Richard Oertel (pastor)

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Richard Oertel

Richard Oertel (born September 14, 1860 in Horn , † February 14, 1932 in Simmern ) was a German Protestant pastor and member of parliament (NLP, DVP).

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Richard Oertel came from a pastor's family. His father Georg Friedrich Hugo Oertel was superintendent of the Simmern church district from 1883 to 1907 and director of the smithies and his grandfather Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp Oertel were pastors as well as his great-grandfather Friedrich Peter Paul Oertel and his father Johann Paul Oertel.

After attending elementary school and high school in Simmern and the grammar school in Kreuznach (during this time he was retired from Robert Cauer the elder from the artist family Cauer ), Oertel studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , Leipzig and Bonn . During his studies he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia in the winter semester of 1879/1880 .

He took the first theological exam in 1893, after the vicariate in Kappel , the second followed in 1895 before the consistory in Koblenz. Then he worked from 1895 to 1896 as private tutor for the Cauer family in Rome , most recently from 1896 to 1929 as pastor in Neuerkirch .

From 1892 to 1921 Oertel was chairman of the Hunsrück Farmers' Association , which he founded and for which he edited the magazine Hunsrücker Bauer , and was a member of the supervisory board of the Agricultural Central Loan Fund for Germany. He was active as a functionary in the Association of Farmers . From 1907 to 1913 he was director of the smithies .

Oertel was politically active in the National Liberal Party during the German Empire . From 1903 to 1906 he was on the central board of the National Liberals, for which he sat from 1912 to 1918 in the Prussian House of Representatives . After the First World War he became a member of the German People's Party (DVP), for which he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly for constituency 21 (Koblenz-Trier) from January 1919 to June 1920 and a member of the first Weimar Parliament from June 1920 to May 1924 Republic was.

Through his marriage to Elise Cauer on November 5, 1886, Oertel remained connected to the Cauer family of artists .

literature

  • Albert Rosenkranz: The Evangelical Rhineland Vol. 2, Düsseldorf 1958, p. 369.
  • Andreas Nikolay: Pastor Richard Oertel (1860–1932) and the Hunsrück Farmers' Association. A socio-historical-biographical study. Dissertation at the University of Mainz 2001. Hunsrücker Geschichtsverein, Meng Various 2001, ISBN 3-9804416-9-5 ( series of the Hunsrücker Geschichtsverein. 32; ( page no longer available , search in web archives: review by Achim Baumgarten ), accessed May 2010).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv-ekir.de
  • Jochen Gruch: The Protestant pastors in the Rhineland . Vol. 3, Bonn 2018, No. 9473.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. 1967, master roll no. 56.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, vol. 3). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 287.
personal data
SURNAME Oertel, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and MP (NLP, DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH horn
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1932
Place of death Simmer