Ludwig Heckenroth

Ludwig Georg Theodor Heckenroth (born February 8, 1867 in Herborn , † February 11, 1951 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) ) was a Prussian politician and Evangelical Lutheran pastor .

After graduating from high school in Dillenburg, the son of a master chimney sweep studied Protestant theology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Philipps-Universität Marburg . In 1888 he passed the first theological exam and in 1890 the second theological exam of the Evangelical Church in Nassau and initially came to Klingelbach im Taunus as an assistant chaplain . In 1890 he married Meta Glatzel, daughter of the Berlin senior government councilor Albert Glatzel (1839-1910). In the same year, Heckenroth took over his first pastor in Frohnhausen in front of the Hohen Hardt , but moved to Altenkirchen a short time later, in 1891.

In November 1903 Heckenroth became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the German Conservative Party / Federation of Farmers , in 1908 he was re-elected, and Heckenroth held his mandate in the House of Representatives until the end of the First World War . During the First World War, from 1915 to 1918 he was chaplain in the high command of Army Group Mackensen .

After the end of the war, from 1918 onwards, Heckenroth was a member of the anti-republic German National People's Party and representative of the Reichs-Landbund in the Altenkirchen district. In the period that followed, the community complained about Heckenroth because of neglect of the spiritual office due to political activity. In 1927 he was co-initiator of the National Association Day in Altenkirchen; The main speaker was August von Mackensen through Heckenroth . In 1932 he joined the German Christian Faith Movement, which was close to the National Socialist movement and which shared and promoted its racist, anti-Semitic and Führer principle-oriented content. In 1933, Heckenroth joined the NSDAP . In 1938 he retired. When he intended to move into a community apartment after the Second World War, he was denied this due to his membership in the NSDAP.

literature

• Jochen Gruch: Ludwig Georg Theodor Heckenroth. [4893] . In: The Protestant Pastors in the Rhineland from the Reformation to the Present, EJ , Bonn 2013, p. 311.
• Ludwig Heckenroth: From serious days. The Our Father practices sermons, given during the war in 1914 . Altenkirchen 1914.
• Hans Helzer : The role of Pastor Heckenroth in the state elections in 1903 and 1908 - Effects of the Prussian three-class suffrage . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen and the neighboring communities 1993 , Altenkirchen 1992. S. 132-139.
• Karl Käppele: 50 years ago - The Mackensen Days in Altenkirchen . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen and the neighboring communities 1977 , Altenkirchen 1976. P. 133–143.
• Albert Rosenkranz : The Evangelical Rhineland. A Rhenish parish and pastor's book . Volume II: The Pastors. Düsseldorf 1958, p. 193.

Web links

• Eberhard Blohm: Ludwig Georg Theodor Heckenroth - businessman, statesman, but pastor? !! , in: AKdia. Retrieved April 4, 2020.