • Religious youth education according to Heinrich Pestalozzi , Beyer, Langensalza 1914
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau and Calvinism , Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1915
  • Poetry and truth about Luther's career , Beyer, Langensalza 1917
  • The ten commandments , Ecklin, Frankfurt am Main 1920
  • Jesus and happiness , Oranien-Verlag, Herborn 1923
  • Catholic and Protestant , bookshop of the Educational Association, Elberfeld 1924
  • The religious crisis of the present , Oranien-Verlag, Herborn 1924
Protestant youth studies , 1925
  • Protestant youth studies , Bahn, Schwerin 1925
  • What young people expect from the church , Oranien-Verlag, Herborn 1925
  • Source book on the history of Protestant youth , Bahn, Schwerin 1925
  • The fight for the last hill , Bahn, Schwerin 1925
  • Christian German Youth , Bahn, Schwerin 1925
  • Christian German , Bahn, Schwerin 1926
  • Religious youth education according to Heinrich Pestalozzi , Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1927, 2nd ed.
  • Not und Verheahme , Bahn, Schwerin 1927 [ed. 1926]
  • Protestant community youth work , Bahn, Schwerin 1927
  • The religious distress of today's youth , Verlag des Evangelischen Bund, Berlin 1927
  • The young Pestalozzi , Bahn, Schwerin 1927
  • The young August Hermann Francke , Bahn, Schwerin 1927
  • The German Protestant song psalter, a forgotten Protestant song , Töpelmann, Giessen 1929
  • Psalm song and hymn in the French Reformed congregation in Frankfurt am Main , Montanus-Druckerei, Berlin 1930
  • Huguenot surnames in Germany , German Huguenot Association, Berlin 1930
  • Christian educational ideas and Christian educators , Bahn, Schwerin 1932 [ed. 1931]
  • People and state in the preaching of the church. In: People. Country. Church. A course of the theological faculty Gießen , Töpelmann, Gießen 1933
  • One is our master , Bahn, Schwerin 1934
  • The real concern in the church question , Bahn, Schwerin 1934
  • What did France lose with the Huguenots? , Wichern-Verlag, Berlin-Spandau [1938]
  • God's call at Christmas time , Bahn, Schwerin 1938
  • The education of young people before the Christ question , Bahn, Schwerin 1938
  • The unity in teaching young evangelical people , Burckhardthaus, Berlin-Dahlem 1938

literature

Web links

Commons : Leopold Cordier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Walter Hollweg:  Cordier, Heinrich Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 357 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personenlexikon zum Deutschen Protestantismus 1919-1949
  3. ^ Karl Barth, Charlotte von Kirschbaum: Correspondence: 1925-1935 , Theologischer Verlag Zurich, 2008, page 14
  4. ↑ Ursula Fuhrich-Grubert: Huguenots under the swastika: Studies on the history of the French Church in Berlin, 1933-1945 , Walter de Gruyter, 1994
  5. ^ Leopold Cordier , Jugendburg Hohensolms
personal data
SURNAME Cordier, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cordier, Heinrich Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1939
Place of death Giessen , Germany