Ludwig Ehrhardt
Ludwig Ehrhardt (born October 30, 1864 in Wesel ; † February 23, 1938 in Seeheim ) was a Protestant theologian and the last court preacher of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt .
Life
Ehrhardt attended high school in Mainz and studied theology in Strasbourg, Halle and Gießen. In 1887 he continued his studies at the Friedberg seminary . He was ordained two years later . He then worked as a vicar in Groß-Bieberau and parish assistant in Worms .
Ehrhardt was court chaplain in Darmstadt from 1890 . Initially in the position of court deacon, he was second court preacher from 1891 and senior court preacher from 1905. Theologically he represented positions of the high church and regularly celebrated liturgical services in the court church, which brought him the accusation of Catholic tendencies. His corresponding almost sacramental understanding of marriage meant that he refused to marry Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig in his second marriage to Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich . Ehrhardt himself had been with Toni, geb. von Hombergk, married.
Connected to his Grand Duke in a love of art, he lived in the Graue Haus at Prinz-Christians-Weg 4 in the Darmstadt artists' colony .
After the abolition of the monarchy in the German Reich in 1918, Ehrhardt did not get a pastor's position at one of the Darmstadt churches, but became a pastor at the Evangelical Church in Sandbach in 1920 , where he worked until 1922. Other pastoral positions were Gelnhaar and Hirzenhain . The tradition of high liturgical services celebrated by Ehrhardt was continued until 1937 by the Association for the Holding of Lutheran Services at the Court Church in Darmstadt , which was founded in 1919 by Count Kuno Hardenberg .
From 1899 to 1902 he was in charge of the Evangelical Union in Hesse.
Fonts (selection)
- The Holy Way of the Cross: seven short contemplations of the Passion about the stations of suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ, as well as an opening sermon for Lent and an Easter sermon held in the Grand Ducal Court Church in Darmstadt. Johs. Waitz, Darmstadt 1900.
- The Holy Our Father: interpreted in ten sermons. Kunze, Darmstadt 1904.
literature
- Manfred Knodt : Ernst Ludwig. Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine , Darmstadt 1978, pp. 207f.
- Karl Dienst : Politics and religious culture in Hesse and Nassau between 'state change' (1918) and 'national revolution' (1933). Causes and consequences , Frankfurt 2010, p. 149.
- Karl Dienst: sermon cult instead of worship? On Protestant understandings of worship , in: Journal of Religious Culture 179 (2013), p. 51.
Web links
- Ludwig Ehrhardt in the Stadtlexikon Darmstadt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ehrhardt, Ludwig. In: Franz Neubert : Deutsches Zeitgenossenlexikon: biographical manual of German men and women of the present. Schulze, Leipzig 1905, p. 308 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ehrhardt, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wesel |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1938 |
| Place of death | Seeheim |