Maximilian Richter

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Adolf Maximilian Richter (also Max Richter ; * 1842 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † October 12, 1908 in Hirschberg ) was a German Protestant clergyman and from 1887 to 1905, as Protestant field provost, the leading Protestant clergyman of the Prussian military church system .

Life

Maximilian Richter was a son of the teacher Heinrich Richter, prorector of the secondary school in Frankfurt (Oder). Richter studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Halle and Berlin . On December 13, 1865, he passed his exam with distinction in Berlin. In 1866 he became a prison preacher in Frankfurt (Oder). In 1867 he entered the service of the military chaplaincy and became division pastor of the 9th Division in Glogau , which he also accompanied in the Franco-German War of 1870/71. He witnessed the imperial proclamation in Versailles on January 18, 1871.

In 1873 he was transferred to the 11th Division in Breslau as a division pastor. In December 1874 he was promoted to military pastor of VI. Army Corps , also in Breslau. Associated with this, he was a part-time member of the consistory for the province of Silesia and its department head for prison chaplaincy.

When the Protestant field provost Peter Thielen resigned from his office for health reasons in 1886 , Richter was appointed as his successor in 1887. His appointment was not without problems, as Thielen's son-in-law, the Potsdam court preacher Bernhard Rogge , had hoped for the office. Associated with this, he was at the same time a lecturing council for military church affairs in the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Matters and, until the summer of 1889, he was also military chief pastor for the Guard Corps and the III. Army Corps in Berlin. From 1894 he was a part-time member with voting rights in the Evangelical Upper Church Council . Richter was also involved in the Central Committee for the Inner Mission , where he was particularly interested in prison reform and the better training of prison guards. On his initiative, courses for guards in women's prisons were held for the first time in Berlin's Magdalenenstift from 1891. In May 1905 he retired.

Richter was a typical representative of the national Protestant synthesis of throne and altar . This is particularly clear in his ship sermons for Kaiser Wilhelm II's trips to the north in 1890 and 1891. Richter did not hesitate to refer to Bible verses directly and affirmatively to the Kaiser and the German Empire. 1890 gave him the conservative pastor Bartels in Barkhausen after a sermon in the presence of the emperor on the Waterloo Square in Hannover therefore blasphemy before. Richter then sued Bartels for insult and won; The court found, however, mitigating the penalty, "it is to be admitted that the application of a biblical word referring to himself by Christ to the German Empire in the sermon of the provost judge was suitable to arouse strict theologians".

His son Martin Richter became an administrative lawyer, around 1900 he worked for the reform of the military chaplaincy and the drafting of a new military church service order, and most recently President of the Hanover Monastery Chamber .

Awards

Works

  • Army and people in Prussia: glimpses from the "good old days" into our time. Breslau: Morgenstern 1877
  • Guide to confirmation classes: a handout for teachers and learners. Berlin 1875
numerous editions up to the 11th edition, Breslau: Dülfer 1913
  • Those who are so in misery, lead into your house! Lecture about the workers' colony and the natural catering stations with special consideration for the province of Silesia. Wroclaw 1884
  • "We saw his glory": Sermons about free texts from the Gospel of St. John in the church year 1884/85. Breslau: Korn 1886
  • Memorial sermon at the funeral service for His Most Blessed Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm on March 22, 1888. Berlin: Mittler 1888
  • Funeral speech at the coffin of the immortalized Commanding Admiral and Deputy Chief of the Admiralty, Vice-Admiral Count von Monts on January 22, 1889. Berlin: Mittler 1889
  • If you don't want to work, you shouldn't eat either: Report on the procurement of work for released prisoners and vagabonds in the General Assembly of the Prison Association for Silesia and Posen on November 7, 1882. Wroclaw 1889
  • The voice of the Lord on the waters: ship sermons for the north country journeys SM of the emperor and king 1890 and 1891. Berlin: Mittler 1891; 2nd, unchanged edition 1892
  • War letters from a chaplain: 1870/71. Berlin: ES Mittler & Sohn 1895
  • A wreath on Emil Frommel's grave. Berlin: ES Mittler & Sohn 1897
  • (ed.) Sermon book for SM ships. Berlin: ES Mittler & Sohn 1898
  • The Bible in home devotions: for two church years. 2 volumes, Berlin: Reimer 1908

literature

  • Klaus Hansel: Honors in the Protestant Church of Prussia. In: Yearbook for Berlin-Brnadeburg Church History 56 (1987), pp. 79–163, esp. Pp. 121f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal details . In: Friedrich Michael Schiele (Ed.): Chronicle of the Christian World . 18th year, No. 43 , October 22, 1908, pp. 495 ( poznan.pl ).
  2. ↑ Hartwin Spenkuch / Rainer Paetau: Head of department and councilors from 1867 to 1914/18. In: The Prussian Ministry of Culture as a state authority and social agency (1817–1934) . Volume 1.1 .: The authority and its senior staff - presentation. (= Acta Borussica. New series, 2nd row: Prussia as a cultural state, edited by Wolfgang Neugebauer on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences), 2014 ISBN 978-3-05-008829-7 , p. 256, accessed via degruyter.com
  3. ^ The Prussian Ministry of Culture as a state authority and social agency (1817–1934). Volume 1.1 .: The authority and its senior staff - presentation Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2009 (= Acta Borussica. New series, 2nd row: Prussia as a cultural state, edited by Wolfgang Neugebauer on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences), p . 255f
  4. ^ Military weekly paper 74 (1889), Col. 1661
  5. ↑ See Protestantism and Society: Contributions to the History of Church and Diakonia in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Jochen-Christoph Kaiser on his 65th birthday. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2013 ISBN 9783170271227 , p. 167
  6. ^ Georg Gertz: The work of the contral committee for the internal mission of the German Evangelical Church i. J. 1894. In: Yearbooks for criminal policy and internal mission 1 (1895), p. 493
  7. ↑ According to Allgemeine Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchenzeitung 1890, p. 455
  8. ↑ Germany: Monthly Journal for Total Culture 3 (1903/04), p. 129
  9. ↑ Orders and their order, unless otherwise stated, according to the ranking of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. Royal Württemberg Army Corps. 1904, p. 535
  10. ^ Richter, Adolf Maximilian . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and Deutscher Nekrolog . tape 13 , 1908, pp. 221-225 ( archive.org ).


predecessor Office successor
Peter Thielen Evangelical field provost of the Prussian Army
1887–1905 		Max Wolfing
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Adolf Maximilian (full name); Judge, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant field provost
DATE OF BIRTH 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1908
Place of death Hirschberg