Paul Troschke

Paul Troschke (born October 14, 1868 in Bärfelde , † March 7, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German clergyman and church statistician .

life and work

Paul Friedrich Ferdinand Troschke was the son of the agricultural expert and businessman August Troschke and Marie Troschke born. Kühnemann. He attended the Raths- and Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Küstrin , where he graduated from high school in 1885. Troschke began studying theology in Berlin and Tübingen in the winter of 1885 . In 1889 he passed his first church exam in Berlin. He then started a vicariate in Berlin , which he completed in the spring of 1891 with the second ecclesiastical exam. After a short stopover as acting head of the parish in Küstrin-Kietz , he was ordained - as is often the case with candidates from the general superintendent in Neumark-Niederlausitz - in the Matthäikirche in Berlin-Tiergarten. During his subsequent diaconate and archdeaconate in Küstrin, he married Margareteuppe († March 25, 1938) in 1901, daughter of the local banker and brewery owner Gustav Doll and cousin of the legal and social doctor Georg Doll . In the following he performed his service in various functions of the Provincial Committee for Inner Mission of the German Evangelical Church, including as the founder and head of the Wilhelmsthal migrant workhouses.

In 1924 he moved to the Federal Office of the German Evangelical Church Federation , a forerunner organization of the Evangelical Church in Germany . In the 1920s he advocated the passing of the Preservation Act, which was planned as a legal instrument for the compulsory placement of "asocial" people in state institutions, but was never implemented. In 1934 he retired as senior consistorial advisor and head of the church statistics office, but worked in this position for another two years. In 1937 Troschke received the Johann Hinrich Wichern plaque from the Evangelical Inner Mission of the German Evangelical Church and the Luther Medal from the Brandenburg Consistory of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Even before his retirement, he was elected to the board of trustees of the Alexandra Foundation, a non-profit Berlin construction company founded in 1852. During his activity, around 1,000 new apartments for medium-sized families were built up to the start of the war . Immediately after the end of the war, he took over the management of the foundation, which he held until his death. In this function, on the occasion of the foundation's 100th anniversary on July 27, 1952, he laid the cornerstone for a large apartment block in Berlin-Lichtenrade . Against this background, he received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class at the suggestion of Consistorial President Hans Ludwig von Arnim . Paul Troschke had three sons Gerhard, Dietrich and Günther.

Publications

• The winners. - Bookstore of the East German Youth Association, Berlin 1919.
• The fight against begging and vagrancy in post-Christian antiquity and in the history of France. Foundation publishing house, Potsdam 1922.
• Protestant church statistics in Germany. 6 volumes. German Evangelical Church Federation, Berlin 1929–1932.
• Demand for and offspring for evangelical clergy. Struppe & Winckler, Berlin 1933.
• Hans Peter Süssmilch. Evangelical Consistory Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 1955.
• Daily devotions for hikers. Part 1. The festive half of the church year. Brandenburg Hostel Association, Berlin undated

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.cuestrin.de/verwaltung/cuestrin_gymnasium_schueler.php?jahr=1885-1886&schule=16 Website about the history of the city of Küstrin with an entry on Paul Troschke's Abitur from the school archives of the Raths- and Friedrichs-Gymnasium.
2. ^ Matthias Willing: The Preservation Law (1918-1967). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, p. 36f. u 71
3. ↑ Document from the Ordenskanzlei of the Federal President's Office archived at the Federal Archives under the signature B 122 / 38.508