Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke

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Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke (born March 8, 1840 in Stelle near Isernhagen , † February 3, 1899 in Hanover ) was a German Protestant clergyman , pastor and head of the Stephansstift , which he developed into one of the most important diaconal institutions of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover . The song poet, theologian and author also worked as a promoter of choral music and is particularly considered to be the initiator of the Lower Saxony state trombone festivals .

Life

The inauguration of the collegiate church of the Stephansstift in 1895, commissioned by Fricke and planned by Eberhard Hillebrand , the clergyman could no longer witness due to illness; Lithograph by Carl Grote , around 1902

Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke was born in Stelle during the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of a miller and farmer . As a later child , the youngster had to forego the study of theology he wanted. Nevertheless, as a teacher in Neuwarmbüchen near Hanover, he was able to gain his first experience as a pedagogue early on, as well as a private tutor with the consistorial councilor Ernst Cammann in Hanover.

Through an inheritance , Fricke finally got the necessary financial means to study theology. After he first made up his Abitur and learned languages, he passed his first exam at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1870. After his time as a trainee in Osnabrück , he passed the second exam and then worked as a collaborator in Neuenkirchen in the Melle district with Pastor Gerding, who worked there.

In the early days of the German Empire , Fricke received his appointment to the Stephansstift, initially in the position of senior helper for Pastor Julius Freytag, who worked there . Shortly after taking office to instruct deacons , Fricke introduced applied brass music as a compulsory subject.

At the beginning of his 21 year long activity at the Stephansstift, Fricke expanded the monastery premises through purchase and exchange and attached various training centers to the monastery. 1873 he succeeded Freytag as a pin head on, began his educational activity and initiated the same year the trombone choir of St. Stephen's pin that soon an important role in gradually developing stylus community played.

In 1875, Fricke took in old men, some of them sick, in St. Stephen's Foundation for the first time.

In 1880, the head of the monastery founded the monthly messenger from St. Stephen's monastery , through which he aroused and promoted the interest in diakonia in connection with wind music in a growing number of parishioners of the regional church of Hanover as well as pastors elsewhere.

By erecting additional buildings and structures from 1881 onwards, Fricke created the possibility of a modern group education modeled on the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg at the time. Soon the pastor was acting in three areas that he defined:

  1. Diakonia training, also open to people who do not want to become a deacon themselves;
  2. Education of both school-age boys and young men who have already finished school, and
  3. looking after and caring for old men.

The pastor and pedagogue, however, assigned an overarching role to the services of the wind players and the wind music they sponsored. At the regular annual festivals of the monastery on Ascension Day , the wind musicians primarily took on the constructive function of “sharing” joy. Fricke reported on the annual festival of 1880 in his monthly messenger about the beginning of the pilgrimage and the music an hour before the actual celebrations, about the early "[...] trumpet so that the festival guests could hear the greeting from afar." Fricke assigned the wind players to accompany the congregation singing as well as generally "[...] the task of greeting, bringing joy".

The agile pastor kept coming up with new ways to celebrate, both for his fellow believers and for his wards. After purchasing 25 acres of moorland and pasture in the village of Misburg , he organized his “moor festivals” every year in August, soon to be known throughout the country. The publicist Otto Strecker reported that people with the entire congregation and with drums and the trombone choir first made a pilgrimage to the moor to play, singing and happiness and the guests were only accompanied back to the horse tower in the evening by the lantern light .

Using his monthly messenger , Fricke also campaigned for the maintenance and founding of new trombone choirs throughout the country, asking in 1880 why not every village should have a trombone choir.

In his own school, Fricke discovered the exceptional musical talent of Bernhard Ueberwasser (1866–1926), the young deacon and "trombone master", whom he soon sent to other communities as a teacher.

Aware of the community-promoting effect of larger trumpet meetings, Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke first invited to the “Annual Festival and Trombone Festival” in 1884, and in the following year for the “Annual Festival and Regional Trombone Festival”. But it was only after consultation with the Hanover Mission Association that around 240 participants carried their choral music into the center of the city on Whitsun Tuesday , July 7th, 1887. Around 14,000 guests from all parts of the then province of Hanover and East Frisia found the Hanover State Trombone Festival, which was now organized for the first time a. The state trombone festivals initiated by Fricke became a permanent fixture of the Hanover regional church and took place in the years 1888, 1890, 1896, 1900 and 1905 until they were relocated to Verden an der Aller in 1910 .

Pastor Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke, however, "[...] with the unreserved use of his gifts and powers" for the people around the Stephansstift designed by him was consumed before his time: In 1895, on April 1st, the pastor was always so agile has now been prematurely retired due to illness, could not witness the inauguration of the collegiate church planned by him on Ascension Day that same year. But it wasn't until years later, on February 3, 1899, that he died after suffering from severe nervous disorders.

Pastor Paul Oehlkers had already continued Fricke's work from 1897, albeit with new accents.

Songs

Published posthumously :

  • I put my heart in Jesus' hand , in: Niedersächsisches Volksliederbuch , Hanover: Self-published by the Committee for Female Youth, 1914

Honors

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie (in Gothic script ), Vol. 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, pp. 128-134
  • Ernst Fricke (Ed.): Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke. Weiland pastor and head of the Stephansstift, a popular pioneer of the Inner Mission in Hanover. A word of remembrance on his 100th birthday , Scharnebeck near Lüneburg, 1940
  • Ernst Fricke ( arrangement ): Ancestral tribes for Ludolf, Fridhilt, Helmuth and Jürgen Fricke (= Lower Saxon ancestral tribes . Supplement to the journal for Lower Saxony family history , No. 7, 1941), Hamburg: Central Office for Lower Saxony Family History, 1941
  • Ernst Salkowski-Karpauen ( arr .): You know the commandments. Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke , 160 pages, revised on behalf of the Evangelische Bücherfreunde eV, issue 1, Stuttgart: Hessen in commission, 1951
  • 125 years of the Ludolf-Wilhelm-Fricke-School , publisher: Stephansstift Hannover-Kleefeld, Hannover, [1999?]
  • Hans-Jürgen Lange : Shift in focus - the Stephanstift as a funding center for trombone work , in which: His praise resounds in the trumpet. The history of the trombone choir in the Hannoversche Landeskirche (= history , vol. 24), Münster: Lit Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-8258-4400-4 and ISBN 3-8258-4400-5 , pp. 16–24, especially pp. 19–24; Preview over google books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oV : Fricke Wilhelm Ludolf in the database Niedersächsische people (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxon State Library , last downloaded May 19, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d Peter Evers: Houses of Diakonie in Hanover , in Hans Werner Dannowski , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Stories about Hanover's churches. Studies, pictures, documents , Hanover: Lutherhaus-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-87502-145-2 , pp. 52–58; here: p. 58
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Hans-Jürgen Lange: Shift of focus - the Stephanstift as a funding center for trumpet work , in which: His praise tön 'in the trumpet. The history of the trombone choir in the Hannoversche Landeskirche (= history , vol. 24), Münster: Lit Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-8258-4400-4 and ISBN 3-8258-4400-5 , pp. 16–24, especially pp. 19–24; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Works by Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke (1840-1899) on the deutscheslied.com website , last accessed on May 19, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Gerd Weiß : Stephansstift (Kirchröder Straße 43-45) , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 159; as well as Kleefeld in the addendum : List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 17ff.
  6. ↑ Compare the information provided by the school, last accessed on May 19, 2017
  7. ↑ Compare this information from the school, last accessed on May 19, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Fricke, Ludolf Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman, pastor and head of the Stephansstift
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Position at Isernhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1899
Place of death Hanover