Max Wolfing

Max Wölfing (born September 8, 1847 in Hildburghausen , † December 1, 1928 in Berlin ) was a Protestant German field provost .

Life

Wölfing was born as the son of superintendent Ernst Balthasar Wölfing (1806–1876) and studied theology at the universities of Göttingen , Berlin and Jena after graduating from high school . In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After his first job as an assistant preacher in Meiningen , he became vicar at the cathedral in Bremen . He then became a chaplain ; first in Frankfurt am Main and in 1876 at the Garrison Church in Berlin. In 1887 he was appointed garrison pastor in the fortress of Metz , from where he was transferred to Poznan as military pastor . In 1896 Wölfing was promoted to pastor in the Guard Corps and in the 3rd Army Corps as well as a division pastor in the 2nd Guard Infantry Division in Berlin. In 1898 he became consistorial councilor and in 1905 field provost of the Prussian army . He held this position during the First World War in the Imperial Army and in the Navy until he left the service in 1918. His successor as Protestant field provost of the Army and Navy was Erich Schlegel .

Wölfing was an honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg and most recently a secret consistorial councilor . One of his sons is the officer, businessman and ocean sailor Wilhelm Wölfing .

2nd Class

3rd grade with the bow and crown

Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 216, No. 699

↑ Orders and their order according to the manual on the Royal Prussian Court and State. 1918, p. 115

predecessor	Office	successor
Maximilian Richter	Evangelical field provost of the Prussian Army 1905–1918	Erich Schlegel

personal data
SURNAME	Wolfing, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant field provost
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 1928
Place of death	Berlin