Paul Aldinger

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Paul Aldinger (born August 23, 1869 in Heutingsheim , † December 30, 1944 in Kleinbottwar ) was a German Protestant pastor and organizer of the German colony Hansa-Hammonia in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina .

Life

He was the son of a rent agent. After attending the lyceum and the theological seminar, he studied theology at the university. First he was vicar and later a teacher at the Royal Württemberg Evangelical Theological Seminary in Schöntal, then a teacher at the German Colonial School "Wilhelmshof" in Witzenhausen . There he founded the Evangelical Main Association for German Settlers and Emigrants in 1897 together with Ernst Albert Fabarius.

Paul Aldinger made several trips to German colonies in Eastern Europe and lived in Brazil from 1901 to 1927, where he worked as a Protestant pastor and school inspector in the Hansa-Hammonia colony. After returning to the German Reich, Paul Aldinger became a pastor in Kleinbottwar. In lectures and in the press he endeavored to spread knowledge of Brazil and its Germanness.

Paul Aldinger died as a pastor at the end of 1944.

He was a supporter of the Confessing Church and a member of the Old German Association .

Honors

  • Bronze monument in the city of Ibirama in Brazil
  • The school in Kleinbottwar, today a special needs education and advice center, bears his name.

estate

His written family estate is in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives , Department of the Main State Archives Stuttgart.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 14.
  • Evangelical Parish Kleinbottwar (Ed.): Pastor Dr. Paul Aldinger in Brazil and in Kleinbottwar. A picture of his life on the occasion of his 120th birthday on August 23, 1989 , 1989.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Entres: Commemorative Book for the Centenary of German Immigration in Santa Catharina , 1929, p. 252.
  2. ↑ Family archive Aldinger-Ostermayer (inventory)
personal data
SURNAME Aldinger, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Heutingsheim
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1944
Place of death Kleinbottwar