Richard Nutzinger Sr.

Richard Nutzinger (painting by Curt Liebich )

Richard Nutzinger Sr. (* July 21, 1867 in Mosbach ; † November 26, 1950 in Neckargemünd ; born as Heinrich Richard Nuzinger ) was a liberal Protestant theologian, folklorist and family historian. He is the father of the Alemannic local poet and pastor Richard Nutzinger .

Life

Richard Nutzinger Sr. was born as the son of the Mosbach city architect and later Mannheim building contractor Andreas Nuzinger and grew up in Mosbach and Mannheim. After studying theology in Heidelberg and Jena , he was accepted as a parish candidate for the Evangelical Church in Baden in 1889 . After military service, a few short vicariats, two more semesters of theology studies in Berlin and brief tutoring for the Röchling family of industrialists in Völklingen , he worked as a parish administrator in Rötteln in 1893 , where he met the daughter of a manufacturer, Elise Krafft from Fahrnau , whom he married in 1894. From 1894 to 1910 Richard Nutzinger sen. active as pastor in Gutach (Black Forest Railway) , from 1907 additionally as dean of the church district Hornberg . From 1910 to 1920 he worked as a pastor in Efringen . 1920 he was appointed as Senior Church in the Protestant Oberkirchenrat to Karlsruhe appointed. In 1923 he resigned from the church service and worked for a few years in the personnel administration of Röchling in Völklingen . He lived in Neckargemünd for the last 25 years of his life and in 1945 wrote a war chronicle for the city of Neckargemünd on behalf of the city administration .

activities

In ecclesiastical politics, Nutzinger was involved in the liberal faction of the general synod of the Evangelical Church in Baden, of which he was a member from 1909 to 1914 and of which he was chairman from 1919 to 1920. Before that, he had already campaigned as Liberal parliamentary group leader in 1919 in the deliberations on electoral regulations for the extraordinary and constitutional general synod from October to December 1919. In his work as a pastor, he attached great importance to local and regional public education and welfare. His folklore works are mainly about the customs of the Black Forest. Here he appeared in 1896 with a position that was controversial to Heinrich Hansjakob on the preservation of national costumes, the increasing dwindling of which he saw in industrialization and the decline of the agrarian way of life, not simply in a correctable change in consciousness. In his corporate history publications, Richard Nutzinger mainly dealt with the history of the Röchling family .

Works

• The preservation of the national costumes . A warning. Zell i. W .: H. Specht, undated [1896], 2nd probably edition Heidelberg: Comtesse 1897
• Karl Röchling . The life's work of a major industrialist. Völklingen - Saarbrücken: Gebr. Hofer AG 1927
• The Röchling house in Ludwigshafen a. Rh. 1849-1929 . Pictures from family, local and economic history. Ludwigshafen a. Rh .: Julius Waldkirch & Cie. 1929
• Karl Röchling (1827–1910). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien, Volume I. Münster: Aschendorff 1931, pp. 139–159
• Memoirs of an old woman from Mannheim , edited by D. R. Nutzinger, Völklingen, Saarbrücken: Buchgewerbehaus 1938
• Johann Friedrich Röchling 1756-1814, a pastor's life from old Saarbrücken . Saarbrücken: Book Trade House 1942
• War chronicle of the city of Neckargemünd . Neckargemünd: Manuscript, 29 p., August 1945, reprinted in: Neckargemünder Jahrbuch 1995, p. 50–79

Awards

• (Baden) Friedrich-Luisen-Medal for “Services in all areas of welfare care” 1908
• Prussian "Cross of Merit for War Aid" 1918
• Iron Cross 2nd Class 1918
• Dr. theol. hc ( D. ) of the Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University in 1921

source

• History of the Baden Protestant Church since the Union in 1821 in sources , published by the board of the Association for Church History in the Evangelical Regional Church Baden for the church anniversary in 1996. Karlsruhe: Evangelischer Presseverband für Baden eV 1996