Paul Thomaschki

Thomaschki as a corps student

Funeral ceremony on July 27, 1934

Paul Thomaschki (born February 27, 1861 in Jägerkrug, Wehlau district ; † July 24, 1934 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German pastor in East Prussia.

Life

Thomaschki attended high school in Rastenburg . After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1881 he became a member of the Corps Masovia . His wife came from Jäcknitz near Zinten in the Heiligenbeil district . He received his first pastor's post in 1884 in Miswalde, Mohrungen district . The daughter Else (later married to Rudolf Flebbe) and the sons Siegfried and Ernst were born there. Ernst died as a child, Siegfried Thomaschki became general of the artillery. He baptized all of his children with Jordan water that he had brought from Palestine . From 1904 until his retirement in 1929 Thomaschki was pastor at the castle church in Königsberg , whose archive he processed. In 1895/96 he published travel descriptions from Greece , Palestine, Egypt and Scandinavia in book form . His diaries - the first from 1893 - give an insight into everyday East Prussian history . The last of 1933/34 show that he was engaged in the Masonic lodge Zum Todtenkopf and Phoenix . He left a handwritten diary from the first to the last day of the First World War .

On imperial routes. Chats from a trip to the north on the steamer Capella , Röthe, Graudenz 1896.
Serious and cheerful things from a trip to the Orient through Greece, Palestine and Egypt (in July and August 1895) , G. Röthe's Buchdruckerei, Graudenz 1896.
St. Adalbert and the Old Dessauer . In: Old Prussian Monthly Journal 34 (1897) [= Prussian Provincial Papers 100], pp. 643–645.
History of the parish Miswalde , Mohrungen o. J. [around 1900]
The war in China and the mission , Berliner Stadtmission, Berlin 1901 digitized
The modern belief in ghosts. A contribution to solving spiritistic riddles , Leipzig 1902.
Under the southern sun. Chats from a summer trip around the Mediterranean , Königsberg 1909.
From the archives of the Burgkirche , Königsberg 1924.

Karl Hammer : World Mission and Colonialism. Broadcast ideas of the 19th century in conflict , Kösel Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-04368-7 , p. 308 Google Books .
List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823–2006 . Potsdam 2006.
Dietlind Wishes: Field Post Letters from China. Patterns of perception and interpretation of German soldiers at the time of the Boxer Rebellion 1900/1901 , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-502-7 , p. 289 Google Books .

personal data
SURNAME	Thomaschki, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jägerkrug, Wehlau district
DATE OF DEATH	July 24, 1934
Place of death	Königsberg (Prussia)