Ottmar Palmer

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Ottmar Palmer, photo (1917)

Ottmar Georg Christian Werner Palmer (born August 21, 1873 in Trais-Horloff near Gießen ; † September 30, 1964 in Katlenburg-Lindau ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and councilor .

Life

Ottmar Palmer was born in Trais-Horloff in 1873. His father Carl Palmer was a pastor in the Inner Mission in the Ravensberger Land before he took over the management of the Neu-Erkeröder institutes in the Duchy of Braunschweig in 1880 . Ottmar Palmer attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig . After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology in Greifswald and Halle (Saale) . During his studies he became a member of Wingolf . From October 1895 he did military service as a one-year volunteer in the Braunschweig Infantry Regiment No. 92 . He was ordained in 1900 and then from 1902 held a pastor's post in Ahlshausen in the Gandersheim district; from 1908 to 1916 he was pastor at the main church BMV in Wolfenbüttel . In 1916 he was appointed to the Bartholomäuskirche in Blankenburg (Harz) , where he worked from 1922 to 1933 as superintendent and church councilor of the Blankenburg church district. From 1920 to 1923, Palmer was a member of the Church Right and a member of the constituent synod of the state . He was a member of the Landeskirchentag from 1924 to 1933.

During the time of the Weimar Republic , Palmer, like his colleagues in Brunswick Heinrich Lachmund and Karl von Schwartz , was a member of the DNVP . He was already critical of National Socialism in 1931 and after 1933 was one of the leading figures in the Braunschweig Pastors' Emergency Association . At the beginning of 1934 he was suspended from the office of the Council of Churches under “scandalous circumstances” by the new regional bishop Wilhelm Beye . His successor Helmuth Johnsen overturned the sentence in 1935. However, Palmer did not go back to his old pastoral position, but became pastor at the Stephani Church in Helmstedt , where he worked until 1937. He then switched from the Brunswick to the Hanover regional church . From 1937 to 1950 he held a pastor's position in the Berka community near Göttingen . After the end of the Second World War , he temporarily took over the chairmanship of the church government in September 1945 and opened the first constitutionally elected state church assembly in Wolfenbüttel in February 1946. His aim was to have the BK man Wilhelm Brandt elected as the new regional bishop of the Braunschweig Church. Instead, however, Martin Erdmann was elected. Disappointed with the restorative tendencies and personal continuities in the regional church office, he retired to his community in 1947. He retired in 1950 and wrote a manuscript about the church struggle in the Braunschweig regional church. Palmer died in Katlenburg in September 1964 at the age of 91.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Kuessner: The membership of Braunschweig Protestant pastors in the German People's Party. In: Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch , Vol. 69, Braunschweig 1988, p. 135.
  2. ^ Dietrich Kuessner: Palmer, Ottmer [sic] Georg Christian Werner. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 456 .
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Ottmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palmer, Ottmar Georg Christian Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Trais-Horloff
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1964
Place of death Katlenburg-Lindau