Oscar Daumiller

Oscar Daumiller (born March 24, 1882 in Memmingen , † June 14, 1970 in Graefelfing ) was a German Protestant pastor. He served from 1934 until his retirement in 1952 as senior church councilor and district dean of Munich.

Life

From 1892 to 1901 he attended the Progymnasium in Memmingen and the Humanist Gymnasium Kempten . He then studied from 1901 to 1905 at the universities in Erlangen and Leipzig . During his studies he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in Erlangen in 1901 . On March 3, 1907, he was ordained in St. Matthew's Church in Munich by Oberkirchenrat D. von Kahl. He took part in the First World War as a division pastor. In 1917 he became a pastor in Memmingen . 1922-1933 he was a minister in the Church of the Assumption in Munich- Sendling (Kidlerstraße). Here he stood up for Adolf Hitler as early as 1923 . But he did not become a party member, but later in the church struggle supported the line of Bishop Hans Meiser aimed at the independence of the church .

In 1933 he became senior church councilor in the regional church council in Munich. From 1934 he worked as district dean of the Munich church district . In 1945 Daumiller organized public aid for the former prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp . In 1947 he was on the board of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk in Bavaria. After his retirement he worked as a parish administrator in Florence and Genoa in 1952/53 and in Bolzano in 1955 .

Honors

1951: Honorary doctorate from the theological faculty in Erlangen
1953: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
1963: Bavarian Order of Merit
1982: Name of the Daumillerweg in Munich-Sendling

Fonts

Southern Bavaria's Protestant Diaspora in the past and present . Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria, Munich 1955 (cardboard volume).
Fought in the shadow of two wars. Bavarian church history experienced myself . Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria, Munich 1961 (paperback).

literature

Helmut Baier : Regional Bishop Meiser and his environment. Networks of Church Leadership. In: Berndt Hamm , Harry Oelke , Gury Schneider-Ludorff : Scope of action and remembrance: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and National Socialism. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 104 f.
Dagmar Pöpping : War Pastor on the Eastern Front. Evangelical and Catholic Wehrmacht pastoral care in the war of extermination 1941–1945 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, p. 252 f. ISBN 978-3-525-55788-4 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ralf Lienert: One of the oldest schools in Bavaria: The Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium celebrates its 200th anniversary on October 2nd. In: all-in.de, August 30, 2004 (accessed January 10, 2016)
^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 80.

Web links

History of the Ascension Church in Munich.

personal data
SURNAME	Daumiller, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Daumiller, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Memmingen
DATE OF DEATH	June 14, 1970
Place of death	Graefelfing

[1] Ralf Lienert: One of the oldest schools in Bavaria: The Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium celebrates its 200th anniversary on October 2nd. In: all-in.de, August 30, 2004 (accessed January 10, 2016)

[2] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 80.