Max Gerber

Max Gerber (born April 21, 1887 in Bern , † July 14, 1949 in Langenthal or Zurich , legal resident in Langnau im Emmental ) was a Swiss Reformed clergyman and journalist.

Life

Max Gerber was born in Bern on April 21, 1887 as the son of the food chemist and dairy owner Niklaus Gerber. From 1894 to 1899 he was trained at an alternative school and attended the free grammar school in Zurich for the next five years . Then he went from 1904 to 1906 to the local district school and moved then the University of Zurich to the law to study. In 1907 he decided to study theology .

After he had passed the Matura for the Greek and Hebrew languages in 1909 , he moved to the University of Berlin and then the University of Basel . Now he was in 1910/11 in the canton of Grisons , the preparatory course and continued his studies at the universities of Marburg , Heidelberg and Zurich continues.

In July 1912 he was finally accepted by the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod , which allowed him to work as a pastor in the Free State of the Three Leagues . In the following year he took over the pastoral office in Feldis , Scheid and Trans . Among other things, he wanted to make political changes, which brought him into conflict with parts of the village community and why he resigned in 1919. He initially planned to become editor of a socialist magazine in Zurich, but in the spring of 1920 he initially took over the Bern parish in Langenthal . He also edited the weekly newspaper Der Aufbau . Gerber was a member of the SP .

Gerber held his pastoral position in Langenthal until his death on July 14, 1949 at the age of 62.

literature

• Peter Aerne: Gerber, Max. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
• Erich Wenneker :  Gerber, Max. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 523-525.

Web links

• Holdings: Gerber, Max (1887–1949) in the finding aids of the Swiss Social Archives