Maximilian Meichßner

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Maximilian Meichßner (born July 31, 1875 in Belzig , † July 17, 1954 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) was a German Protestant theologian and superintendent of the Wittenberg church district .

Life

Maximilian Meichßner was born as the son of the commission agent Christian Ernst Meichßner and his wife Johanna Caroline Friderieke. Nicolai was born. He attended the grammar school in Brandenburg an der Havel and the state school to the gate in Schulpforte . From 1895 to 1901 he studied Protestant theology in Greifswald and Berlin . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Greifswald . From Easter 1899 to autumn 1901 he was senior and inspector of the Johanneum student theological convict in Berlin. After serving in the military as a one-year volunteer with the Guard Fusilier Regiment in Berlin, he was ordained as a military chaplain in 1902 and stationed as such in Graudenz, Berlin, Posen and Deutsch-Eylau, appointed division pastor in Deutsch Eylau in 1905 and cadet house pastor in Wahlstatt in 1908 . In 1910 he became a division pastor in Koblenz . In 1912 he was appointed to the gate as a clerical inspector at the state school. For almost 14 years he worked there as a pastor and teacher of ancient languages. In 1926 he was appointed pastor to the Wittenberg church and superintendent of the Wittenberg parish. At the same time he was a teacher at the Wittenberg seminary . In addition, he devoted himself to scientific work, especially in the field of Christian dogmatics and its examination of philosophy.

His rejection of National Socialist ideology and the criminal measures of National Socialism he made increasingly clear in his sermons. On July 21, 1944, he was arrested and held in solitary confinement for five months in the Halle (Saale) police prison . The intervention of his son-in-law, Colonel Theoderich von Dufving, may have contributed to his release. His son Joachim Meichssner was a resistance fighter of 20 July 1944 executed. In the Kaltenbrunner reports to Hitler's secretary Bormann , Meichßner was described as a “fanatical confessional pastor and opponent of the National Socialist state”.

The theological faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel awarded Meichßner an honorary doctorate in 1952 at the instigation of the Evangelical Bishop of the Church Province of Saxony .

Until his death in 1954, he worked as superintendent and pastor at the city church in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

literature

  • Maximilian Meichßner: Superintendent Prof. D. Maximilian Meichßner - a Wittenberg pastor . In: Heimatkalender 2004. The home book for the city and district of Wittenberg. Drei Kastanien Verlag Wittenberg 2004, ISBN 3-933028-78-7 , pp. 126–128.
  • Fritz Heyer: From the history of the state school to the gate . Hans Buske Nachf./Verlag, Darmstadt, pp. 154f.
  • Peer Pasternack: 177 years - between the closure of the university and the establishment of the Leucorea Foundation: Science and higher education in Wittenberg 1817-1994 . LEUCOREA Foundation, 1st edition 2002, ISBN 3-933028-53-1 , p. 46

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 144.
  2. ^ Theodorich von Dufving (English WP)
personal data
SURNAME Meichßner, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and superintendent of the Wittenberg church district
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Belzig
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1954
Place of death Wittenberg