Otto Riethmüller

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Riethmüller's grave in the Uff churchyard : cross on the globe, inscription Joh 16,33  LUT

Otto Heinrich Riethmüller (born February 26, 1889 in Cannstatt near Stuttgart , † November 19, 1938 in Berlin ) was a pastor and spiritual poet .

Life

Cross on the world globe

Otto Riethmüller studied theology in Tübingen and was particularly influenced by Adolf Schlatter . After his ordination he held various pastoral posts (including from 1919 in Esslingen am Neckar ) before he took over the leadership of the Protestant Reich Association of Female Youth in the Burckhardthaus in Berlin-Dahlem in 1928 , which was founded by Johannes Burckhardt in 1889. From 1935 he was chairman of the youth chamber of the Confessing Church .

During these years the arrangement of songs by the Bohemian Brethren such as Sun of Justice , the translation of Latin hymns such as Verbum supernum prodiens (The word comes from the Father) and own songs (Lord, we stand hand in hand) , which are in the youth hymns A new song and The Bright Sound were published by it.

After the " seizure " of the Nazis , he tried in 1933 to adapt the system by asking for the collection A new song on your own text the song awakening of Germany composed, which states in the third stanza: "Work and Freedom for all state / Fighter country, Hitlerland / shield yourself from God's hand ”.

On the other hand, Riethmüller was a member of the Confessing Church , which, in contrast to the German Christians , resisted being brought into line by the Nazi regime (see also Barmer Theological Declaration ), and was one of the first to sign the appeal against the introduction of the Aryan paragraph in the Church. From the beginning he hid Jewish women in his Bible school. In 1935 the Confessing Church elected him chairman of the Reich Youth Work.

Riethmüller died on November 19, 1938 in Berlin and was buried in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.

The annual slogan , which he had published since 1930, goes back to him . The annual motto of 1930 "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ" (Rom. 1,16a) he chose in consultation with the umbrella organization of the Evangelical Young Men’s Union, a forerunner of the YMCA . Under Otto Riethmüller's chairmanship, the cross on the globe was set as a symbol for the Protestant youth in 1935 .

After him were u. a. the Otto-Riethmüller-Haus in Weidenthal , a leisure and educational facility of the Protestant community youth, and the Otto-Riethmüller-Haus in Stuttgart , a Protestant holiday forest home.

family

Riethmüller married Anna born on June 17, 1919. von Heider (1886–1967). The couple had two sons and a daughter.

Songs in the Protestant hymn book from 1993

  • The morning star has penetrated (text editing 1932, EG 69)
  • Today we sing with one mouth (text editing 1932, EG 104)
  • The word comes from the father (text transcription 1932/1934, EG 223)
  • Praise God confidently with singing (melody adaptation 1932, EG 243)
  • Sun of Justice (text redesigned 1932 EG 262 + 263)
  • You creator of all beings (text and melody 1934, EG 485)
  • Lord, we stand hand in hand (Text 1932, EG 602 in the appendix to the edition for Lower Saxony and Bremen)

Fonts (selection)

  • What does Christ say to our people? (Trowel and sword, 1). Burckhardthaus-Verlag, Berlin 1935.
  • Defense and weapons . Burckhardthaus-Verlag, Berlin-Dahlem 1935
  • Praise God, that is our office . Burckhardthaus-Verlag, Berlin 1935
  • Protestant youth leadership today. Burckhardthaus-Verlag, Berlin 1936
  • Safe journey. 3. change Edition. Burckhardthaus-Verlag, Berlin 1936
  • The king of all powers. Burckhardthaus-Verlag, Berlin 1936
  • A new song. 16th edition. Burckhardthaus-Verlag, Gelnhausen 1963

literature

  • Emil Lauxmann: Otto Riethmüller: His life and work (Encounters, [NF], Vol. 1). Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1959.
  • Martin Otto: Otto Heinrich Riethmüller. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume III. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-033572-1 , pp. 190–192.
  • Martin Rößler: songwriter in the hymnal. Volume 3: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Albert Knapp, Otto Riethmüller, Jochen Klepper (Calwer Pocket Library, 6). Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7668-3064-3 .

Web links

Commons : Otto Riethmüller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 5.759. Complete quotation from Ernst Klee : Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 486-487 ( quote online ).
  2. ↑ Roland Spur, Encrypted Message, in: Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg , No. 46, year 2018, page 10
  3. ↑ Jahreslosung.net
  4. ^ Otto Riethmüller House. (No longer available online.) In: www.orh.de. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012 ; accessed on August 18, 2015 .
  5. ^ Uli Seeger, Jörg Schulze-Gronemeyer: Evangelical holiday forest home Otto-Riethmüller-Haus. In: www.waldheime-stuttgart.de. Retrieved August 18, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Survivors' files
  7. ^ Otto Riethmüller House
personal data
SURNAME Riethmüller, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riethmüller, Otto Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spiritual poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannstatt near Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1938
Place of death Berlin