Rüdiger Alberti

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Rüdiger Alberti (born July 13, 1898 in Bärenstein , † August 12, 1953 in Leipzig ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor.

Life

Alberti was the head of the Church Education Office in Leipzig and published several sacred works and memoirs about his assignments as a pastor on the western front of the First World War and in Poland.

During the Nazi era he was a member of the opposition Confessing Church . Like Ludwig Kirsch , Catholic pastor of the neighboring St. Joseph parish, and other pastors in Saxony, he was imprisoned in 1935 and spent several months in Sachsenburg concentration camp .

On July 13, 2018 - on the occasion of his 120th birthday - a newly created park was named after him on the Sonnenberg in Chemnitz, near his former place of work, the St. Markus Church.

Works (selection)

  • God in War , Berlin 1930
  • My friends, the things , Chemnitz 1935
  • I, I am your comforter , Dresden 1936
  • As a war pastor in Poland , Dresden undated [1940]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Place should be named after pastor . Free press, January 17, 2017