Michael Ertz

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Michael Ertz (born March 1, 1921 in Imbsheim ; † October 22, 2002 ) was a Protestant pastor , author and local researcher in Kraichgau .

family

He was the son of Jean Ertz and Marie Katharina nee Siefer. Michael Ertz grew up in the Alsatian village of Imbsheim as the eldest of three siblings on a farm. He married Oda Ilse Christiansen in 1951. There were five children from this marriage: Hans Christian (* January 25, 1952 in Ingweiler ), Jörg Martin (* December 21, 1953 in Neckarbischofsheim ), Ruth Leonore (* January 25, 1956 in Heidelberg ), Maria-Barbara Katharina (* 1960 in Bruchsal ) and Christoph Ulrich (born May 22, 1966 in Bruchsal).

His father, who served in the Prussian army in the First World War , and his grandparents only spoke German and so he grew up bilingual despite the anti-German language policy of the state school authorities. He learned standard German with a hymn book and a Bible. He passed his Abitur in 1940 at the grammar school in Buchsweiler , where he received the Scheffel Prize for his achievements in German . Since after the German occupation of France in 1940 and the annexation of Alsace, the able-bodied men were gradually drafted, he volunteered to join the Wehrmacht intelligence service in order not to join the SS . As a German officer in Paris , he experienced the failure of the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 . Ertz was unable to return to his home in Alsace after the war because the former Wehrmacht members from Alsace were punished in France.

live in Germany

Michael Ertz studied Protestant theology at the University of Heidelberg from autumn 1945 and after his vicar position in Pforzheim he got his first pastor's position in Ehrstädt in 1952 , with responsibility also for Grombach . From July 1st, 1958 until his retirement in 1986, he was the parish priest of Eppingen and, in the last few years, dean of the Evangelical Church District Eppingen-Bad Rappenau. In Eppingen he took over the chairmanship of the partnership committee, which organizes the connections to the French twin town Wassy in the department of Haute Marne. He also maintained contacts in Alsace and traveled to his home country for the first time after the war in 1956. He was a founding member of the Kraichgau Heimatverein and was involved with Heimatfreunde Eppingen . A large number of local history publications were made during this time. After his retirement he moved to Bretten .

Honors

  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (June 5, 1986)
  • Medal for services to the home of Baden-Württemberg
  • Silver citizen medal of the city of Bretten
  • Honorary member of the Kraichgau homeland association
  • Honorary member of Heimatfreunde Eppingen
  • Honorary member of the Bretten Museum and History Association

Works

  • One hundred years of the Evangelical City Church of Eppingen: 1879-1979 ; [Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the day d. Inauguration d. Evangelical town church Eppingen on March 23, 1879] / ed. by Michael Ertz, Eppingen 1979
  • Friedrich Lienhard and René Schickele. Alsatian writers between Germany and France. Hildesheim 1990. (= Contemporary German literature abroad; Vol. 23) ISBN 3-487-08319-1
  • History of the vigilante group in Bretten. Edited by the vigilantes of the city of Bretten e. V. Bretten 1994. ( Bretten city history publications / ed. By the city of Bretten; Vol. 15) 3-928029-23-1
  • My way. An Alsatian between Germany and France , Crailsheim 2005 (Reviewed by Bernd Röcker, in: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 19, 2005, pp. 390–391)
  • Essays on Kraichgau: s. Heimatfreunde Eppingen and Heimatverein Kraichgau

literature

  • Ke: Dean Michael Ertz is 60 , in: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of February 28, 1981
  • lz: Dean Michael Ertz 65 years old , in: Heilbronner Voice from March 1, 1986
  • Kel: Big congratulations for Dean Michael Ertz , in: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of March 3, 1986
  • Boxheimer: Used in tireless work , Heilbronn voice from July 14, 1986
  • Bernd Röcker: On the death of Michael Ertz (1921–2002) . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 18, Heimatverein Kraichgau , Eppingen 2003, pp. 241–242

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Ertz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor, author and local researcher in the Kraichgau
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Imbsheim
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2002