Paul Rahtgens

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Paul Heinrich Rahtgens (born June 12, 1867 in Lübeck ; † June 27, 1929 in Eutin ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and from 1910 the chief clergyman (from 1920 provincial provost ) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Principality of Lübeck in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg or from 1918 of the Lübeck part of the Free State of Oldenburg.

Life

origin

Hugo Rahtgens came from a Lübeck book printer family and was the son of the printer Johannes Nicolaus Heinrich Rahtgens (1822–1907) and his wife Alwine. The architectural historian Hugo Rahtgens was his younger brother. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until graduation at Easter 1887 and studied Protestant theology .

career

After his graduation he was appointed pastor of the Maria Magdalenen Church (Malente) on May 1, 1894 . In April 1909 he moved to Lübeck for a short time before he was appointed to Eutin on April 1, 1910. Here he was the main pastor ( first city preacher ) of the St. Michaelis Church (Eutin) and, as superintendent with the title of Privy Councilor of Churches, the leading clergyman of the small regional church of the Principality of Lübeck in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . In 1910, his area of ​​supervision comprised twelve parishes with around 40,000 Lutheran residents. The negotiations that had already started to create a synodal structure with simultaneous integration into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg were interrupted by the First World War. In September 1914 he suggested the establishment of a branch of the Oldenburg State Association of the Red Cross and became its chairman.

With the end of the country's glorious church government and the introduction of a new church constitution Rahtgens in 1921 for the first country provost chosen under confinement by his parish ministry at St. Michael. He led the Church until his death. He was buried in his old parish in Malente.

Wilhelm Kieckbusch was elected as his successor on June 2, 1930 .

Rahtgens wrote numerous regional historical articles in the Eutiner Blätter für Heimatkunde and was a member of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology.

Fonts

  • The church in Malente: a reminder sheet of the old and recent past. Eutin: Struve 1894
  • The Inner Mission in the Principality of Lübeck. Eutin: Struve 1899
  • The traces of Vossens Luise in Malente, the Kirchdorfe Grünau. Eutin: Struve 1899
2nd edition udT: Grünau-Malente, the scene of Voss' Luise. Malente: Stegelmann & Roelz [1904]
Reprint Eutin: Lumpeter & Lasel 2007 ISBN 978-3-9810674-6-0
  • Collection of laws, ordinances etc. relating to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Principality of Lübeck. Eutin: Struve 1909
  • Reformation history of the Diocese of Lübeck. Eutin: Sruve 1917
  • The new constitution of the regional church of the Lübeck region. 1920
  • The Rahtgens family in the last two centuries: The descendants of Johannes Nikolaus Heinrich Rahtgens on the occasion of the d. Return s. Birthday on June 22, 1922. Lübeck: Rahtgens 1922

literature

  • Walter Körber: Churches in Vicelins Land. Eutin: Struve 1977, esp. Pp. 106–123, portrait p. 107

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 889
  2. ↑ Körber (Lit.), p. 108
  3. ↑ General register ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heimatverband-eutin.de
personal data
SURNAME Rahtgens, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rahtgens, Paul Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman; Provost in Eutin
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1929
Place of death Eutin